"I talk to him in English," Piazza said, acknowledging that it's sometimes a hopeless endeavor.

It was a hopeless endeavor.

Whatever the explanation, and explaining is after all, a rather hopeless endeavor in trying to tell the story of a man's life-or two lives-when the time comes to confess, Harry will tell two stories.

He must try to stare down these memories in order to escape their overwhelming weight, a hopeless yet supremely poignant endeavor.

Some Portuguese troops were now trying to hold the French in the streets of the city, but it was a hopeless endeavor.

Yet if predicting the future is a hopeless endeavor, learning from the past is not.

In fact, Doctor P.H. Martin from Stanford once said that "Queue management is a hopeless endeavour.

Clinton had the audacity and temerity to run for President at a time when a Republican landslide seemed imminent and any Democratic challenge a hopeless endeavor.

(HU) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in 1956 Hungary, showed the world that a stand must be made against oppression and lies, even if it seems to be a hopeless endeavour.

But what was inexcusable was that Kirk had either kidnapped Picard, or convinced him to assist in the foolish, hopeless endeavor.