| 单词 | futility |
| 例句 | He was pondering my exact relationship to her, and wondering whether he must bracket us together in futility. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Kaede felt the lack of sun with a brutal sense of futility: The whole world was gray, colorless. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z After five minutes I began to sense the futility of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But now that I had pulled it, I understood its futility. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Robert had pursued a system of lessons almost daily, and he was nearly at the point of discouragement in realizing the futility of his efforts. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z She had the distinctly uncomfortable look of a woman who knows the futility of a polite refusal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Some six hundred feet above the Col, Boukreev recognized the futility of his effort and returned to the tents, but, he admits, he very nearly became lost himself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z If a Pogrebin is allowed to tail a human for many hours, a sense of great futility will overcome its prey, who will eventually fall into a state of lethargy and despair. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The horse’s campaign became a road show of athletic futility. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I walk on with Sophie through the kitchens, past the human servants I am not saving, aware of the futility of my actions. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I looked down into their sun-swept faces, digging for the words, and feeling a futility about it all and an anger. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The incredible effort of moving the boy to Boston, then watching him die, later struck me as an object lesson in the difficulty of Farmer’s mission, perhaps in its ultimate futility. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There was no time to ponder the extremity and futility of our progress. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I don’t let myself question the futility of it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In their great, tenacious drive to succeed, perhaps Patrick saw the futility of his own struggle. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Then, almost at the end of their journey, they came upon a Giantess—and all the sorrow of the world was turned to futility, for she refused to weep. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The following morning, after I was told about the futility of the lunch, Francis tried to generate enthusiasm for our having a second go at the structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z There was futility only in further searching, further weariness. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He is a hot jet of life that spattered itself in futility against a cold wall. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Very quickly she realized the futility of this endeavor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “That would be an exercise in futility,” Emily replied, in her most progressive voice. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z As the Americans approached, Heinz’s commander realized the futility of the situation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But after realizing the futility of that task, he simply hung up on the calls that began early in the morning and continued long into the night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Xhosa waged a long war against the white man as well, but after experiencing the futility of battle against a better-armed foe, many Xhosa chiefs took a more nimble approach. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z All I could think of was the futility of trying to hurt this creature. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The next thought buried her under tons of cold futility. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, crisscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But this one time we were studying Walt Whitman and his feelings of being helpless or the futility of life or something. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps they both knew the futility of trying to restrain Kali. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the aging prospector understood the futility of trying to contain a torrential boy within the confines of a small town. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Surely there must be something here for us, other than this futility and bathos. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z All of them, however, tell of the unending futility of the task the forty-nine Danaïds were compelled to pursue in the lower world as a punishment for murdering their husbands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt his fondness again, and her own for him, and the futility of it for them both. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She stood in desperate futility, helplessly enduring the indignity. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the futility of violence, the cycle that just repeats itself, the damage that’s inflicted on people that they in turn inflict on others. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z George Weston, after all, was only a man—poor thing—and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Little did I know then, as I chuckled over the frantic antics of Daffy and Bugs and company, that I was taking an extended course in existential futility. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The film attempts to recreate this initial image of futility with human characters, but the movie makes less of an impression than the bird. ‘Stanleyville’ Review: The Most Senseless Game 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But it’s nothing more than that, and whatever chuckles it might produce are tempered by a feeling of futility. The Fake Donald Trump Movie Isn’t Funny Enough 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z There was — despite preshow publicity emphasizing the futility of a weekly show about breaking news — an up-to-date reference to the papal canonizations earlier that day. Television Review: ‘Last Week Tonight,’ on HBO, Reviews the News 2014-04-28T16:23:18Z Stockpiling rewards for a special trip, as Franklin did, can be an exercise in futility. Perspective | Unhappy with your travel loyalty program? Join the crowd. 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z 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 someone who is generally sympathetic to your views, it can be hard to avoid a sense of futility about American politics. Glenn Greenwald's reader Q&A: the highlights 2013-01-24T23:07:00Z In her new songs, she struggles with a breakup, with loneliness, with worry and depression and with a general sense of futility. Alessia Cara: Young, Gifted and Bummed Out 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z A bottom-trolling mandarin and collector of low-brow memes, Mr. Prince reflects mockingly on the futility of rebellion in a society that turns every expression of the young and the restless into a fungible commodity. Art Review: Richard Prince at Gagosian and Salon 94 Bowery 2010-05-27T21:22:00Z She feels stifled by cleaning, “that life-usurping, burdensome act of servitude and futility,” and by motherhood, which she deems “an obliteration of the self.” In “Ordinary People,” Diana Evans Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z After more than a decade of futility and failure, the question is no longer whether the U.S. could proceed with “reformed again and again and again military commissions,” but whether it should. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z Who doesn’t feel the unbearable futility and hope in Anna’s voice when she rages against her town’s plan to build yet another memorial? Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z As a team, we were all concerned that we might be approaching the realms of futility.” ArtsBeat: The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb Emerges From Coma 2012-04-23T17:00:20Z It was minimalism dressed up by a touch of futility. Fashion world flocks to see Galliano collection 2011-03-07T01:35:15Z He leaves the sentence unfinished, the futility of protest so self-evident as to speak for itself. Christopher Meyer: 'I wasn't nice to everyone' 2012-07-01T18:59:01Z What comes through the new songs, even as the production tries to make things ironclad, is a sense of insecurity and futility. Sleater-Kinney Grasps at a New Sound on ‘The Center Won’t Hold’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z But it makes some points that continually need making about the utter futility of cyclical vengeance. Seattle troupe mounts a spooky, lean, all-women 'Titus' 2012-09-13T20:30:07Z In the refrain, he embraces the futility of those very questions. How Pearl Jam’s ‘Present Tense’ became the final song on ESPN’s Michael Jordan documentary ‘The Last Dance’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z We gathered the paperwork necessary to rebut their claim, but knowing its futility, began digging up $5,000 to pay for the abortion. Motherlode Blog: Egyptian Abortion, American Choice 2012-10-21T15:55:26Z The locals are treating him like a conquering hero, but he’s acutely aware of the flaws and the ultimate futility of the mission that killed Escobar. ‘Narcos’ Season 3 Premiere: Life Without Pablo 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Bekirovic brings a touching sense of futility to these attempts to harness disorder, summed up in her photographic series, Maps. Artist of the week 94: Sem? Bekirovic 2010-07-02T14:42:00Z A glorious rant rails against economic and social inequality, Reaganomics, ghetto life, and futility. Readers recommend: songs about anger – results 2012-12-20T14:00:00Z It’s a moving turn in a book that is finally not about the exultation of possession, but the futility. Can a List of Someone’s Stuff Double as Literature? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z And with that comes the whole existential shooting match, the gnawing knowledge of mortality, the endless thrum of fear and futility, the tears on a small face smeared with melted Maltesers. Death wears Mickey Mouse ears: how Disney is doing parents a favour 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z This is the anxiety that roils and percolates, mixed with all the sadness and futility. Digital Theater Isn’t Theater. It’s a Way to Mourn Its Absence. 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z These simple objects, offering no hope — only futility and the bitter consolation of memory — honor the more than 18,000 refugees who have died since 2014 trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Review | This D.C. exhibition should be seen by everyone concerned about the migrant crisis 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Formichetti’s show was not a work of genius, but it was a show about genius in the present moment — its limits, its futility. At Mugler, Genius and Its Limits 2011-03-23T22:23:43Z That last track has a deliberate feeling of complete futility that I find kind of funny. Boards of Canada: 'We've become a lot more nihilistic over the years' 2013-06-06T17:53:57Z “All Quiet,” a Netflix-backed movie about the futility of war, secured 14 nominations for the awards, commonly known as the BAFTAs. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Leads BAFTA Nominees 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Affleck's Argo rightly suggests the futility of violence, but also means to retrieve lost pride, this time with the story of an America that always beats the odds. Zero Dark Thirty and Argo don't do justice to Arabs 2013-02-20T13:00:00Z The Dodds’ story is rich with incident, populated by fascinating secondary characters, tinged with rising peril and pityingly persuasive about the futility of Dodd’s mission. Books of The Times: Perched in Berlin With Hitler Rising 2011-05-19T21:00:11Z This is a comic best seen in the sallow flesh: late night, beer in hand, ready to laugh at the depths to which our despair and futility can sink. Eddie Pepitone's Bloodbath – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-16T14:22:58Z Journeying with Death towards heaven, Mary reflects on her life in a discussion that ranges from the futility of ironing to the Holocaust and the greed underpinning global warming. Every One | Theatre review 2010-03-23T22:00:00Z It struggles from the outset to get past its own futility and never gets close to making it. James Donaghy's Screen burn: The Prisoner 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Filled with poverty, futility and angry white men, “Donnybrook” has feet of lead and not much of a brain. ‘Donnybrook’ Review: Fighting for Survival in the Heartland 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z "Pray God you can cope/ I stand outside this woman's work/ This woman's world," she sings, and we sense the sudden futility of the father. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-05-20T21:29:00Z But Gerima also thoughtfully and emotionally interrogates that resistance and acknowledges its futility. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The result is a new sort of confession, one that doesn't, can't, lead to catharsis, that acknowledges the futility of the gesture even as it engages in it anyway. