Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NUNN'S EFFORTS would be entirely fruitless, however, were it not for the expertise and finesse Helena Bonham Carter in providing Jane with a credible range of emotions to complement the metamorphoses undergone by her character as she progresses from shy, introverted, young scholar to innocent bride to the ruler of England. The catalyst which triggers this series of changes is her growing love for Guilford and her subsequent initiation into womanhood. Even taking into account the self-imposed constraints of cinematic exposition, Jane's blossoming into adulthood occurs far too quickly; on her wedding night, we see her reading...
This way of gathering information provedineffective because "few of the companies made anymention of social responsibility in the materialthey provided to OCS and even fewer bothered torespond to our request for information. Telephonecalls to the companies that did not respond provedequally fruitless," the leaflet states...
Harvard (3-3) couldn't muster an effective attack until late in the second stanza--save fruitless breakaways by Co-Captain Julie Sasner and forward Lisi Bailliere. And even then, the Cantabs could not score...
...what may be a fruitless endeavor, the Freshman Union management has limited the amount of fruit per person to two pieces per meal in order to curb waste and theft...
...General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev mixed some tough talk on the nuclear arms race with conciliatory noises about the need for East-West detente. During a meeting in Moscow with former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Gorbachev dismissed the first round of the Geneva negotiations, completed in April, as "completely fruitless" and insisted that U.S. plans for space weapons, or Star Wars, research would "dramatically increase the threat of a truly global, all-destroying military conflict...