Sentences with phrase «looking in vain»

You will looking in vain.

My 6» 1 ″ frame fit well in the space provided, but soon into my first drive, I was looking in vain for a height adjustment for the front of the seat cushion, and there was none.

As if a sober and respectful adaptation of an earnest and leisurely nineteenth - century novel could still compete for eyes and ears in a twenty - first - century entertainment environment engineered to entice instead the sex - crazed, the violence junkies, and the attention - deficit - disordered — as if even the oil companies hadn't bailed on public television's Masterpiece Theatre because nobody seems to care anymore about character as destiny versus the British class system — here without apology are three more hours of Thomas Hardy moping about old Wessex, looking in vain for a laugh.

I've been looking in vain for months to find an appliance as powerful as vitamix but smaller, because I know that if I make the whole amount of sauce, I'm going to through more than half of it away!

But again we would be looking in vain for any precise point - like limit; this is why James speaks of the «vaguely vanishing backward fringe of the specious present.»

One will look in vain for any shred of humor in Memoirs in Exile, and in this lack it accurately epitomizes the struggle it recounts.

Mankind lies on its knees before the opposite of that which was the origin, the meaning, the right of the evangel; in the concept of «church» it has pronounced holy precisely what the «bringer of the glad tidings» felt to be beneath and behind himself — one would look in vain for a greater example of world - historical irony.

Most story book accounts refer to an apple, but you will look in vain for the apple in Genesis Chapter 3.

Adds the former president of a national environmental organization, who has looked in vain for support from religious groups in efforts to protect wilderness and wildlife: «The Unitarians occasionally let us meet in their buildings; that's been our primary contact with churches on this issue.»

Sometimes it is hard to discern the systematic function of a particular passage, while at the same point one looks in vain for a discussion of other questions that are necessarily related to the overall structure of his enterprise.

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.

One will look in vain for a fully developed theology of play in the New Testament.

We look in vain in the gospels for any such elaborate scheme of rules for living as were offered by contemporary moralists, Jewish and Greek.

Those who are looking for the insidious presence of Karl Marx as normative for the «second act» will look in vain; he is not cited even once.

For many sensitive people this is the most urgent question of all today, and they often look in vain to theology for some assistance.

One looks in vain in Luther, Calvin, Baxter, Wesley, Edwards, and all the major figures of three centuries of Protestant writing, for any more than incidental treatment of the problems of the economic, political and legal structures of life.

But one still looks in vain among the writings of liberation theologians to find discussions of the indispensable institutions of democratic (republican) government, such as guarantees of rights of minorities against the tyranny of the majority or divisions of responsibilities and functions that avoid dangerous concentrations of power.

We will look in vain for universal laws or definitions of an ideal justice that can then be applied to concrete cases.

One looks in vain in Deuteronomy for the statement of the equality of the stranger and the homeborn (Lev.

But as the home team ran on the field and faced the flag for the national anthem, the fans looked in vain for the Yankee hero.

As Pataki's third term as governor of New York was winding down in 2005 and 2006, The New York Sun wrote that «one looks in vain to discern any principle or idea that Mr. Pataki stands for consistently.»

The Tories will look in vain.

I looked in vain for a third box, but I presume the designer realised that by now the bus was bound for Hilbert's Hotel.»

One looks in vain for an exploration of the arguments in any of the essays in the volume.

The various solicitors in the cause, some two or three of whom have inherited it from their fathers - might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them.

«One looks in vain,» he wrote Johnson, «for a point of responsibility below the President capable of taking an evenhanded, comprehensive, authoritarian approach to the development of transportation policies or even able to assure reasonable coordination and balance among the various transportation programs of the government.»

But look for paint on canvas and you look in vain — I counted two pictures over three floors of galleries.

I looked in vain for the new cubism (born in Paris a century ago) or the new Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns or Robert Rauschenberg (all active in New York in 1962).

With no talk of «climate emergencies» in the report, we look in vain for any clear rationale for the possible deployment of albedo modification.

We look in vain to find reference to the proven power of corporations and lobbyists to stop environmental laws, or to the total victory of money politics in the United States, now entrenched after Citizens United.

But on the EPA global change program website we look in vain for publications, or even current project descriptions, since 2002 that would document the progress and results of this research agenda.

The dystopian looks in vain for promises of transformation of access to justice and legal services that could justify such a risk but there can be no such promise.

However, one looks in vain at ERA 1996, s 129 (or in the corresponding provision considered in Taplin, s 78 of the Employment Protection Act 1975) for any reference to exceptionality as a material consideration when construing the statutory word «likely».

One also looked in vain for any such power elsewhere in either in the rules or in the Warsaw Convention itself.

Look at the way in which they carve up our world — and you'll look in vain for a category or a main topic - head, let alone a section, for law or for its fuzzy cousin, justice.

Not exact matches

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

Without such an empirical anchorage all our theological thinking is in vain, and where there is controversy and argument we are to look for their resolution where they are fulfilled: in worship.»

In consequence, men look to religion in vain for tidy, comprehensive, or deducible answers to specific current problemIn consequence, men look to religion in vain for tidy, comprehensive, or deducible answers to specific current problemin vain for tidy, comprehensive, or deducible answers to specific current problems.

Look for just a moment at the religious symbols used in profanity, for these symbols have come to be viewed as covered by the third Commandment: «You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.»

But I try, When I dress you up in fine, fashionable clothes so that you will look like the others, When I keep you at home to protect you from the world, When I try, in vain, to fight the pull of time so it won't change anything about the way you laugh, the way you whisper, the way you play — all these little ways I know are yours alone.

We may look for signs in our tall steeples, in our organizational charts, or in our quadrennial plans, but if the sign of Jonah is lacking every other sign is in vain.

And, in a game with Washington, Lee Thomas let go of the ball so early in his windup that it fell two or three yards behind him while he looked, bewildered and in vain, after its nonexistent flight.

They attempted (in vain, for a while) to remain competitive while looking for talent where they could find it.

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).

Lots of people have tried bypassing these fundamental rules, looking for a shortcut, but in vain.

I hate to sound vain, but come on, who doesn't want to look good in their travel pics?

But look at it this way: if you do rotator - cuff exercises, a few years down the road you will still be able to do heavy chest, back, shoulder and arm work, whereas those who did not strengthen their inner shoulders will be using pansy - ass weights trying in vain to save whatever muscle they already built.

I took the photo before leaving for the conference because (a) I wanted to make sure the outfit looked good (I wore it while presenting and, hello, I'm vain); and (b) I wanted to have a decent photo of it in case it did turn out nicely.

Ummmmm, geez — the first thought that comes to mind for this Vain Vanessa is that I hope in three years my wrinkles aren't so bad that I look like it's been ten years!

feel I'm sexy enough good looking but hay not vain so cant judge myself if wan na know or chat drop me a text only available in day times?