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Our planetary resources are shrinking by the second, and our sense of futility to do anything about it at all is spiking. Perspective | As the world shrivels in front of our eyes, all we can do is scream 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Hilarity and abjection, humiliation and futility, aggression and a feeling of windedness are all on the surface. Artist Bruce Nauman's carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind 2013-01-30T18:12:43Z However, years later Duchamp admitted to the futility of his gesture. Banksy and the tradition of destroying art 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z He eventually realizes the futility in arguing and tells her to ”Have a good one,” but sadly forgoes the fist bump. The Bachelorette Watch: Let's Czech Out Prague 2012-06-26T12:30:34Z One of the play’s most affecting speeches is the Duke’s peroration on life’s futility, which amounts to a singular endorsement of meeting your end as quickly as possible. | 'Measure for Measure': Hold Onto Your Morals: Life Is Tough 2011-07-01T02:30:38Z The Golden Globes are here once again, and with it the futility of trying to figure out who’s going to win. Golden Globes 2017: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z "Beersheba", a simple revenge story of retribution visited upon a lout who once engaged in bad behaviour, is a perfect example of the futility of trying to breathe life into a cliché. The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates – review 2012-12-27T05:59:01Z First of all, it proposes the Russian dramatist as a sort of precursor to the Irish Nobel Prize winner in his examination of futility as an existential component of human life. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Though her lovesick Sappho rails at the futility of "reason" and "philosophy", elsewhere, Robinson argues eloquently for women's rationality and right to education. Poem of the week: Sappho and Phaon by Mary Robinson 2010-04-12T09:52:00Z Your friends and their go-for-the-rebound advice are elegant reminders of the futility of advising against history, nature, willpower and the obvious. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Are some people destined to be single? 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z His response illustrates both the possibility and the futility of empathy in the face of insane violence. | 'Polytechnique': A Fictional Killer of Women Who Is All Too Familiar 2011-06-28T22:27:56Z Depending on how they go, these encounters with suicidal people can make me feel proud of the utility of general practice, or embarrassed by its futility. What I have learned from my suicidal patients 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Despite, or perhaps because of, its futility, she believes her utterance to be a show of strength. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Finally, we might choose Camus’s third option, which is to live an “absurd” life, recognizing the futility of existence but accepting it and somehow finding happiness in the struggle. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z But "Game of Thrones" the TV series will likely end in a feeling of pure cynicism and futility. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Brunton's history of this period is very detailed, and there is a certain fatiguing sense of futility evoked by picking over decades-old flame wars among what he calls "weird, ferocious nerds". Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet by Finn Brunton – review 2013-05-31T06:29:01Z There’s a futility to “Traffic Stop” that gnaws at the viewer’s conscience. Review | In HBO’s ‘Traffic Stop,’ one incident magnifies the civil rights issue of our time 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The other metaphor is that of Chinatown, an inscrutable place which outsiders either stand back from or misread in a way that demonstrates the futility of good intentions. Chinatown: No 1 2010-10-17T10:55:00Z Another character - `'The Third" - takes on the role of the Greek chorus loudly proclaiming the futility of it all, while `'The Spectator" wonders where all the exertion is leading. New Glass opera "The Lost" premieres in Austria 2013-04-13T00:11:09Z The many peripheral themes intelligently raised — racism, alienation, the futility of creativity — are wiped out as the narrative reshuffles itself and restarts. Review: ‘Office Hour’ Is the Play That Goes Bang 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Acceptance simply means you recognize this as who she is and see the stressful futility in trying to fight her on it, correct her or change her mind. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She was thisclose to leaving her husband when the pandemic hit 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The exhibition will include examples of her efforts to document and archive those events in Tahrir Square, the site of so much hope, and so much futility and despair. Season Preview: For a rainy-day plan, Caillebotte at the National Gallery 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z There was a lesson here about the futility of man’s hubris in such unforgiving country, and I rode with a little more humility into the griddle-hot noon. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z But nothing interrupts the depressive continuity, the air of elegant futility. Aimee Mann Traces Elegant Despair on ‘Mental Illness’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z This kind of dogged futility keeps asserting itself. Jen Rosenblit’s ‘a Natural dance’ Plays at the Kitchen 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Taken as a whole, “OK Computer” oozes discomfort; there are no salves or solutions, just a sense of futility. At 20, Radiohead’s “OK Computer” becomes an album for the Trump era 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z What we said: The first world war is one of the 20th century’s oldest, grimmest tales of futility and slaughter. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z I briefly considered the headscarf/turban alternative, but the futility of the artifice felt tragic. How to get through chemotherapy: Decca Aitkenhead on cancer treatment 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Once the futility of Cielo’s situation, and her persistence in the face of it, are definitively established, a feeling of paralysis sets in. ‘La Civil’ Review: A Mother’s Desperation 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The novel includes several of Sassoon's poems, which recoil from the horror and futility of the war and savage those who prosecute it. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-17T21:54:01Z It’s enough to know that they’re all linked together in one poisonous daisy chain of longing and futility. London Theater Journal: Maximally Minimal 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z About the futility of violence, about the unacceptability of summary executions. Aundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Three 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z “It’s a statement about the futility of collecting things,” he said with a laugh. In Fantasy Life and Other Games, Jobs and To-Do Lists 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z In Mr. Carlson’s breezy retelling, these hapless efforts to recapture the company’s former glory amount to almost comic exercises in futility. ‘Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!’ by Nicholas Carlson 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z But after about an hour, the heat of the summer made clear the futility of my efforts at propulsion. Take Me to the (Lazy) River 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “I always felt that there was this absurdity, this futility to the whole place,” Ms. Almada said. Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Reflects Mexican Drug War 2012-01-15T04:27:18Z Characters had aged in the intervening years: Nucky began to see the futility of sustaining a criminal enterprise beyond Prohibition. ‘Boardwalk Empire’s’ pitch-perfect goodbye In other words, that is something one has to come to peace with, maybe by scheduling time on the calendar for reflecting on the beauty and futility of life. The Complicated Business of Personal Lives 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z But I’d contend that there’s a faint futility to analyzing apocalypse viewing of any sort, because when something occupies as much mental real estate as the widespread panic of Covid-19, everything becomes apocalypse viewing. Exposure therapy: why we're obsessed with watching virus movies 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z The proclamation never arrives: Broadly speaking, the play is a meditation on the meaninglessness of existence and the futility of communication. A Puppet Theater Response to Ionesco in ‘The Chairs’ 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The futility of the old toolbox is a pretty compelling hint. Carolyn Hax: Well-adjusted teen seems impervious to punishment 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Loaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour and protest the latest, historically specific instance of futility and mess. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z This horrible state of frustration, disappointment and futility is described by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant as a state of “cruel optimism”. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Maybe he was your cheerleader through some childhood exercises in futility. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A struggle to find compassion for a dad who brought on health woes 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Rather than describing their sense of futility, Kumarasamy folds the emotion into an image of birds pecking at newly planted seeds, so that “in the end, the garden looked more like a series of mousetraps.” Debut Stories Trace the Aftershocks of the Sri Lankan Civil War 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “Fearless Love,” her often resplendent 10th studio album, is all about familiar subjects: the futility of denial, the uselessness of walls. Critics? Choice: New From Etheridge, Roky Erickson and Jacky Terrasson 2010-04-25T22:18:00Z She’s not going from good to evil; she’s going from optimistic about the world’s possibilities to resigned about its futility, giving in to low-level graft and condoning outright fraud. 'Better Call Saul' doesn't need Gus Fring 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z What makes us addicted instead to reruns of aristocratic futility? Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z But for the Reynosos, just figuring out whom to appeal to has been an exercise in futility. Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z The poem ends on a note of seeming futility, paralleling the bafflement you may experience in trying to understand it. When Robert Pinsky Wrote a Video Game 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The Path Less Beaten I had allotted about five days in each state — an exercise in futility. Frugal Traveler: What I Learned Driving Through the Heartland 2013-08-28T21:32:04Z Inside "Afterglow," the group created a slow-tempoed groove while Gonzalez reveled in both the futility and hope that drives the creative instinct. Jose Gonzalez rides a vibe of gentle, mesmerizing energy 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Forget it, but there's plenty of meaning here as Godard swipes at European history, Palestine, Jews, bankers and the futility of language and the strictures of time. Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z To watch the soldiers scrambling up and down slopes scarred with trenches and foxholes is to observe a maddening exercise in futility. | 'The Front Line': ?The Front Line,? Jang Hun?s Korean War Drama - Review 2012-01-20T00:12:33Z “To read into these glamour shots is an exercise in futility,” she writes. Perspective | Is Melania Trump sending coded messages, or are we just talking to ourselves? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z In the last few days before her death, the futility of this wait struck her with its full, terrifying force. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z But, in the surprisingly tender tone in which she passes the responsibility on to Brünnhilde, she hinted at a deeper sense of not only the futility, but also the undesirability of being proved right. Review: The Met’s ‘Walküre’ Has a Cast Worth Bragging About 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Depressive graduate students, loaded with debt and fretful about diminished job prospects, fasten on to the futility running through the plays. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z But the futility of Trump’s new ritual, its shabbiness and self-satire, suggests that he doesn’t have a clue about the symbolic city he wants to claim as his own. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z They discussed marriage in the past, Harvey first bringing it up when Rød pointed to the apparent futility of a relationship whose end date was stamped in her passport. Until visas do us part: three couples on marrying for papers – and for love 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z That was part of what was so beautiful to me about his interpretation of “Angels in America” — the hopeful futility of reaching out and touching someone. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z None of my Irish forebears, that I know, fought in World War I, but the scale of its sacrifice and apparent futility must sadden anyone who thinks back to that catastrophe. How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Do say: "A brilliant dissection of the secret futility of a life led only proximate to power." Passnotes No 3,198: Selina Meyer 2012-06-24T19:00:03Z His father was a spiv, at school he felt like a secret agent infiltrating the upper classes, and writing was a response to his growing sense of the futility of spookery. John Le Carr?: A Life Unmasked ? review 2010-12-10T21:45:00Z But all of the dancers, including Louis, who becomes more grounded and dynamic each season, and Kenny Corrigan, a persuasive newcomer, brought the work’s images and themes of death, futility and emptiness to dancing life. Dancing at Paul Taylor, a New Generation Finds Its Footing 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z It is a glorious moment — listen to Baldwin’s exuberant and dexterous prose! — but underneath swells limitation, futility and rage. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z What concerns me more than her exercise in futility, though, is her exercise in self-absorption. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: His love interest wants him to cross his heart (and not break hers) 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z There's something about the way Wallinger composes apparent futilities with such systematic earnestness that is in itself convincing. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z Welcoming all earnest attempts at perfect bedazzlement, and embracing, with fanfare, the effort’s futility, Ms. Minter insists only on taking the risk. Lush Morsels From an Artist’s Erotic Imagination 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z It is a work of ecstatic despair, an argument for the futility of human effort that almost refutes itself through the application of a grumpy and tenacious artistic will. ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z As an opener to this programme, Colin Matthews's finely crafted arrangements of three of Debussy's piano preludes underlined their perfection in their original guise and the utter futility of attempting to add anything to them. LPO/Jurowski ? review 2010-12-06T22:00:00Z What true creative striver does not at some point feel the pain of futility in this capriciously rewarding world? Art in Review: ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN: ?The Estate of Rochelle F.? 2011-04-14T20:23:52Z Where we used to look to the future with hope and excitement, we now embrace decline and futility. Review: ‘Tomorrowland,’ Brad Bird’s Lesson in Optimism 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The dangers of thinking that plans and rules will save you, which is maybe the futility of believing you can really control anything. 5 authors pull back the curtain on their new books 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Their efforts were futile, but futility is often beautiful. Beauty amid the horror of war 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Directed by Srda Vasiljevic, this is a Dust Bowl tale about sin, guilt and the futility of trying to flee them. Review: The Gently Funny ‘Newton’s Cradle’ at New York Musical Festival 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The futility of democratic mass mobilization in a world where the interests of capital are enforced by an increasingly militarized police? The Best Time-Wasting of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z On the one hand, this suggests the futility of the grand summer project, the idea that, during these three months, we might accomplish what we otherwise don't have time to do. Counting on summer's promise of boundless books 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Existence is revealed as a vast panorama of futility, your fridge is empty, and you haven’t got as far as the documentary shorts. The Surreal Achievements of the 2016 Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z It is a sense of sadness and futility that work together to appease the conscience: Something beautiful is being lost and we can do nothing about it. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z ‘About Endlessness’ is a film about despair and futility. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Homoki suggests the futility of the endless conflict between the Israelites and the Philistines by blurring the distinctions between the two. Music Review: ‘David et Jonathas,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-04-18T21:56:57Z Chang could be a Zen master, whose vocation is to proselytise for the futility of revenge. Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives 2013-05-22T09:45:00Z That feeling of futility is what ultimately kept me from going to the police. Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my Bill Cosby allegations? 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Last-stitch effort, though technically incorrect, evokes a similar sense of eleventh-hour determination and futility: If there's only a single stitch holding your pant legs together, it's probably working quite hard to keep them from separating. 11 commonly misheard phrases that actually make sense 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z But “2666,” written in five loosely connected parts, is also about evil, memory, chaos, futility, dread, hunger for meaning, and, not least, the sometimes maddeningly lure of literature itself. ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z In the face of his country’s crisis, the performance, called “The End,” spoke at once to his belief in the beauty of the artistic gesture and to the futility of it. ‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson 2013-01-06T04:59:41Z “The idea of the ‘ideal weight’ or ‘dream weight’ is really just an exercise in futility.” Losing those last five pounds At that time it was interpreted as a comment on the inherent futility of those recent Western adventures in the third world. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z The reference to the German artist Blinky Palermo is obscure, but the sense of futility — even the futility of protest and criticism — is palpable. Sculpture shows by Emilie Brzezinski, Bernardi Roig diverge sharply in theme She didn’t necessarily mine the score for color or character — Gilda’s apotheosis was stubbornly earthbound — but Scappucci surfaced bleak hollowness in the woodwinds and strings that touched on the futility of Rigoletto’s struggles. Review: At the Met Opera, a Tenor Arrives in ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The music grows more emphatic but never manages to shake the sense of futility to which it succumbs. Review: Rachmaninoff Chemistry at the 92nd Street Y 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Not Dead Yet also disputes medical futility—the concept that patients are being overtreated at the end of their lives. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Or perhaps he is intentionally avoiding a trip down memory lane for Dukie's own sake, signalling the futility of taking comfort in the past. The Wire re-up: season five, episode nine ? deserve got nothing to do with it 2010-04-12T23:15:00Z “In exploiting the architecture of the cathedral, ‘Voiceless Mass’ considers the futility of giving voice to the voiceless, when ceding space is never an option for those in power,” Chacon has said. The Pulitzer Prize Winner That Emerged Out of a Time of Quietness 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z “In my view, intentionality is not just overrated; it puts the cart so far out in front that the horse, sensing futility, gives up and lies down in the street.” Review: David Salle’s ‘How to See,’ a Painter’s Guide to Looking at and Discussing Art 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z But the embrace is fraught, and one senses futility and defeat in it: If you can’t beat them, join them. Put a lid on the operatic Viking helmet cliché 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z "Fearless Love," Melissa Etheridge's often resplendent 10th studio album, is all about familiar subjects: the futility of denial, the uselessness of walls. New CDs: Releases this week include Melissa Etheridge's 'Fearless Love' and Hole's 'Nobody's Daughter' 2010-04-26T20:37:00Z Huston stated that the melancholy film was "about the spiritual process of the defeated and the futility and indestructibility of hope". Susan Tyrrell 2012-06-27T14:41:00Z "Mark", says the mark, speaking of its maker as well as itself, sending up the narcissism of tagging as well as the futility of trying to leave one's mark upon London. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z A bit that he and Burr crafted to play off the futility of the New York Jets. Pete Davidson’s personal life always overshadowed his career. So he turned it into a movie. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z And maybe there are more feelings of futility now than there were then, even as anxieties about nuclear holocaust loomed. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z All political acts take place under the judgment of history, which reveals “the limits of all human striving” and the futility, even the folly, of most human undertakings, especially of politics. A Few Theories about Why James Comey Might Call Himself “Reinhold Niebuhr” on Twitter 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Your underlying feeling is one of futility, that these two have “swallowed up all the good in life and none is left for me.” I Lost a Boyfriend. Then I Lost a Friend. Now I’m Angry. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z South China Sea Pishkun is a remarkable digital animation by Vietnamese artist Dinh Q Lê that tackles the grim futilities of warfare with an almost hallucinatory metaphorical force. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-22T00:06:54Z “What do we wish for, Mom?” her character’s son asks, seeing the futility. The lasting testament of Jane Alexander 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z But his gestures and gags have a sort of built-in futility, analogous, perhaps, to his painting with the built-in shredder: They are designed only to set tongues wagging. Perspective | How Banksy’s latest stunt plays into the history of destruction in avant-garde art 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z The Chicago Cubs have legions of fans who've never set foot inside Wrigley Field; they love the team not despite its decades of futility but largely because of them. 'A Kingdom Strange': A new look at the Lost Colony of Roanoke 2010-04-28T23:50:00Z That sense of both freedom and futility struck me as deeply sad. Te-Ping Chen on the Nihilism of the Internet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s an exercise in futility, but it’s the kind of futility that pays the bills. In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The recent military coup has underscored the futility of hopes that the Rohingya might one day safely return to Myanmar, furthering a widespread sense of despair in the camps, advocates of refugees say. For Rohingya Survivors, Art Bears Witness 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z And if Arturo’s own vaquero resolve is shadowed by quixotic futility, so much the better. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z As he sings, Sledge phrases the lines with both passion and futility, embodying those emotions with every syllable. Percy Sledge's 'When a Man Loves a Woman,' a great American ballad 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Lazar also steps out of the play and wanders up the aisle to deliver a pitch-black commentary on the existential darkness and the futility of hope. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z That’s not a tribute to someone of poor character, so she doesn’t sound like a “won’t,” and that plus your 35 years of futility suggest your lovely partner is a “can’t.” This little piggy stayed home 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z That sense of geographic futility, the small town, the midsize city. The Replacements' story is told bottle by bottle, song by song, in the new book 'Trouble Boys' 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Here he is after his wife's death when he realises the futility of existence. Something wicked: the best Macbeths in clips 2013-02-28T12:09:09Z “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,” like its predecessors, consists of short episodes that illustrate, mostly, the absurd futility of life. Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,’ Roy Andersson’s Rumination on Life 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z A comment on the futility of Second Life? This week's new tracks 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z Tweedy’s songs ponder history, politics, mortality, ambivalence and the utility — or futility — of art in 21st-century America. Wilco Makes an Understated Magnum Opus 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z “The entire time I was like, ‘This is an exercise in futility. Perspective | Black women are finally shattering the glass ceiling in dance 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z A similar futility is at play in Roman Ondak’s “Breath on Both Sides,” a red balloon inflated on both sides of a windowpane. Art In Review: ‘From an Object’s Point of View’ 2012-06-21T22:08:46Z The lyrics reflect on the ultimate futility of father-son competition given the inevitability of death in which “I’ll never win and neither will you.” New Music: Albums by Rascal Flatts, Anita Wilson and Loudon Wainwright 2012-04-02T22:29:45Z “The Treasure” is both a fable of futility worthy of Samuel Beckett and an allegory of Romania’s precarious place at the margins of the European Union. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Set in a future when devastation of the environment has humanity turning to outer space as a homestead, “Foe” presents a spectacle of futility. ‘Foe’ Review: The Space Between 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The book ruminated on one of Mr. Grass’s most enduring motifs: the danger and futility of trying to suppress history. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Boredom, alienation and unemployment are part of it, but it also seems to be a motiveless virus, a group neurosis, a contagious wave of futility and defeat that Lewis compares to the plague. Film review: Shed Your Tears and Walk Away 2010-06-10T21:47:00Z Mark Boal: I wanted to do a story that explained why the war was not going well, and that showed the logistical futility of the war. Oscar Week: Hurt Locker Writer Mark Boal 2010-03-04T06:25:00Z But badly blended in the same programme they left nothing but a bitter taste of futility that even the master of food science couldn't dispel. TV review: Silk, Heston's Mission Impossible 2011-02-23T08:00:05Z Because of the perceived futility of the culture war the right is waging, it's perhaps easy to dismiss Kid Rock's video as laughable. "The groomer of beers": Conservatives vow to boycott Bud Light over partnership with trans activist 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z But it's not as if gore and splatter, along with the obligatory philosophical lessons about the transitory nature of life and the futility of war, are new inventions in Japanese cinema. "13 Assassins": A new samurai action classic 2011-04-28T01:30:00Z His specialty is the ambiguity of self, particularly as defined by skin color, and the futility as well as the necessity of looking for solid answers. Review: ‘War,’ a Deathbed Drama About Identity by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z There is another convenient accident near the end, but in this more full-bodied, deliberately paced, stylistically controlled film the atmosphere of entrapment and futility isn’t entirely dissipated by the climax. Video: A Master?s Baby Steps 2011-03-19T01:24:54Z Because Ms. Favaretto relies so much on devices that were once revolutionary and are now deadeningly familiar, it is hard to appreciate the poetry of futility, disappointment and even grief that animates her work. Art Review: Lara Favaretto’s ‘Just Knocked Out’ at MoMA PS1 2012-07-12T21:17:09Z Eventually, trying to rein in two warmblooded teenage boys became an exercise in futility for his parents. Can Hugh Hefner’s 26-year-old son convince his generation that Playboy is sexy? