So adding capacity merely attracts more futile journeys, taking capacity away discourages them.

The odor was the same as had assailed him on his futile journey into the tree tunnel behind Crang's house on Venus.

Some much-publicized patients, such as Rock Hudson, the film star, have made a futile journey to France for treatment with an unproved drug.

But he is now gray and paunchy, grimly steering an unwieldy Winnebago on a futile journey to make sense of his past.

That is the secret of the futile journey to America that puzzled all my friends.

If they met with success, Gilthanas would know exactly where to go without wasting years on futile journeys.

Since the end seemed unattainable, I believed the journey futile, and there was my error-and one I will forgive myself because of my fog of grief.

That we were right makes their journey no less futile now, with him out of the Waste.

A granddaddy longlegs was making a futile journey down from the ceiling, spinning as it went.

It was a futile journey.