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  • The poet Wilfred Owen was little known before his death one week before the Armistice, but the short, wasted lives of men like him and fellow war poets Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley and Isaac Rosenberg embody what one of Owen's poems called the "Futility" of the war.

    Their Name Still Liveth Joanna Scutts 2011

  • ~ A novel titled Futility told the story of a ship known as the Titan, which was remarkably similar to the Titanic not only in size and capabilities, but also in that the Titan too struck an iceberg and sank on a cold April night.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Odd, but this seems similar to a book written by Morgan Robertson's "Futility", which was written 14 years before the Titanic that in the book the name of the ship is called "Titan"

    Will The Book Bomb? Sharon Bakar 2005

  • After inspecting the hospital at Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, Weisgall set to music the poem "Futility," by another British poet, Wilfred Owen.

    unknown title 2009

  • "'Futility,'" he added, "is really just a continuation of the same approach -- no reason to resist because the situation is futile.

    Jeff Stein: How They Cracked Zazi 2009

  • Futility suddenly reared its familiar, debilitating head.

    Daniel in a Den of Liberalism vic fortezza 2011

  • Record for Futility Isn't a 'Dunn' Deal Rob Deer has the modern-era record for lowest batting average in a full season .179 in 1991, but White Sox designated hitter Adam Dunn could threaten the mark if Chicago lets him play.

    Heard on the Field Matthew Futterman 2011

  • HERE for the comic "BR-513 - A Mirror For Futility; The Time Stealer. cbr", and HERE for the audio "The Time Stealer", and enjoy!

    Space...the Final Frontier! Cromsblood 2009

  • Safian, recently expressed concern in a letter "Expanding Medical Codes to 140,000 Is Rx for Futility," Sept. 21 that "changing a pervasive mechanism such as our code set is certain to rankle fear in many."

    The Lilliputians Take Control of the Health-Care Giant 2011

  • Futility suddenly reared its familiar, debilitating head.

    Daniel in a Den of Liberalism vic fortezza 2011

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