Sentences with word «fruitlessness»

Mark Twain, who did entertain the possibility, presents in his later despairing writings a powerful illustration of this fruitlessness.)

Later, he cursed an unsuspecting fig tree, meant to represent the fruitlessness of those who rejected his message, before returning to the temple to engage in a heated debate with the religious leaders there.

3 I think Cardinals QB Kevin Kolb shows the fruitlessness of judging by the preseason.

Until it gets too obvious about itself (somewhere around the halfway mark (like an addict nursing a jones, as it happens)-RRB-, that sense of futile outrage at the fruitlessness of trying to affect change in a world that has never been more informed yet remains incapable of avoiding (recent) history's harshest lessons lends a nice feeling of indignity to what is already a pretty fair genre inversion.

And if Iannucci and his team of writers don't aspire to making a lofty allegory, as did Golding, about the fruitlessness of civilization - building, they do supply us with a wolfish Machiavellian demiurge with a relishable line in Brimstone wit who's analogous to a troubling figure in recent British politics.

The picture enlists seven actors to portray Dylan (reminding of the similarly agile Palindromes), the best of whom is Cate Blanchett, plugging in and tuning out as mod Jude and insinuating in a brief dialogue with spaced - out Allen Ginsburg (David Cross) that Dylan has indeed shored up his fragments with a deep bow to the fruitlessness of representation.

While some commenters went on to scoff at the «fruitlessness» of asking Amazon to step in on this behavior, others went to the length of attempting to discredit a somewhat - controversial group that Rice openly supported in her post, Stop The Goodreads Bullies.

In fact, in its next breath, the exhibition seems to concede the fruitlessness of all these lifestyle changes: «We can't stop climate change.