Which is to say that it watches him drive his family crazy in a futile quest for glory.

Simply blame bad pitching and his futile quest for his curveball.

No trace of her have we found, and I fear that it be a futile quest.

A day or so after their son quit the investigation, the Manzies began a futile quest to have him committed for long-term psychiatric treatment.

We cannot have it both ways, and aviation and tourism inevitably will be major casualties of our futile quest for absolute security.

The entire story revolves around the father's futile quest to yield yarn from rabbit fur in order to sell it.

He was a virtual prisoner in the very world which he had expected would provide the key to his futile quest for Light.

"I just wanted to be the best, period, and I didn't think of it as a futile quest."

The elderly attorney seemed to regard the search as a futile quest.

So far, it has been a futile quest.