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词汇 example_english_sense-of-futility
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sense of futility

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meanings of senseand futility


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sense
noun
uk /sens/ us /sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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futility
noun[U]
uk /fjuːˈtɪl.ə.ti/ us /fjuːˈtɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact of having no effect or of ...
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Examples of sense of futility


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Suffering from ' a senseoffutility ' (17.8 per cent) was much less frequently cited.
Silencing is likely to exacerbate feelings of alienation, mistrust, and bitterness, and confirm veterans' senseoffutility of caring or acting.
Preventive care, however, is also not futile in the ordinary senseoffutility described above.
Youth unemployment has never been so high, nor has the resulting senseoffutility and hopelessness among young people and their parents.
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Even generous unemployment pay cannot compensate for the awful senseoffutility of not working; and the talk of cuts in benefits is ominous.
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To the sense of danger which the men must have is added the senseoffutility.
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Her logic appears in simple two-or three-liners that capture a senseoffutility...
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Life is suffused with a senseoffutility and stoic despair.
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The poem uses repeated profanity to convey a senseoffutility and exasperation.
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Responses to impossibility can range from a senseoffutility, to one of increased motivation to deny the impossibility.
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In it, he mourns the loss of youth, the passing of time and his own senseoffutility.
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Events compel him to reflect on his life with a senseoffutility that lasts until the final moments of the film.
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