All 3 Uses of
futile
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Futility.†
Chpt 2futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
- Ugly and futile: lean neck and thick hair and a stain of ink, a snail's bed.†
Chpt 2 *
- object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the inanity of extolled virtue: the lethargy of nescient matter: the apathy of the stars.†
Chpt 17futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
Definition:
effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful