I sat down on the edge of the canal and sunk my face in my palms in a seemingly futile effort to plan for the future.

Mr Berecz, on the other hand, has still not given up his seemingly futile struggle, and has been plaguing the congress with constant interruptions.

Dead Lovers' Sarabande chronicled a nameless protagonist's seemingly futile quest to re-unite with her deceased lover.

No one can say when the seemingly futile war to save the euro will end, even if we might guess how.

The song proclaims the inherent appeal of cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as a remedy to the banality and seemingly futile nature of the working class life.

It is the same reasoning that lay behind the seemingly futile awards, in earlier years, to Soviet literary and political truthtellers like Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov.

But sometimes great historical scales are tipped by a single act of courage or one vote or a seemingly futile outstretched hand.

Halfway to the Vortex, it had suddenly changed course in an obvious- and seemingly futile- attempt to elude the cluster of Borg ships that would have intercepted it within minutes.

It was he thought, another life wasted to a seemingly futile cause.

One minute, the ship is turning slowly, inching through its own backwater, oars beating the sea into a seemingly futile roil.