Sentences with phrase «vain attempts at»

This is a record of a child, odd and difficult from birth, in the grip of senseless obsessions, controlling the family with rigid rules and prohibitions, tearing through the house as fast and destructive as a tornado, grunting instead of talking, unresponsive to his parents» loving concern, their urging, coaxing, their vain attempts at discipline, their anger and spanking.

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.

I guess his peers are now referring to him as «Milky Sutherland» in a vain attempt at schoolyard humor.

Precision cutting and flowing camera movement would come to define the action film, blowing away the tension - based American system with a surfeit of bullets, preferably fired by a man clinching a match in his teeth, firing two handguns at once it a vain attempt at exorcising his existential pain.

Hapless, Helpless and Hopeless is a video by Rob Kennedy and Peter Dowling produced entirely of sampled television advertisements that attempts to adapt and re-define the codes at work in these sales pitches, building a «grammar» that can be used to suggest other readings, other outcomes, other problems, than those nominally prescribed in the role of the advertisement, This is not in some vain attempt at trying to negate the power of these adverts, but in order to construct a constantly shifting series of relationships that mines the psychological, emotional and semiotic power of these highly produced images and sounds.

And like that frozen image I saw many years ago, humans will yet climb onto the backs of all remaining life on earth, killing it all the faster in a vain attempt at survival, and unwilling to do the only thing that would actually save themselves and everything else.

Not exact matches

At the surface level of the texts they have bequeathed to us, we search in vain for psychological insights or any attempts to correlate theological or ethical assertions with human realities which we label psychological.

Paul III (1534 - 49), in a vain attempt to halt the divisions in the church, convened a council at Trent.

I, on the other hand, am 816 % ready to have it gone and to move on to Fall comfort foods and cozy cool evenings, crispy leaves under my feet as the puppy drags me at a run across the yard in a vain attempt to catch the cats on her 2 inch tall legs.

if wenger sees he's losing them, at press conferences, he'll be saying SPIRIT SPIRIT SPIRIT in a vain attempt to manage them.

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

Recent evidence suggests that this impression, which I received on a recent visit in a vain attempt to view the Northern Lights, was a misleading one at least as far as some of the Icelandic elite are concerned.

Veterans of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne and the latter two Persona games will be all to familiar with this scenario: trying to fuse two demons together only to spend forever flipping back and forth and back and forth in a vain attempt to have your new demon inherit at least one of the skills you, y ’ know, actually want.

bring the new Shelby Mustang to the party [to reach price point parity... at least US prices] and watch the M2 / M3 / M4 shrink into the distance seeing only the Shelby's tail lights in the vain attempt to keep up... on the strip or road course.

All this was accomplished so quickly that the priest felt no pain, but only boundless shock as the grip released him and he stumbled forward, one hand clutching at his perforated throat in a vain attempt to stem the flow of the warm blood that sluiced irresistibly through his fingers.

AT&T has come out first with firm pricing and launch details for the Mega 6.3, with the phone launching this Friday at $ 149.99 with a new 2 year agreement, while Sprint and US Cellular have yet to disclose their own pricing and launch details, other than to announce that they will be carrying the device and Sprint will be allowing truly unlimited data, in a vain attempt to play up its Unlimited for Life marketing campaign.

In an attempt to escape the turmoil and upheaval that occurred at the end of the Tang dynasty (618 — 906), a number of tenth - century painters retreated into the mountains where they found, in nature, the moral equilibrium for which they had searched in vain in the human world.

On the one - year anniversary of September 11, the team met on the Capitol roof at midnight «in a vain attempt to meet the demand for flags that flew on September 11» and raised and lowered 8,000 flags over the next 21 hours.

All my frenetic attempts at networking so far have been in vain!