Futile

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–adjective 

1. incapable 

of 

producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: Attempting to [force]-feed the sick horse was futile.  



2. trifling; frivolous; unimportant. 





 

Shame demonstrates the futility of [escap]ing the consequences of [war]. In 1971, the Rosenbergs, Jan (Max von Sydow) and Eva (Liv Ullmann), have retreated [to] an island off the coast of their unnamed country, which is embroiled in a civil conflict. 



Trained and employed as classical violinists, they make a modest living [raising] and selling lingonberries, though they continue to play their instruments.



lingonberry

【植】越橘





perfunctory 

His performance was perfunctory and [lack]luster.

felt fresh in those films, but here it just seems perfunctory and warmed [over]

feckless 

ineffective, incompetent, futile

feckless [attempts] to repair the plumbing. 

since feckless [dreamers] seem more alive onscreen than ordinary folk.

Languid