Sentences with phrase «entirely in vain»

Still, the defense's temporary residence on Facebook was not entirely in vain, they write.

It lets them know that they (or anyone they sell your address to) that continuing to send email to that address won't be entirely in vain.

The discount though has not been entirely in vain as Woot reported having sold 612 of the WebOS running tablets during the period.

You can probably figure out that Hollywood wouldn't make a movie in which a mining accident sparked a rescue mission that was entirely in vain.

But let's hope that Barnhill's vision is not entirely in vain.

Not exact matches

Hapless, Helpless and Hopeless is a video by Rob Kennedy and Peter Dowling produced entirely of sampled television advertisements that attempts to adapt and re-define the codes at work in these sales pitches, building a «grammar» that can be used to suggest other readings, other outcomes, other problems, than those nominally prescribed in the role of the advertisement, This is not in some vain attempt at trying to negate the power of these adverts, but in order to construct a constantly shifting series of relationships that mines the psychological, emotional and semiotic power of these highly produced images and sounds.