futility

How To Use futility In A Sentence

• It would not be so bad if these tests were actually based on science or some objective measure but they are usually exercises in bureaucratic futility. Barack Obama Elected President of the United States | One Year Later...What's Changed?
• In the end, though, Smith was beginning to realise the futility of trying to liberate a proletariat that seemed quite content to remain unliberated.
• Its inconclusiveness demonstrated its futility.
• Modern improvements in the means for the diffusion of knowledge have not brought about the millennium, but they have reduced the old statecraft to a condition of inglorious futility.
• I am as always slightly awed by the sheer tragedy and futility of it all.
• And I had come to be oppressed by what seemed to me the futility of art -- a pompous legerdemain, a consummate charlatanry that deceived not only its devotees but its practitioners. CHAPTER II
• At last realizing the futility of superior "kinetics" — roughly speaking, putting a lot of metal in the air — American forces belatedly adopted a counterinsurgency strategy. The Surprising Lessons of Vietnam
• Some people think they can use drugs to fix these genetic defectives, but that's obviously an exercise in futility – you can't overcome something that's embedded in every cell in your body. Child Abuse Alert
• Three months of futility with a team who finished eighteenth. Times, Sunday Times
• When will he realize that futility is the act of making the same mistakes over and over again yet expecting a different result? Is John Donahoe Finally Turning eBay Around?