My response to this top 10 question is: Rearranging WHERE clause predicates may be an exercise in futility.
As with Sisyphus, the boulder was painstakingly rolled upwards only to tumble back down again in an absurd exercise of futility.
At it's most benign, there's no more than an apathy and weariness that makes it difficult to go about life's daily business; and at its worst, a feeling of meaningless, of futility, of pain.
So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
If you understand how software works, you know the futility of measuring productivity by lines of code.
She makes a little money selling them online — $10 here, $50 there — but mostly it beats the sense of futility that used to envelop her each day during her quest to find a job.
He appeared like a young philosopher meditating on the futility of games.
Scarlett, like the rest of us, can’t bear the pain of giving up an option, but Rhett recognizes the marriage’s futility and closes the door with astonishing elan.
The only thing that can be observed is a feeling of emptiness, being lost, deadness, futility, and so on, coupled with an apparently lifeless acceptance of everything that has been offered.
Perhaps you see yourself as above this futility, but it's all we've got and all we've ever had.
For what futility you have created all men!
We bring you some highlights from the talk, including their take on the purposefulness of evolution and the futility of arguing with creationists.
The futility of the authorities' attempts to police this area was illustrated by the Edison Chen scandal that broke in early 2008.
Then Sartre picks this up and says that the futility of human race is that all men or whether all people want to be perfect, but there is only one creature, entity, who can be perfect. That's God.
No one who isn't directly involved would ever believe the incredible duplication and futility.
To many, Vietnam proves the futility of Western powers using force in somebody else's country.
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