She could afford to forgive them, for she knew that there was no futility nor unfitness in her.
It was the futility of it that troubled Alice most.
Joyce knew the futility of fencing, as everybody does who knows a crisis is inevitable.
I was more angry with you than I have ever been in my life with anybody, and only your second letter has pacified me a little, though it convinced me at the same time of the futility of my dreams.
Reflecting upon this, I understood the futilityof such fears.
The tremulous urgent words stared out from the surface of the grey paper in all the piteous futility of an appeal made too late.
In a sudden recognition of the futility of trying to gather anything from that clouded brain, Barrant turned abruptly away without another word.
He was beyond the futilityof argument, the folly of retort.
Charles had a suffocating feeling of the futility of human effort when opposed by the malignity of Fate.
He will not insult such a sorrow by the futility of his wretched words.
But he would rush from extremes of bullet-headed faith to extremes of ironical pessimism, when he would bitterly condemn the lie of all systems of ideas and the futility of all efforts.
Its futility was afterwards acknowledged by our government, and the misstep corrected by establishing the boundary with Mexico herself.
Several senators let him know immediately the futility of his conditions; and without saying more, he voted on ayes and noes for the amendment; and afterwards for the whole bill.
The advocacy of a thing, or the supposed necessity of advocating a certain measure, proves the uselessness, untimeliness and futility of it.
For the lips of the Despair of Pierrot cannot always touch the lips of the Mockery of Columbine; in the end, the Ultimate Futilitymust turn them both to stone!
Futility and frustration are ever-recurring themes in both.
And even she, English housewife as she was, realized the futility of trying to wash it.
Yes," he said, with a smile at the futility of the question.
His hovering near her, wanting her to be with him, the futility of him, the way his hands hung, irritated her beyond bearing.
To such a condition of narrowness and futility had the great Classical tradition sunk at last!
Never before had Pierre so acutely realised the derisive futility of Charity.
And a feeling of revolt stirred Pierre; he was for a moment conscious of the derisive futility of charity.
Any other unit among earth's millions would have been convinced of the futility of the whole enterprise, now that his own special devices were being turned against him.
He was, indeed, in honour bound to make the attempt; for the engagement had been made, with the usualfutility that dogged the Austrian councils, to reunite their forces and fight the French on the 7th of August.
But already, a day or two earlier, Napoleon had realized the futility of his hope of peace and had resolved to retreat.
A group of young men had come to recognize the futility and harmfulness of the French boulevard drama, whose central topic is the eternal recurrence of adultery issuing from the tedium of bourgeois existence.
The more one looks into scholastic affairs the more one is struck not only by the futility but the positive mischievousness of much of what passes for educational liberalism.
Rage, which was in part misery, gripped him, and filled him with a desire to do something violent, which was none the less imperative because of its futility and utter absurdity.
A sense of utter futility gripped Matheson, a sort of sick disappointment more distressing than physical nausea.
And then there come contrasts with Washington and others; above all, with these noble Pyms and Hampdens, whose noble work he stole for himself, and ruined into a futility and deformity.
His sense of their futility added to his resentment.
Her first impulse was to mount and fly, but the futilityof the attempt was apparent.
And how she had decided to buy a lock for her door, until the futility of it had been brought home to her by the discovery that her trunks were being searched along with her other belongings, and their locks left in perfect condition.
Consequent futility of the general attack on interest, though interest in certain cases may be justly subjected to special but not exaggerated burdens.
