Sentences with phrase «mostly in vain»

He also continues to struggle, mostly in vain, for his graduate level education in philosophy to produce anything beyond obscenely expensive soul building.

As the plots of these films go, sometimes the husband of the film ends up looking like the bad guy as he tries, mostly in vain, to keep the uncouth individual from threatening to tear his marriage or family apart.

That is, it's a gimmick movie in which Roberts» Katherine Watson tries, mostly in vain, to free her students» minds from the cobwebbed conservatism advocated by the college authorities, who wish that Watson would just stick to the curriculum.

Desperate to make good on his promise, as well as the lie he tells to his wife that he already has it in his possession, Howard travels from store to store in competion with other nasty shoppers all trying, mostly in vain, to secure one of the action figures for their own children.

Final Destination 3 sees the same age teens stuck in the same situation as the first two films, trying to figure out, mostly in vain, how to cheat death, after they've all escaped from a calamity meant for them.

The majority of us spend countless years training in order to get slimmer and get rid of the extra body fat, but mostly in vain.

Your baby's attempts to bring his hands to his mouth will be persistent, but mostly in vain at first.

Whitehead experiments further, mostly in vain, with the great conventional concepts of the arts and humanities, in order to characterize those kinds of transition between conceived and perceived reality (life, culture, and activity of the spirit, style; cf. OT 13, 17 - 24).

Not exact matches

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The concept behind Maybe Baby, a couple try everything possible to get pregnant in vain, isn't really a novel one (unless you count that it's based on director Ben Elton's novel, «Inconceivable»), although this situation is mostly prevalent on TV shows rather than the silver screen.

Brad Garrett is strictly the butt of jokes, donning an unflattering wrestling uniform and an unfortunate personality all for the sake of laughs and, mostly, in vain.