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Sentence Examples The hen's efforts to carry on the task of rearing her young in such circumstances were in vain and they all died. We looked in vain expecting the area to miraculously improve but alas, no such luck. Elizabeth, vain and proud about her legendary beauty, was convinced she'd found the secret of youth. We are so used to our vain understanding of the law of reciprocity that we think in terms of what we get back for what we give. And so that these young people will not have died in vain, as President Lincoln said, we have to recommit our country to a sense of community. Poor Aunt Barb didn't know the frequency, and so she jiggled in vain until someone heard her cries for help and came to the rescue. Oh man, these people are all around us making joke after joke, jive after jive, pun after pun, all in a vain attempt to elicit laughter. I've picked out his gift and struggled over an appropriate note that makes a vain attempt to impart something passing for wisdom. I searched in vain for the street seller I bought a necklace from and promptly lost in the Blue Lagoon near Keflavik. He gritted his teeth and wrestled with the joystick in a vain effort to regain control of his crippled craft. There are ballads, blues and western swing, and Burch describes it as music you might hear in a dream and try in vain to remember in the morning. We took Lucy along because Dad loves to see her and tries in vain to get her to play fetch the ball. He said a car had just managed to squeeze past the people carrier, and he had tried to do the same but in vain. She tries in vain to reverse what is happening through the use of face powder and a powder puff, but with the knowledge that nothing can be done. It was silly and vain, self-referentially clever and quite utterly ridiculous. He or she may bark or yowl in a vain attempt to get you to just as miraculously reappear. If anyone uses similar handles or tries to impersonate someone in a similar vain I will be forced to take similar action. We immediately need ten new people and we have advertised in vain for sheet metal workers, fabricators, electricians and pipe work fitters. National wants to sell out our independence in the vain hope of economic benefit for their fat-cat supporters. Ian Hogg's Caesar is a vain, strutting figure delighting in his ticker-tape parades. Show More Sentences He is a very self-involved, vain, voyeuristic, childlike, power-hungry but brilliant guy. In my vain yearning to refashion my self in the model of Nigella, I would be wise to consider several basic truths. Search the Scriptures with the teachableness of a little child and thy labour will not be in vain. She was apparently on a vain quest to appeal to the man that he once was, trying to beg his soft, weak, cowardly side for mercy. After marrying in 1999, we had tried in vain for three years to conceive even though there was nothing really wrong with us. A vain aristocrat, Gray had a picture painted of himself when he was in the prime of his youth. The cold feel of the paint all over her face made her hop up and start jumping around, in a vain attempt to remove the paint. They perform certain rituals and rites to please God hoping that these vain oblations will work. As she leafs through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the looped, fastidious handwriting. The fire brigade spent half an hour freeing the man from under the car while paramedics battled in vain to keep him alive. The fly then landed on National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Davis, who tried in vain to swat the insect. Few people can stand constant praise without becoming vain and self-centered. But it was in vain, as Bury kicked deep from the restart and the final whistle blew. The fluttering blue flags marking cut areas in the scorched trees signal that my days bumping down these washboarded roads have been in vain. The white horse followed on behind him, perhaps in the vain hope of a Polo mint or a carrot. These intimate letters introduce us to a man who's not only inordinately interesting, but also vain, funny, abrasive, sarcastic and courageous. He had earlier used seven of his own clubs in a vain attempt to keep the ball on the short grass. One of the company's technical whiz kids contributes a devastating study of vain snobbishness as the ballet master. Since it struck in the early '80s, researchers have scratched for a vaccine or a cure but in vain. At the beginning of the play, we see Lear as a proud, vain, quick-tempered old king, not necessarily evil, but certainly not good. Show More Sentences Before it was built, locals waged a long but vain battle to save the Italian poplar tree which was eventually chopped down. It is enamored with pop, the perfect tool to convey the vain, dull, shallow and barren ideas of modernity. I'm not being vain, but everyone in our suite is surrealistically beautiful. She resorted to all her tricks to get at the grapes, but wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them. On bad days I expect heaps of sympathy and whinge incessantly in the vain hope that it will be