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Перевод: futility

[существительное]
тщетность ; бесполезность ; бесцельность ; поверхностность ; несерьезность

Тезаурус:

1. More accurately, the apathy and futility can be described as schizoid aloofness.
2. Lecture after lecture, accompanied by complaints about the futility of lectures and his reluctance to give them.
3. It was a statement on the futility of The Smiths art.
4. It is easy for a well-fed English-woman like myself to shake with anger about the futility of war, to protest about the iniquity of racial prejudice and to deplore the helplessness of little people in the face of vast political forces fighting for power.
5. In this film the Klingons come to be led by a progressive pacifist called Gorkon (sounds like Gorbachev), who ends the futility of the Cold War with the Federation.
6. I do not mean a sexual strength - of that I have little - but a union of all my senses simply carries me past all reflection, sometimes into a beautiful ease, sometimes into filth and futility but always I am passive.
7. a sense of futility or disappointment
8. He found that he was now sensitive to a new series of demands and worries and was liable to be hurt in new ways, and he suffered moments with a sense of futility.
9. The poem itself he found "a pompous parade of erudition", and he decided that "were it not for the Laforgue mechanism, Mr Eliot s poetic variations on the theme of a super-refined futility would be increasingly thin and incredibly second rate" ( The Freeman , 17 January 1923).
10. On "Give My Love To Kevin", he typifies the questioning tone of the rejected boyfriend, desperate to know all about his girlfriend's new lover but recognising the futility of his inquisitiveness.
11. Such cries traditionally used to promote fertility occur ironically in The Waste Land , punctuating its infertile or sexually perverted world where previous rituals and beliefs seem to be lapsing into futility.
12. By choosing to take at face value all the evidence pointing to the futility of the war, and ignoring all those who believed, with patent sincerity, that they were fighting for something worthwhile against something evil, he has taken cynicism to the point of naivety.
13. A sense of mystery and futility is imparted by events at the Grange and on the Ridge, and that sense is heightened by what takes place in the city when the party catches fire and rioting breaks out.