Sentences with phrase «in the vain pursuit»

Consider the strange case of the «Blood Countess», a 16th - century Hungarian noblewoman / serial killer who bathed in the blood of her victims — 650 servant girls — in the vain pursuit of eternal youth.

So quit allowing yourself to be» Blinded by Science» in the vain pursuit of significance in your otherwise technology addled meaningless little life..

More like wretched excess conspicuous consumption to little or no end other than boosting one's flagging ego in the vain pursuit of relevancy and meaning in one's vapid meaningless albeit money filled life.

Not exact matches

Saving Adam Smith can help save us from both the folly of vain materiel pursuit and the heartless neglect of people in need.

At midnight we were back in the village, feeling much, I suppose, as the English knights felt as they gave up the vain pursuit of an enemy that struck and disappeared, then came disconsolately home, sweating and clanking in their expensive armor.

I know what you're thinking: «In pursuit of perfect skin»; how vain!

But in my world, an interest in fashion is stereotypically seen as a shallow pursuit, and if you care about your outward appearance, you must be incredibly vain (and probably not all that smart).

As none of the featurettes are labelled and there's no «play all» option, the effect is that you're spending a lifetime cycling through this shit in the pursuit, vain, of something of value.

Alas, this «race to nowhere» is littered with vain academic pursuits, anxious students, and child athletes pressed to unnaturally accelerate their development in unhealthy, harmful competitive environments.

Yeah son... thats a heck of a life you've carved out for yourself... trolling the net 24/7/365 in the obsessive pursuit of a target in the vain hope of attaining some sense of vendetta.

She received B.R.A.G. Medallion awards for both Hollow and Vain Pursuits, the first two books in her Bunny Elder Christian thriller series which also includes Seadrift and... and Something Blue.

In The Hunchback of Notre - Dame, Victor Hugo magnificently illustrated this vain and violent pursuit of the love object who ignores you.