Word: fruitlessly
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...that does not titillate the 20th century as it did the 17th. Restoration comedy has many elements that seem heavy now, but the Quincy House actors can keep more than just oranges in the air. Their efforts to juggle old-fashioned stage conventions are far from fruitless...
...Willie Morris had looked back when he resigned as Harper's editor (TIME, March 15), he would have found he was leading a parade. Last week six more Harper's editors decided to follow him out. They acted after a frequently bitter and fruitless confrontation with Harper's Chairman John Cowles Jr. One who resigned, Contributing Editor David Halberstam, said of the meeting: "Either we were speaking in Chinese and he was listening in English, or we were speaking in English and he was listening in Chinese...
Harvard did not play as badly as a 5-4 win over Dartmouth indicates. The line-up changes proved fruitless; but the Crimson did skate fairly well, although it blew numerous scoring chances...
...extremely difficult, if not fruitless, to criticize poetry a century after it is written. The modern reader can not have the correct appreciation for Melville's verse, because modern tastes have completely redefined what is acceptable in poetry. Tennyson, Longfellow, Byron, Shelley, all sound strange and forced to the car accustomed to Eliot or Pound. Melville really has to be accepted for what he is, and what his times were...
...fails quite obviously. Hughes, a Life correspondent, has penned a six-month diary account of the production of Il Maestro's extravagant, phantasmagoric bore. As Fellini claimed, the director did most of the creative work for the project in the scripting stages; thus, the detailed production notes are particularly fruitless, except for those who hunger for glimpses of the Great Man in action. As recounted by Hughes, the sight simply isn't that inspiring...