In that chamber Charles Hatfield was pacing to and fro--his mind filled with thoughts of so bewildering, exciting, and painful a nature, that he felt the inutility of endeavouring to escape from them by retiring to his couch.
His friends regarded him with the most earnest compassion; they did not dare offer him consolations whose inutility they recognized; but the sadness displayed on their features sufficiently proved the sympathy they felt with him.
Was not the long struggle you have sustained up to this day sufficient to prove to you the inutility of a mad resistance against a power too strongly established for your obstinate efforts to succeed even in shaking it?
He foresees the inutility of Mr. Paull contesting Westminster again, and the event proves that he is right.
An idle man there is a rarity; idleness and inutility are disgraceful.
My remarks on the inutilityof the measure were made in vain.
Tettenborn did not deceive himself as to the weakness of the allies on this point, or the inutility of attempting to defend the city.
The majority of the Council was rendered inefficient; the boldest orators were disconcerted, and the inutility of submitting any salutary proposition was quite evident.
Sire, I beseech your Majesty to consider the inutility of such a measure.
In now accepting office I was well convinced of the inutility of any effort that might be made to arrest the progress of the fast approaching and menacing events.
An epitaph on the inutility of epitaphs is an excellent novelty, especially when the witty poet (Paulus Silentiarius) has the humor to make the ghost eager to speak while the wayfarer is inattentive (i.
A play called the Scyrian Women furnishes two excellent apothegmatic passages upon the misery of old age and the inutility of mourning: #ouden gar algos hoion he polle zoe.
The second of these extracts finds a close echo in some beautiful lines on the inutility of tears by Philemon [Sardius fr.
Footnote 71: The Duke of Vicenza, convinced of the inutility of the efforts Napoleon might make, to establish any diplomatic connexion with foreign powers, refused to accept the post.
Prince Cambacérès and the Prince of Neufchâtel strongly remonstrated to him on the horrible inutility of the blow he was about to strike.
The Count d'Artois soon arrived, and confirmed by his return the taking of Lyons, and the inutility of his efforts.
He was the Minister of the Interior during Lord Dufferin’s time, and wrote the famous despatch about the inutility of using the kourbatch.
Upon theInutility of the Jews in the Kingdoms of Bohemia and Moravia," pamphlet against the Jews, 359.
The duration of the malady, the inutility of medical skill, and her astonishing sudden cure are attested by the doctor.
Cancer of the parts, sixth case; inutility of amputation.
Finding the inutility of their efforts, and endowed with strong memory, the beasts soon learned that their teeth and claws were powerless when directed against this invulnerable being.
Then, perceiving the inutility of his attempts, he uttered savage cries, and rushed furiously round the room, like a wild beast that seeks in vain to escape from its cage.
There is neither utility nor inutility unless there be also finality.
The hypnotist has shown the vanity and Blake the inutility of willing trifles, and black magic its futility.
A steady adherence to this rule will soon convince him of the inutility of not exercising more patience, or at least forbearance; then signal to him "away" in the direction you choose, not in the direction he chooses.
The abuses and inutility of monastic vows were at this period admitted by every one, even by the clergy.
The royalist leaders, convinced of the inutility of longer resistance, left the town, and the republican army entered the walls, where they awaited the orders of the convention.
The convention then returned within the house, overwhelmed with a sense of their powerlessness, convinced of the inutility of their efforts, and entirely subdued.
He had returned to his soothing way of speech, as though definitely resigned to the inutility of farther argument.
Notwithstanding the inutility and perversity of the morality which Christianity teaches mankind, its partisans presume to tell us, that without this religion we cannot have morals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inutility" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