forthcoming. What follows, of course, are the rules against other gods, graven images, vain swearing, and Sabbath breaking. Vega is seen here as vicious and impossibly vain, but not quite the psycho nutjob of the Japanese anime movie. It is not necessary to overpraise, or lead them to think they are wonderfully smart, for this would make them vain, and even pert. In such situations, it is understandable that parents should seek an explanation, in a vain attempt at closure. In the vain hope that if she ignored him, he might go away, she took out her book again, opening it to where her bookmark had marked her spot. It is vain to urge that truth will prevail, and that slander, when detected, recoils on the calumniator. One has looked in vain every week in the Craven Herald for some sign that the district council was seized of the need for more parking provision. Eddie is a nice guy, so we can't imagine why he is so devoted to Gwen, a vain and egocentric diva. They faded away in distress, in vain and into the forgotten pages of local history. Dark forms capered amidst the flames, pausing only to hack at the battered forms of those that had tried in vain to defend the fortress. We strolled half the length of the lake to locate a party of mallards, in a vain attempt to avoid catching the beady eyes of the Canada geese. In auctioning off monetary gold the managers of irredeemable currency are trying, in vain, to buy time to save their tottering regime. The vain arrogance of the literati and Bohemian artists dismisses the activities of the businessman as unintellectual moneymaking. Was the world, with all its climates, made in vain for thy helpless, unoffending victim? A more vain politician might have bemoaned the cramped conditions, the indifferent beds, the miles to be covered every day, the rushed meals. Show More Sentences The obsession with American voters was a pathetic act of collective media hubris and vain self-importance. Everything is ranked, classed and categorised for easy digestion in a vain attempt to bring forth order from chaos. They are the detestation of the Trout bottom-angler, constantly nibbling away his bait, and tantalising him with vain hopes of a bite. She played vain, self-obsessed, flighty pieces in High Fidelity and America's Sweetheart, then turned utterly evil in Traffic. He proudly admits he is from hard-working peasant stock and sees me as lazy, vain and probably as a ponce. The whole business of writing about cyber-culture seems vain and navel-gazing to me. They grew haughty in their scorn, vain of their beauty, proud of their long life. There's a good trio of sisters, with Suzanne Burden outstanding as a snakily vain Goneril. Plato describes him as a vain man being both arrogant and boastful, having a wide but superficial knowledge. It is presumed that the legislature avoid superfluous or meaningless words, that it does not pointlessly repeat itself or speak in vain. But try telling that to the little old lady who has waited in vain a couple of years for a vital eye operation. This passive resistance to change was the despair of the improving landowner, who tended to relapse into apathy after a few years of vain effort. But while he as intelligent, charming, and witty, the Italian was also argumentative, mocking, and vain. However this proved to be in vain when some quick thinking at a tap penalty saw Dodworth go nearly the full length of the field to tie the game. Several Cassandras try in vain to make their prophetic voices heard, but everyone is deaf. They have tried in vain to find a respite place in a care home with suitable facilities. Under the early afternoon sun, she closed her eyes momentarily in a vain attempt to contain her anguish. However, old salts may at first find themselves trying in vain to snick the safety on before holstering. At the film's end, Harry is left alone in his destroyed apartment, torn to shreds in a vain search for a planted microphone. Not to be vain or conceited, but it was the truth and anyone sensible would agree. Show More Sentences The hunter is doomed to being transformed by the vain goddess of hunting into a stag, to be pursued and torn to shreds by his own hounds. Young people should settle into communes rather than keep haring from flat to flat in a vain attempt to keep up with the labour market. The interviewer, in a vain attempt to give St Clair another opportunity to repair the damage done by his earlier answer, rephrased the question. I like to support movies like this in the perhaps vain hope that they will do well and the studios will make more of them. The policemen on duty tried in vain to cover the TV set, which was kept on elevated position, by throwing a piece of cloth on it. After searching everywhere in vain they became discouraged and beat the drums for him. He was yelling and crying, reaching out desperately and uselessly past the restraining arms in a vain attempt to bring his friend back. Possessive, vain and self-absorbed, she stifled him until, he said, he could no longer stand women. This archbishop has, in my opinion, been a vain and self-aggrandising man throughout. I walked up and down Tottenhan Court