| 单词 | futile |
| 例句 | Winston whined and grizzled, made futile demands for food, fretted about the room, pulling everything out of place and kicking the wainscoting until the neighbors banged on the wall, while the younger child wailed intermittently. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Luke nodded absently at the joke, refusing to stop his futile search of the parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Later came the white heron, gliding low in futile search of a shallow edge to wade. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was only endless talk that led nowhere and I began to keep away from home as much as possible, preferring the simplicity of the streets to the worried, futile talk at home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Works upon the isle proceed as ever: still the futile fortifications, though the rebels glower high above us from the shore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “You no think is time for you to give up now, Tasha? You no think that what you doing is futile?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But the telephoned bomb-threats which had begun shortly after noon made necessary two evacuations of the funeral home for bomb-squad searches, which proved futile. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She draws out the first syllable of futile for a second too long. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Despite how Ahjuhma felt about the three of us, our unusual little family, Lelia made several more futile attempts before she gave up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The Sunday after the futile dusting, Mr. Randolph surprised everyone by refusing seconds. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I keep hoping that as time passes we’ll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it’s futile. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He took another futile swing before he answered. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We saw quick glimpses of the enemy lines: heads and rifles now raised, watching the futile approach, waiting for a moment to fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She no longer begs Madame Manec to take her to the train station, to write another letter, to spend another futile afternoon at the prefecture trying to petition occupation authorities to locate her father. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I take one futile step in her direction when I hear the cannon blast, know her heart has stopped, that she is dead. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In Alabama, asking to change venue was an essentially futile act. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Luke said it would be futile and I had to think about them, my family, him and her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the same cry of futile despair he had uttered when Sissy had insisted that she had given birth to the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, in one last, utterly futile gesture, Carter ruled that the MIA car pool was illegal and must stop operating. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z A few of the rats snarled and tried to bite; I did not, and neither did Jenner; it was too obviously futile. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps what I had already learned to feel in my childhood saved me from that futile path. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z How many sacrifices had Gilgamesh witnessed before realizing how futile they all were? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Elbows bent, hands on shoulders, she flailed her arms like a bird in an eternal, grotesquely futile effort to fly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z And even if we could, the system was so corrupt, it would have been futile. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Still, in Gloria’s disheveled home, where the back door is left open to the muddy yard, her efforts are futile. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I did not approve of it because I knew that, in the long run, it was futile, that it was not an effective way to alter one’s relationship to one’s environment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s none of my business, but bottom line: even if he were what I wanted in a guy, my interest would be futile. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Or is life so filled with random action that the very notion of caution is futile? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Not everything had a cause, and pretending otherwise was an interference in the workings of the world that was futile, and could even lead to grief. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She put her arms around him and held the futile little fellow to her breast. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z With my pencil I wrote in a determined scrawl across the face of the ballots: I Protest This Fraud I knew that my gesture was futile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Worsley yelled and waved in a futile attempt to draw attention to them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I turned to the man, who had bent down again to his futile digging. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Is this another desperate ploy for some way to defeat me? More yearbooks? So futile.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z For once, his luck held, Petey and TimeStar were still in the basement workshop, discussing their own futile strategies, looking as depressed as the ice cream shop Clock Watchers. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Professing his innocence to her was futile, as professions of innocence were likely all she heard all day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There will always be, I realize, those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Stale and wilted flowers, rejected downtown, blazed feverishly on a cart, like glamorous rags festering beneath a futile spray from a punctured fruit juice can. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The windows had no glass, just flaps of gunnysack strung up in a futile attempt to keep out the insects. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Now the elms are stricken with a disease that afflicts them throughout their range, a disease so serious that many experts believe all efforts to save the elms will in the end be futile. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It hurts too much. Please, Maxim. Let’s forget all we said. A futile silly argument. I’m sorry, darling. I’m sorry. Please let everything be all right.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I felt a momentary awkwardness as I tried to watch myself, always a futile thing to attempt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Enrique knows that is futile; the last time he tried running from the police in the cemetery, he was caught and deported. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Helene hands me a threadbare blanket, and I pull it over the girl, knowing how futile it is. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We sat inside — it would have been futile to even attempt to open the door, so many people were pressing on it — for more than an hour, imprisoned by thousands of our own supporters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Galen’s extraordinary logorrhoea—his surviving works amount to 3 million words, and represent perhaps a third of what he wrote—is the consequence of his obsessive and futile effort to overcome this insuperable obstacle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Flittman thought Drummer was going to wet on him again and it was more than the harassed and futile little man could stand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him than his heart’s best blood, would have been futile and degrading. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z They did not seem to be individual men, but part of a huge, implacable, elemental design toward which hate was futile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Deserted by Milo, they trudged homelessly through the reveling masses in futile search of a place to sleep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He realized immediately that this would be futile and would only bring the whole place round his ears. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He hung for a moment, his armpit against the spar, and knew that his light was futile against the fog; nevertheless he adjusted the flame higher before clambering down. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It is as futile to seek the past there as in a refuse of dishes encircling a table, each with its own crust of gravy, its own tale of bone and crackling. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This proved futile, and when I decided eventually to rise, it was still so dark that I was obliged to turn on the electric light in order to shave at the sink in the comer. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But such speculation about unknowns is futile, and with the combination of mental and physical exhaustion, I soon fell deeply asleep. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sir,” said I, “final words are futile. You are not close to death.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A futile gesture, even childish, but she was determined to hold it as long as she could. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z After each futile birth, her love of children grew stronger. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Shackleton turned away and ordered the men to resume their backbreaking, futile work. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It was futile to say he was just a low-ranking soldier following orders. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He kicked his legs steadily, trying not to expend too much energy, but they both knew it was probably futile. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Until now her life had been one of mute, futile fury. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A sound of strife in Jody’s throat, but his eyes stared unwillingly into a corner of the room so Janie knew the futile fight was not with her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I spent so many days with my forehead pressed against my glass window, bruising myself with my futile wanting. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z François swore strange barbarous oaths, and stamped the snow in futile rage, and tore his hair. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z Doesn’t it seem to say that the outcome was inevitable, and that it would therefore be futile to try to change the outcome today? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But I think he knew it was futile to hide out or resist. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, while Dad retreated to the living room and Mom fumed in the kitchen, the football boys from Coalwood gathered in Jim’s room, plotting futile anarchy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Some would sleep while the shelling, futile, echoed along the summer roads; some would wind stalks of grass around their fingers; some would mutter to friends. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I have been trying to interpret them as genuine weekends, as if, after spending the weekdays on futile and largely cosmetic labor, I had decided to volunteer to do something useful for a change. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He had run the gauntlet of flames, risked his life several times in a futile effort to locate his young nieces and nephew, and barely managed to escape. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Pump boys were feverishly bringing water to the great tubs —it was one of those futile castles, which appear to have originated in Ireland, whose bailey was without a well. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet she said nothing; she was weary of futile arguments with her sister. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It would have been futile to tell him of my mastering his car and driving it nearly fifty miles. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For decades, black elites engaged in private rescue efforts to make black communities tidy, clean, and respectable in a futile effort to gain white approval. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He suddenly saw how futile, how ridiculous the situation was. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Catt called the picketing “an unwarranted discourtesy to the President and a futile annoyance” to Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I was thankful there was this spirit of amity; we were neither of us anxious to engage in futile disputes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Flies buzzed up and I covered my mouth a bit in a futile attempt to stave off the smell. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In his present situation, such futile ideas went through his head, while he pushed himself right up against the door and listened. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z The more one thought about such numbers, in effect, the more one realized that further thought was futile. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Few challenges to sentencing schemes, patterns, or results have been brought since McCleskey, for the exercise is plainly futile. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Farmer’s involvement in Russia had started two years earlier, when he made a futile effort to convince the Soros Foundation to provide funds for PIH’s TB work in Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Do I climb the hill and present myself at the gates of the New Castle, to make a futile plea? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But after another hour or so of this I realize it’s futile. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z After a final futile search for her they had to disembark along with the rest of the passengers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Students darted from one hallway to the next—Moss realized that they must have known how futile it was to get out of the school through the front entrance. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But his diary and two notes found at the camp tell a wrenching story of his desperate and progressively futile efforts to survive. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z To attempt to act in such a way that the prophecy would be made void was as futile as to set oneself against the decrees of fate. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to tell myself this terrible letter was just the futile and parting shot of a defeated Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The first and arguably most important point is that criminal justice reform efforts—standing alone—are futile. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It is as futile for Turnus to fight Aeneas as to fight the lightning or an earthquake. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Every so often, someone in the rear of the group would shout toward the front, but it was a futile act. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He sat as still as a mouse, in the futile hope that whoever it was might go away after a single attempt. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The question is unanswerable, which is not to say futile. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z With the benefit of hindsight, surely we can see that piecemeal policy reform or litigation alone would have been a futile approach to dismantling Jim Crow segregation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Finally, we realized our efforts were futile; we could only pray as we watched her struggle to survive. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’re a lot of misunderstandings that I’d like to clear up,” I said, forcing the words out of me, for I knew now that my errand was futile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis, however, remained lukewarm, and in the absence of any hard facts I knew it was futile to try to bring him around. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z His search was thorough and they could see at once that it was futile. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Demetrius, who screamed in futile rage after he watched his ten-year-old brother whipped to death by the Commandant for desertion. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was a futile spread of pink rocks sleeping on a rise of sand, a few tumbled pillars, one lonely shrine, and then the sweep of sand again. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z When the reality of the injury set in, when it became apparent to Boobie that there was no magic wand, the grueling regimen of rehabilitation became more frustrating and futile. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The scholastic philosophy taught in the universities, based on Aristotle, was, Bacon insisted, caught up in a series of futile arguments which could never generate new knowledge of the sort he was looking for. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My mom is right, of course—what I’m doing is futile. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z From far below and a long way back came another futile volley of rifle fire. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Major Major had bought the dark glasses and false mustache in Rome in a final, futile attempt to save himself from the swampy degradation into which he was steadily sinking. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Most of these stops and searches are futile. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His fingers tapped out a rhythm, trying to find a new count, but it was futile. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z God had said that it was only the men who could give up their jealous selves, their futile individualities of happiness and sorrow, who would die peacefully and enter the ring. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom says it’s time for me to give up now, and that what I’m doing is futile. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z With black bears, however, playing dead is futile, since they will continue chewing on you until you are considerably past caring. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Moss saw Martin at the main door, chatting with those who were struggling to get inside the space, but it was futile. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Her son had gone, and her lover, and there was nothing left Even the promise to return had foiled her futile grasp. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I longed to reach out for her, but I knew it was futile. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z On my third morning I find, after a few futile searches, that the Russ shirt-and-short combinations have edged Kathie Lee out of her image. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead it shrank to the floor, lifting a forepaw in a futile gesture of defence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He made another futile stab at the paper and his wife tossed it angrily into the next room. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Alas, writes Krzhizhanovsky, "for a man who is lost and dying in the wilderness to cry out is both futile and belated". Lost literature: the unknown unknowns 2010-04-07T12:46:00Z But Kidman also makes Gretchen ever-so-slightly ridiculous, adding a sharp sliver of comedy that underscores how self-serving and futile her rebellious gestures at the network are, like when she appears on camera wearing no makeup. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z But his desire to transform himself is, of course, futile. ‘Synonyms’ Review: Brilliant. Relentless. Comic. Tragic. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z One sequence begins with the text "the futile search begins," but what, exactly, is the goal of the quest? Review: An engaging show of 'Meteorites' at Winston-W?chter 2010-12-16T21:53:12Z Any progress seemed futile against the rush of information. A Masterpiece That Requires Your Full Attention — and a Lot of Time 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Worst of all, they are trying to create a super-manif — or perhaps a demon — against which resistance will be futile. China Mieville's 'The Last Days of New Paris' makes the surreal real 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Extending or modifying life would also be futile and not feasible. 2010-01-06T19:46:00Z His erratic and narcissistic father, Lord Randolph Churchill, saw the boy as “among the second rate and third rate,” predicting that his life would “degenerate into a shabby, unhappy and futile existence.” Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Spent the morning pecking away at gift-guide pitches while applying anything in all bathroom cabinets below my eyes in a futile attempt to relieve the gigantic bags under them. Stars of the See-and-Be-Seen Upend Washington 2010-12-23T23:42:46Z Not only does the refrigerator in my house "signal" our clutter, it also records my futile struggles against it. Motherlode Blog: What Does Your Fridge Door Say About Your Family? 2012-08-16T15:02:17Z Franz’s book — a love story, a recovery narrative, a knowingly futile attempt to penetrate “a nation that takes great pride in its impenetrability” — is the same kind of thing. An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z As historian Timothy Snyder has been pointing out in his books about authoritarianism the moment we cannot agree on what truth is then all resistance is futile. "The Boys" comics artist Darick Robertson on Amazon's adaptation, politics and "The Punisher" 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Then there are futile attempts at engagement with the locals, who are understandably wary of providing assistance when they're literally caught in the crossfire. Armadillo ? review 2011-04-07T21:00:01Z A jejune error: the past is unrepeatable, regret futile. Embracing the Ordinary by Michael Foley - review 2012-07-18T07:00:02Z But, while it might be futile to expect originality from Cowell, we do see him as lord of formats and, even here, Food Glorious Food falters. Simon Cowell's Food Glorious Food: a bad cover version of other food shows 2013-02-27T12:56:01Z “The same could be said of most of the Coen brothers’ movies, in which human existence and the attempt to find meaning in it are equally futile, if also sometimes a lot of fun.” 2010-02-06T01:50:00Z The good-enough mother tries to meet her children’s needs, but the effort is futile if those needs are fundamentally at odds. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z As his friend and fellow playwright Simon Gray said, Stoppard was a magnetic figure blessed with so many enviable gifts — talent, riches, looks, luck — that it was futile to envy him. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Re-laundering might seem futile, but in my experience, a second or even third consecutive washing can be what finally gets that turmeric off your favorite napkin. This is the secret to removing your peskiest stain 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z I am an impatient person who, when exasperated by a perceived injustice, is given to grand, futile, petulant gestures. Gene Weingarten: The keys to insanity 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Resistance, as they say, was futile, and I stuffed five into my truck. An elusive summer perennial named hyssop While it may seem like filing a complaint to a government agency is a futile exercise, it’s not, and may be more effective than complaining to the airline. | Practical Traveler: Inside the New Flight Rules 2010-05-11T20:24:00Z His eyes were empty, and he looked less than futile. Personal Journeys: In West Africa, a Dollar and a Meal 2013-05-06T21:58:34Z What if they order us on missions that are wasteful, shameful, futile? Review: ‘My Life as a Foreign Country’ by Brian Turner Maybe it speaks to something that vexes us, or finds language where words previously seemed futile. Valerie June’s Music Is a Reminder That Life Goes On 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z And yet, in the attempt to reflect on or escape from those experiences, Ligeti's music is a clarion-call for the fundamental importance of that supposedly futile artistic effort. A guide to György Ligeti's music 2012-08-27T12:11:24Z It is a gesture as futile, and as glorious in its futility, as building a monument to all the world’s heroes in Mitteleuropa, or printing magazines no one will read. A Bolaño Novel About Young Poets in Mexico City, Hungry for Fame, Sex and Adventure. No, Not That One. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z For those inside the Egyptian theatre on Main street, resistance wasn’t futile, it was utterly impossible. 'Secrets will eat you up' – inside the shocking Michael Jackson documentary 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z There’s no escape from pain, and searching for a magical salve is a futile search. Why it won’t matter if the “Leftovers” finale provides answers or not 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z This deep-time perspective suggests that individual action for environmental repair is both futile and absolutely necessary as a form of reparation. Writers imagined drowned worlds for centuries — what they tell us about the future 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Still, as Shimu’s efforts ramp up and appear increasingly futile, “Made in Bangladesh” acquires a quiet power. ‘Made in Bangladesh’ Review: A Quiet Power in Collective Efforts 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Ross’ efforts to imbue the studio vocalists with the proper jazz feeling proved futile, and they were let go. Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Resistance is futile, when practiced with their peculiar brand of downtown-blasé joie de vivre. At Opening Ceremony, the Clothes Are Only the Start 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z In an era of abundance when every day brings a deluge of new music to consume, it may seem particularly futile to turn to the past. A Trip Through Pop, Rap and Jazz’s Past, in 27 Boxed Sets 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z It’s a nice effort by the commission — or perhaps more like a futile gesture. Perspective | What Kristen Welker can learn from Savannah Guthrie about dealing with Trump 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z If years of loving this woman with every inch of your being teaches you anything, it’s that attempts at forecasting Beyoncé’s future moves are usually futile. The meaning of Beyoncé: a dispatch from inside the Beyhive 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z She made an elaborate, and ultimately futile, effort to pitch an album by her boogie rock horn band, Buffalo Clover, to Jack White’s Third Man Records by hand-delivering weekly packages of riddles and oddities. Margo Price, Nashville Outsider, Tells It Like It Really Is 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z I, on the other hand, realized I needed to loosen the lid on my futile hope that she is always my happy little girl. Screams. Tears. Meltdowns. New Picture Books Let Bad Behavior Fly, With Just a Bit of Advice 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “It was because it wasn’t decent to go out and just celebrate futile things and have fun.” Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z From the Morning Heat is nice but icy, and Ramona is a crisp beat ballad undercut by sad chords and a guitar figure that says, "I am bereft and alone and life is futile". New band of the day ? Craft Spells (No 1,002) 2011-04-11T15:59:29Z It would be futile to list all the influences: Zorn plays with everything he has heard and experienced. John Zorn: A Portrait – review 2013-01-14T17:32:59Z Each film in the trilogy examines a character embarked on a futile quest for happiness. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Faith,’ the Second in Ulrich Seidl’s Trilogy 2013-08-22T21:51:23Z ATHENS, Greece — In Greek mythology, King Sisyphus pushed a boulder up a hill, over and over, forever, in a futile exercise that a few commentators have compared to international efforts to revive Greece's dire finances. Greek crisis: An odyssey seen through ancient myth 2012-06-24T11:41:12Z It makes the work of some of his acclaimed contemporaries look futile and oddly amateurish. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z You’ll be far more effective, as a campaigner, if you practise stepping away, instead of getting swept into a futile whirlpool of rage, which only serves the other side. Angry? Don't let it get to you and you'll make a bigger difference 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z During this election, writing about theatre, pop music, television, and so on, has often felt futile, unserious, even as politics creep in here and there. Election Day in the East Village: Singing Helps 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z But it prompts a worrying notion: that the imperative to Know Thyself inevitably collapses into baffled histrionics and will always be comically futile. Review | For Dana Schutz, a new show after her controversial painting of Emmett Till 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z As bloggers and ad hoc investigators, they are particularly drawn to cold cases, where deep Internet dives and DNA records can run circles around the dusty-shelved efforts of initial, and futile, detective work. Review | ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’ isn’t just another true-crime docuseries. It’s a brilliant look at how the genre pulls us in. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Stripped of individual dignity and condemned to futile depredation, zombies are seen as embodying the state of contemporary humanity. World War Z unleashes an unedifying breed of zombie 2013-06-17T13:58:58Z Any comparison to his level of attainment is futile at best. The incomparable Paul McCartney at 80 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Paul’s grimace of determination at the last moment is admirable, but futile: you can’t outrun a bullet. True Detective: season two, episode seven recap – Black Maps and Motel Rooms 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z And as far as when to call it, he said: “There is no general rule to follow except this: Walk away any time you detect an impasse. Anything else is futile.” How to Have a Disagreement Like an Adult, According to Deepak Chopra 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z It was futile to keep writing because no one wanted to film the books? How ‘The Alienist’ Finally Found a Screen 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z It's probably futile to try separating their promotional qualities from their artistic ones. In Wayne Thom's revelatory show, a generation of L.A. buildings gets needed attention 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Literature, in other words, as act of faith, as gesture of connection, no matter how futile or doomed. Patrick Modiano's many detours into echoes, longings and tension 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z His attacks are both hilariously futile and a kind of perfect crime. The Kids in the Hall Have Gotten Old. Their Comedy Hasn’t. 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The process can be long, painful and sometimes futile. Whistleblowers walk among us. Now one has gotten in Trump’s head. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The indirect heat squash was futile; it took forever to cook through, and never developed a good flavor. The absolute best way to grill vegetables 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Instead, 3D Realms kept chasing its tail, scrapping entire versions of the game in futile attempts to keep up with the latest graphics and design innovations. Video Game Review: 14 Years of Waiting Have Come to an End 2011-06-17T22:56:13Z But the gag rule has proved futile against the Internet. An Australian court’s gag order is no match for the Internet, as word gets out about prominent cardinal’s conviction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z I’ve pursued that futile quest to be fair, to distribute attention equally. The Half-Empty Nest 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s a fistfight, not a dance — brutal, futile, wet, raw and sad. ‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z In this way, we are becoming prisoners of our social appetites – slaves to me-versus-you interactions, through which we perform free, futile emotional labour that profits capitalism, but can only make us unhappier. Facebook's greatest weapon: endless comparison of ourselves to others 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z I think it's that kind of futile, beautiful resistance to the inevitable. "Life feels like an uncomfortable comedy": Zach Woods embraces the awkward and new movie "Downhill" 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Treated with suspicion, hostility and barely disguised contempt by low-level government officials, Daniel is required to supply exhaustive proof of his disability and of his futile job search. Review: ‘I, Daniel Blake,’ Stuck on the Bureaucratic Hamster Wheel 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z It was a fair observation that got me wondering: Beyond getting worked up about reckless drivers, what exactly did I want from this lonely, mostly futile campaign? A man’s crusade to bring civility to our rage-filled roads (Good luck with that!) 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The attempt she describes is futile, “like riding a bike without a chain.” Review: Rage and Ritual in ‘What to Send Up When It Goes Down’ 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z What book bans and censors attempt to do in the curtailing of reading is often futile. What was the first banned book in history? 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z This led to many disastrously futile counter-insurgency operations and full-scale wars, especially in Indochina, which still scar large parts of Asia. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z There's something undeniably warm and wholesome about the trend towards what some would describe as "urban homesteading," but there's also something strange and vaguely futile about the whole thing, too. "At Home with Amy Sedaris" is the kind of pandemic cooking content we deserve 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “There’s nothing more futile than trying to explain a cartoon to someone who doesn’t get it,” Mr. Lorenz said. Lee Lorenz, 90, Cartoonist and Gatekeeper at The New Yorker, Dies 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z “Some of my friends tell me my efforts are futile,” he said, after devoting New Year’s Day to a bike retrieval expedition. Round up my ride! Bulgarian returns Singapore's damaged rental bikes 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z As Pynchon’s title suggests, the quest is futile because the American flaw, or the flaw in human nature, was baked in from the beginning, a legacy of evolution or of God. “Inherent Vice”: Pynchon meets Anderson in an absurd, glorious search for meaning, circa 1970 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The maniacal raving of a manacled being, frenzies of futile rage, ravaging only oneself. Philip Roth receives 'Literary Service' award 2013-05-01T04:54:14Z But, though the effort be futile, heap I must. Review | From the author of ‘Pretty Little Liars,’ a new book that’s exactly what you’d expect 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z We were aware as we began that this task was a bizarre blend of dangerous, silly, pointless, and futile. “You want me to take f**king out of the Scrabble dictionary?” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The third episode is an episode about race that is really about how stupid and futile it is to do an episode that tries to tackle race issues. Lady Dynamite: Maria Bamford’s experimental comedy does meta better 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Trying to continue that conversation across the globe in a series of oblique text messages and emoji is futile. Review | Bryan Washington’s ‘Memorial’ is a tender look at modern family life 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Her plea to him during the Continental Congress to “remember the ladies” proved futile. These Are The 25 Most Influential Marriages of All Time 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z But by the second act, the tension inexorably rising, resistance to a work so openhearted, tender and plain-spoken seems futile. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z He sneers at the rich, stocking the stony apartment with futile luxuries that give it the feel of a pharaoh’s tomb. ‘Inside’ Review: Tortured Artist, Meet Tortured Man 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z In the end, though, efforts to traditionally breastfeed proved futile. Perspective | Formula feeding is not failure 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z So do I. But our remonstrance seems futile against a people whose false gods include the biblical golden calf of capitalism itself. Why did it take 10 years for America to leave Michael Jackson's Neverland? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Children in the Riga ghetto played soccer, walked to school past bodies strung from gallows, and later, in Kaiserwald, heard their parents make futile plans to hide them under barracks floorboards. ?Forgotten Transports? of Czech Jews at Shoah Festival 2010-03-26T22:02:00Z But Lashon soon realized that this was futile — a mother’s desperate helplessness in the face of her son’s unwieldy ambitions. How Atlanta History Shaped Lil Baby and Generations of Rappers 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Hey, doctors and scientists, it seems pretty clear that telling people what not to eat, rather than how not to eat it, is futile. Perspective | When the pandemic ends, a healthier ‘normal’ could help our obesity crisis. Here’s how to create it. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z He speaks with such affable authority that resistance is futile. Perspective | An app can help introduce newbies to the garden. But the real rewards are in the dirt. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Extending or modifying life would also be futile and not feasible. 2010-01-06T19:46:00Z Probably not, because killing mold is a rather futile goal. Eliminating green mold from concrete steps 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Resistance is futile … English is the lingustic equivalent of the Borg in Star Trek, devouring all before it – American or not. Americanisms are often closer to home than we imagine 2013-05-13T09:02:20Z It is one of the most powerful presentations at the new First World War Galleries here, suggesting that this seemingly futile battle was actually a turning point. First World War Galleries Reopen at Imperial War Museum 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z But it’s futile to try to be objective about these things. Photographing a nation in motion 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z He says that climate change renders the old dichotomy of the global versus the local completely futile. Why Fighting Fake News With the Facts Might Not Be Enough 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Efforts to recover the luggage through the claims process were futile. Making the case for luggage tracking 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z At least, there is plenty on the negative and futile end of the scale. