Sentences with phrase «into vain»

The present economic situation tends to turn many optimistic estimates into vain hopes.

Lifestyle inflation takes extra money and turns it into a vain attempt to buy joy.

But, most of the time all plays into vain.

And woe, on that day, to those who called the apostles liars, Who plunged for pastime into vain disputes — On that day shall they be thrust with thrusting to the fire of Hell: — 12

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And they kept searching in vain for Dzhokhar, who had disappeared into the night.

What he did: After searching in vain for a publisher for Boob Tube, a satirical novel about the soap opera industry that he penned with his wife, tech entrepreneur Mark Coker, 47, took matters into his own hands.

If we don't throw ourselves into it, then it feels almost like these people were murdered in vain.

I think it's a vain effort, and focuses on the wrong segments, but nonetheless there is considerable uncertainty which always casts suspicions into the shadows.

Gary stands on the edge of the precipice of Brigitte's mind and stares intently into the chasm... straining in vain to see anything resembling form or definition.

The entire universe has been dropped into the torrential flow of His grace and redemption and no matter how much we might swim against the current or splash around in our own vain attempts at self - glorification, we can not resist the direction that Jesus is pulling all creation toward.

My view (before incorporating Chuck's post into my thinking) was that we take God's name in vain when we add God's name to our beliefs and behaviors so that we can appear more holy and authoritative to others.

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

And consonantly with this, one looks in vain on the pages of Altizer for any moral - social direction the radical Christian should take, beyond that of plunging with all one has in him into contemporary «historical» action.

I assayed many ways to help to quiet my conscience, but it would not be; for the concupiscence and lust of my flesh did always return, so that I could not rest, but was continually vexed with these thoughts: This or that sin thou hast committed: thou art infected with envy, with impatiency, and such other sins: therefore thou art entered into this holy order in vain, and all thy good works are unprofitable.

They made loud speeches about divorce, adultery and fasting, hoping in vain to coerce him into agreeing with them.

The hierarchical Church is a rigid institution striving in vain to bring the behavior and ideas of its members into line with traditional orthodoxy.

For example, Paul declared that although men knew God through what, it could be clearly seen, He had created, they «glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations... professing themselves to be wise, they became as fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.»

My normal tale of woe is letting the mixture become too wet, sticking it in the freezer in vain hope of shaping it into sad little patties, and then watching them fall apart on the barbeque whilst consoling myself with a large glass of wine.

I also thought Sanchez was our best player 3 years straight and who tried in vain to galvanise the rest of the players into winning more trophies.

The ball hit his hands and forearms, spun off, then glanced up into his eyes as he groped for it in vain.

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However, it was Russia who finished strongly with substitute Aleksandr Bukharov appealing in vain for a last - gasp penalty after going down in the box before defender Georgy Dzhikya heading inches over Rui Patricio's crossbar deep into injury - time.

So much so that I remember Wales flying him into Finland at the last moment, so that he could play, and play effervescently, after Newcastle's then manager Bobby Robson had tried in vain to stop him going.

We now appear to have a manager who has grasped the principal that players need to be played in positions where they are comfortable, rather than shuffling the same 11 players around the field in a vain hope that they will eventually click into place.

I want to remind people that we could not have possibly forgotten that Generals were executed.The greed, corruption and injustice of today is a thousand times more than what these Generals were executed for and if we are unable to restore a firm measure of integrity into our dealings, then the blood of many would have been shed in vain.

The former President said: «If we are unable to restore a firm measure of integrity into our dealings, then the blood of many would have been shed in vain.»

The greed, corruption and injustice of today is a thousand times more than what these Generals were executed for and if we are unable to restore a firm measure of integrity into our dealings, then the blood of many would have been shed in vain.

Moderate members like me aren't prepared to allow Corbyn the luxury of leading Labour into the electoral abyss in the vain hope that this dose of real democracy will banish the hard left forever.

If Google's Clips camera achieves nothing more than throwing those questions into sharper focus, its invention won't have been in vain.

