All 6 Uses of
futile
in
The Bourne Supremacy
- Two well-dressed negotiators plunged their hands inside their well-tailored jackets while they spun out of the chairs; another lunged under the table, as the remaining two sprang up screaming and raced futilely into silk-covered walls, spinning around in desperation, seeking pardons yet knowing none would be forthcoming.†
Chpt 1futilely = in a manner that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
- It's all so futile sometimes.†
Chpt 3
- There was a sadness as well in this man, a futility born of too little, too late, and too costly for the mind and the body.†
Chpt 10futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
- It was an exercise in futility.†
Chpt 27
- It's about sixty feet from the house and there's a pair of doors—' Bourne closed his eyes in angry futility as a series of seemingly unending spurts of rifle fire filled the rear gardens.†
Chpt 32
- Bourne swallowed, a sense of futility spreading over him.
Chpt 37 *futility = uselessness (pointless effort)
Definition:
effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful