He had looked at it, with a growing sense of futility, a dozen times in the past hour.

Kim turned away, a sense of futility sweeping over him.

Only a sense of futility would bring him to a halt.

In Vietnam, many said, the sense of futility was pervasive.

But in recent years, a sense of futility has developed.

With a sense of futility, he opened his lungs and shouted.

He had a sense of futility as he asked the question.

He watched her go, rooted in place by his own sense of futility.

When he left I had a sense of futility and frustration.

She did not know how else to bear her sense of futility.