Sentences with phrase «really was in vain»

Another reason not to remove the lumps for aesthetic reasons is that they can grow back meaning that the discomfort for the dog really was in vain.

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He also examines how the human being who denies these moral truths steeps himself ever deeper in perverted forms of remorse, confession, atonement, reconciliation, and justification, all in the vain attempt to convince himself and others that evil is really good.

Do you REALLY believe you are right, or do you just enjoy repeating the lie in the vain hope it will become true?

I love Christ with all my heart but I hate people using His name in vain for their own gain... Is she really glorifying Jesus?

The fundamental misfortune of Christendom is really Christianity, the fact that the doctrine of the God - Man (the Christian understanding of which, be it noted, is secured by the paradox and the possibility of offense) is taken in vain, the qualitative distinction between God and man is pantheistically abolished — first speculatively with an air of superiority, then vulgarly in the streets and alleys.

Is it really so bad to celebrate Christmas and channel the «spirit» of Santa instead of trying in vain to wrongly assure a kid that Santa is real after alIs it really so bad to celebrate Christmas and channel the «spirit» of Santa instead of trying in vain to wrongly assure a kid that Santa is real after alis real after all?

I've tried in vain to find out who uttered these words or why but it's definitely true that a broad and well shaped pair of shoulders can really separate the men from the boys!

And seeing the opulence and decadence of the Capitol (with garish characters like Stanley Tucci's blue - haired talk - show host, Elizabeth Banks» vain and clueless 12th district tribute wrangler Effie Trinket, and Wes Bentley's maniplative game - controller Seneca Crane), is really only symbolic representation of the 1 % vs 99 % that is in the news today.

When He Who Must Not Be Named is wounded in one scene, the soft yawp Fiennes lets out reminds us that this noseless nightmare is really just a vain, greedy little man at heart.

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.

In Tale Three the vain (and rather stupid) Gorgeous Gerald is stalked by a Ghost who wants to live again in a really handsome body to win back his wife ImeldIn Tale Three the vain (and rather stupid) Gorgeous Gerald is stalked by a Ghost who wants to live again in a really handsome body to win back his wife Imeldin a really handsome body to win back his wife Imelda.

So perhaps rather than once again going down the Rabbit Hole of excess pretense in vain... perhaps AM's minders would be better focusing their efforts into bringing what AM really should stand for [Gentlemen's Grand Tourers] into the 21st century... rather than foisting rebodied 20the century technology upon its customer base.

I get a lot of emails about inside bars, and many traders try in vain to trade them on lower time frame charts, and it really is just a huge waste of time.

I definitely understand the criticism that the original PC release has gotten, but I do think there is some potential for this to be really good — up to four player couch co-op is a huge win for this type of game for me, and active control in the vain of great console hack «n slashes like Champions of Norrath imho really makes this type of game more interesting.

Frankly, I think Microsoft released some really nice products in the past year (windows phone is awesome, no doubt windows 8 is nice on tablet, no development IDE comes even close to visual studio), but I think their attempts to claim marketshare in pc gaming content delivery are in vain.

If you are really interested in this (and not just interested in grasping at straws in a vain hope that adding more GHG's to the Earth's atmosphere will have no effect) you should pick up a text book on introductory atmospheric physics or atmospheric radiative transfer.

«You couldn't really do agriculture in Ancient Greece,» according to journalist and author Will Storr, whose book «Selfie: How We Became So Self - Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us,» says the roots of the modern world's striving, vain culture can be found in the lands around Olympus.

Because of her periodic outbursts and her subtle criticisms, Tom knows her encouragement of his alone time is really just pretense, and so all her good efforts are ultimately in vain.