Sentences with phrase «futility does»

This sense of futility doesn't surface in a game world that's been scrupulously constructed, a world where every path has been planned.

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If you don't have a rock - solid understanding of what your unique offerings are and (to put it bluntly) why anyone should care, then investing time and energy into spreading your message will be an exercise in futility.

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

The Hebrew word, hebel («vanity»), has the sense of «emptiness, futility, absurdity»: «I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a chase after wind» (1:14; 2:11, 17, 26; etc.).

Doesn't an open - ended view also increase the sense of futility in trying to change things for the better?

Hence, the pluralism of worldviews does not consign humanity to futility or struggle.

Every attempt to do so ends up in futility.

Each of them, however, addresses the same problem: What should the individual do, and society permit, when the phenomenal advances in the medical profession's ability to sustain life reach the point where efforts to prolong it become, in Dr. Nuland's words, «well - meant exercises in futility» and cause continued suffering rather than relief and cure?

When money is as unequally available as it is in our society and talks as loudly as it does in our electoral process, it is also small wonder that many see political engagement as an exercise in futility.

The sense or conviction of the utter futility of the work we do must not prevent us from doing it.

Vanity implies futility but relativity does not.

Yet, looking upon the inadequacy and the frequent futility of its works, how can it help but cry, «What must I do to be saved?

Your responses are proof of the futility of talking with a god - believer — you attribute things to me that I didn't say.

Now this i say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.20 But that is not the way you learned in Christ!

We should also note that this end does not relegate the rest of the material order to futility, to no role at all.

I make no pact with Death, oppress no virtuous people, oppress no poor person... I do not use my strength as a yardstick for virtue, and do not say that weakness argues its own futility....

With characteristic wit and aplomb, Hitchens reports on the language and culture of «Tumorville,» the futility of prayer, the error of Nietzsche's claim that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and, most movingly, the loss of his voice.

Freud's myth is instructive, because it suggests the futility of seeking an end to repression and limitation in the death of God as Professor Altizer would do.

Borrowing from the new secular ethic of «compassionate death,» even the Catholic Health Association now publishes articles encouraging «futility policies» for hospital ethics committees that enable them to force the withdrawal of treatment from patients or families who do not make the «right» choice.

It's a super high concentrated sugar so I don't use it, but if you're making something full of sugar anyway then I can appreciate the futility of also adding a natural sweetener like honey.

Don't even bother with this exercise in futility.

A bleak thought, but perhaps a necessary one; from time to time, it does a body good to contemplate its own futility.

Those that want their team to win every game and as many trophies as possible to impress their mates down the pub and assume the bragging rights, probably never seen the inside of a football stadium, but whine and resort to conspiracy theories and abuse when their team isn't doing so well, rely on instant gratification to get by each day and imagine that they are on some self - righteous mission to cure all the non-believers whilst simultaneously sitting on their arses banging away on their keyboards, doing zilch to help their noble cause other than shout, and are totally oblivious to the energy they are wasting and the delusional futility of it all.

I agree with you the past state of the offense shines a more positive light on McNulty because any hope is a positive change after the futility we've seen, but I don't think David meant to expect a complete turnaround this coming season.

You must have done research on all of this in eight years of the futility of online dating.

Hot coffee at home is an exercise in futility, because as most stay - at - home moms know, children will do almost anything to prohibit you from having it.

Policing people's private lives is an exercise in futility and attempting to do so will lead them to rebel.

He said, «What my colleagues are trying to do is laughable because it's an effort in futility.

Some countries may still be battling the onslaught of available imagery, but here in the United States, the Pentagon has realized the futility of de-Googling Earth: Both U.S. Northern Command and the National Geospatial - Intelligence Agency say they don't actively trawl the Internet looking for images of sensitive U.S. sites, although commercial satellite service could be interrupted if profound risk were perceived.

Drug companies are doing nicely with products for inattentiveness (Ritalin), shyness (Paxil or Seroxat) and life's futility (Prozac).

Doing Olympic lifts (or any exercise for that matter), to exhaustion, far past what Michael Boyle (one of the top Strength and Conditioning coaches in the country) calls «technical failure», is clearly an exercise in futility.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips wants to say something profound about the past, about the futility of war and the precious briefness of life, and sometimes succeeds in doing so quite admirably.

What Submarine does particularly well is nail the noble and relatable futility of Oliver's messy attempt to get everything exactly right in a world where such perfection is impossible.

The film does kind of hint at the futility of revenge in a coens kind of way that is not too drawn out, a lot is concealed from us and we are only shown the grit and the action that gives the film its direction.

If read as an ideological tract, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue could refer to the expanding gyre that separates distinct concepts of «authenticity» — hence the detective story in this ersatz Night of the Living Dead (commissioned to do a straight ripper of the Romero classic — which was completely without a detective figure — Grau inserts an element of Tiresian knowledge) that underscores the futility of investigation into areas that, by their nature, resist clarification.

Unlike most of the movies that set records for box office futility, Mars did not get ice cold reviews, instead drawing a mixed bag critically, though most assessments spanned from unfavorable to muted approval.

But in trying to make a 10 - best list, I tripped right over my own divided soul right at the top: My two faves of 2016 are Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, an infinitely gentle - souled movie about the poetry of life and the life of poetry that finds more pleasure and meaning in ordinariness than most movies do in extraordinariness, and Yorgos Lanthimos» The Lobster, a perfectly sustained dystopian sick joke about the desperate, poignant futility of seeking human connection.

The film does get across the futility of war, and the opening scene, featuring a young Russian soldier asking a psychic how soon before he will die, is a moment that cleverly balances the science fiction with real life tragedy.

So I'll still go with that ending: I like the bookends of Chris surviving an encounter with the cops thanks to weird third - party intervention at the movie's beginning and finale, and I don't think Peele's sociological acuteness is dulled by his declining to end on a note of futility.

Despite the violence, the real horror of «Don't Breathe» may be the sense of futility that all its characters feel, whether they can see or not.

Whether this omission had to do with legal issues, or whether the producers had their heads thoroughly lodged in their asses, one thing is for certain: remaking «The Fog» without this music, or making it at all for that matter, was an exercise in ham - handed futility.

The hummingbird challenges us to extinguish the fire that's been created in our own patch of forest — the Earth itself — no matter the perceived futility of the action or the passivity of those standing by who could do more through collective will, but choose only to stand and watch.

If you attempt to pursue getting your work published the same way writers did ten or more years ago (querying agents and publishers), then you're almost certainly going to be frustrated and find it an exercise in futility.

The Edge futility tries to access a book from the entourage edge store, only to find that it does not have the title it is looking for!

He was either preaching to the choir or trying to convert the unconvertible, but it didn't stop him from going through the motions — the futility of it was central, necessary.

A Kindle edition exists, but it simply doesn't make sense: The book is heavily based on examples, and trying to get a handle on the core concepts of the book on a black - and - white device is going to be an exercise in futility.

If you don't know exactly what you need to do on your part so that you can actually get real cheap car insurance quotes, your search may be an exercise in futility.

We feel strongly that trying to anticipate market declines, as many are trying to do today, is an exercise in futility.

As I said before the last FOMC meeting, in The Fed Funds Target Rate is an Exercise in Futility, we are so close to the zero bound that further easing will do little.

With all of this in mind I'm not going to attempt to explain every little detail; it doesn't need it, and for the sake of a written review it would be a crazy exercise in futility.