All 6 Uses of
futile
in
Dune
- Futility.†
Book 1
- His father's words carried futility, a sense of fatalism that left the boy with an empty feeling in his chest.†
Book 1
- With his mother beside him, Paul leaped for the door, seeing Idaho blocking the passage, his blood-pitted eyes there visible through a shield blur, claw hands beyond him, arcs of steel chopping futilely at the shield.†
Book 2
- But this was a futile question.†
Book 3
- They say they need only sit inside their defenses while you wear yourselves out in futile attack.†
Book 3 *
- And Paul saw how futile were any efforts of his to change any smallest bit of this.†
Book 3
Definition:
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(futile) effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful