Uselessness of water company for one after onset of freeze

Usage examples of futility.

Professor Upham, of the United States Geologic Survey, a man of unquestionable honesty and no mean authority generally, thinks that the cost alone demonstrates the futility of attempting the artesian system.

The poor old man began by saying with great politeness that I really stood in no need of money to escape, that he had none, that he had a large family, that if I was killed the money would be lost, with a thousand other futilities of the same kind to disguise his avarice, or the dislike he felt to parting with his money.

The utter futility of life had laid so low an estimate on the claims of personal safety that Dinny was indifferent to bruises or the hazard of broken bones.

He went home and spent the afternoon in his library over books about the Cotswold country, drearily conscious of futility.

It was impossible to guess whether Emmet were surprised or disappointed at this disclosure of the comparative futility of his visit.

Jews--the men with little silken moustaches--who were coming from concerts at that moment, awakened in him vague but powerful emotions of nakedness, rootlessness, futility and misery, which even the glorious memory of the power, exultancy and joy of poetry could not conquer or subdue.

It snagged between his ankles, and he tripped over it, tried to untangle his feet from it, failed, and--waving his arms in futility to reacquire his balance--stumbled sideways.

It may be de rigueur in academic circles to moan about the myth of Sisyphus and the pointless futility of human existence, but such an attitude is antithetical to the principles of science fiction.

Sisyphus and the pointless futility of human existence, but such an attitude is antithetical to the principles of science fiction.

My lecture on the futility of trying to get homiletic with someone who had been doing this for as long as I had was cut short by the exodus of listeners, who began trickling downhill toward home.

Then, realising the futility of swearing at a mere tool, I went up to the Great House and demanded an audience with Panda himself.

Then, with a bright smile and an omniscient sense of utter futility, I told everyone to gather at home platea burlap bagto learn how to hold a baseball bat.

Its chief characteristic--which is futility, not failure--could not be achieved but by the long abuse, the rotatory reproduction, the quotidian disgrace, of the utterances of Art, especially the utterance by words.

Even as he rehearsed this speech he recognized its futility, but the plug of nothingness that had stoppered his emotions during the auction had worked itself loose, the speedball of failure and rejection had worn off, and all the usual passions and compulsions were sparking in him again.

He saw the futility and unnecessary expense of having three commissioners, and after six weeks in Paris, as early as May 21, he was writing to Samuel Adams to say that one commissioner, Franklin, would be quite enough.