Road with Mark at lunchtime in a vain attempt to stave off unconsciousness. A man should be clean and confident in his appearance, but not vain or pretentious. Aside from being a known womanizer, he was known to be a very vain and arrogant man. He didn't look like he was bothered by all the attention, but he wasn't vain or self-centered either. This turn of events, this sad return after so many vain boasts, would have made a shamed recluse out of a normal human being. The couple suffered severe burns as they battled in vain to rescue their boys from the blaze. She was one of hundreds of customers who were trying in vain to benefit from a giveaway deal. The crowds waited in vain for an encore, not quite believing it was time to go home already. The parish council has tried in vain to persuade another building society to open a branch in Pewsey. Imagine you tell her to come straight home, then you wait in vain for the sound of her key in the door. We took to channel hopping in the vain hope that something remotely interesting would catch our attention. Show More Sentences The scream carried a vain hope that someone would do something to intervene. Temperamental, vain and self-obsessed, she shows little sign of an interior life or interests. I've clambered up rocks in the tropical heat in the vain hope that there might be grasswren on top of the escarpment. There are those of us who advised in vain that this sordid matter be quietly and wisely settled and not be bruited about in public. He reorganised the players in serried tiers in a vain attempt to let them hear one another. He nobly sacrificed his life in a vain attempt to save the rest of his team. And Irma, that vain, wretched creature, would never take such an unnecessary risk to herself as that. When the gems were discovered in 1930, the British colonial government tried in vain to slap strict controls on mining. Get your timing wrong, on either your exit from the market or your re-entry, and much of your bearishness would have been in vain. Sometimes the dancers donned business suits and tried in vain to emulate the skaters' seamless glide and careless cool. He has inspired imitators, tolerated plagiarists and confounded the computer geeks who try in vain to turn his craft into software. She struggled in vain against the darkness surrounding her, but the pain of a foreign element inside her prevented it. Coriolanus charts the destructive contest between a vain aristocratic soldier and the self-seeking patricians who claim to represent the masses. We paused next to a clump of cactus, dismounted the camels, waited in vain for the small children. She dipped her hands into the icy cold water and splashed some water across her sleepy face, in a vain attempt to wake herself up. I headed off for our dinner engagement where I waited in vain for my dear husband to arrive. The water in the ditch is too shallow for fish to live in but I bend down toward it, hoping in vain to find a school of tiny minnow. But since I'm sure they have these discussions during conferences, it's a vain hope. The story has entranced audiences for decades, teaching them never to be vain and always whistle while they work. Attempts are made in vain to exorcise his spirit, but when the robe of a saint is placed on his shoulders, he achieves spiritual release. Show More Sentences The women squeezed into the corner in a vain attempt to escape her pursuer. There were rumblings and grumblings at special meetings called by the church council in a vain bid to restore peace. It satisfies people who watch television in the frustratingly vain hope that they might happen across something new. If our fear is vain, it is certain that fear itself is evil, and that the heart is groundlessly disturbed and tortured. She made her way, seemingly effortlessly, over walls, through gates and under hedges as the following horde tried in vain to make ground. Democrats called in vain for gaveling the vote closed as Republican leaders lobbied their members to switch votes and support the bill. Present company excepted, I think it's just an excuse for the vain and shallow to fill their otherwise empty leisure time. As the Scottish actor draws on his cigarette in the vain hope it will warm him up, a passer-by stops to gaze at him. I was more methodical this time, going through the presented menu, trying, in vain, to taste every dish. In Boston, British soldiers search the houses of the rebel leaders in vain. I have been trying in vain for the past few months to find a pair of skinny jeans that are not low-rise. People are vain and shallow and disregard the love of others to pursue their own whims. Sometimes he presents her as a vain and trivial woman, sometimes as merely ignorant and fearful. Behind him, the capital ships were starting to shift, trying in vain to get out of their tight formation. Sanctimonious and vain is how he materializes in this finely grained and scrupulously documented account. And efforts to gather information from workers who had a lucky escape at the site were in vain as they simply clammed up. In vain do we look for Providence in the workings of nature. Corvids such as Crows, Ravens, and Jackdaws were more complex characters in Aesop's fables because they could be both vain and foolish, a powerful combination to be sure. Indeed, one searches the faces of the crowd in vain for a person of color. I saw a young woman in a little, flower print dress and slingbacks, tiny handbag held above her head in a vain attempt to stave off the rain and wind. Show More Sentences Unfortunately, this is often a vain hope, and pre-emphasized digital companders usually give audible noise modulation on critical musical material. She secretly changed her name three years after being jailed for life, in the vain hope that she would be able to begin a new life outside prison. From what I could gather, he was being sent around to cold-call upon the local residents in a vain attempt to convert them to the service of his electricity utility provider. While Chicago is humping herself in the interests of literature, art and the sciences, vain old Boston is frivoling away her precious time in an attempted renaissance of the cod fisheries. In what other sport but cricket could you get 26,000 people splashing around in the puddles of a filthily overcast ground, waiting in vain for a game that might never resume? Amrish Puri stars in one of the tales as a vain and pompous man. In consequence of these destructive acts, Enkidu dies, and Gilgamesh is left to wander half-crazed, searching in vain to resurrect his beloved friend. Thus reason is led back from its vain speculations to the empirical world, trading the illusions of metaphysics for the realities of empirical science. That his effort is in vain can be inferred from the strands of gold thread that unravel from the bride's veil, sewn across the paper in large deliberate stitches. I searched in vain for a subject that wasn't deadly boring, dry as dust, and leached of every detail of the kind that makes things interesting in real life. Even our efforts at fighting corruption will be in vain if we are not holistic in our approach by ingraining inclusiveness and merit in government action. So this afternoon will see me making another disconsolate tour of the shops, in the vain hope of finding a pair of shoes that is both elegant and comfortable. Many of us seem to entertain the vain hope that ignorance will confer innocence, that by denying the consequences of our complicity, it will be as if it never happened. A surfer who braved 20 ft waves in a vain attempt to help rescue a mother and her children from seas off Scarborough said yesterday there was no safety equipment in the area. The game has always been controlled by wealthy people, often successful local businessmen who fritter away their fortunes on the vain hope of glory for their team. I took several deep breaths in a very vain attempt to calm myself. Many even stayed in the vain hope of catching a glimpse of their idol. By and large I'm all for the right to speak your mind and give your opinion as long as it's of worth and not just some vain criticism thrown out for the sake of it. Staff at the prison had tried in vain to resuscitate him in his cell. My hands felt slippery, and I tried in vain to calm my nerves. Show More Sentences The vain portrait sitter certainly won't mind if a wrinkle or two is removed by the use of a soft focus filter of a bit of silk in front of the lens. Does it have anything other than a vain and pious hope that that could actually be achieved, or is the Government treating it in a cavalier fashion? The opera charts the tragic tale of butterfly waiting in vain for her husband to return to her. In a vain attempt at positive self-reinforcement, chalk all this up to maybe having worked out too hard last week. His natural wanderlust is fueled by a vain search for lasting good health and he travels incessantly through Europe, the United States and the South Pacific. Both were squinting out into the uneven lighting, trying in vain to make out the shifting shape of the approaching watercraft as it pulled up to one of the side floats. Three months later Jos duly dies at Aix-la-Chapelle, a watering place, whither he and Mrs Crawley have repaired in a vain attempt to recover his health. She had to spend two days on the phone with insurance and repair companies, trying in vain to get the courtesy car to which she is supposed to be entitled. He is something of a Gascon, boastful and vain of his own achievements. She tried in vain to break the restraints or shake off the helmet. Our highest calling is to our God, the One God, before whom we have no other gods, whose name we do not take in vain, and whose sabbath day we keep sacred. Boy meets girl, fate intervenes, boy makes a pig's ear of it, and spends the rest of the film chasing his tail in a vain effort to recapture the fair maiden's heart. It must be hard for her to hurt her son, but the pain I have to suffer from my disease is pretty bad just now so please, God, excuse me for the odd word in vain. The actor's immorality is not lasciviousness, as Puritans and neo-Confucians believed, but the vanity culture that makes all pursuits vain, extrinsic, and spectacular. They sashay along the red carpet, botox-smooth and silicone-enhanced, so blatantly vain and unabashedly full of themselves, spinning for scores of photographers. For all the effort Roddick has devoted to pioneering a path for women's lib, she appears far too willing to accept that it has been in vain or that it is being misused. Asserting our right to free speech is the only to ensure that 12 people did not die in vain. Their names allude to the doomed Antarctic expedition led by Captain Scott, where Oates nobly sacrificed his life in a vain attempt to save Scott and his team. They promptly blamed each other for driving him away, and stormed off in opposite directions in the vain hope of finding their way back to the palace. Pat tries to quell her feelings for Bruce, her vain egoist of a flatmate, while navigating the purpose and ethics of naturism at a nudist picnic in Moray Place Gardens. Show More Sentences He was at pains to stress that his whole-hearted commitment to drawing in larger crowds with gate reductions and the acquisition of quality players seems to be in vain. Have they not, as Paul says, become vain in their disputations, always trifling about universals, formalities, connotations, and various other foolish words? She scrabbled in vain for purchase on the stone floor, which was smooth from the years of pedestrian traffic pounding the irregularities into powder. Winifred related that numerous calls to the education office were in vain. But around 300 BC, still worried about taking God's name in vain, they began even substituting these tetragrams with the word, Adhonai, which simply means Lord. We dropped everything except the main and mizzen, tried in vain to get some speed, then gave up and sheeted them in tight and turned on the engine. Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother. But in 2001, at the Miss Philippines competition, Jeannie Anderson put all other vain contestants to shame. He was dead, and all my pleading with him not to leave me was in vain. When the tickets went on sale last March they sold out in two hours, leaving an number of fans who had camped out overnight angry their efforts were in vain. Every day, relatives scuff their way along the dirt track to reach the razor wire barricades, where they plead in vain for information about the whereabouts of the missing. Ivory screamed as she wriggled and twisted, trying in vain to get away. One has waited in vain for a comparable exhibition there, only to be disappointed by a scattering of shallow displays, rich in contrivance and sparse in substance. Already signs are that there might be a bumper harvest this season but all this will be in vain if measures are not taken to prevent crops from going to waste. To seek rhyme or reason in such decisions is as vain an inquiry as to seek the same qualities in the ukase of a Russian Czar or the whims of an Oriental despot. Who knew that one day our vain quest for a sunburn would come back to haunt us in the form of panicking every time we see an unfamiliar blotch on our skin? The older girl slipped in and began to remove her jacket, taking a pause to shake her head free of snowflakes, though only in vain as they clung to her flaming hair. All say, I am more than you think, more than you will admit that I am, and all express as well the vain man's suspicion that in actuality he is unbeautiful. His efforts are in vain, however, as he only succeeds in muddling the central story while completely disengaging us from the characters on the screen. I searched in vain for a patch of sundews, the little carnivorous plants that live in just this kind of environment, so I could show off my meagre botanical knowledge. Show More Sentences Milwaukee came in among the top 40 vainest cities in the country, while Pittsburgh ranked half as vain. The victim insists on some challan for being stopped, in vain. In vain does Geology lay bare the Tertiary formation, with its enormous theroid mammalia, far surpassing in size the largest animals we are acquainted with. They slipped and slithered over the ice in a vain search for food. In many engagements volunteers asked regular army commanders for support, transport and ammunition, but often in vain. Margo's spectacular meltdown at a dinner party is so effective because there are barbs of truth sprinkled in with the vain wailing and gnashing of teeth. They searched the valley in vain, but they kept coming across luminous pools of water, throwing back at them mirror images of trees, mountains and clouds. They share an intensity and commitment that overrides vain posture. He is equal parts superior, insecure, vain, snobbish, and fearful. In a childishly vain manner, she was gathering pillows to throw at him. The Met were rightfully hammered and shaken up into a better police force although sadly most of the compensation was swallowed up by feverish vain legal teams. I in turn don't contain even the merest trace elements of sympathy for the ambitious, vain and greedy trendoids who masquerade as contestants on these shows. I tried many tonics, tablets and exercise but all was in vain. These icons haunted my fitful rest, tantalizing and tormenting as I waited in vain for the Sirenes. The series of Oriental fantasies about a vain, bewhiskered enchanter whose power resides in one hair on his head, was well received by the critics but did not sell well. It was in vain to be a Rhadamanthus with the bells, and if an unfortunate bell rang without leave, to have it down inexorably and silence it. Our valiant campaigner has also tried, so far in vain, to force the Skipton, Portman and Chelsea building societies to demutualise. God has given this earth to those who will subdue and cultivate it, and it is vain to struggle against His righteous decree. Large numbers of Spitfires were sent out with small groups of medium bombers in often vain attempts to lure the German fighters into combat. I am sure I wished to do so, and yet Tessie pleaded with me in vain. Show More Sentences Manners are partly factitious, but, mainly, there must be capacity for culture in the blood. Else all culture is vain. It was Chauncey DeGrandis, lord of the manor, trying in vain to assert his lord-dom. Matter of mirth enough, though there were none, She could devise, and thousand ways invent To feed her foolish humour, and vain jolliment. In a vain attempt to control inflation he imposed price controls which did not last. The English made a vain effort to intercept the Armada in the Bay of Biscay. In the remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy, Hanks plays the leader of a criminal gang which tries in vain to bump off its elderly landlady. Paramedics tried in vain to revive Cagney O'Brien after he slipped while playing on the rope tied to a tree near his home. It was a little vain, perhaps, but the notion of cronehood sent me immediately to my mirror. In vain it is to wash a goblet, if you mean to put it nothing but the dead lees and vap of wine. Whate'er the weapon, still his aim was true, Nor e'er in vain the fatal bullet flew. Fonda tried in vain to convince Jarrow and Archer to ditch the project. It didn't matter whether we traveled with a fiery-tempered swordstress, or a vain Trickster God. Abu Saleh, an Emirati, said he stayed up late one night to catch the troublemakers, but in vain. Wick Academy last night said sorry to Strathspey Thistle after the bottom-of-the-table side endured a wintry 270-mile round trip in vain. He was vain about his specialness until he realized he was really very common. What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account! He assured monks and nuns that they could break their vows without sin, because vows were an illegitimate and vain attempt to win salvation. Maurice pressed Frederick in vain to at least defend the Palatinate against the Spanish troops under Spinola and Tilly. His retreat was in vain, however, as he was overtaken by the Germanic cavalry and killed shortly thereafter, according to Velleius Paterculus. He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy. Show More Sentences A neighbor tried in vain to stanch the bleeding with a towel. Land of Hope and Glory, already popular, became still more so, and Elgar wished in vain to have new, less nationalistic, words sung to the tune. This was disputed in vain, and in 1777 Spain confirmed Portuguese sovereignty. He sent a stinging letter to Washington, in which he described him as an incompetent commander and a vain and ungrateful person. The enormity of the offence led Anselm to reject personal acts of atonement, even Peter Damian's flagellation, as inadequate and ultimately vain. They also started to besiege the new city of Tripoli, but in vain, and then returned to Cyprus. When Tekuder's brother Arghun challenged him for the throne, Tekuder sought assistance in vain from the Mamluks, but was executed. An attempt was made to obtain a revocation of the edict of expulsion as early as 1310, but in vain. According to the contemporary chronicler Roger of Howden, Longchamp dug a moat around the castle and tried in vain to fill it from the Thames. King Burgred of Mercia fought in vain against the Ivar the Boneless and his Danish invaders for three years until 874, when he fled to Europe. They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection. Man came into this world, not to sit down and muse, not to befog himself with vain subtleties, but to gird up his loins and to work. There is a famous photo of him scoring yet another header and the goalkeeper is clinging on to him while two defenders try in vain to stop him. In 1378, the city was besieged by Charles V as the rest of the Norman possessions of the King of Navarre, but in vain. Would he be so vain and blandished as to limit his strictures simply because the system now in place paraded in his name? In 893, aided by Archbishop Fulk of Reims, Charles the Simple attempted to reclaim the throne, but in vain. Volunteers searched the area in the vain hope of finding clues. But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. I am not able to unfold, how this cautelous enterprise of licencing can be exempted from the number of vain and impossible attempts. A vain effort to quell the public's fears only made matters worse. Show More Sentences Also, beyond incompetence, he was meant to be weak, vain and maudlin. He plays Benedick as vain and