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z In Bruce Norris’s time-shifting play “A Parallelogram,” Bee sees and hears someone Jay can’t: a decades-older version of herself who’s puffing away, chatting with her about the futility of trying to alter the future. ‘A Parallelogram,’ Bruce Norris’s Time-Shifting Play at Second Stage 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z We tried at first to do fittings on a dress form — an exercise in futility. Chintz Hospital Gowns and Wildflower Dresses 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The 14 months he'd spent in the army, he told me in a recent email, led him to "recognize the futility and criminality" of the efforts to support the South Vietnamese government. Soldiers took items home from Vietnam. Decades later, two veterans helped return them. 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Yet Qodrat clings to his cinematic fantasies, in a bittersweet gesture that affirms both the hope and the futility of the movies. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Here, she’s writing about the futility of being an office worker with other dreams. Brontez Purnell Brings His Disparate Parts Back to the Dance Stage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z If there’s an element of futility in this project, there’s also a larger element of hope. Review | Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is permanently stunning 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z He seemed resigned to the futility of arguing for the demolition of homes and for new construction while owners were still petitioning the state for money. Critic's Notebook: In L’Aquila, Italy, Lessons for Rebuilding From Storm 2012-11-30T17:51:12Z If baseball truly resembled the laboratory of Darwin's theory of evolution, the Cubs probably would be considered an endangered species for their long-standing futility. Epstein immersed in Cubs' background 2011-11-20T02:42:00Z I was watching Paths of Glory last night, the Kubrick film, 1957, black and white, Kirk Douglas, about the futility of war, and political lies, and it’s amazing. Keira Knightley: ‘Iraq was the first time I’d been politically engaged’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Of course, forecasting what the voters will do is often an exercise in futility. Emmy predictions: Who will reign supreme? 2011-09-15T20:33:04Z The most moving moments in “Stella Maris” braid her feelings for her brother, which go through her like a spear, with a sense of intellectual futility. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s a moment that supports Eastwood’s view that Unforgiven is all about the futility and effects of violence – the “we all have it coming line”. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Unforgiven 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Here, as director and co-writer, he's unrelenting in hammering home the dread, the sorrow, the sense of detachment and futility of a city on the brink of collapse with no savior in sight. Review: Batman series ends as epic letdown 2012-07-16T18:40:09Z Singing the verse about the futilities of higher education, Ms. Bareilles was grinning widely: a little excited, a little embarrassed, embracing it anyway. Music Review: At Lilith Fair, Sisterhood Remains Powerful, if Stressed 2010-08-02T22:17:00Z In my grief and despair I focused on the futility of his short life. Perspective | My son loved the cicadas. I’m finally ready to love them again. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Between episodes of professional breakdown, he’s given to rueful inner monologues on the theme of futility. In This Norwegian Novel, an Old-School Waiter Tries to Keep Up the Old Ways 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Because there is a certain futility to the obsessive nature of the women’s endless labor, on which they also thrive, I wondered if Rottenberg was making an analogy to her own creative process. | 'Squeeze' Therapy 2010-11-24T19:57:00Z Step 2: She, as a friend, appreciates your effort, but recognizes the futility of it, and whenever possible spares you and SO from having to deal with each other. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The bride prefers her new friends, so an old one wants to make her pay 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z There will be tramps engaged in circular conversations; there will be an overwhelming sense of futility; there will be a tree. Waiting for Godot ? review 2012-02-08T19:15:41Z The repetitiveness of work, Sisyphus pushing his boulder uphill, the inexorable reality of gravity’s pull, the futility and heroism of it all — these interpretations might come to mind watching “Slant Board.” Dance Review: An Uphill Battle, All in the Name of Art 2011-04-15T23:02:56Z I’m ultimately not sure if “Are we not drawn” is hopeful or hopeless, a hymn to human endeavor or futility. Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z “They expanded the range of what was possible—and underscored the futility of trying to predict what would happen next.” Three Podcasts to Listen to in June 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z More often, there is no sense of futility. Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday life chosen by William Sieghart – review 2012-06-09T23:05:36Z There was a great scene last year when he was sent on this stupid mission to reclaim Riverrun and I guess the futility of it was so obvious. Nikolaj Colder-Waldau Hints at a ‘Very Significant Shift’ in Game of Thrones Season 7 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z He lives slobbishly and he is far too quick to anger, but he knows this, and advances his opinions with a kind of wry futility, at once strident and self-mocking. Comedy gold: John Caparulo's Meet Cap 2013-04-18T12:07:20Z Its large-scale exercise in futility ultimately points to a single fact, Mr. Boltanski suggested during a recent tour of the drill hall. Christian Boltanski Has a Show at the Park Avenue Armory 2010-05-09T23:40:00Z Sweating through the streets, you think he might evaporate, too, and that what we are watching is a man performing his own insignificance and futility. Francis Al?s treads the thin green line 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z It was only from this height, he said, that the magnitude of the spill – and the futility of the clean-up operation – became apparent. Big picture: Spill, by Daniel Beltrá 2012-09-28T22:00:20Z “More meetings and more futility all the time,” another wrote in his diary. A Marshall Plan for China? It Existed, but Even Marshall Couldn’t Pull It Off 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Are they arch comedies, domestic tragedies, exposés about the futility of life? Music Review: Amorous Confusion in Pasatieri?s Adaptation of Chekhov?s Play 2010-09-27T21:44:00Z The most recent song in the collection, from Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon,” addresses the futility of war in general: “We’re only ordinary men . . . it’s not what we would choose to do.” Songs of protest, songs of war 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But this production also implicitly asks us to consider the roots, futility and inevitability of cyclical violence, and to question ourselves for wallowing so happily in the stories that traffic in it. Review: ‘Is God Is’ Reinvents the Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Anglicans are racked by doctrinal disputes and an increasing sense of futility, and Catholics labour under the yoke of a reactionary papacy and the merciless demands of celibacy. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z These people know fashion inside out, and their show celebrates the power of fashion and its futility. TV style icons of 2020: Schitt's Creek's absolutely fabulous fashion overload 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z After 30 minutes from the frontline, we needed 20 minutes analysing this apparently Sisyphean exercise in futility. TV review: Horizon: The Secret World of Pain, Outside the Court, Episodes 2011-02-01T08:00:03Z Often, addiction goes along with overall futility, sadness, and desperation. Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z In truth, Emma’s decline didn’t improve any of us unless, in the Catholic sense, by making us disproportionately conscious of our futility and lack of grace. My granddaughter, the girl who refused to let joy into her life 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Dread is our companion in 2019, and also the feeling of futility. Can you afford to be green when you're poor? I kept a diary to find out 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z With the contentious legume debates, Jews are enacting the futility of human reason—it’s as if they’re saying, “See, God? This is what happens when you leave humans to their own devices.” And, on Passover, God Gave the Israelites Back Their Legumes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z In her music and in her Red Table conversations, she grasps the futility of hiding her feelings, so she doesn’t bother. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z But happily its centrality to the narrative pushes Giamatti to new heights of acting excess, as he sputters in anger at his own futility. Review: 'Billions' Is Bullish on Drama, Bearish on Insight 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “We cannot allow Stalin, a communist, to tarnish the good name of socialism,” he says, unaware of the futility of such a battle. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z They’re the product of futility brought about by anxiety — the running-in-circles sensation of not being able to do enough to save the world. Climate anxiety doesn’t have to ruin your life. Here’s how to manage it. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Finally realising the futility of his pursuit, he headed back home and went to the lawyers. I was kidnapped by my mother 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z The same anger, exhaustion and sense of futility were her constant companions in later life. Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Is “Oslo” a depiction of triumph, or futility? Review | ‘Oslo’ is an incisive, and dispiriting, look at a stunning pact between Israel and the PLO 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The language with which he described people and things, animals and lovers, atmosphere and futility, was a frightening construction. Lucian Freud's perverse depictions of magnificent muck 2011-07-22T00:34:23Z Life, for him, was a form of theater, a game doomed to futility. Review | Artist Hyman Bloom’s body of work is revered. And the bodies are cadavers. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Replace “royal family” with “the Firm,” and everything becomes much clearer and, with it, the futility of even speaking of the Windsors anymore as individuals. Review | Before Harry and Meghan, the Windsor sisters stirred the pot. A new book delves into their story. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Bernardo Soares was another major persona; a clerk who detailed in prosaic resignation the tediousness of work, life, the city and the futility of desire. Fernando Pessoa and the multiple faces we show on the net 2010-12-04T10:00:00Z A sense of futility pervades many of the conversations. ‘Futura’ Review: Youth, Italian Style 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z "May they recognize the futility of their actions," Spencer also said. Russia, Ukraine war: Faith leader says 'human life more sacred than land or resources' 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Three decades earlier, however, a Newsweek writer, in a review that derided the “lethal ugliness” of “Dirty Harry,” also registered the futility of worrying about the bad effects of a movie. News Analysis: Warner Brothers and Its Decades of Violent Films 2012-07-25T22:32:24Z I suggested one of the greatest comic actors in movie history: a peerless exemplar of mania and depression, who overcame a chaotic youth and a speech impediment to express the futility of man’s condition. Merry Pranksters: Harlow, Daffy and Ken Kesey's Magic Trippers 2011-11-01T18:32:04Z They form the emotional backdrop against which Theriault’s forlorn assemblages strut their underdog stuff, defying futility by making room for real renegade beauty. Paul Pascal Theriault: Turning everyday junk into childlike wonder 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “Last Sentinel” may remind fans of literary fiction of the Dino Buzzati novel “The Tartar Steppe,” which painted the existential futility of a remote outpost waiting in vain for the enemy to show up. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Down through the ages, it was, and remains, an exercise in futility to persuade a large number of women to trade what is deemed fashionable, no matter how torturous, for comfort. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z At the same time, Cox suggests Cornelius is a poet and dreamer who sees through the futility of petty commerce and yearns for a life of adventure. Cornelius – review 2012-08-20T17:11:49Z The narrator makes one final rhetorical appeal to the crowd, but soon realizes its futility — “I had no words and no eloquence.” Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z It was also charming when, near the end, Tao geared up again for another of the score’s famous ascents and the dancers hesitated, as if to admit the futility of keeping up with the pianist. Review: At the Guggenheim, They Heart New York and Indoor Dance 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z There are chapters about the futility of torture, the difficulty of determining fair sentences and the importance of walking away from a case, even when there are sunk costs. Preet Bharara’s Lessons on Crime and Punishment 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Is this meant to represent the futility of resistance? ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 5: A Seduction 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z It is full of near-valor and debasement, profane exposure and awful comic futility. More Books We Loved in 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The Irish literary hero's novels and plays are not for everybody, dispensing as they do with logical, realistic storytelling while paring the human condition to discomfiting essences of loneliness, futility and decay. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z An American reporter is on hand to print the legend and to impress his readers with Britain's abiding capacity for martial glory, far from the futility of the Western Front and the disaster of Gallipoli. Lawrence of Arabia – review 2012-11-22T20:59:01Z But it is the similarities between the medieval prosecutorial strategies — play good cop, bad cop; instill a sense of futility; use rapid-fire questioning — and the United States Army interrogation manual that are chilling. Books of The Times: ?God?s Jury? by Cullen Murphy - Review 2012-01-18T22:38:44Z It contains cascading bursts of fast notes poignantly curtailed, as if to underline the futility of flight. Review: Sept. 11’s Monumental Despair, Evoked by Solo Piano 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z But his efforts are hampered by the thinness of the historical record and by his extreme self-consciousness — his sense of the futility of his, or any, attempt to write history. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z His scorn was so withering, his confidence so aggressive, that arguing with him seemed a scary exercise in futility and an invitation to more insult. The problem with “mansplaining” 2012-08-20T16:38:00Z I truly believe that ambition is an exercise in futility; that Milan Kundera was right on the nose in saying: “Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.” How to become a writer? 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z Do you ever get frustrated by a sense of futility? Ai Weiwei’s Little Blue Book on the Refugee Crisis 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The most hopeful piece in the show at first seems like the definition of futility: a tumbleweed running on a treadmill. Artists turn L.A. gallery into a museum of nuclear dystopia 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z At the beginning it presents an intriguing grid of possibilities, but as the squares are filled in a sense of futility takes over. Movie Review | 'Chloe': Amanda Seyfried Goes on an Undercover Mission 2010-03-26T00:40:00Z The screenplay does a reasonably good job of capturing the group dynamic of these backbiting astronauts, whose frayed nerves are exacerbated by a shared sense of futility. Movie Review: ‘The Last Days on Mars’ Was Adapted From ‘The Animators’ 2013-12-05T23:07:49Z As with any dream, trying to wrap your head around the movie can be an exercise in futility. 'Inside Out,' 'The Matrix' and more: Ranking cinema's notable head trips 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z In “Pantheon,” an unusual somberness weaves through the mix, hinting at serious existential and topical concerns: loss, futility, environmental devastation. Review | Angst and comedy among the Olympians in ‘Pantheon’ 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Ben-Gurion repeated this story again and again as proof of the futility of seeking agreement. Israel’s First Prime Minister Was Complicated. So Is This Book About His Life. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Instead, they descend into hatred, futility and despair. Is Archipelago a class act or an empty gesture? 2011-03-14T12:05:29Z Its central argument is a straightforward case for the virtues of smaller government and the futility of efforts to redistribute wealth. Politics on Film, but This Time Leaning Right 2010-09-07T22:28:00Z Bodies, too, malfunction; one doctor muses about the futility of cures, since all patients are ultimately destined for more illness. Review: ‘Kaili Blues,’ a Dreamy Trek With Otherworldly Beauty 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In the opera’s final moments, the central character recognizes the futility of his desire to arrest time and loss. Enescu, an Underplayed Composer, Is Still a Star in Romania 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s a surging rocker, complete with Edge-style guitar work, about the futility of looking for resolution “at the end of a needle.” Still a maverick, Garth Brooks returns with 'Man Against Machine' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Even when portraying monotony or futility, she puts you at ease. Critic’s Notebook: Tig Notaro Meets Taylor Dayne, Again and Again 2012-06-24T21:27:44Z Among actors, he holds the record for Oscar futility, never winning on any of his eight nominations. Peter O'Toole retires with 'dry-eyed farewell' 2012-07-10T17:17:09Z What Fitzgerald really does is acknowledge the futility of trying to find answers. Creating an Adolescence for the Ages 2011-06-25T23:33:02Z Le Carré’s ambivalent spies persevered in a slow simmering corrupt reality, always with a sense of gentle futility. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z To pay close attention to the news is to trap oneself in a daily cycle of outrage, self-righteousness, a pained recognition of the inelegance of that self-righteousness, and, finally, a feeling of futility. This Is the Joke That Liberals Need 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z She sees “a kind of crushing beauty” in that futility, whereas Mr. Sheppard looks at the same thing and sees something more like hope. Playing a ‘Game’ to Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About Race 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z But the futility of the image is part of its power. What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z I didn’t necessarily look at it as a movie but more an opportunity to examine and experience the futility of war, to engage in that subject and treat it was a raw, primal, experiential observation. Cover Story: Kathryn Bigelow’s Art of Darkness 2013-01-24T12:35:23Z Weariness, isolation, loneliness, futility, imminent collapse — those are situations Dr. Dog likes to sing about, in music that solidly contradicts any such sentiments. Dr. Dog Plays at the Music Hall of Williamsburg 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z One season later, the team was again renamed, this time as the Senators, and moved to Boundary Field, which would eventually burn to the ground, a symbol of the team’s continued and complete futility. First in war, first in peace, first in the National League 2012-10-05T16:28:00Z Where it's a day, like every other day, ie, one in which to sit in a darkened room and ponder the futility of all human existence and the absence of meaning. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z It is disconcerting to see so many U.S. presidents refuse to see the futility of “conquering” Afghanistan, because they have made no effort to understand Afghanistan, its society and its people. Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z As amusing as these interludes are, they read as attempts to force an exaggerated sense of mystery into an ultimately simple and moralistic tale about the futility of vengeance. ‘Jinpa’ Review: Murder and Mystery in Tibet 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “The First Stone,” translated from the Danish by Mark Mussari, tackles the present invasion but also examines the futility of previous ones. A Different View of the Afghan War Yields the Same Grim Truth 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Experiments in futility: For a few weeks, we’ve seen Milton working on various experiments, presumably to try and find a cure for the zombie-inducing plague. The Walking Dead Watch: When the Dead Come Knocking 2012-11-26T05:18:27Z The whole thing is a metaphor about the seeming futility of fighting industrial capitalism and impending environmental doom, but it is also: a hilarious romp! A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Its lyrics are filled with references to Asia and a deep sense of isolation, dislocation and futility. Review: With Original Lineup, Blur Returns to New York in Punky Form 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The futility of his essentially barren and meaningless life has at last overwhelmed him and he's thrown himself off Norwich cathedral? Pass notes No 2,838: Alan Partridge 2010-08-30T19:00:00Z Even the pyramids in Egypt, impressive as they are, seem to hector us across the ages, with Ozymandian futility. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Pain, war, alcoholism, attempted suicide, self-dismemberment, unfunny sitcoms, the sheer relentlessness of human futility. TV review: Horizon: The Secret World of Pain, Outside the Court, Episodes 2011-02-01T08:00:03Z What lovely work “titivate” — “to preen” — does there, with its light aura of fussiness and futility. He Was a Prominent Holocaust Survivor. But His Story Was a Hoax. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Elisabeth Herbert, a counter agent for Alaska Airlines in Spokane, Wash., says arguing with an employee is often an act of futility. How to tip the airline scales in your favor 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, hindsight lends a wistful futility to the chiming of all those gorgeous clocks. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z The Jennings family, led by undercover K.G.B. agents, was sundered, their mission complete only in its futility, their story vibrant even its melancholy. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z It was all so deliciously awful: the mingling, how I was dressed, the futility of trying to meet anyone. Single, and Surrounded by a Wall of Men 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The rain, the weight of history, filled me with sadness, a sense of the futility of human endeavor. Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-13T16:02:13Z "It was a face that would age well and that, while aging, would carry intimations of waste, loss and futility." James Arness of 'Gunsmoke' fame dies at 88 2011-06-03T18:16:09Z Earlier this week, I was talking to my coworkers about these feelings of futility, when Salon senior writer Mary Elizabeth Williams gently interjected. What to cook and eat when you're in need of comfort 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Even before Tucker is through the line, she’s conveyed the futility of that quest. Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The two most brilliant Kinks albums, "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society" and "Arthur," both end on very dark notes of profound isolation or futility. Kinks' Ray Davies is turning 70. Why it matters. 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z I wanted to write what I thought about wars, and stupidity and futility. AUDIO: War poet wrote about 'stupidity and futility' 2013-11-19T12:42:58Z I’m partial to beautiful, heartbreaking sentences about loss and about the ultimate futility of the human condition. Susan Orlean: By the Book 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It circles back to this terrible, despairing idea of looking back nostalgically and looking forward, and feeling that there is a cycle of corruption and futility. Why the bleak film classic "Chinatown" is our new reality 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Stubborn in their own ways, they are overcome by a sense of futility they see as just plain common sense. Casey versus Denzel: Oscar's lead actor race is a dramatic study in contrasts 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z I expect that my feelings of futility and helplessness will be overwhelming, to say nothing of my anger. Guilty of being Mexican 2014-05-03T23:00:00Z Not a meditation on the hell of high school, or the futility of trying to outrun one’s past. How the ‘Yellowjackets’ ‘Weirdos’ Fell in Love and Wrote a Hit Show 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The franchise had a long history of futility in the NFL, and some embarrassing losses in the regular season. Super Bowl wasn't always the audience magnet it is now 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Near the end of “The Vulnerables,” Nunez’s narrator shifts her attention to the state of books: their worth, who reads them, the futility of hurling language at so many existential threats. Sigrid Nunez's flawless recipe for literary excellence: Throw in a parrot 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z It also brought a season’s worth of futility by the third-year quarterback to an international audience, raising questions about who will have the starting job when the Patriots emerge from this week’s bye. Bill Belichick says status of every player will be looked at during 2-8 Patriots’ bye week 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Explaining what investing is and why people should care about it can feel like an exercise in futility— the jargon, the math, all the acronyms— but at its core, investing is incredibly simple. Millennial Money: 5 ways to get kids excited about investing 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z And still, those statistics don’t fully capture the futility of USC’s defense, which had been in a tailspin since late last season. After nearly two seasons of struggles, USC fires defensive coordinator Alex Grinch 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z Without Stafford, they are not likely to end that futility against a Packers team desperate for a victory. Rams vs. Packers matchups: How to watch, start time and prediction 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z The win by Carolina ended a long of streak of comeback futility. Tyreek Hill and A.J. Brown are setting their sights on the NFL receiving record 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z The episode also underscored, not for the first time, the futility of Israel’s repeated calls for Gazans to abandon the coastal enclave’s densely populated north. Airstrikes flatten blocks of Gaza refugee camp, bringing rage, grief and a perilous new phase of war 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z For the moment, the American public seems blissfully uninterested in this very inside-Washington drama, giving Republicans more time to figure a way off the merry-go-round of political futility. Republicans self-destruct again in US Speaker saga 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z But it could prove an exercise in futility if Maduro’s government wishes. Venezuelan opposition holds presidential primary in exercise of democracy, but it could prove futile 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z In other words, a little lip service that went beyond “sustainable rosters” might have played a little better to a base bearing the brunt of more than four decades of futility. Jerry Dipoto tells Mariners fans what they don’t want to hear 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z “It’s an exercise in futility,” said Maureen Cayer, the housing authority director in Agawam in Western Massachusetts, where four units have been vacant for more than two years as of July. Massachusetts has a huge waitlist for state-funded housing. So why are 2,300 units vacant? 