To remain where the food was would be equally futile.

Mental resistance was equally futile against the overwhelmingly superior power of the Tellurian's mind.

It seemed, too, equally futile to pit his puny knife against this frightful creature.

That final scheme, which is yet to come, will be equally futile.

His prayers - a desperate turn to the religion he had abandoned long ago to pursue a successful jewelry business - seemed equally futile.

Touching them against bulkheads or machinery or each other had proved equally futile.

This was accompanied, it said, by "many equally futile endeavors to contact" the agency's headquarters in Gaza by radio.

My efforts to induce him to concentrate on letting himself in proved equally futile, and eventually he sat down on the doorstep.

Letting it do so would accomplish nothing, but at the same time, repressing those feelings would be equally futile.

But her strivings in that position proved equally futile.