Christopher Guest

They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession.

British Director

William Nicholson

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

British Writer

Norman Schwarzkopf

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

American General

Blaise Pascal

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

French Philosopher

Douglas Alexander

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.

British Politician

Eric Hoffer

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

American Writer

Pope John Paul II

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

Polish Saint

Abu Bakr

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Leader

Regina Brett

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

American Journalist

Edgar Rice Burroughs

American Author

The word 'futile' often implies disappointment or a negative outcome from an effort or action.

Negative Connotation

'Futile' may carry an emotional weight, suggesting a sense of frustration or resignation.

Emotional Weight

'Futile' can imply an action has been tried repeatedly without success, not just that it's useless.

Not Just Useless

Using 'futile' may suggest a situation is beyond one's control and efforts to change it are ineffective.

Beyond Control

'Futile' implies that success is not just unlikely, but that any effort is probably wasted.

Likely Failure

Use 'futile' to describe actions that are not only unlikely to succeed but also offer no positive outcome if continued.

No Positive Outcome

 as two incompatible puzzle pieces, and considered trying to fit them together to be fundamentally absurd. This tension became the heart of Camus’ Philosophy of the Absurd, which argued that life is inherently futile. Exploring how to live without meaning

Is life meaningless? And...

 The book traces Dr. Frankenstein's futile quest to impart and sustain life. He constructs his monster part by part from dead matter and electrifies it into conscious being. Upon completing the experiment, however, he's horrified at the result and flees.

Everything you need to...

 so trying to avoid that fact, I feel like is a bit futile at this stage. - These rare bites typically stem from curiosity or mistaken identity, yet how we feel about sharks versus the data, that's a different story. Like a really different story.

Where Our Fear of Sharks...

 But in this context, the style offers a profoundly overwhelming view of violence, destruction, and casualties. Multiple perspectives only compound the horror on display– sending the eyes hurtling around the frame in a futile hunt for peace.

Why is this painting so...

 and build armed citadels, or you may look for life-forms and species to learn from and respect. And you can use all the moneys we all have earned to wage futile wars and give guns in the hands of little children

Thoughts on humanity,...

 so there are some profound books, but also countless tomes of complete gibberish. The narrator has spent his entire life wandering this vast labyrinth of information in a possibly futile search for meaning.

Infinity according to...

 they lock antlers rehearsing for the upcoming rut but they will return to the Heinz territory to compete for breeding rights although for these young stags it all seems somewhat futile considering

Sleepy Harbour Seals and...

 While fixing and saving and trying to rescue is futile, radical self-care is quantum, and it radiates out from you into the atmosphere like a little fresh air. It's a huge gift to the world.

12 truths I learned from...

 learn to right wrongs without even attempting to justify cruel, unjust and futile behavior. Instead create a few beautiful and useful things that outlive us. Approach the world, life,

Inside the mind of a...

 and not the pollution. And so, OK, maybe cleaning the ocean is futile. It might be. But preventing ocean plastic could be humanity's richest opportunity.

Futile

Something that is pointless or ineffective.

Often appears as...

Not producing any result, useless.

Often appears as...

Unlikely to achieve or be successful.

Often appears as...

Negative Connotation

Emotional Weight

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