Futility
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Examples
“an exercise of futility”
“His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility.”
““Has my dad come⟳?” he asked. “You can see⟳ he hasn’t,” said Mrs. Morel, cross with the futility of the question⟳.”
“But fashion and authority apart, and bringing Plato to the test⟳ of reason⟳, take⟳ from him, his sophisms, futilities, and incomprehensibilities, and what remains?”
“No man oppresses thee, can bid thee fetch⟳ or carry⟳, come⟳ or go, without reason⟳ shewn. […] No man, wiser, unwiser, can make⟳ thee come⟳ or go: but thy own⟳ futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for Money, Windsor Georges and such like⟳?”
“An excessive solicitude to shield those others from one's own⟳ trials and hardships, to preserve⟳ the exact quality of the revelation, for example, had been the fruitful cause of crippling errors, spiritual tyrannies, dogmatisms, dissensions, and futilities.”
“But men will chatter and you and I will still shout⟳ our futilities to each other across the stage⟳ until the last⟳ silly curtain falls plump! upon our bobbing heads.”
“There are moments of profound existential angst, howls of despair at the absurd futilities of war and a sneering disgust at the soul-destroying wastage of human potential.”
“Her empty chatter, her futility, her childish coquetry and frivolity—such light⟳ wares could hardly be the whole substance of any woman’s being; […]”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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