1 For the dozenth time, she ran out onto the porch but this time she did not go back to her futile packing.
2 Scarlett's search was futile until in the orchard she found a few apples.
3 Here was the end of the kindly, courteous house which had always welcomed her, the house where in futile dreams she had aspired to be mistress.
4 At Christmas time Frank Kennedy and a small troop from the commissary department jogged up to Tara on a futile hunt for grain and animals for the army.
5 No, I suddenly found myself on the curtain, an actor, posturing and making futile gestures.
6 Officially, Georgia's government had never capitulated but it had been a futile fight, an ever-losing fight.
7 She felt that she would stifle if she stayed in Atlanta another day, with her tired mind forcing itself round and round the deeply worn circle of futile thoughts about the mess she was in.
8 Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing much trace of ill-usage except in a diminished play of feature.
9 She was visited by no more outbursts, moving her to such futile expedients.
10 One Saturday night he did not come home, and thereafter all their efforts to get trace of him were futile.
11 His voice sounded thin and futile after the other's, and to Jurgis it seemed a profanation.
12 They clamored at each other, numbers making futile bids for the popular attention.
13 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.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 14 He saw clearly too his own futile isolation.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 15 All this talk seemed to me so futile.