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Vanitas, a Renaissance artistic genre meant to show pleasure’s transient futility in the face of death’s inevitability, was modernized and performed for visitors. Review: In his rapturous MoMA retrospective, L.A. artist Ed Ruscha gives New York School art a witty blow 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z "Sanctions pressure on Russia and Iran shows its futility, while Russian-Iranian interaction is reaching a new level." Russia-Iran ties have reached new level - Russian defence minister 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z It added that Lavrov and Wang talked "in detail" about Ukraine, "noting the futility of attempts to resolve the crisis without taking into account the interests and especially without the participation of Russia." China and Russia 'close' in views on US and Ukraine as Wang Yi visits Moscow 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Four teams failed to reach even 100 yards passing with some notable statistics of futility. NFL passing games struggled in least productive opening week in years 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Two phase III trials for aducanumab were halted in March 2019 following a "futility analysis," meaning it didn't seem likely that continuing the trials would find it worked any better than placebo. Navigating new Alzheimer's drugs can be confusing and expensive. So do they really help patients? 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z The crowd's boos only serve to reinforce the futility of even having a GOP debate. Why do Republicans even bother with this whole farce? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z With seven nods this year, “Better Call Saul” is up to 53 nominations, a record of futility it should wear as a historic badge of honor. Emmys 2023: Who will win from 'Succession'? All the drama from the drama categories 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Romo’s run of trying to end Dallas’ playoff futility came to an abrupt halt in 2016 when he was injured and replaced by Prescott. Dak Prescott hasn’t solved the playoff puzzle for the Cowboys. The star QB is ready to try again 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Someone in Florida won a $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night, ending a stretch of lottery futility that had stretched for nearly four months. Mega Millions player in Florida wins $1.58 billion jackpot, the third-largest prize in U.S. history 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z It has been a long stretch of jackpot futility, but Tuesday night’s 32nd straight drawing since the last winner still isn’t a record. $1.55 billion Mega Millions prize balloons as 31 drawings pass without a winner 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The crowd's boos only serve to reinforce the futility of even having a GOP debate. Why do Republicans even bother with this whole farce? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z A body, still belted to an airplane seat, lands in their yard, illustrating the absurd futility of surviving an anti-aircraft missile. Review: Horror of a passenger jet's downing is revisited, obliquely, in the arresting 'Klondike' 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z A Sign in Space recognizes the near futility of extraterrestrial communication and turns it into an endeavor that’s much more open-ended. Can You Decode an Alien Message? 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Ms McDonald said the feeling of "futility" among Met staff doing this work was so widespread that on several occasions female colleagues said they wouldn't bother reporting a sexual offence committed against them. Inside the Met Police: Former officers open up 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Assuming futility, Chang declined to pursue the matter further. Five years, a Netflix hit and a flood of Facebook posts: How Taiwan’s #MeToo finally took off 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Everything with the Mariners must be placed in a historical context; namely, 46 years of franchise futility. Why fans dislike this Mariners team so much 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The Mariners, a team of many strikeouts, found a new level of futility on a Father’s Day afternoon at T-Mobile Park. Mariners overcome outstanding 16-strikeout effort by White Sox’s Lance Lynn 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z “Lost in an endless game of IP-reshuffling musical chairs, Barry realizes, possibly too late, the futility of dwelling on the past — a fatuous lesson from a movie that can’t stop doing the same.” 'The Flash' fizzles at the box office amid Ezra Miller controversy 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Republican co-sponsors of the legislation likewise said Thursday’s vote was an exercise in futility. Antitrust journalism bill stalls in Congress where bipartisan critics cite media censorship concerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Lost in an endless game of IP-reshuffling musical chairs, Barry realizes, possibly too late, the futility of dwelling on the past — a fatuous lesson from a movie that can’t stop doing the same. Review: The spirit is thrilling, but 'The Flash' is weak 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z There is an interconnectedness to the franchise failings, and so the current team must bear the brunt of the cumulative futility. Why fans dislike this Mariners team so much 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The drugs have arrived at a time when researchers have documented the risks of obesity and the futility of prescribing only diet and exercise as a treatment. New Obesity Drugs Come With a Side Effect of Shaming 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z “I was so burdened with the futility of life that at one point I actually considered suicide,” he wrote in “Shout It From the Housetops,” his 1972 autobiography. Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who parlayed the success of his pioneering television ministry into the first serious bid by an evangelical leader for the U.S. presidency, has died 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z In her scorchingly candid memoir, Blakinger writes, “All the futility, the small cruelties, the refusal to see us as fully human — it was not a flaw in the system. It was the system.” Star athlete, addict, prisoner, journalist: A memoirist on her story and her mission 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z I know that I am not alone in these feelings of frustration, exhaustion and growing futility. Hope and loss on Memorial Day: It's been a rough year since Buffalo 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Nothing captures the futility of the blindfold — or sometimes even the futility of lifting it — more than Zubaydah's story, which was at the heart of the story of torture in these years. Crimes against humanity, American-style: United States continues quest to hide torture 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Paintings, stories, and theatrical performances emerged having to do with the “dance of death,” a depiction of the futility of worldly possessions and status vis-à-vis the inevitability of death. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z His speeches typically include recitations of the positive economic data points of his presidency — record job growth, expanded manufacturing, new small businesses — as well as populist messaging about the futility of trickle-down economics. Biden announces 2024 reelection bid, saying he wants to ‘finish the job’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z It’s a remarkable stretch that provides a glimpse into the franchise’s recent futility. Jaguars outside NFL draft’s top 10 for 2nd time in 16 years 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The Mariners in 1995 had 18 years of playoff futility to exorcise, which they did in the most dramatic fashion possible. Can Kraken’s playoff appearance have same impact of Sonics’, Seahawks’ and Mariners’ 1st runs? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The job-changing trend has revived a debate about the futility of the rat race. In China, Young People Ditch Prestige Jobs for Manual Labor 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Yet winning a second green jacket has been an exercise not in futility so much as frustration. Spieth returns to Augusta in search of another green jacket 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Now, though celebrated as the city’s sentinel, it may yet stand as a monument to the inexorable nature of climate change and the futility of man’s efforts to stop it. Venice Is Saved! Woe Is Venice. 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z At any rate, E.I.S. officers quickly saw the futility of screening for symptoms. ‘We Were Helpless’: Despair at the C.D.C. as the Pandemic Erupted 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Washington led 13-12 at the end of the period, but the offensive futility continued for both squads. Washington women cruise past San Francisco in first round of WNIT 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z As much as he preached about the futility of asking why, of looking for an answer for the tragedies of life, he wondered why God had allowed his church to burn down. 'Take back what the devil stole': A Black church struggles to find answers after fire 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z In Mr. Zelensky’s eyes, Russia’s invasion only proved the futility of striking an agreement with Mr. Putin. In Ukraine War, Talking About Peace Is a Fight of Its Own 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z To assume that humans in any way can effectively control the balance of nature is an exercise in futility. Opinion | Deer are a problem. What to do about them is not easy to figure. 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z He called it an “expensive exercise in futility.” Inside Taiwanese Chip Giant, a U.S. Expansion Stokes Tensions 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Many educators around the country say districts need time to evaluate and figure out the chatbot but also acknowledge the futility of a ban that today’s tech-savvy students can work around. Amid ChatGPT outcry, some teachers are inviting AI to class 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Any proposed reform legislation with the adjective “comprehensive” attached to it is probably a feel-good futility. Opinion | Quadrillion-dollar national debt? Chew, don’t nibble, on this math. 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z The Orioles did not endure years of futility just to block the talent they accumulated just as it graduated. The Orioles’ rebuild is behind them. Uncertainty is not. 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z “Unless the countries responsible for pumping carbon emissions into the atmosphere can own up to the responsibility of the global damage that they are causing, this will remain an exercise in futility.” Rich nations pledged to pay for climate damages. Where’s the money? 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z After nearly 4 days and nights of futility, the cry came from the back of the small fishing boat 3 hours after sunset. Breathless oceans: Warming waters could suffocate marine life and disrupt fisheries 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The futility of nonviolent protest drove opponents to armed resistance, which some U.N. experts and others have characterized as civil war. Rights groups say Myanmar military is increasing air attacks 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z But a sense of futility and despair infused the response of many political leaders Tuesday in the bitter aftermath of three mass killings in as many days. A leader in gun control efforts, California confronts its limits 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Army surgeon with a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit near Hué, encountered an iconic photo that came to symbolize the futility and brutality of the Vietnam War in 1968. A doctor saved a Marine’s life in Vietnam. A photo just reunited them. 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Independence from the United States would probably exacerbate these structural issues, which only adds to the deeper sense of futility and powerlessness. Review | Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico. But colonialism got there first. 