So began a long, fruitless search for an outside engineer.
She spent the next three hours in a fruitless search through the Stacks.
At first it was a fruitless search, for the Plain seemed empty.
The second movement is a completely fruitless search that ends by giving in.
An hour later, after a fruitless search of Paul's office, they left for the bank.
They quickly fanned out and did a fruitless search of the ground floor.
The result is an annual, fruitless search for a new approach they all can live with.
"When we had no hard evidence, why did you join me in what could have been a fruitless search?"
And here he was, most of a beautiful spring Saturday shot in a fruitless search for two library books, no further ahead.
Boyd is ready to give up his fruitless search for gold.
One is the practice of ideologizing issues in a vain search for total solutions.
A few broken words told the story of her vain search, and then the sad quest began again.
The boy writhed about on the ground, mouth opening and closing in a vain search for air, but Jamie paid no attention.
Children rooted through the mess in a vain search for any books that survived.
Others go in a vain search for it on the sabbath.
Among its motifs are the often vain search for happiness, love and prosperity.
The angry crowd tore it apart in a vain search for drugs.
He spent the next year hovering about the fringes of human society in a vain search for his body.
He went all over town in a vain search for a job.
I do not think they would send me on a vain search.
