Use futility in a sentence | example usage from the newswires

Editorial »

How to use the word futility in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

17 results found

The truth of the matter is, it gets darkest before it gets brightest, we are going to have to go through this. It takes three to five years to completely change a culture. Futility doesn’t just disappear overnight, and to create a positive environment, it takes time. It’s not going to happen overnight. – Rob Carr/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was still sort of a moment of initial shock, there was an eerie quiet. And there wasn't like a ton of equipment down there. There weren't cranes doing any work yet. It was just individual firefighters and groups of firefighters trying to make sense of a little bit of the futility of what was in front of them. – Yoni Brook	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The futility analyses showed the studies were most likely to fail. – Richard Isaacson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	added by Normando 3 years ago
its futile looking for -motives- when we already know the reasons as to why certain things happen. An exercise in futility will not a safe solution make. Most things are casually related. If a=b, and b=c, then a=c. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
I'm definitely kicked off my timeline and Wimbledon qualifying is looking out of the question, i've had some humbling moments in the past couple weeks that have made me realize the futility of a' plan' when it comes to a recovery like this. – Nicole Gibbs	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What we can't have is communities having a sense of futility, that violence is inevitable. They deserve better, violence does exhibit similar patterns to contagious disease. We know that. It can be prevented. – Duncan Bew	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The futility of speaking to families and telling mothers their children have died has spurred a lot of us to think : what more could we have done to have actually stopped it happening ? – Duncan Bew	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It wouldn't produce the result that Sen. Cruz and I would both like to produce, so therefore, it would be an exercise in futility. – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today. – William O. Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. – Dwight D Eisenhower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things. – Robert Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The truth of the matter is, it gets darkest before it gets brightest, we are going to have to go through this. It takes three to five years to completely change a culture. Futility doesn’t just disappear overnight, and to create a positive environment, it takes time. It’s not going to happen overnight.

– Rob Carr/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was still sort of a moment of initial shock, there was an eerie quiet. And there wasn't like a ton of equipment down there. There weren't cranes doing any work yet. It was just individual firefighters and groups of firefighters trying to make sense of a little bit of the futility of what was in front of them.

– Yoni Brook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The futility analyses showed the studies were most likely to fail.

– Richard Isaacson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

added by Normando
3 years ago

its futile looking for -motives- when we already know the reasons as to why certain things happen. An exercise in futility will not a safe solution make. Most things are casually related. If a=b, and b=c, then a=c.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

I'm definitely kicked off my timeline and Wimbledon qualifying is looking out of the question, i've had some humbling moments in the past couple weeks that have made me realize the futility of a' plan' when it comes to a recovery like this.

– Nicole Gibbs

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What we can't have is communities having a sense of futility, that violence is inevitable. They deserve better, violence does exhibit similar patterns to contagious disease. We know that. It can be prevented.

– Duncan Bew

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The futility of speaking to families and telling mothers their children have died has spurred a lot of us to think : what more could we have done to have actually stopped it happening ?

– Duncan Bew

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It wouldn't produce the result that Sen. Cruz and I would both like to produce, so therefore, it would be an exercise in futility.

– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

– William O. Douglas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

– Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

– Dwight D Eisenhower