Sentences with phrase «vain hope»

The present economic situation tends to turn many optimistic estimates into vain hopes.

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

They'll do this again and again in vain hopes that there will be no one there to dispute them.

«Listen,» I began, in vain hope of getting through to a brain that clearly held itself in low regard, «just please sign your organ donor card.»

This season we are miles away from making top four with the only vain hope of our defence withstanding some of the top sides left in Europa cup and thus us winning it.

Everything else is your own vain hope.

Remember when Grumpy Cat was the fussy little darling of the Internet and we all hoped against vain hope that her Lifetime Christmas movie — starring the Internet's other fussy darling, Aubrey Plaza, in the titular cat role — might actually be worth watching?

But now it's time to wait for Wednesday's announcement, in the perhaps vain hope that something closer to a business plan emerges.

My normal tale of woe is letting the mixture become too wet, sticking it in the freezer in vain hope of shaping it into sad little patties, and then watching them fall apart on the barbeque whilst consoling myself with a large glass of wine.

Even the history of the Christmas Truce itself shows that this was a vain hope.

The book business continued preparing for its own extinction, as another independent Canadian publisher, Douglas & McIntyre, entered bankruptcy protection while two of the remaining global giants, Penguin Books and Random House, pondered merging — if only in the vain hope of standing up to Amazon.

So, I expect, did the tendency of Christian leaders in the Middle East to curry favor with the dictator in power, in the vain hope that their communities would be left alone.

Or you can continue to disregard reality, hating people for no reason other than the vain hope that some unsubstantiated super-being will reward you for your inflexible ignorance.

Many modern Americans, Hibbs pointed out, persist in the vain hope that healthy eating, regular exercise, and seatbelts will somehow protect them from the indignities of aging and death.

They see that some of us are so self - interested, and so self - protective, that we will ally ourselves with someone who violates all that is sacred to us — in hope, almost certainly a vain hope given his mendacity and record of betrayal, that his rule will save us.

The war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its great might it can not save.

Even the excitement with which we have greeted each new technique has been due in part to the vain hope that it might solve the field's basic anomaly.

History would be folly if it were done in the vain hope of reconstructing the past as it actually was.

Unfortunately, seminary training is usually inadequate for pastoral preparation in our 21st century world that has become unmanageably complex and depersonalized by advanced technology and the Church has adopted a corporate structure rather than a communitarian struction in the vain hope of meeting the challenge.

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

try science not conjecture and vain hopes

It is a vain hope; life has been at the game for a long time and knows all the moves.

This is exactly the type of recipe why I keep coming back to your site so often (even though I am a subscriber) and why I keep on clicking the refresh button on Amazon (in the vain hope that your new book will be shipped sooner than initially indicated).

This was half sarcasm and half a vain hope that OG truly performs.

@ Third Man JW, Agreed with all, save your last sentence in vain hope.

It seems as if the Ox has already made his mind up to jump ship at the end of the season And I can understand why Wenger is publicly kissing his ass in vain hope that he stays.

I believe Wenger is living in the past and is ruining Arsenal in his vain hope of fulfilling his dream of getting Arsenal to play like long ago Barcelona.

The Wenger Out craze — started by disgruntled Arsenal fans in the vain hope of getting the club to part company with their manager (or vice versa)-- went truly global.

We now appear to have a manager who has grasped the principal that players need to be played in positions where they are comfortable, rather than shuffling the same 11 players around the field in a vain hope that they will eventually click into place.

«Cavani is a gooner» declare the most confident few while the rest of us make a futile attempt to lose ourselves in work in the vain hope that it would distract us from the chaos of the transfers.

We started putting food out for them in the vain hope we could attract some.

Don't use all your energy trying to «fix» it: Driving yourself mad trying a million different things in the vain hope it will sort the issue.

«In my case, weekends were destroyed as I spent time either canvassing or more likely attending events on both days in the vain hope it would rebuild trust with voters the more they saw of their MP.

For just over an hour and a quarter, self - important bubble Davies, supported by sycophantic squeak Chris Chope MP, talked and talked in vain hope that the proposal would run out of time and fail.

Fail to do this and UKIP supporters, including one - time Labour ones, will reluctantly vote Tory in the vain hope this will give them a say.

At the heart of The Pinch is a tension between the apparently unstoppable demographic juggernaut that is the babyboomers, rampaging their way through the second half of the 20th century and beyond, and the vain hope that individuals can make a difference to change this.