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What we’ve got here is a failure to stop communicating 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z After a few minutes my feet became chilled by the cold, damp air that radiated from the concrete floor, over which scraps of carpet had been laid in a futile attempt to help insulate it. Across Britain, Silent Relics of the Cold War 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z If you’ve made the journey in, any plans to rush out are futile. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Take Jim's insights into social media, and the futile efforts of a former university friend to circumnavigate it. The Adult by Joe Stretch - review 2012-08-24T21:55:04Z When the movie is focused on Jacky’s desperate and futile efforts to be a superman, it becomes a stark tragedy of masculinity and its chemical boundaries. Movie Review: ?Bullhead,? Directed by Michael R. Roskam 2012-02-16T23:52:20Z My 24-year-old self wasn’t wrong about the stakes being high during that decade; that’s why I feel sadness for the stressed girl writing down her futile plans while her boyfriend waited in the next room. ‘Dear Me’: A Novelist Writes to Her Future Self 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Ultimately, Harman writes, he will "cost her two years of intense heartache, humiliation and futile hope." Unrequited love fuels the 'Fiery Heart' biography of Charlotte Brontë 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Stripping, and other abusive behaviors directed at airline employees, are generally futile. The Case of the Unhappy Naked Traveler 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Along the way, she describes the terrors of raising a terminally ill child, considers the ethics of futile medical interventions and testifies to the temptation and havoc of denial. Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Not that the project was in any way futile. Michael Fassbender on playing Steve Jobs: 'Was he flawed? Yeah! We all are' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z All the bad news is delivered in the kind of flat tone that lets you know it is futile. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: Love in the Ruins 2012-06-21T10:45:56Z But I can't, from my ivory tower in the Hollywood Hills, compete with the understandable yet futile rhetoric, describing the rioters as mindless. UK riots: Big Brother isn't watching you 2011-08-11T17:18:00Z In a 2006 interview with German daily Bild, he recounted how he and his school friends were sent to the front “as cannon fodder” in Hitler’s futile attempt to halt the Allies’ advance. German actor Hardy Kruger, star of adventure movies, dies 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Not the pleas of terrorized residents, and certainly not the futile efforts of state police, who still remain nearly powerless against the cartels. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z M’s systematic attempts to make meaning out of her chaotic life may be futile, but they offer a canny insight into her magical mind. Order and Chaos, Mostly Chaos, in 3 Debut Novels 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z These imagined versions of the afterlife prompt us to question what we might do if given a second chance, and reflect on which actions are futile and which might have repercussions. Dead and loving it: why has TV become so obsessed with the afterlife? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The first concerns France’s futile attempt to keep its Indochinese colonies. In the Heat of Battle, ‘In the Year of the Pig’ 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Here’s Wesley Morris on why calls for a “national conversation” are futile. What to Cook This Weekend 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z “Resistance is futile; you adore her on sight,” Luke Jennings wrote in The Observer. Natalia Osipova?s Forceful Rise in Ballet 2010-06-17T22:21:00Z It was a move that was met with much initial protestation by my family, but resistance is futile against a really good falafel. Confessions of a part-time vegan: How changing my diet changed my life 2014-01-27T15:59:00Z The fight seemed futile: Irony rather than activism was their most potent weapon. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z A gong became a target, pummeled and scratched with furious yet futile energy. ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z In fact, with about a minute left Carril, to my great surprise, threw me into the game; I immediately fired a three-pointer that, also to my great surprise, rattled in, helping ignite the futile comeback. Princeton-UCLA: Reflections on an Historic Upset 2011-03-16T10:05:00Z “What happened then turns out to have been futile,” Mr. le Carré said at the time, speaking of the intelligence services. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z For much of the time, it was futile. For moderator Chris Wallace, debate was runaway train 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Soon the body count increases exponentially as Amarilla's vehicle crashes into a city bus and he and his men begin slaughtering cops and civilians in a desperate but ultimately futile escape attempt. 'True Detective' recap: Carnage erupts as homicide probe deepens 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z And so our hope for these couples doesn’t feel so futile — given those statistics, it would be downright churlish not to want those two crazy kids to just work it out already. Our celebrity rom-com fixation: What’s really so fascinating about the one who (almost) got away 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s futile to describe a book by recounting its plot, and this is especially true in this case. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Now you might argue that such disconnectedness is thematically appropriate to a tale of lonely women in futile search of soul mates in Depression-era St. Louis. Review: Clashing Lives in Tennessee Williams’s ‘Creve Coeur’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Summer holiday fun, and the futile quest for it, in this kids' comedy. This week's new films 2012-07-27T23:05:00Z He also made the appealing but ridiculous claim that assassinations were futile. Book excerpt: After MLK death, RFK 'poured his heart out' 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Instead of thinking "This is so bad it's good", I thought, "This is so bad it's execrable": a futile exercise that people are trying desperately to make "fun". I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z But trying to explain the meaning of her work in these terms alone is futile. Review | How one abstract artist refuses to be boxed in 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The simplicity of this instruction felt incredibly futile. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z For those taking in “Les Troyens” on Sunday, though, close watching may be futile: according to the Met, no singer will be wired up. Wearing a Wire at the Opera, Secretly, of Course 2013-06-28T19:47:55Z But it doesn’t believe that being good is futile. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Just as Tom Lehrer believed that Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize rendered satire obsolete, so this blood-drinking detail renders futile any kind of political or psychological analysis. The Look of Silence: second Act of Killing as horrifically gripping as first - Venice film festival review 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of language like this in “Cherry,” a book that takes us to war and back, into a drug-saturated spiral of futile effort. More Books We Loved in 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z He said his concern is more about situations in which end-of-life wishes aren’t known and cases where doctors push treatments for terminal illnesses that are clearly futile and that may prolong suffering. How mom’s death changed my thinking about end-of-life care 2013-03-03T14:00:00Z Losing the general election was a blow, but the real tragedy for the Conservative party came in 2001 when it emerged I had absolutely no support for my futile leadership bid. Strictly Ann by Ann Widdecombe – digested 2013-06-16T19:00:02Z And by the time she read Pack’s blogpost, it had started to feel futile to try to convince them. 'I saw his fluffy little head going out the door': one woman's fight to keep her baby 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Much of the movie’s comedy derives from Colin’s futile efforts to keep his animals hidden. ‘Rams’ Review: Ailing Sheep and Quirky Characters 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Human endeavour might be futile, such work seems to suggest, and yet the quest for purpose continues. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z There are few online experiences more dispiriting, more arduously futile, than the downward scroll into the netherworld of half-assed provocations and inanities that exists beneath the typical opinion piece or YouTube video. It’s Comments All the Way Down 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Putting the crimes of serial killers into any kind of order of horror would be a futile and tasteless task, but it is worth considering what made the crimes of the Wests particularly abhorrent. Inside the mind of serial killer Fred West 2011-07-31T19:30:01Z Dietland is most subversive in its insistence that not giving in to these messages is actually productive rather than futile. Killer looks: how Dietland confronts the violence of beauty culture 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Set in the near future, “Bewilderment” is narrated by Theo Byrne, an astrobiologist whose search for life on other planets feels increasingly futile in the face of the coming collapse of life on Earth. Richard Powers Speaks For the Trees 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Alas said his efforts to contact Marvel and Disney were ultimately futile. If Big Brands Copied Their Work, What Are Artists to Do? 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Her repeated attempts to reach the airline proved futile. How to resolve travel disputes when they’re a world away 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z It was not an easy death; neither she nor her family was able to prevent painful, protracted and futile treatments her doctors hoped might save her. Blanche Wiesen Cook Concludes Her Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z After their summer romance, Dean never heard from Alex again and embarked on a futile effort to find him. Review: In ‘Lazy Eye,’ Yakking Ex-Lovers Reconnect 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z And yes, investigating Magda's "murder" may be futile, but it becomes apparent that interrogating Vesta's life — and in turn, our own — is far more fruitful. Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z My hope, futile though it may be, is that some evening she might graze on a container of the cooked greens before heading back to the den to watch “Perry Mason.” My aging mother’s least favorite food is just what the doctor ordered 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z She arrayed one set of structural supports atop a blue hospital pad, and filmed herself in the ultimately futile process of stacking another group of smaller, bonier-looking parts until the pile keels over. Review | In the galleries: Artist’s works criss-cross the paths of U.S. colonialism 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The text explains what needs to be done on the other players’ screens, which leads to boisterous shouting — “Set Sigmaclapper to zero!” — in a futile effort to save the ship. Critic’s Notebook: ‘25 Must-Play Video Games’ at Museum of the Moving Image 2013-12-15T23:20:43Z Jonathan Wright It might be argued that all religious schisms are futile, akin to arguing over which type of cheese the Moon is made from. TV highlights 17/06/2013 2013-06-17T06:03:12Z A friend once said that in life, worrying ahead of time was futile, because what you are scared of never manifests. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Despite its attention to the past, the movie isn’t an exercise in futile authenticity or a dreary compendium of biopic banalities. ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Within ten years, as futile as ever, this second franchise would also be gone. First in war, first in peace, first in the National League 2012-10-05T16:28:00Z It is a futile feeling because, as any true acolyte knows, he is not going to give a straight answer to the question. Television: Matthew Weiner Is Silent on ?Mad Men? Season Premiere 2012-03-07T12:55:00Z Laughing at Pontius Pilate can be also be fatal, but even with the threat of facing wabid, wild animals within the week, resistance to overgrown schoolboy humour is futile. Clip joint: getting the giggles 2013-07-17T16:38:50Z Noisy political debates may be futile, but avoiding them may be more so. | 'Urge for Going': Political Conflicts, Family-Style 2011-04-12T22:33:25Z For the remaining patients, CPR was predictably futile. Today I have to talk to three of my patients about dying. This is how I do it 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z I do not think life here is futile, but I do find it beautiful and strange. Perspective | My son loved the cicadas. I’m finally ready to love them again. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z The likelihood that they are making the same wish is obvious – and as futile as the stopping of time. Breaking Night by Liz Murray ? review 2011-01-30T00:20:00Z The news changes so much that trying to do jokes about that seems almost futile now. Eric McCormack Has Two Passports. And Two TV Lives to Match. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z But before he calls it a night, he makes one last futile and painful attempt to get Petrov to sign onto his Middle East peace plan. House of Cards Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: When Men Were Men 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The house itself serves as the place of escape and futile second chances for Ben Harmon’s raging infidelity. How “American Horror Story” exploits our darkest taboos 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z A dream, a figment of silent beauty, a futile gift for one of the loneliest figures in modern literature. Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures – review 2012-09-29T23:05:27Z I tried the courts, but they were futile. Ask Amy: It’s hero time for this alienated dad 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Others, like reviving “moderate Republicanism,” are probably futile. The Series of Historical Mistakes That Led to Trump 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Fragments of dialogue are transposed, a funny story Gabriel tells at the party being cleverly turned into a ruefully futile attempt to stir his wife out of her melancholy silence during their cab journey home. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z The temptation is to increase immigration, which these days heightens political tensions, and is eventually futile if over time immigrants’ progeny assimilate and also have smaller numbers of children. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Lying on the ground and moving slowly — the slower you move, she said, the less likely you are to hurt others — felt at once rebellious, an exercise in resistance, and delightfully futile. Review: Eiko’s ‘Platform 2016,’ With a Class, a Film and More 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Max Ratelle, 21, a rising senior at Tufts, said he dropped out of his fraternity because reform felt futile. The War on Frats 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z If you’ve lived with a border collie, watching for signs of abnormal behavior is futile; they are a bundle of oddities, quirks and obsessions. Perspective | A rabies scare gave me a crash course in how to stay sane 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Every time I encounter his work, it forces me to confront head-on the most futile labor that defines my occupation: finding language to describe art. How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Washington was finally baptized in the ballyhooed Taylor Mac experience Tuesday night, and resistance was futile. Review | The fabulous Taylor Mac gives D.C. a sample of his reinvented Americana 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Given the global trends — one report from 2016 estimates that the equivalent of a full garbage truck of plastic streams into the oceans every minute — our work might seem futile. The Plastic-Hunting Pirates of the Cornish Coast 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z While she has had success finding traffic online, attracting more online readers she added that predicting what will do well is futile, pointing to a Daily Shouts piece by Amy Collier. At The New Yorker, the Cartoonists Draw, but the Vision Is Hers 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Bong wanted to re-create this with the giant animals trapped in the slaughterhouse – a bombardment of rebellious, futile cries. 'It's a hustle': Jon Ronson on how he made it into movies with the help of Okja the giant pig 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z His time at the front, as she tells it, was brief and uneventful: The war was ugly and futile; Army regimentation was a horror in itself. An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The Treasure,” like his other films, concerns itself with a project that may be futile. New York Film Festival Offers Quiet Treasures and a Little Jazz 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “Gah! Resistance is futile, government is the deep state, expertise is dangerous elitism. Language is dead!” Samantha Bee Mourns the Death of Language 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Once he decided he wanted somebody, resistance was futile. V&A to unveil glories of Ballets Russes 2010-03-29T16:06:00Z At the same time, Russell was also engaged in a passionate and futile defense of segregation against the African American civil rights movement. Peaches are a minor part of Georgia’s economy, but they’re central to its mythology 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Further research by the auction house proved futile. The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Had the owner of this cabin thought the task futile, he would have never planted it there, and it would have never found its strength in the dry cold of the mountains. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Certain components like turkey and stuffing may seem invariable, but the preparations are so individualistic and the sides so diverse that pinpoint pairings feel like futile fussiness. Your Easy, No-Sweat Guide to Picking Wines for Thanksgiving 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z In both movies, a frantic and futile search ensues. Review: In ‘About Elly,’ a Middle Class Enjoying Itself Is Engulfed in Change 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z “It’s as futile as using air freshener when you leave the toilet.” Helping Out Family Is Taken to Extremes in ‘My Sister, the Serial Killer’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Rick Santorum says so many idiotic things, it would be futile to point it every time he puts his foot in it. Don’t be fooled by Rick Santorum’s #compassion: Empathy for Bruce Jenner won’t extend to support for LGBT rights 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z He faults Presidents Clinton and Obama for squandering their chance to figure out what that might be in a futile bid to appease the right. John Maynard Keynes Died in 1946. An Outstanding New Biography Shows Him Relevant Still. 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z But if the space travelers are hostile, running to the gun shop will probably be futile. Critic?s Notebook: Science Channel Ponders ?Alien Encounters? 2012-03-19T22:13:00Z That makes resistance fairly futile, or at least tough, especially when the crew ushering you into the past is up to the task, as is the case here. Review: In ‘The Lego Batman Movie,’ Toys and Heroes, What’s Not to Like? 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z It was a ridiculous game but a futile one. The big gay lie of “Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2” 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z A federal judge ruled that, with many thousands of copies already distributed, stopping it would be futile. Perspective | Now the world can read Mary Trump’s blistering book about her uncle. Holding it back would have been pure censorship. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z “It would be quite futile to compete with his memory,” he continued. Keeping the Oscar de la Renta Name Alive 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Still, he argued, striving to be Thornton Wilder, futile as it may be, is a noble pursuit. | 'My Last Play': Oh, Come in. Glad to See You. Would You Like a Book? 2010-12-17T21:58:35Z “The system is broken!,” laments Brooks, whose main job in Doug Atchison’s formulaic screenplay is to repeatedly assert that Banks’s quest for justice is futile. ‘Brian Banks’ Review: Falsely Accused, and Fighting Back 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Searching for absolute meaning is ultimately futile, but Murrow's marvelous, believable fabrications render the impossibility of the task irrelevant. Review: An engaging show of 'Meteorites' at Winston-W?chter 2010-12-16T21:53:12Z Marta was recruited as a nurse’s aide, treating the wounded when German troops put down the futile uprising of the Polish Home Army and laid waste to the city. Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sculptor of Brooding Forms, Dies at 86 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z A friend of Mr. Nicholas’s dropped out of university, believing that his studies were futile. The Darkest Timeline 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Getting into specifics would be futile, because it would be unfair to spoil the surprise and because no words could ever do justice to the screaming, howling, harrowing nightmare that unfolds after Sally regains consciousness. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: No 14 best horror film of all time 2010-10-22T10:41:00Z Studies show that this care is often futile. How mom’s death changed my thinking about end-of-life care 2013-03-03T14:00:00Z In that quiet moment, even if the show goes on, I sense we are both clear — the whole thing is their own futile masquerade. Perspective | Trapped in while dining out: When white people make me part of their show 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z There is nothing more futile than asking 3-year-olds why they did something. Perspective | 3-year-old goes on ‘evil-villain’ rants. What’s up with that? 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In The Journalist and the Murderer she treats the whole question of analysing the evidence as a tiresome and futile inconvenience. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z As I've acknowledged before, moaning about the state of pop music at the age of 42 is probably a futile and undignified thing. A Boy's principles 2012-08-12T19:30:00Z Gentle attempts to get the conversation back on track are futile. Ask Amy: Christmas price tag feels like holiday snub 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z It is tempting but perhaps futile to compare the AHS with the granddaddy of them all, Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society. The American Horticultural Society faces its uncertain future, uneasily 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Realising the futile paper trail that many refugees were faced with when looking for missing relatives, the brothers wanted to find an easier way that refugees could trace their families. Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent 2012-08-25T23:05:54Z Penultimate song The Cave, which inspired a singalong so fervent that resistance was simply futile. Mumford & Sons at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-25T23:13:00Z “So many utterly futile conversations that go absolutely nowhere. So much ghosting.” ‘Hot Vax Summer’ is coming. Can it possibly live up to the hype? 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Resistance is futile, Emmy, despite perhaps the strongest of all fields this year. Emmy predictions when predicting the future is folly 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z For you game analysis is futile; there’s too much to catch up on, and you’re not that interested, right? A Nonfan?s Guide to the Key to the Super Bowl 2012-02-02T23:28:04Z An obsessed experimenter doesn't notice his wife's chemistry with a local artist; his jangled sister scents revolution in the air but her poetic laments are futile. Table; Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-20T23:08:26Z It contains a reference to some NGOs as "boring, futile and adolescent" and takes a swipe at the BBC, which Geldof said declined to show films about poverty produced by his friend, Richard Curtis. Bob Geldof condemns lame and ineffective anti-poverty campaigners 2010-04-02T18:43:00Z His rebellion, though ultimately futile, disrupts the old order and fully exposes its cruelty. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z While my attempts to capture Hawaii’s grandeur in photos are largely futile, each stop allows Kai, 8, and Christina, 5, a chance to reset their equilibrium on solid ground. On Maui, seeking out the hidden wows of wild Hawaii 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The 's 14 minority Democrats fled the state in a futile attempt to block a vote on the plan, which Walker eventually signed into law last March. Battle lines stark as Wisconsin recall push nears end 2012-01-13T14:53:00Z A lot — because one would steal the bulb as a creative challenge, and the others would keep bumping into one another in interesting but futile attempts to find it. Books of The Times: In Thomas Perry?s ?Strip,? Affable Thugs, Rough Justice 2010-05-26T22:24:00Z Feudal and also futile: Larry’s plans to reform his company and humanize the workplace seem great, until he starts to order up committees to study what he has learned. 2010-02-06T07:37:00Z That observation is actually well-rooted in political theory: Revolutions happen when enough people stop blindly accepting that it’s futile to resist the current regime. The Failure of Egypt’s Revolution 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z It’s just one of the story’s many futile gestures. Review: Mark Ruffalo, Times Two, in the Saddest Story Ever Told 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z With this ever-mutating monologue, X is engaged in a futile act of talking himself into existence, proving his worth by his carefully documented sensitivity and accountability. In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking At one point, after several futile attempts to find the body, the men drive to a village. | 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia': ?Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,? Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Review 2012-01-03T23:54:00Z She jerks the steering wheel back and forth in a futile attempt to limit the impact of crater-size potholes on the single-track logging road. How acclaimed Chicago chef Iliana Regan found her bliss in the woods 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z It's not that Freud gets the artist wrong – his essential claims are convincing, his characterisation of the genius's indecisive and gentle personality acute – but that the quest for ultimate origins and final explanations seems futile. Art on the couch 2010-03-29T10:44:00Z Given the fact that unpaid internships are virtually endemic across the theatre industry, this might seem a futile question. Noises off: Theatre of the exploited 2010-04-15T15:00:00Z “The enterprise is as costly as it is futile,” we’re told, “though for a few glorious months the shoreline appears authentic if not pristine.” Carl Hiaasen’s raucous new novel, ‘Razor Girl’ 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Debbie A petition was launched as the show's fans made what seemed like a futile effort to change the corporation's mind. Have You Been Watching? Not Going Out? 2011-02-03T12:46:13Z The toil, according to Beckett, may be tedious and futile. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z These allusions don’t amount to anything and come off like futile, nonsensical bids to explain the German setting. Review: ‘Suspiria’ Is a Gaudy Freakout of Female Violence 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Adapted from the 1846 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, this dark dramedy follows Simon’s futile attempt to adopt his doppelgänger’s likable traits until the torment eventually drives him mad. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Young Sheldon’ and ‘The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z I was tired of futile attempts with online dating, and my free time wasn’t worth risking. My U-Turn From Isolation to Intimacy 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z That's the thing about TV in 2017--there's so much of it that even an attempt to winnow it to a limited number of the very best is futile. As Television Expands, the Emmys Are Becoming a Battlefield 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “I think that this situation requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part,” he says, suggesting an all-out assault on the annual homecoming parade. Video: Another Round for the Bad Boys 2011-07-29T21:15:06Z It's futile to label her just another manufactured bad girl who uses blotchy mascara as a visual shorthand for rebellion. This week's new singles 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z To the near-universal bewilderment and depression of TV critics who must feel that their job is a futile one, Life of Riley returns for a third series and a run of eight episodes. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-04-13T06:59:00Z “So you can assume that it’s all futile and sit around and mope about it, or you can think that we should be doing everything that we can to eliminate what’s unnecessary.” Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z It concerns two linked groups caught in time loops, running each permutation in a futile attempt at escape, seemingly kept alive by a malign force. Philip K Dick film festival: still dreaming of electric sheep 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z As its story builds, there are lingering shots of futile caution, as characters reconsider door handles, itchy noses, cash exchanges, kitchen wounds and other sniffy, spattery, vaporous ways that humans mindlessly intermingle. Review | What Nat Geo’s ‘Hot Zone’ lacks in action, it makes up for in contagious paranoia 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Of almost novella-length, these chronicle futile last stands, vicious cruelty, inflexible loyalty, casual betrayal. Review | Robert E. Howard became famous for creating Conan. But that warrior was only the beginning. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The bodies of drowned soldiers were later recovered, and their scratches and even toothmarks spotted under a nearby bridge – evidence of desperate, futile attempts to avoid being dragged away to their deaths by the current. A 'perfect storm' for the paranormal: touring America's most haunted town 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z This is an emotional moment for me, and words seem so futile, so feeble. The 10 best film award acceptance speeches ? video 2011-01-16T00:05:28Z “When the movie is focused on Jacky’s desperate and futile efforts to be a superman, it becomes a stark tragedy of masculinity and its chemical boundaries,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in February. DVD: Charlie Chaplin in ‘The Gold Rush,’ Remastered 2012-06-22T16:00:00Z Local leaders protest, but those protests are futile, and rigid new security protocols are enforced. Perspective | The danger of right-wing mobs is real. Fencing at the U.S. Capitol won’t help. 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z It is completely saccharine, like Rael Jones' score, but resistance is futile watching Mrs. Harris teach others how to live their best lives. Lesley Manville is endearing in "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," a feel-good couture fairy tale 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z There seems no easy answer to this question, any more than there is to the question of whether the act of reporting from a war zone is ultimately futile. A Book That Captures the Singular Life of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z No matter how desperately we seek a more intense, more real, more present sense of our own mind, it flies before us, reforming into yet more fugitive thoughts, yet more futile introspection. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us “Salesman” is edited by Charlotte Zwerin, whom the Maysles list as a co-creator, to conclude with a cascade of failures, among them a futile attempt to sell a Bible to a salesman of vacuum cleaners. When the Maysles Made a Vérité Star of a Bible Huckster 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z It has long been clear that the drug war approach of criminalising possession rather than treating problem drug-users has been futile. Why the war on drugs has been made redundant 2013-06-15T23:05:01Z They know all the gambits and, as with all religious extremists, reason and irony are futile. Rewind TV: Boardwalk Empire; The Big C; Louis Theroux ? Ultra Zionists; Welcome to Romford 2011-02-06T00:05:43Z Water-based primers are all well and good for regular walls, but they can soak through the paper and loosen the adhesive, rendering your best wallpaper-cover-up efforts futile. Wait, can you paint over wallpaper? 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z But it feels neat, a little too small and personal for a story that offers such trenchant analysis of the sins of parenting, the destruction of privacy and the irresistible but futile pursuit of purity. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Where Joe and Rocky make their futile stands against the encroachment of multiculturalism, Daniel-san embraces it and learns "wax on/wax off" and that iconic crane technique, which "if do right, no can defense." Straight to DVD: Original "Karate Kid" on Blu-ray 2010-06-14T10:14:00Z Truthfully, it would be a futile argument because they very well may be right. Styles Q+A: Ivanka Trump, Never Far From the Family Name 2013-08-30T20:33:31Z “Scream into Space” is the subtitle of her second symphony, which describes the sense of futile anguish evident in many of her pieces. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Lenny's educated friends are "Media" types who stream and monitor one another in a futile effort to comprehend the deteriorating state of affairs. 'Super Sad True Love Story': Gary Shteyngart's dystopian novel is super, sad and true 2010-07-30T23:27:00Z The following year a whole generation of young men emulated the Rite's maiden by making futile sacrifice of their lives at the command of their elders. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z It’s easier than ever to disagree on the best songs of the year — there is simply so much music to consume, and weighing it all against each other feels increasingly futile. 2022: The Songs of the Year 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z None of these seem to do much good, and the warnings themselves seem futile, or more reassuring than actually helpful. The Summer of Shark Politics on Cape Cod 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z I'd got the new Terry Pratchett reserved, but it seemed rather futile to go and collect it now, given that I might die before I finished it. Caitlin Moran: my sex quest years 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z That there’s a touch of divinity in this noble, futile aspiration is confirmed by the play’s final image. ‘Lungs’ Review: Claire Foy and Matt Smith Chase Love in the Dark 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z The good news for Perry was that the sequel did not feature anything like his futile fumble for the name of a federal agency he wanted to close. GOP rivals debate U.S. foreign relations 2011-11-13T05:59:00Z Like any good Beckett creation, Noll’s protagonist recognizes that his quest is futile. Three Novels Take Readers Deep Inside the Writer’s Life 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Though he struggles to maintain his principles, resistance is futile in the face of a new corruption and the constant threat of violence. 'Teza': Ethiopia's tortured history, as seen through a disillusioned man's eyes 2010-04-29T20:09:00Z Sugarplums, candy canes, blah, blah, blah: resistance is futile. The Week Ahead: Dec. 19 ? 25 2010-12-16T15:14:51Z It is futile and contrary to Mr. Godard’s intention to try to separate signal from noise, theme from manner. | 'Film Socialisme': On a Mediterranean Cruise Ship Steered by a Godardian Crew 2011-06-02T23:04:32Z Resistance is pretty much futile as the Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe Of China brings its preposterously entertaining version of Swan Lake back to the UK. This week's new dance 2011-08-05T23:09:46Z In “Child’s Pose,” a drama with a story as cold, merciless and inevitable as a tomb, escape proves every bit as futile. Movie Review: ‘Child’s Pose,’ a Family Drama Set in Romania 2014-02-18T22:25:20Z Even at the age of 10, she can see that competing with her cousins for accomplishments will be futile, and she refuses to have lessons. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Hill's judgement is a criticism: he thinks Duffy's mission is futile. Guardian book club: Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy 2013-01-18T20:00:00Z It’s a futile project, as the production team acknowledges both in and outside the series; Hernandez is no longer around to offer insight. Aaron Hernandez: how did a $40m NFL star become a convicted killer? 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Here’s a foolproof method for triggering a futile, frustrating argument with your partner, best friend, parent, child – anyone, really. How to pick (and stop) an argument 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The heroes of this narrative are Boot and his allies, who take a noble if futile stand against this evil invader in the name of their conservative ideals. Did Max Boot Turn His Back on the Republican Party, or Did the Party Turn Its Back on Him? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Her ensemble is very oriented to pleasure and not ruining your life with a futile all-or-nothing gesture.” Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The Hangover series and Due Date may be wildly comic, but the star wrings laughs from his futile quest to be understood. Review: Zach Galifianakis's 'Baskets' Wrings Painful Laughs 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Human interaction with the landscape reads visually as at once inevitable and futile, inspiring and dispiriting in roughly equal measure. Frank Gohlke photographs vernacular truths in 'Texas Memories' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s both over-the-top and, one suspects, futile in intent: a proclamation, a faith that, boldly staged though it is, may be hollow. At Kucera Gallery: Mark Calderon, Sherry Markovitz 2013-05-30T19:45:07Z Some parents compared her futile attempts at persuading a giant bird not to do something — and watching helplessly while Emmanuel, as Blake says, chooses “violence” anyway — with trying to raise a toddler. We asked Emmanuel the TikTok-interrupting emu about his sudden fame 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Like trying to retell a dream, recounting a beautiful sunset is a futile enterprise. The World's Most Beautiful Sunsets 2010-06-18T19:00:00Z The consummate craftsmanship is not quite enough to make up for the mannered futile subject. Auctions: No Starry-Eyed Buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's Art Sales 2011-01-27T12:30:03Z But the whole exercise has had from the beginning a whiff of the futile about it. Review | Can a new self-help book cure procrastination? I tried it and here’s what I found. 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z His battles were hard fought but often futile. 2010-01-20T07:05:00Z The Jewel in the Crown is no exercise in white-gloved nostalgia, rather a portrait of a world on the verge of collapse, and of the futile struggle to prevent it. Your next box set: The Jewel in the Crown 2010-09-17T05:45:00Z Mr. Laredo ended the program with a stylish and energetic account of Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony, a compact, exuberant piece that Mozart wrote during a trip to Paris in a futile search for a job. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z Efforts to tilt the telecast away from politics and causes may prove futile, of course. In This #MeToo Moment, Academy Awards Want to Spotlight the Films 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Hans Sachs, shoemaker and poet, ruminates on a trap he's just set for Beckmesser; and the orchestra circles, as if in a holding pattern, around a melody symbolising futile, manual work. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z The prosecution witnesses will likely provide jurors more insight into Jackson's final moments as futile attempts were made to revive the unresponsive superstar as the trial enters its fourth day. Testimony resumes in Jackson manslaughter trial 2011-09-30T16:10:09Z Consultants debated groundbreaking stem-cell surgery to grow a new trachea, but decided it was futile. Great Ormond Street and Olympic Dreams 2010-04-14T05:45:00Z Their efforts were futile, but futility is often beautiful. Beauty amid the horror of war 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “Get out of my house” is pretty much the same message as “Get out of my country” and, at this point, equally futile. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Thomas and the Heterosexual Household 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z The search for her cousin proves futile, though, until she discovers a note in a file with a single, mysterious name: Wren. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels to read this month 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z There is a sad little account of his parents’ futile efforts to gain permission to visit their son abroad. 2010-01-20T05:20:00Z The hostages make futile attempts to attack or escape but their actions aren't as important as the structure itself, which serves as a crucible of human nature. Capsule reviews of `The Avengers,' other new films 2012-05-02T22:04:55Z Other prints are philosophical, reflecting on the romantic, ephemeral, and perhaps even futile nature of reading and learning. 'From the library of ...': the artistry of bookplates 2012-01-19T20:50:04Z Robot CEOs would readily be able to recognize the obvious mergers and reject the futile ones. Why wait 30 years for robot CEO’s? 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z Most of the frantic round of mergers and acquisitions that for many CEOs constitutes activity are either obvious or futile. Why wait 30 years for robot CEO’s? 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z Beaming in from an antique TV monitor, he offers the friends a lose-lose, if philosophically fertile and futile, proposition: Sacrifice the Blackest among you and the rest go free. ‘The Blackening’ Review: Race Against a Killer 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z “You’re O.K., too,” I replied, wiping my eyes, knowing my words were futile but needing to say something anyway. A Dose of Empathy From My Syrian Doctor 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Latin percussion and a string arrangement pull it back toward the 1970s; power chords reinforce its desperate chorus, and Clark plays only a brief, unflashy guitar solo, a futile appeal. Gary Clark Jr. Finds a 21st-Century Blues Spirit on ‘This Land’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z What good could come from any of this now, really, the gestures futile, the pain so deeply embedded that I am prone to always making the same mistakes? Modern Love: Modern Love - Friends Without Benefits 2013-01-10T20:42:11Z It is the land where developments seem so large, so numerous, so ruthless, so inexorable and indifferent to European scruples of taste, scale or propriety that the latter begin to look like futile luxuries. Wang Shu: the architect challenging China's obsession with scale 2012-12-16T00:05:23Z Like fossil fuels themselves, this behavior had long been construed as a necessary evil, one for which any purported cure seemed as futile and flimsy as a reusable shopping bag. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Pieces like this are endlessly frustrating, implying simultaneously that protest bands haven’t done enough and also that their efforts are futile, even childish. Punk rock made me a lefty 2012-08-24T15:13:00Z “It’s a futile effort to try to convince a consumer they’re wrong about their choices.” Perspective | The truth about organic produce and pesticides 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z We learn of the policies of “blood segregation” adopted by the Red Cross and the military during the war, and of the futile protests that greeted them. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z Drawing parallels between actors and the characters they play is usually a futile endeavour that invites squirming interviewees to roll their eyes. Peter Dinklage: ‘Tyrion has a sense of humour'’ 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z But the most powerful constituency in favor of perpetuating the futile war on wildfires is the people who’ve chosen to inhabit risky terrain. Are the American West’s Wildfires Inevitable? 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z As DL Shaw notes, labyrinths "combine an appearance of design with an implied reality of futile chaos". A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z The chorus pleads, “Shine a little light” knowing it could be futile — “It might not make it any better, I’m just hoping that it might” — with synthesizer tones that hint at Pink Floyd’s majestic despair. The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z To some extent, “Kinesthesia” is a perhaps futile attempt at rebranding. 'Kinesthesia' exhibit in Palm Springs spotlights kinetic art in breathtaking new dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Sally accepts, as if for the familiar and futile purpose of stemming his loss of dignity. “Sally4Ever” and “The Bisexual,” Reviewed: Women in Crisis, In and Out of the Bedroom 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Singling any one out at the expense of the others is a futile and possibly undermining act. Review | ‘Six’ is the pulse-quickening pleasure trove that Broadway has been waiting for 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Edl also tries throwing the bread off a building and running over it with his car, but both prove futile in smashing the bread. McDonald’s customer stuns social media users with videos of ‘Sausage McRock’ breakfast sandwich 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s a pursuit that is unglamorous and often futile. Crime and no punishment: New PBS documentary series shows there is no justice for war criminals 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z For one, it lays out very clearly how futile it is to impose our current notions of hetero, homo or bisexuality on the ancient world – it’s simply not how they looked at it. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z This is a futile but ultimately safe pursuit for those who fear intimacy because it is a relationship that is unhindered by reality. Should I end my affair with a married woman who has a young child? 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z My attempts to slow down my racing heart were futile as I processed the sounds of engines revving, tools clanking, and hollering coming from the service shop in the back. Trading my bicycle for a Harley: Learning to ride a motorcycle at 57 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Jamison’s resistance to the torrent of digital flotsam is probably futile. In the galleries: Putting a fine point on colored pencil drawings 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s futile, really, because if I didn’t trust my sight and memory 30 seconds ago, why should I trust them now? My drugged life: I’ve been on antidepressants since 10 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z At the Poets Cafe, Reed’s doggedness felt energizing and yet also somewhat futile. In “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” Ishmael Reed Revives an Old Debate 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z This strategy, however, proved futile: the front stalls immediately recognised the movie star's rear silhouette and awarded it sustained clapping and, in some parts of the audience, a standing ovation. Broadway is too clap happy 2012-11-05T16:38:47Z There is an inherent problem with ghost stories: they always boil down to a futile argument between sceptic and believer. Guardian book club: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 2010-08-11T14:06:00Z Cooper remains vanished and Gray mocks himself and his efforts, realizing how insanely futile it all must sound to others, because now it begins to seem that way to him. 'Skyjack': The story of the never-ending hunt for D.B. Cooper 2011-08-10T22:24:04Z There are futile efforts to impress girls, dealing with hecklers and the time he got high with Snoop. Exclusive (and serious!) Kevin Hart video about his audiobook, 'I Can't Make This Up' 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Likely to be futile, the effort is also utterly gripping. Theater Review: ‘Basilica,’ by Mando Alvarado, at the Cherry Lane Theater 2013-05-24T02:00:01Z Grayson Perry is a fine pundit, an interesting curator, but as a visual artist he is a hack whose work churns around and teems with futile incidents in a way that totally fails to soar. Art criticism has become too fawning – time for a best hatchet job award? 2013-01-09T15:06:21Z A denial she lived out to the last moments of her life when she insisted on pursuing aggressive treatments that her doctors said were “medically futile.” Let’s talk about dying 2012-12-27T01:00:00Z Meanwhile, an 18-year-old with a brain tumour is alive longer than expected, his prognosis deemed futile. Why doctors get it wrong about when you will die 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z It's a futile exercise because, once the Queen does pass away, the fact is that Charles is not going to tolerate it. "Never offer the Queen an ultimatum": Why it's good to be Queen, but no one else in the royal family 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Before I dismiss this futile bread-shelf as another marker of civilization in decline – which, don’t worry, I am about to do – I’ll admit I wasn’t always brilliant at cutting bread. Kitchen gadgets review: Evenslice bread slicer – ‘not the best thing since sliced bread' 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z But this time I can read his reaction, and I know the conversation is over, that more words are futile. Let’s talk about dying 2012-12-27T01:00:00Z Photograph: David Fisher/Rex Features RR regular chinhealer concedes this week's theme is "tragically futile" – but at the same time "infinitely enjoyable". Readers recommend: riffs ? results 2012-05-17T10:00:10Z So add those to the growing list of local madness, and our heroes seem to be playing a futile game of whack-a-mole. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: You got me hypnotized 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z In this extraordinary moment the entire history of the white man's trickery is re-enacted in one futile gesture, along with the long and desperate history of futile resistance to an impervious, bloodless foe. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-10T12:00:01Z Meanwhile, the weather grows worse, endangering the men Mircea bullies and bribes into what increasingly feels like a futile quest. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z It would be futile to seek some hidden figure in the carpet. Jordi Savall Evokes the Past by Hearing Its Music 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z They describe futile searches for authenticity and originality, in which half-remembered commercials and blearily recalled photographs seem somehow more real than actual lived experience. Review: ‘Pioneers!#goforth,’ Presented From the Ceiling 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z So if endorsing is somewhat futile, why and how do celebrities get involved? Dave Chappelle’s endorsement matters, but not in the way Andrew Yang wants 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The C.I.A.’s “daring amateurs” were often diverted into futile paramilitary adventures. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Let’s examine those hugely important, potentially futile developments first. “Game of Thrones” recap: An epic battle previews the horror of winter to come 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Regretting that I didn’t think to ask one of the undergraduate work-study employees to help out, I try to avoid eye contact with the drivers watching my futile efforts, faces awash with curiosity and disgust. From dodging bears to dissecting deer doodoo: Life on the front lines of America’s conservation movement 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z He chooses to employ the comb in a futile and frankly infantile effort to deceive, the way a toddler plays hide-and-seek by standing out in the open and covering her eyes. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Turns out, President Trump and I aren’t total opposites 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z A long-term strategy in today's television landscape would appear futile given the accelerated pace of change. Netflix's Ted Sarandos talks Cuba launch, going global 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z One day, my wife expressed tearful frustration about the futile attempts at play and, really, about the whole situation. Motherlode Blog: Autism, One Parent to Another 2011-09-07T18:26:48Z It would be futile to try to convey the novel’s considerable population, or its plots and subplots, though both population and plots are ingeniously interwoven. Surviving AIDS, but at What Cost? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z In both time periods, the urge to reinvent oneself is pressing, but often futile. Jonathan Evison's 'West of Here' spans a century of Olympic Peninsula history 2011-02-10T00:25:03Z In any case, playing the game of dueling Bible verses inevitably gets bogged down in the futile and endless debate of who really understands God’s will. Why does the left wing ignore atheists? 2012-08-08T13:36:00Z Cep captures her futile attempts to write about a Southern serial killer, a story even more spectacular than the one Capote tackled with “In Cold Blood.” New & Noteworthy, From Narco Fiction to Governing California 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z That that resistance proved largely futile only enhanced the memory of the battle’s intensity. Critic?s Notebook: Reliving Rap?s Down-and-Dirty Early Days 2011-02-12T00:00:15Z The set designer, Adam Rigg, gets futile entreaties daily from audience members eager to ride it, too. ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z In a market society where almost every ethical principle has its price, an appeal to a disinterested sense of civic duty seems at times nostalgic, if not futile. Infamy, infamy 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Resistance is futile, to adopt a particularly fitting reference. A Comic-Con Vet Has Mixed Emotions About the Annual Geek Gathering 2013-07-15T17:44:58Z In court papers, he explained, “For Goodman, home confinement with electronic monitoring is both unnecessary and futile because his physical and medical condition effectively confines him to his home.” What’s justice for an 551-pound offender? 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z It's futile but nonetheless diverting to imagine that, if Hollywood's movers and shakers must persist with revisiting older movies, perhaps they might take that evolutionary step and truly radicalise the core ingredients of pre-existing movies. The Death at a Funeral remake should have died an early death 2010-04-16T11:16:00Z That said, there are plenty of pieces in "The Talent Show" that feel futile or gimmicky. The Henry's 'The Talent Show' winks at the camera 2011-07-07T19:29:04Z Now, in the shelter, he watched his science teacher lassoing the air to see if it was poisonous, and he began to wonder whether it was all futile. This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z But David Pharies, an associate dean at the University of Florida and author of "A Brief History of the Spanish Language," says these efforts at preservation can be futile. The future of the Spanish language is looking a lot more like English 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z No, something more personal and equally futile must be afoot. The ballad of Bristol and Ivanka: Does Sarah Palin’s eldest daughter want to be BFFs with Trump’s? An investigation 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Shopping for pieces that match is usually futile; you quickly realize how many shades of white and different textures exist. How to refinish exterior doors without removing them 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z In those last sad hours of futile pillow adjustments and tiny sips of liquid, of silent prayers and unspoken goodbyes, I took my mother’s hand and stroked her face. Motherlode Blog: Loving Your Child's Differences 2011-10-04T16:05:35Z But could there be a third possibility, besides the futile effort to pursue solutions that never seem to work, on the one hand, and just giving up, on the other? Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z There is something moving in Watt’s futile but relentless pursuit of solutions to these problems. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Including senseless incarceration and the ongoing and futile crusade against drugs. Gil Scott-Heron: poet, campaigner and America's rough healer 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z And indeed, for all other species on Planet Earth, resistance is futile when faced with humans! From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z This is understandable, but it is also a futile pursuit. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z His camera floats and glides and drifts amid the characters, as if to conjure the flow of positive and negative charges between them, the futile passage of their time. What to Stream: “Afterglow,” a Melodramatic Spotlight for Julie Christie 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z However, it's futile to draw conclusions about the national market from a few cities, and it's just as difficult to predict what turns a local market will take based on national trends. Where Home Prices Are Rising 2010-02-24T23:20:00Z It’s exasperating and annoying and sometimes I feel it pointless to even start a conversation, as it has become a futile exercise. 'There's less talking now': readers on how smartphones altered family life 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Eventually, you both look at the wall, admiringly, and realize intellectualizing is futile. The not-so-simple comeback story of pioneering artist Sam Gilliam 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Melting the guns down might be a small gesture, even a futile one. My lesson in gun control 2012-12-18T01:00:00Z This claim to belonging was futile; the store was closed and its owner imprisoned in an internment camp. The Much-Vaunted American Melting Pot, Cracks and All 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z “Some of my friends tell me my efforts are futile,” he said, after devoting New Year’s Day to a bike retrieval expedition. Round up my ride! Bulgarian returns Singapore's damaged rental bikes 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z "Sadly, all efforts were futile and the child was beyond medical help." Girl dies of heart attack on plane leaving LAX, report says 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Resistance proves particularly futile when the production in question is as amusingly fascinating as "Monkey Kingdom," the latest entry from the ever-engaging Disneynature series of wildlife documentaries. Disneynature's 'Monkey Kingdom' swings with the best of them 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Call us “brutal” if we depart our seats, But it’s futile watching your defeats. Style Invitational: It’s easy as 1-B-iii 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Their obsession with sex and social issues results largely from a futile attempt to enforce rigid gender stereotypes, using shame to punish those who don't conform. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z It would be easy for both the authors and the readers to give up in futile exhaustion. Late-night TV sensation Amber Ruffin and her sister co-wrote a book about racism. And, yes, it’s hilarious. 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z In retrospect, the story of an American who teaches the Soviet Union that invading Afghanistan is both immoral and strategically futile is downright embarrassing. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z But objecting to the grotesque scenes in Mr. Lemaitre’s books would be like going to the Galápagos and complaining that there were too many turtles: futile and beside the point. Review: In ‘The Great Swindle,’ Pierre Lemaitre Spins a Dark Postwar Tale 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Hittman says her decision to portray this threat as structural rather than personal reflects the lack of accountability in these scenarios – often the act of apportioning blame can feel futile. ‘Women's stories are seen as niche’: Eliza Hittman on her new film 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z The goal of Love’s Way Out is complex, said Morgan, and while the process may seem futile, the women are patient. The evangelical women who visit strippers to 'show God loves them' 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Killip is good at photographing work and the lack of it: hanging about, futile idleness and empty days, people with more pride than hope. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z Businesses that are sued typically react by making their websites accessible, to avoid the expense of a long and possibly futile court battle. Galleries From A to Z Sued Over Websites the Blind Can’t Use 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z An Australian court’s gag order and the forces of the Information Age collided on Thursday in a largely futile effort to keep news about the conviction of a high-ranking Vatican official from reaching readers. An Australian court’s gag order is no match for the Internet, as word gets out about prominent cardinal’s conviction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z All of this suggests that resistance to “overculture,” whether in art or in writing, is noble but ultimately futile. Art Trek: A Critic’s Gallery Crawl Through SoHo and TriBeCa 2014-04-04T17:47:11Z Resistance may be futile, and even now ambivalent participation seems unbecoming. Critic?s Notebook: Google Art Project?s Expanded Offerings 2012-04-11T19:59:11Z Like it was said before, resistance is futile. Emmy predictions when predicting the future is folly 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z With “Medieval Play,” it would seem, Mr. Lonergan wants us to experience some of the monotony and tedium of unending, futile warfare from a long-vanished age. Theater Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Medieval Play’ at Signature 2012-06-08T02:05:00Z In our culture of normalized sexual violence, those fantasies — quite like the fantasy of female domination — seem futile. Best of 2018: What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z I realized it was futile, and that was precisely where the ingenuity bloomed. El Alfa, the King of Dembow, Dazzles at Madison Square Garden 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The bond between the pair turns out to be a kind of blind and futile loyalty. Michael Haneke's Amour gives love an unsettling closeup 2012-11-19T15:08:28Z The China-born artist’s surreal cartoons depict the futile attempts of a character called Bang Zha to escape a landscape of plant and body parts grafted crazily together. Review | In the galleries: A revelatory exhibition by D.C. artist Jonathan Monaghan 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z |
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