futile

For a movie that starts dying a slow, painful death from its first act, its attempts to lampoon our fear of death are ironically futile.

What Garland did might seem futile, given President Trump's fervent embrace of capital punishment.

And is film such a collaborative medium that it becomes futile to ascribe anything like intent in the first place?

It would be futile to change the manager so let him stay until the end of the season and see what we have to show for his efforts.

Their stories reveal the rarely discussed truth that deportation is not necessarily the end of migration; it is often a temporary, futile interruption.