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The futility belonged to the rioters, whose violence and vandalism was an expression of dreampolitik rather than a coup — its plan for success nonexistent, its end in mass arrests and imprisonment foreordained. Brazil’s Jan. 6 imitation and the futility of populism 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z All you need are kindred spirits to laugh at the futility of thinking otherwise.” The 33 movies we loved in 2022 — and where to watch them 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z All that endures are the images documenting the action — and the sense of futility. Hirshhorn survey of contemporary Chinese photography is urgent, edgy 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Courage, in any facet of life, is usually connected to humor, perhaps because life is so good at reminding us of the ultimate futility underlying our best actions. Perspective | Duchamp distrusted collectors. He would have loved Aaron Levine. 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The futility of that approach became clear on Tuesday. US House in chaos after Kevin McCarthy loses speaker votes 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z With that record of futility, it seems fair to wonder whether Rivera should get another opportunity to tackle Washington’s quarterback problem. Ron Rivera says Commanders have to ‘solidify’ quarterback. Should he get another chance to do so? 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z On and on these examples pile up, and I worry that Nolan is too committed to showing the futility of mercy in the face of the grinder of war. Review | Two new books about war imagine alternatives to righteous combat 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The reason for all the big prizes is simple — long odds ensure there are few winners and the long streaks of lottery futility allow jackpots to grow ever larger week after week. Mega Millions jackpot up to $640M after no big winner 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z They have seemingly flushed years of futility while winning three consecutive games and five of their last seven. Another week, another skid ends for streaking Jaguars 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z In another odd twist that day, Rooney’s grandfather, Art Sr., the Steelers’ founder and then-owner, didn’t get to see the play that gave his team its first playoff victory after 40 years of futility. The 'Immaculate Reception' remains a defining moment for Pittsburgh 50 years later 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Gazing at the many cargo ships lining the hazy horizon, he energetically screams for their attention from shore, as if unaware of the potential to feel futility. Review: Sweetly kinetic and full of life, 'The Runner' delivers what we want in a movie 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Dino said he hoped the protesters would now see the futility of their actions, and urged them to return to their homes. Bolsonaro supporters who rioted in Brasilia will face punishment, says future minister 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z India, an otherwise cricket-mad country, has a long history of soccer futility, having never qualified for the World Cup. In India, Fiercely Loyal Soccer Fans (of Brazil and Argentina) 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The fact club and player have separated so quickly and without clauses underlines the futility of negotiation and now both can move on. 'Inevitable end' for Ronaldo 'ticking timebomb' 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Try to score on the power play with all the futility of a sea otter attempting to outbox a kangaroo. Why Kraken fans’ anger after late collapse is a good thing 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Experts believe it offered a cautionary tale for the next megafires in the West, and it lay bare a certain futility in trying to fully control the most aggressive wildfires. The I 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Presumably, one of McDonagh’s themes is the fatal cost of masculine reserve, as well as the futility of petty squabbles that can so easily metastasize into the fraternal battles that rage beyond Inisherin’s sleepy shores. Review | ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’: When old friendship goes violently awry 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Columbus set a record for futility in the second period with its 22nd power-play without a goal. Linus Ullmark makes 30 saves, Bruins beat Blue Jackets 4-0 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Over the next 15 hours, he refreshes the app constantly, desperate to secure more jobs — an exercise in vigorous futility. ‘No Jobs Available’: The Feast or Famine Careers of America’s Port Drivers. 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The Chargers had their marks of futility as Justin Herbert’s 238 yards passing where the fourth fewest ever for a player with at least 57 attempts. Broncos drag prime-time scoring to lowest mark in 16 years 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z “When the reality sets in that they’re not going to silence me and there’s no money, it’s all an exercise in futility,” Jones said outside the Connecticut courthouse during the trial. $1B judgment against Alex Jones not the final word 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Enabling Ukraine to limit the damage from Mr. Putin’s aerial terrorism will help ensure that, like similar campaigns in the past, this one proves an exercise in strategic futility. Opinion | Russia’s terror bombing will fail if NATO helps Ukraine withstand it 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z To the organization, the description may have felt like an arbitrary statistical creation to frame the Mariners’ futility, but the pain beneath it was all too real. Perspective | After 21 years of pain, Seattle baseball fans feel something new: Hope 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Many blew off steam on the platform they run, tweeting about their confusion and perceived futility about planning for the future when Musk is expected to call for seismic shifts in how Twitter works. With Musk bid back on, Twitter employees 'just along for the ride' 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z He went to one anti-war protest, but quickly realized both its danger and its futility, he said. Panic, bribes, ditched cars and a dash on foot: Portraits of flight from Russia 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z They spoke of divided families, the futility of protesting in Russia and the fear of dying in a war they did not support. Panic, Bribes, Ditched Cars and a Dash on Foot: Portraits of Flight From Russia 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z You — one of the Mariners’ most dedicated fans — have stuck with them through two decades of near-misses, rebuilds, futility and mediocrity. What would the Mariners making the playoffs mean to you? We want to hear from you 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z It’s a situation reminiscent of two years ago, when for half a season the Seahawks were on pace to set all kinds of NFL records for defensive futility. Seahawks defense must look inward after being dominated by Falcons 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The efforts on this front by Hegar and the Texas legislature are noteworthy for both their ingenuity and their futility. Opinion | Texas’s war against ESG investing is ingenious but futile 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z "What all of this demonstrates is the futility of trying to automate moderation of content to prevent the sharing of 'harmful' material," he said. Carrot emojis hide anti-vax posts on Facebook 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z He went to one antiwar protest, but quickly realized both its danger and its futility, he said. Panic, Bribes, Ditched Cars and a Dash on Foot: Portraits of Flight From Russia 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z In “Weekend,” his characters lampoon the hypocrisy of bourgeois society even as they demonstrate the comic futility of violent class war. Iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z But the team’s futility in openers has been a topic of conversation inside the team’s facility this week. Opening weak: Browns have history of failure to start season 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The French recognized the futility of the effort given the present situation and decided not to further risk French lives for a losing situation. Opinion | The French military didn’t fail in Mali 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The futility of the mother’s embrace makes her almost monstrous. Perspective | An artist’s primal scream shows how grief can make monsters of us all “I saw nothing but daylight really,” said Hemby, a redshirt freshman who sped past the defender futility chasing, first to his right and then from behind. Maryland’s young running backs shine in opening win over Buffalo 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z There’s also the futility of wanting this particular different outcome. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Child loses respect for dad who refuses to care for himself 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z "He understood the futility of opposition and how Labour wins. I feel privileged to have known him and benefited from his wisdom," he tweeted. Lord Radice death: Labour peer was 'unrivalled social democratic thinker' 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z “Gatsby is about the futility of the American dream,” said Kathryn Clark, an English teacher in St. Johns County who teaches the novel each year. Back to School in DeSantis’s Florida, as Teachers Look Over Their Shoulders 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z He wants to elicit your laughter and horror at the sheer futility of his striving. Review: ‘Funny Pages,’ a blistering, comedic portrait of a teen cartoonist, isn't a calm mix 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z If Mr. Page was “crazy and ambitious,” in Herr’s words, he also was a quick-learning, self-taught photographer with a deep-seated desire to portray the sorrow and futility of war. Tim Page, storied Vietnam War photographer, dies at 78 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z I started to cry at the futility, and for a profession I no longer recognized. Why one teacher changed careers and gave up loan forgiveness 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The team has finished 25th or worse in scoring nine times in the past 11 seasons, a paltry stretch of futility in which the Jags have finished last in the league in scoring three times. Jaguars spend big in hopes of escaping AFC South cellar 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z “If I talk about the futility of the American dream, is that going to be indoctrinating them? Am I selling them on this anti-American idea?” Back to School in DeSantis’s Florida, as Teachers Look Over Their Shoulders 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Today she carries “an overwhelming sense of loss and futility. All those lives, all that effort, all that money — just to return to the status quo ante.” Last Days in Afghanistan: 8 Americans Reflect on the U.S. Withdrawal 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The blowout sealed the Sparks’ second straight season without a playoff berth, a streak of futility reached only one other time in franchise history. Sparks out of playoffs with blowout loss to Sun 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z It was poisonous to the young, she said, the sense of futility that can set in. How Coal Mining and Years of Neglect Left Kentucky Towns at the Mercy of Flooding 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z It seems as though that’s contributed to a sense of futility, with people thinking they’re going to get it somehow, so they might as well stop trying to avoid it. Why Is Los Angeles Likely to Bring Back Mask Mandates? 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z But among young people especially, the prevalent feeling is one of futility: that nothing in this country is working and there’s no real way to fix it. Opinion | We need an American Girl doll who hasn’t given up 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z I was surprised to read the ringing defense of freedom of expression offered by Ron Charles in his June 29 Style column, “Wise words from Milton on the futility of book bans.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Explaining nil on NIL 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z “I told the prime minister, we are in a outlandish situation ... But the French will realise the futility of what they’re being told,” the chairman of another French industrial company told Reuters. "We're not the devil": France Inc. grapples with new political order 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z When the futility of that effort plays out, Turkey will have to decide whether to join Ukraine’s partners to facilitate the exports without Russia’s permission. Opinion | How a thaw with Turkey could help Ukraine win the war 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z As Putin fails to make the gains he had anticipated and hoped for and the futility of this war becomes clear to all, his attacks against the Ukrainian people are increasingly barbaric. Ukraine War: UK pledges an extra £1bn in military support 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z "We have run out of words to describe the senselessness, futility and cruelty of this war," U.N. political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council. Dozens missing after strike on Ukraine mall, Russia presses attacks on east 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z "We have run out of words to describe the senselessness, futility and cruelty of this war," U.N. political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the council, urging all parties to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure. Zelenskiy urges action in U.N. address, Russia calls it 'PR campaign' for weapons 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z As the Angels celebrate the 20th anniversary of the championship season, that one hour stands between a team and a complete and utter history of futility. Still the Angels' finest hour: A look back at their 2002 World Series win 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z The play is a study in learning to bear failure and futility, if not for oneself then for those loved ones, like lonely Sonya, who has enough sorrow without the addition of her uncle’s suicide. Commentary: How Anton Chekhov became the playwright of the moment 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z And that feeling, more often than not, is one of bitter failure and futility. Review: 'Benediction' is a shattering biopic of the English war poet Siegfried Sassoon 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z There’s less haranguing over the Broncos’ half decade of futility nowadays with the airwaves filled with anticipation of Denver challenging the Chiefs and Chargers for AFC West supremacy. QB Wilson, Nathaniel Hackett are Broncos new dual dynamo 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Five of those instances have occurred since the Marlins established the new low for post-World Series futility, most recently by Washington. Few teams have struggled after winning the World Series like the Nats 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z That sense of futility has only grown in Minneapolis, where residents remain deeply divided over the future of public safety despite widespread calls for police reform in the aftermath of Floyd’s death. On 2nd anniversary of Floyd’s death, fading momentum for police reform 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z And she could no longer bear the drugs’ futility and harm. Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The sense of waste and futility that haunts these later scenes is crushing, not least because it seems to hint at regrets and resentments that lie beyond the reach of the movie’s subject. Review: 'Benediction' is a shattering biopic of the English war poet Siegfried Sassoon 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The dispensary and lounge share just a handful of spots, and West Hollywood parking restrictions make the surrounding streets an exercise in futility in the best of circumstances. 8 insider tips for visiting L.A.'s only open weed bar 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z It is spreading a sense of futility, especially for those with low incomes. ‘I can’t see the light’: War fuels surging prices in Europe 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Such an attitude, she added, “invites futility and absolves health care from treating sufferers.” Targeting the Uneven Burden of Kidney Disease on Black Americans 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The plaster appears as a void bounded by the famous, anguished face, and suggests both the desire and futility of any effort to get “inside” the head of the unknown figure who modeled for Carpeaux. Review | One of history’s most seductive and troubling representations of race 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Doing so will help you see the value, or absence of it, or utter futility, in taking this up once and for all with your mom. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Inheritance from bad grandparents feels like a ‘payoff’ 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z What was so welcome to see about Reid Detmers’ no-hitter Tuesday night — besides his glee, of course — was that it was not some random interruption of another summer of pitching futility. On Baseball: Reid Detmers' no-hitter is more than an outlier. The Angels can pitch! 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z It considers, Mr. Chacon wrote, “the futility of giving voice to the voiceless, when ceding space is never an option for those in power.” Pulitzer Prize: 2022 Winners List 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Almost every lawmaker admits the vote is an exercise in futility. McConnell rules out abolishing filibuster to pass a national abortion ban 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z But as a media scholar, I see these endeavors as exercises in futility, fueled in large part by a lack of self-awareness. The death of CNN+: Legacy news media's failed quest to stay relevant 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z My attempts to find out had always ended in futility. Thanks, Mom, for not throwing out my baseball cards 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z This is when I feel the most futility as a physician. Can Virtual Reality Help Ease Chronic Pain? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z For many, the elections are an exercise in futility. Lebanon vote holds little hope for change despite disasters 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z So why did Nixon forge ahead with his coverup in Watergate despite a bedrock belief in the ultimate futility of lying? Richard Nixon’s message to Kevin McCarthy: The truth always comes out 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “What we are called to do is not to be disabled by that sense of futility, but to transform our moral suffering into wise hope and courageous action.” Activist’s self-immolation stirs questions on faith, protest 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The series itself was a swift descent into futility. Celtics Eliminate Nets’ Latest Superteam With First-Round Sweep 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z The Minnesota crowd filed out of the building, stunned by a result they half expected from years of Timberwolves futility. This Game Is Why the Word ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Exists 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z He devotes little space to Brooklyn’s World Series futility or the franchise’s 1957 move to Los Angeles. Review | Jackie Robinson’s huge talent and fierce dedication to civil rights 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z This is due to the emergence of metrics, like expected goals, that highlight the futility of constantly taking long-range, low-percentage shots. The tiny margins separating Man City and Liverpool 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z So are Ono’s efforts an exercise in futility? Perspective | No matter what the haters say, Yoko Ono was always about peace. Now her message is on a Times Square billboard. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Altitude is not the primary reason for U.S. futility, but it does contribute. In the thin air of Estadio Azteca, USMNT faces a heavy task against Mexico 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The offensive futility has made the Lakers an easy target, both on the court and psychologically. Lakers' latest struggles were the talk of the Timberwolves 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z "Granting leave to amend without considering the futility of the proposed amendment needlessly would make a regrettable situation worse by opening new avenues for significant further delay." Trump unable to countersue rape accuser 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z When I read the book, I found myself comforted by the idea of a Korean American shopkeeper and war veteran who has learned the futility of violence. John Cho's young adult novel about the L.A. riots wants us to look beyond 'rooftop Koreans' 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z If it is an exercise in futility, its three minutes of stillness in the context of madly flashing Times Square can nonetheless seem very eloquent. Perspective | No matter what the haters say, Yoko Ono was always about peace. Now her message is on a Times Square billboard. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z A “number of women leaders within the Cal State system contacted me and expressed feelings of disillusionment, futility and outrage that he seemed to be excusing what he had done,” she said. After Cal State chancellor's resignation, calls for an investigation intensify 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z On top of all else, Valieva skated against an unseen power current, an undertow of futility. Perspective | The Kamila Valieva ordeal proved a need for Olympic reform. Here are three places to start. 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The United States has just learned costly lessons about the futility of trade wars and how China can’t be trusted to honor its deals. Opinion | Confirmed: Trump’s big U.S.-China trade deal was a flop 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z The L.A. riots become a fable about the futility of violence. John Cho's young adult novel about the L.A. riots wants us to look beyond 'rooftop Koreans' 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z All you need are kindred spirits to laugh at the futility of thinking otherwise. Review | ‘Jackass Forever’ is dumb, hilarious — and surprisingly touching 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z After going 31 years between playoff victories, a stretch of futility unmatched in major professional sports, the Bengals have now triumphed three times in two weeks. How the Bengals Beat Kansas City to Advance to the Super Bowl 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z They finished 0 for 3, extending a run of futility to 0 for 13 over their past four games. Capitals’ January woes continue with a loss at home to Sharks 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The Flyers have lost all 12 games over that span, matching a mark for futility set during the 1998-99 season when they lost eight games and tied four over a 12-game stretch. Yandle ties NHL Iron Man mark; Flyers lose 12th straight 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z In both cases, the team got off to absolutely miserable starts — trending toward NFL records for futility — and then gradually improved. Ken Norton Jr. expected to pay price for Seahawks’ defensive woes, but it’s Pete Carroll who must adjust 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z As Walter, Poitier expressed battling notions of pride and put-upon inferiority, dignity and the feeling of oppressive futility that comes with swimming against the country’s strongest, darkest currents. Perspective | Sidney Poitier movies bored me as a kid. Only later did I get what made him great. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Las Vegas will visit Cincinnati on Saturday in the wild-card round, ending a stretch of futility that weighed on everyone in the organization. TE Darren Waller returns to provide boost for Raiders 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z When I brought up its map around midday, I realized the futility of my morning’s efforts. Need a covid test in Australia? Good luck — or try importing one from 8,000 miles away. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The Bengals are back, and they have the makings to end three decades of playoff futility, too. Analysis: Zac Taylor’s fearless gamble pays off for Bengals 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z I can only share with you the futility of chasing something that wants to be free. Column: How I lost my kite and learned the futility of holding on to things 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z From the start, their murderous plot against Duncan has an air of tragic futility. On Joel Coen's 'The Tragedy of Macbeth,' a recommendation in five acts 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z From that point on, making the playoffs became an exercise in near futility. The Seahawks’ delayed game against the Rams isn’t their doing, but don’t say it’s their undoing 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Media coverage of the contestants years later, though, seemed to tell a different story, of weight regain and slowed metabolisms and the futility of attempting long-term weight loss. How exercise affects metabolism and weight loss 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Yet he sees futility woven into efforts to dictate curriculum. In Texas, a Battle Over What Can Be Taught, and What Books Can Be Read 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z I guess in that moment, I saw the futility of both my chase and the kite’s fleeing. Column: How I lost my kite and learned the futility of holding on to things 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Still, Abbott clobbered Davis in one of the biggest Texas landslides in years, extending a long record of futility by hapless Democrats. Column: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the nation's toughest abortion law. Was it principle or posturing? 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Since the alternative is utter futility and fatalism, try to keep hope alive that compromise does sometimes occur. ‘Constructive Arguing’ Can Help Keep the Peace at Your Thanksgiving Table 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Taking down the Tigers would enhance South Carolina’s postseason destination along with end a run of futility in the series that’s biggest sporting event in the Palmetto State each season. It’s rivalry week around the SEC, and they do just mean more 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z And for a franchise that has reached a nearly indefensible state of annual futility, he knows results are the only thing that will change that. Analysis | Shohei Ohtani wants to win. The Angels hope Noah Syndergaard can help get them there. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Trying to guess the next dominant player in women’s tennis long ago became an act of futility. Power, and Muguruza, Reign Supreme at WTA Tour Finals 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Their laughter, like the laughter of the groupies in “Blow-Up,” expresses both the futility of escaping and the fact that, somehow, they already have. The Emily Ratajkowski You’ll Never See 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Buddy himself remains an endearing blank, a willing absorber of lessons — about the importance of decency and the futility of violence — that are as obvious as they are inarguable. Review: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ is a personal but muted story of childhood’s end 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr Adekola's mother of spoke of the "utter futility" of his attackers' actions. Anthony Adekola murder: Three gang members jailed over random M&S worker's killing 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z |
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