All 7 Uses of
futile
in
This Side of Paradise
- All tragedy has that strain of the grotesque and squalid—so useless, futile…. the way animals die….†
Chpt 1.2
- It's so evident that resigning from his club means so much more to him than preventing it does to us that I felt futile when I argued; finally took a position that was brilliantly neutral.†
Chpt 1.4
- now suddenly all his mental processes of the last year and a half seemed stale and futile†
Chpt 1.4 *
- Then, after a week, Amory saw Burne and knew at once that argument would be futile—Burne had come out as a pacifist.†
Chpt 1.4
- But men will chatter and you and I will still shout our futilities to each other across the stage until the last silly curtain falls _plump!†
Chpt 1.4
- Oh, shall we then deplore Those futile years!†
Chpt 1.4
- IN THE DROOPING HOURS While the rain drizzled on Amory looked futilely back at the stream of his life, all its glitterings and dirty shallows.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(futile) effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful