lost cause

A gorgeous, glistening rendition of “Lost Cause” came next, and the airy Morning Phase standout “Blue Moon” ended the sequence.

Or as Sen. Lee posited, “Many of you may have been told that this is a lost cause.”

Some see all significance in the grim front of the destroyer, and some in the bitter sufferers of the Lost Cause.

They dress nearly identical to the students I teach in New York, watch the same media, and see politics at home as a lost cause.

Because we gave it our stamp of approval, it will be considered ours—even though we knew it was a lost cause.

It would be easier for me to give up the fight for Ireland, to desert the beaten side, to forget the lost cause.'

It takes great courage to fight a lost cause when there is no hope even of victory.

Their resting place is marked by an imposing marble shaft, in honor of the comrades of "the lost cause," "wherever they lie."

A second time they came here, and then they were in full retreat, heralds of a finally lost cause.

It was not a meeting of the adherents of a lost cause, but of one which had suffered only temporary defeat.