stiff, but he has both natural grace and a gift for big-muscle funniness. Also, the portrayal of Glendower is not exactly flattering as he is depicted as vain, and a bit of a blowhard who claims to be a Magus. The vain man grew his remaining hair long and twirled it in a spiral to try to cover his growing bald patch. Brave Angel was found under the Incienso Bridge, in Guatemala, and taken to hospital where doctors fought in vain for 15 days to save his life. She had always been so vain, so obsessed with her unblemished beauty. For the next seven years, between 1880 and 1887, Stevenson searched in vain for a place of residence suitable to his state of health. Governor Spitzer's upstate revitalization plan is a sign that Senate Democrats are not preaching in vain when it comes to the challenges of upstate economic development. In the 1970s Liberace is the brightest sequinned jewel in the Las Vegas entertainment crown, a talented, vain and paranoid performer with a prodigious sexual appetite. He tried in vain to persuade Rosebery to become Liberal leader again. That year, Labour MP Clare Short attempted in vain to persuade Parliament to outlaw the pictures on Page Three and gained opprobrium from the newspaper for her stand. Last year, it may be remembered, my allusions, such as they were, to the Pageant fever that obsessed the country were couched in somewhat supercilious vain. In another tragic case, Hugo, another of the Alaskan Malamute pups who arrived at the centre alongside Malakai, saw vets struggle in vain to save his life. The ball was launched goalward and Wolfgang Weber scored, with England appealing in vain for handball as the ball came through the crowded penalty area. Carl, who has been breeding Texels for 14 years, had slimmed down his Cosyn Texel flock to 30 ewes and is now waiting in vain for a batch from Lanarkshire. To make matters worse, Soyinka is a chronic name-dropper and so vain that he often sees himself as centre stage when he is in reality not much more than a spear carrier. In the 1970s, a Belgian consul in Oldenburg made the mayor of Bruges sign a declaration of friendship which he tried to present, in vain, as a jumelage. Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. In the children's play area outside, the old Pelton wheel stands there idly, pensioned off but still waiting in vain for the nod to whir back into action. In vain he protested and claimed the protection of Louis XIV. The King at Versailles was busied with the saving of his soul and with the doctoring of his gangrened knee. Show More Sentences Except for the purpose of vain pageants, designed to aucupate benefices, by cajoling the patrons, the University of Oxford has long ceased to exist. On the field at Wilryck, groundcrew were pushing two Tabloid aircraft through the rain, in the vain hope they would not be hit by bursting shells. I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has been attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete. Russian bombers were carpet bombing the ridge directly above them, in a vain attempt to kill the Mujahideen fighters that plagued their operations on the ground. Passers-by tried in vain to save former Plymouth Argyle youth player Alex Peguero-Sos with heart massage and CPR following the 2am clash in Kingsbridge, Devon. He was a lonely, latchkey kid who tried, in vain, to adopt a puppy. When Roberts and his men were finally found an attempt was made to blow the ship up rather than face capture, however it proved in vain due to an insufficient gunpowder. Harley employed her influence without scruple, and not in vain. His fat body shook like a balatron, as if his soul, biting for anger at a mouth inadequately circumferential, desired in vain to fret a passage through it. The vain Laird of Kiltie has one true love, his kilts, and the dodgy Mr Harris and Mr Tweed promise to come up with an unforgettable birthday kilt specially for him. After waiting here in vain for the rest of the fleet, they sailed south to another bay, where they stayed for five months, building a fort and loading logwood. Examples from Classical Literature It was a vain hope on the part of his backers, for when the winning post was passed Lucky Boy had a couple of lengths to the good. In vain Rama remonstrated with her, but she refused to be separated from him. It was in vain to prohibit by edict after edict the monopolization of land by the wealthy classes. Mr. Parsons in vain took down the wainscotting, to see whether some mischievous neighbour produced the sounds. It was in the hands of God, and prognostication could only be vain and unprofitable. They are a compromise, it is true, but that is better than the prohibitionist's vain fight. Slowly the vessels coasted along the uninviting shore, looking in vain for any inlet or any river's mouth. Having heard his monody to the end, and waited in vain for a second stave, I flew to his assistance. On these occasions he was too vain to see what she was too polite to show him offensively. For in the old days also reardon had been rather vain of outward conformity. Find more words! 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