She received B.R.A.G. Medallion awards for both Hollow and
Vain Pursuits, the first two books in her Bunny Elder Christian thriller series which also includes Seadrift and... and Something Blue.
My youngest just bought some skincare from online, called
Vain Pursuits.
I was wondering if you could review
Vain Pursuits?
How depressing it would be to realize that you had wasted your entire life on
vain pursuits.
But this is no reason to waste it on
vain pursuits and empty pleasures.
And why proclaim anything, if its just an exercise of self - aggrandizement or other
vain pursuit?
At midnight we were back in the village, feeling much, I suppose, as the English knights felt as they gave up
the vain pursuit of an enemy that struck and disappeared, then came disconsolately home, sweating and clanking in their expensive armor.
Consider the strange case of the «Blood Countess», a 16th - century Hungarian noblewoman / serial killer who bathed in the blood of her victims — 650 servant girls — in
the vain pursuit of eternal youth.
So quit allowing yourself to be» Blinded by Science» in
the vain pursuit of significance in your otherwise technology addled meaningless little life..
More like wretched excess conspicuous consumption to little or no end other than boosting one's flagging ego in
the vain pursuit of relevancy and meaning in one's vapid meaningless albeit money filled life.
Not exact matches
Saving Adam Smith can help save us from both the folly of
vain materiel
pursuit and the heartless neglect of people in need.
The etymological
pursuit is
vain: we do not know and can not now determine the original meaning of the Hebrew root.
I know what you're thinking: «In
pursuit of perfect skin»; how
vain!
But in my world, an interest in fashion is stereotypically seen as a shallow
pursuit, and if you care about your outward appearance, you must be incredibly
vain (and probably not all that smart).
As none of the featurettes are labelled and there's no «play all» option, the effect is that you're spending a lifetime cycling through this shit in the
pursuit,
vain, of something of value.
Alas, this «race to nowhere» is littered with
vain academic
pursuits, anxious students, and child athletes pressed to unnaturally accelerate their development in unhealthy, harmful competitive environments.
Yeah son... thats a heck of a life you've carved out for yourself... trolling the net 24/7/365 in the obsessive
pursuit of a target in the
vain hope of attaining some sense of vendetta.
In The Hunchback of Notre - Dame, Victor Hugo magnificently illustrated this
vain and violent
pursuit of the love object who ignores you.