futility

As in the war museum, the moment is revelatory. It makes me realise with sudden clarity the futility of the whole US venture in Vietnam.

It was as important to him as it was to them to underscore the horror and futility of it.

Before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

You don't seem to understand the futility of trying to prepare for such a difficult examination in only three months.

I can well understand that everyone will be profoundly impressed with the utter futility of this sort of dilettantism.

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

All this and much more has to be said to demonstrate the futility of all the allegedly scientific achievements of Marx.

It seemed to her a ridiculous armada of tubs jostling in futility.

It was much more than an exercise in futility. It was an act of bravery and nobility.

It ceases to be that exercise in detachment and passion which crowns the splendor and futility of a man's life.

Despairing over the futility of all her ceremonies and sacrifices, Shiva abandoned the gods and took up a sword instead.

Like German expressionist images of the war, these formidable scenes convey the mess, filth, exhaustion and futility of the western front.

It does not recommend crime, for this would be childish, but it restores to remorse its futility.

Although bureaucrats still occasionally try to impose state controls on the city, the futility of the effort quickly becomes apparent.

In their state of decline they symbolize the futility of revolutions as well as any political appropriation of culture.

and it seems to confirm the futility of moves towards the legally binding treaty that many still want.

Havel later recalled that what struck him most about that August week was the futility of military power confronted by unarmed civilians.

Warnings of flood, famine, drought and mass extinction merge into an overwhelming sense of futility.

An exercise in a course at Wharton's advanced management program exposes the futility of the buzzword descriptors many companies use.

Slowly but surely people are waking up to the futility of war, and the move towards putting a permanent stop to them is gaining pace.

Neither England nor the United States attempts such an exercise in futility.

With that legacy of futility, green groups bring their ethos that America, its allies and corporations form an axis of evil.

After the meteor of courtly love, what relegated courtly love to its original futility came from an entirely different partition.

Much of the research suggests that seeking the good life at a store is an expensive exercise in futility.

If you understand how software works, you know the futility of measuring productivity by lines of code.

They're known as "ants, " for their willingness to work, their dirt-poor living conditions, and the seeming futility of their efforts.

You drop the mind, or it drops of its own accord because you have seen the futility of it.

I know you did all you could. 'Under the pressure of a feeling of futility his voice trailed off.

But she made no answer. There was a silence of futility and irritation in the room. Malcolm grinned fatuously.

LIKE a shrine to the futility of foreign intervention, the Nesaji cotton-and-wool factory is empty and idle but surprisingly well-kept.

All of the time your dark Ones refuse to co-operate with us, we would normally wait until they recognize the futility of their actions.

"The current economic climate shows the futility of our funding system for higher education, " he adds.

He appeared like a young philosopher meditating on the futility of games.

Perhaps you see yourself as above this futility, but it's all we've got and all we've ever had.

Simply automating current delivery practices will be a hugely expensive exercise in futility.

The serious man considers such things as parties to be complete futility.

The futility of the authorities' attempts to police this area was illustrated by the Edison Chen scandal that broke in early 2008.

A sense of futility stole over her.

This could generate a sense of futility, which can lead to despair and self-destruction.

Here are several key words of Gefei's works: recollection, time, deviation, nothingness and futility.

Contemplate upon the futility of negative thinking and worries.

If we are able to see the illusory nature and futility of samsara, we can then generate a pure Bodhi mind.

The film is so fair that neither side is seen as right, and both seem trapped by futility.

And neither should you. It's an exercise in frustration and futility. And sometimes, hostility!

Every year, the awards are won by the same people. Predicting award winners has become an exercise in futility.

To many, Vietnam proves the futility of Western powers using force in somebody else's country.

That's what war is really like, child: no bugles and banners. Just pain and filth, futility and death.

That's what war is really like, child: no bugles and banner. Just pain and filth, futility and death.

Amid mounting social discontent over inflation, the government leaders have used police action to drive home the futility of public protest.

So He brought their days to an end in futility And their years in sudden terror.

They are another example of the futility of marriage between big stars in Tinseltown.

The team is currently suffering through an almost unfathomable 26-game losing streak, a new NBA record for futility.

The same I hate, I hate the way has been the immutable, I may have a sense of futility of anger.

It would be the biggest Story in years, and if nothing came out of it, it would lead to a sense of official futility and public despair

Mine is no futility of genius that can't sell gems to the magazines.

One shows the importance of holding sovereign debt issued under foreign law, the other the futility of doing so.

This is because now we have in our possession the facts that convince us of the futility of our earlier wishes and dreams.

It taught me the futility of worrying over circumstances beyond one's control.

I tell him I don't entirely accept the futility of neurological studies.

The room, though, is subject to memories as well, and so the film wanders off to other encounters that are variations on the same futility.

In the next stage the futility of heavenly pleasures, which is the highest level of worldly pleasures, is discussed here.

Solomon saw the futility of seeking satisfaction in people and things.

Shame, compunction, snese of futility flooded his whole being.

Most people never reflect about either Death or the futility of life.

Even in ordinary life you feel the futility of words.

This is very sinister, mocking the futility of everyday life, opening with the line "Fitter, happier, more productive. "

Besides, Olympic boycotts have a proven record of futility.

If we do want to learn Buddha-dharma, initially and most essentially, we need to understand the futility and unworthiness of samsara.

I have a sense of futility of this field.

We know the futility of approaching them in the hour of distress of trouble.

But Ray Allen, who had 32 points in Game 2, missed all 13 field goal attempts - one shy of the NBA finals futility record.

Little did they know that these talks were always an exercise in total futility .

accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

Above all, 1914-18 has come to symbolise the futility of war.

The futility of implementing standards without changing incentives can be seen in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and China.

Among the many issues associated with end-of-life decision making are futility, autonomy, and quality of life, a "

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