Sentences with phrase «ultimately vain»

Or driving a friend's mother around for days in the ultimately vain hope that maybe, possibly, she's ready to buy?

And with customers losing respect for the company and its products, it may mean losing a real potential customer in the long term, all in the name of an ultimately vain effort to go after people who may never have wanted to buy the product in the first place.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

After all, did not the Christ show us that worldly power, the power to control, is ultimately vain and empty?

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God fear would make a man of faith to think a thousand time and will ultimately stop him from being corrupt and from doing other vain things of the world.

The film's Dolby Digital 5.1 track (Amazon currently erroneously reports the disc as containing an additional DTS option) delivers the songs by Sparklehorse with punch, though this is ultimately a mix in the vain of most comedies, leaving pyrotechnics off its agenda.

Several voters paired Prince John with Sir Hiss, his scheming snake sidekick, but ultimately this uniquely vain royal stood on his own as the most formidable villain from Disney's all - animal adaptation.

In short, you'll have a much better shot at a secure and comfortable retirement if you spend your time and energy creating a viable retirement income plan, rather than engaging in a vain search for investments that purport to offer an often - sought, but ultimately unattainable, combination of safety and high returns.

Yes, ultimately you know that your efforts are in vain because Sauron does return to Mordor but that doesn't seem to matter much since the story and game are so enjoyable.

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.