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Students of human misery can savor its underlying sadness and futility.
The LAT front-pager on the meeting is somewhat less upbeat, referring to its "futility" and describing President Clinton as "conspicuously subdued and visibly unhappy."
It's Flek who gives Joseph his reading list, even as he warns him of the futility of his quest in oracular tones:
Without clear and compelling answers to these second order questions, the debate about the first order questions will be an exercise in futility.
They trotted out numerous theories to establish the Kosovo mission's futility: Air power alone had never won a war, the Serbs had proven their invincibility against Hitler, and negotiation backed by gradual military escalation had failed in Vietnam.