They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.
For many years he supported the development of the electric car, but he now thinks it's a lost cause.
John wants very much to get a job in the film industry, and he takes no notice of me when I tell him it's a lost cause.
Getting Epson on the R320 which is not one of the newer models seems to be a lost cause.
They were so fast and so eager to get away from all of us crazy tourists with their long shiny lenses that I figured it was a lost cause.
I bent the knee because I saw no sense in dying for the dead nor shedding Bracken blood in a lost cause.
The whole play began to wash out during the second act. It was a lost cause by the third.
His attempt to row across the Atlantic in a bath was a lost cause right from the start!
