Sentences with phrase «futility if»

Although it can feel like an exercise in futility if you don't do it right, unsolicited calls during dinner are a big tradition in American industry.

Family therapy has been around for years, but it is just an exercise in futility if it continues to not work.

They could, in fact, become the acts of the greatest futility if they go ahead.

Considering how much Bookeen is hyping this e-reader with press releases and trying to draw in customers, it is an exercise in futility if they can't tap into one of the worlds largest tech markets.

Trying to get any girl on a dating site, if she's even remotely attractive, is an exercise in futility if you ask me.

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And if so, isn't this a ridiculous exercise in futility?

Zuckerberg laughs, too, and shrugs awkwardly, as if recognizing the infinite futility of attempting to inject facts and reason into a congressional hearing.

If so, you understand the overwhelming sense of isolation and futility.

The futility of negative advertising is, if nothing else, a reminder of what advertising is really for.

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.

Updike is nothing if not candid in confessing that his religion is a refuge from personal futility and cosmic loneliness.

If we belong to the body of death, we are identified with its futility and its slavery, its sickness and its death.

If MacDonald were preaching today, he would surely condemn the cruelty integral to our current animal factory farming system in America, a prime instance of creation being subject to futility due to human sin.

So if it turns out that reason teaches the futility of trying to live in accordance with reason, then it may be that we will abandon the life of reason after all.

IF I am an idiot because I recognize the total futility of religion, then idiot I am.

It teaches the wisdom of appearing foolish, the success of appearing to fail, the strength of weakness and the advantage of lying low, the benefit of yielding to your adversary and the futility of contention for power... if there is one book advising against the multifarious activities and futile busy - ness of the modern man..

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.

For the greatest oomph of fresh pumpkin seed flavor, it's ideal to roast the innards scooped out of your Jack O Lantern - to - be, but if you can't wait until Halloween (and for the time being, sourcing a fresh pumpkin in your neck of the woods is an exercise in futility), pre-roasted seeds from the bulk supply section of a natural grocer will also work in a pinch.

We all love to mull over the «what if» scenarios when we review a match or a season and whilst it is ultimately an exercise in futility it can give clues to real improvements.

If he continues his current stretch of futility, he'll have torpedoed his trade value by May 1.

If God has ordained President Buhari to be in power beyond 2019, human effort to stop it can only end in futility.

Yet as if gluttonous for further punishment, Grayling intends to appeal, despite the obvious futility of such an action in the face of such an uncompromising rejection.

«If Labour wants to retain any credibility on defence whatsoever, it had better recognise the abject futility of what it's leadership is currently proposing and stick to the path of support for the submarine renewal programme.»

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.

There is a sobering payoff in terms of the tragic futility of filmmakers» attempt to capture reality — although, if you've seen Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, you may come out of Garrel's film feeling that, unlike failed Parisian documentarists, their New York counterparts at least get to mix some fun with their agony.

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.

Even if they succeed in having a comeback, realistically, they will return to their mundane lives afterwards, suggesting that there is a sad futility to the events of this movie.

If Undead Labs is making a point about the futility of leadership during the end times, then point taken, but maintaining a healthy community occasionally feels more like a full time job than a satisfying cycle of risk and reward.

If any message emerges from «Cartel Land,» it is one of futility.

But Kline couldn't incorporate such a provision without stoking claims of federal overreach from other movement conservatives; that the federal government couldn't mandate such a move even if either Kline or the Obama Administration wanted to also makes the entire effort an exercise in futility.

Great if you like looking down at everyone else on the road, and probably good for off - roading, but as a day to day proposition, a fairly joyless exercise in futility for anyone that enjoys driving.

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.

But Past Due is a story about dealing with the past, the price of burying it, the futility of trying to cure it as if it were a disease, and the value of embracing it and learning from it before moving on.

The man, realizing the futility of lying to the ogres — for if one won't kill him, the other one will — tells the truth: the first ogre came with the...

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.

Even if you get your asset allocation and diversification where you want it; if you get the 3rd one wrong it will be an exercise in futility.

If you want an example of the futility of following the strategy that you appear bent on pursuing — i.e., timing the market, or jumping out of the stock market to avoid downturns and then jumping back in to reap stocks» gains — you need look no further than last year.

If you already know the futility of market forecasting but feel that you simply must predict the market, I will reveal at this time how you can be as good as the best market gurus in predicting the market: When you get up each and every morning for the rest of your life, make this astonishing prediction: «The market will be up today.»

American Airlines surprised many today when it announced several customer - friendly changes to its frequent - flier program.The new «One - Way Flex Awards» will allow customers to book one - way tickets for half the amount of miles needed for a round - trip ticket, and will also let passengers book multi-city itineraries and combine award seats with non-award seats.Under the old paradigm, passengers could only book round - trips to and from the same city and were forced to fly in an award seat of equal value for both legs of the journey.This often made booking award travel an exercise in futility — for example, an award seat might be available only on an outbound journey, but not the return trip.But now passengers will be able to fly to New York in an award seat, and return in a premium - fare seat if a return award seat is not available.

If you missed last week's Devil's Advocate post about the futility of tweeting about loyalty program devaluations (see «Tweeting Into The Abyss About Devaluations «-RRB-, check it out and please add your thoughts in the comments there.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that Wii U saves are LOCKED to a particular format so if your system is sent in for repairs and comes back wiped, your external drive MUST be reformatted, rendering any attempt at backing Wii U data up an exercise in futility.

From the get go, upon entering the speed dating event and talking with Fran (the organizer), you are shown (if not outright told) that this is an exercise in futility.

It felt good to be part of something larger, even if that something larger was a collective lecture about the depressing futility of expectation.

The Sick Child (1896), the hellishly erotic Madonna (1894 - 95), The Dance of Life (1899 - 1900), Vampire (1893), Red Virginia Creeper (1900) and, if you believe the curators at MoMA, Self - Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed (1940 - 42)-- each painting encapsulates the artist's preoccupations with physical vulnerability, sexual avarice, emotional alienation and the futility of faith.

Simon Lewandowski is an artist based in London whose practice encompasses making useful things and useless things, making things that move and things that look as if they are moving.Solo exhibitions include «The Reversing Machine» (with Sam Belinfante), Art Laboratory Berlin, Berlin (2012) «Giochi, Passatempi, Harbingers» Nowhere Gallery, Milan (2011), «HOTEL / MOTEL / MOTET» installation and animated film with poet Richard Price, «Humbermouth» Literary Festival, Hull (2008), «The Imagining Machine: an Investigation», East Street Arts, Leeds (2008), «Crimes of Futility No. 8: The ArtistMachine», City Art Gallery, Leeds (2006).

If so, it is again a deliberate exercise in futility.

The images are accompanied by a simple statement that reads «if only they were this easy to reproduce,» which further highlights the futility of trying to replicate and recreate these animals that, when gone, will never be replaced.

When Mark Bradford built his ark, «Mithra» (2008), in the middle of New Orleans» devastated Lower Ninth Ward, I don't know if he envisioned it as a monument to futility or a symbolic cry for salvation but it reads as a little bit of both.

She seems to be napping, strangely peaceful in a posture of terminal futility that suggests: «If this is what you want from me, I acquiesce.»

If the answer is «It's total futility», please say that.