During my drive, I kept listening, in vain, for the whine of the air compressor that force - feeds oxygen into the fuel cell to mix with the hydrogen to create electricity.

Rather I am standing alone upon the insane red Martian deserts (Martian in the utterly legitimate sense of Mars - like; you can look it up) of southern Utah, thumping periodically and in vain upon the Perspex porthole set into the outdoor air - lock door of a grubby white structure known as the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS).

Well, all her experiments never go in vain because every new style she adopts brings new life and beauty into her outlooks.

Putting effort into your appearance is seen as vain.

On the other hand, people who are into BDSM join paid websites because they know that their money will not be in vain.

Speaking of musicals: Into the Woods vet Magnussen once again nearly steals the whole show, infusing another vain himbo with just enough humanity to make him lovable instead of loathsome.

I may be reading too much into this film in a vain attempt to search for any sort of meaning, but there was one storyline that left me feeling odd.

Oskar Schindler is a vain, glorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews.

That Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi, a third minor return from the original, is given short shrift, suggests that most of the characters exist merely as vain stereotypes given simplistic narrative focus that evaporates once the action comes into full focus.

To depict war on film is a tricky thing, and, as if to acknowledge the dangers of trivializing suffering into rousing pyrotechnics, Bigelow at one point fills the screen with images from a first - person shooter video game as a soldier tries in vain to unwind back in the barracks.

The most amusing obstacle — Bill Nighy as a vain has - been star, now crammed into a supporting role.

Fifteen seconds into the movie, however, and it's abundantly clear who this character is: he's a vain, silly, womanizing, and probably deeply sad, buffoon.

When Jake Lloyd and later Hayden Christensen portrayed young Anakin Skywalker, one searched in vain for convincing signs that somewhere in the character, as they played him, nestled the seed of evil that would bloom into Darth Vader.

And when the actor does launch into full - on «Jack» mode — as when he trashes their motel room in a vain effort to rouse Meadows» anger — Ashby refuses to allow Nicholson's persona to subsume the character.

Professor Plummer was killed over a piece of software named G.H.O.S.T. (though not in the pantry with a candlestick) now believed to have been stashed somewhere in his home; when the snot - nosed kids — vain Zoe (Brittany Snow), surly Seth (Max Thieriot), precocious Lulu (Morgan York, also one of the Cheaper by the Dozen brats), and reaction - shot fodder Peter (Keegan & Logan Hoover) and Baby Tyler (Bo & Luke Vink (and with «The Dukes of Hazzard»'s impending renaissance, boy are those two in for a rude awakening at the start of school)-RRB--- grease the stairwell to take out Shane, they end up driving away their German nanny (a typically misused Carol Kane) instead, forcing Shane into a more maternal role and leaving him little time to search for the computer program.

The film is adapted from Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin's graphic novel, in which Stalin's sudden death in 1953 serves as a catalyst for action, with neurotic acting general secretary Nikita «Nicky» Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi) and comrades Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor, deliciously vain and making fine use of a girdle) and foreign affairs minister Vyacheslav Molotov (Michael Palin) each trying to manoeuvre his way into a position of more power.

So while we try in vain to join the dots, hoping for that all important eureka moment, where everything falls into place, it sadly never comes.

The most heartbreaking moment of selfishness comes in the other segment where the elderly Imma (Shirley Henderson) has herself flayed alive in a vain attempt to match her sister Dora's beauty, the latter being enchanted by a witch into a lovely maiden.

An inept gang of burglars, played by front - rank Italian movie stars Vittorio Gassmann, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori and Toto, try in vain to break into and rob a store.

Smaug is more than just a source of fiery death; it's a vain, taunting character with feline movements and an attitude of amusement toward the tiny thing that has stupidly dared into its lair.

For many classroom teachers, the microcomputer «revolution» of the early 1980's fizzled as rapidly as it had begun when they tried in vain to integrate a first generation of generally bland, uninspired, and error riddled software into their lesson plans.