Mmm, a futile discussion.

This is a futile discussion; let's adjourn it.

After so many futile discussions, though, I find I no longer have the heart for any more.

James felt too tired, too hungry, and suddenly much too irritable to carry on a futile discussion with the boy, who was either a terrible liar or so starved he couldn't think.

The National Hockey League lockout featured a return to stern rhetoric yesterday after two days of futile discussions between negotiators for the league and the players association.

In a 1944 issue, she exhorted youth to action by asking them to forget futile discussions about violence and non-violence and join the revolution.

Therefore, after the Allied fleet anchored off Cádiz on 23 August, three days were spent in futile discussions before any decision was reached.

"He wants to talk to you," Tiger said to Bruce after several minutes of apparently futile discussion.

After decades of futile discussions in which independent Eastern colleges were unable to form a football alliance, eight universities came together this morning to compete under a banner that changed the college sports marketplace in the 1980's.

The first time I went in," Mr. Boynton explains, "I found myself sidetracked into a futile discussion of the methods used in the investigation.