Except it would be a long and futile search.

Both developed a false intimacy with photographers and the public and began to cannibalise themselves in their futile search for security in love.

Few write with the same sense of life's irreducible ambiguities, or pin characters more exactingly between the sense of their own unknowability and their futile search for clarity.

Today, however, we move away from the beach and the fruitless, frustrating and, one suspects, futile search for the lost rings and back inland into the village proper.

Battling 30-foot seas, 40 knot winds, and below-freezing temperatures, she arrived on scene and began what proved to be a futile search for survivors.