Then I saw the inutility of reason in such a case.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awakening] Reference

The prose is muscular yet not without the boyish whimsy of "inutility.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jargon Spoils Analysts' Prose] Reference

I can continue hacking away at the rock with my knife, despite its inutility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference

"Their small quantity does not indicate their inutility," he sagaciously remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The inutility of these attempts proved no manner of discouragement to the Spaniards.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

Lumbermen, foes to idleness and inutility, swarm again about their winter's trophies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

The theme is, of course, the inutility of the new learning, Hebrew and Greek and correct Latinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850] Reference

We quarrel with them, not on the score of form so much as on that of inutility and undue contrast of colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

The inutility of science, written in a merely technical form, is well exemplified in the instance of Cicero.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828] Reference

Feeling the inutility of answering these charges, I mutely continued the correction of a pile of English exercises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

Nine days since we had, by an artist, a lecture on "Painting", all to prove the worse than inutility of a Royal Academy.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn] Reference

As the real inutility of the weapon system becomes apparent and its burdens persist, more rational means will be found to abandon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Law and Survival] Reference

At this conference, though, I started to feel the inutility and maybe the inaccuracy of these old and only dimly acknowledged beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferule & Fescue] Reference

Then another, not less painful and more important, creeps into the brain, namely, the absolute inutility of all that one can do or learn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

“Yet you see,” returned he, “the utter inutility of the attempt; you see, and I told you beforehand, that nothing could save him.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cecilia] Reference

Organs or parts in this strange condition, bearing the plain stamp of inutility, are extremely common, or even general, throughout nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

To add to her agitation at this crisis of her life, the top button came off her glove, and when that happened I felt the inutility of words.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')] Reference

In the case of bicycle students, as in the young of both sexes, its inutility is aggravated by its persistent annoyance — it requires constant attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference

It is surrounded by a wall, but which, from long neglect, originating perhaps in its inutility, has become dilapidated, and interests only as an ancient ruin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference

We must always, as the Castilian proverb says, take the bull by the horns; when a bull has once seen the inutility of his defence and of his strength he is beaten.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Marriage Contract] Reference

Barrenness in women, being also a species of inutility, is a reproach, but not in the same degree: of which the reason is very obvious, according to the present theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals] Reference

Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold Jarche on the relevance of the learning professional] Reference

If you would not be a brilliant inutility, a man of gold lace and plumes, but empty inside, you must play the star rôle in the simple spirit of the most obscure of your collaborators.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

Nay, do they not talk of the inutility of evidence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

Nevertheless, the inutility of play is far from proven biologically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

The inutility of her best efforts, however, palsied the poor old gentlewoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of the Seven Gables] Reference

West, and their practice and example fully establish the inutility of interference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

I will not, therefore, talk of its impropriety, but endeavour to prove its inutility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference

For the first time in her life she dimly faced the awful problem of the inutility of self-sacrifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunner Sisters] Reference

Chevalier de Valois, with many expressions of surprise at the inutility of her efforts to get rid of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference

As I grew more sensible of the labour of pursuing, I saw more of the inutility of accomplishing, individual measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falkland, Complete] Reference

Although the theory of the absolute inutility of art has met some strong criticism, let us accept it for the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

Thus were our fears of the impracticability and inutility of the channel of communication between the lake and the ocean confirmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference

I could not encourage a hope of success, and, therefore, gave up the point; not from want of means, but a conviction of the inutility of any further efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference