Eksempler på fruitless

• The writer frankly acknowledges that each presents a very different case and that looking for connections between these women as playwrights is a fruitless exercise.

• But these numbers are so small that it is fruitless to calculate percentages or to try to identify trends.

• Any renewal of the alliance would most likely have been a fruitless attempt to stop the haemorrhaging.

• The search for a body of theory or perspective which we can import into prehistoric archaeology and thereby solve our problems is fruitless.

• As a political philosophy, his special brand of positivism was fruitless, and open to obvious and grave objections.

• This can lead to hours of fruitless practising where the body is fully occupied in the activity but the brain is not engaged at all.

• On the other hand, it seems fruitless to look for semantic homogeneity among determiners of different classes.

• This is by no means to say that discussions about research and interdisciplinarity are fruitless.