Both Uses of
futile
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The letters cut in the stained wood of the desk stared upon him, mocking his bodily weakness and futile enthusiasms and making him loathe himself for his own mad and filthy orgies.†
Chpt 2 *
- He saw clearly too his own futile isolation.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(futile) effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful