Word: fruitlessness
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Brown admits that she was a little scared. “I had no idea how I was going to get from where I was to playing nationally,” she says. But she knew she had to try. Frustrated by six fruitless months, Brown began readying her resumé for the business world. “But things kept conspiring to keep me away from ‘real’ jobs,” she laughs—namely, rising bluegrass star Alison Krauss asking Brown to join her band, Union Station...
While the NSA felt it was acting in the interests of national security, the agency’s scrutiny made the project fruitless for everyone, Widnall said...
...efforts of Maas’s friends are not entirely fruitless, even if Maas stubbornly refuses to see the up side of LustFest. At least he now knows whom he’s most compatible with—a fellow Currier resident who calls himself “Thomas the Tank Engine...
...waiter, Hirschfeld would offer advice to theater producers. Once or twice he advised them to close what he considered an inauspicious show. He urged Lawrence Langner to shut down a musical called "Away We Go!" (it did all right as "Oklahoma!") and begged Moss Hart not to take the fruitless job of staging a musical based on Shaw's "Pygmalion" ("My Fair Lady"). But his generosity of spirit compelled him to help out struggling theater folk. He had gone to Bali in the late 40s and made a silent movie of the dancers there; on his return he showed...
Refusing to engage Gladden Pappin’s so-called argument about our own immorality was a political, measured decision on the part of the BGLTSA. We neither wish to censor Pappin nor to indulge him with a rebuttal that would be both fruitless and demeaning. We’d much rather conserve our energy for an evolving agenda of visibility and advocacy in the new semester and beyond...