Sentences with phrase «very vain»

To quote William Makepeace Thackeray, the lapel - creasing showdown — if not the entire Gatsbyesque experience that was the over-the-top opening of Mexico City's Museo Jumex — epitomised today's gilded global artworld as «a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions».

«When I do things I do them properly, and then the other Marina comes and is very fragile and very vain and wants to eat ice - cream.»

Not in everything, I think it would be very vain to consider everything as a monument.

It's a useless suite of features, yet some small part of me — some very vain part of me — enjoyed knowing that my headset matched the lighting on my PC, keyboard and mouse.

Ambrose appears to be very vain about both his appearance and his work, but it's really just a front for his increasing awareness that his glory days are over.

Sorry but your god is very vain.

As for the Dr, in front of your name, I'd bet you are either very vain about it, or it came from a mail order degree mill.

You're very vain if you think it was targeted at you if you are a believer.

Not exact matches

844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them: Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator.

The way of AA is in storytelling to others their past dealings with the «sauce» of life's very cunning juices that one tries in vain to be an overcomer of such a drug whose only comfort is an ever decaying sense of socal immorality and individualized unrighteousness.

He walked away from the very presence of God and became alone as he followed the vain imaginations of his own mind.

Using God's name to claim some kind of providence to run for office is the very definition of a violation of Ten Commandments not to use the Lord's Name in Vain.

However vain and conceited men may be, they have nevertheless for the most part a very lowly conception of themselves, that is to say, they have no conception of being spirit, the absolute of all that a man can be — but vain and conceited they are... by way of comparison.

In fact, most of them know very little about their own religion, to them it's just a vain, empty symbol.

He shows very convincingly that his most prominent accusers are motivated by misguided and vain moralistic indignation far more than any grasp of what Strauss actually wrote.

I am very cautious with (vain?)

I do not to say that we do not feel pain from the illusion of loneliness, we very well do, but, (and I think this is also another important note) our sufferings are not useless or in vain unless we choose to make them so.

But very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, have exchanged the truth of God for a lie and served the world rather than the Creator (cf Rom 1:21, 25).

(Personally, such comments offend me deeply, as I feel they take God's name in vain in a very destructive and detestable way.

I think we have to be very careful of using God's name in vain, of creating Him in our image and using Him to win arguments.

This act is prayer, by which term I understand no vain exercise of words, no mere repetition of certain sacred formulæ, but the very movement itself of the soul, putting itself in a personal relation of contact with the mysterious power of which it feels the presence — it may be even before it has a name by which to call it.

i think this could officially be the start of the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for klopp

There are still tumbleweeds blowing around the Emirates stadium wait in vain for Arsene Wenger to use the club's mountain of cash and bring in a player or two to help us achieve the very difficult task of competing with our big spending rivals for the Premier League title.

Had they continued in the same vain for the next few weeks, automatic promotion would have been very unrealistic.

Where the attack may have strived in vain, the defence did very well against a Plymouth side that did eventually come out and attack in the second - half.

And on a completely vain, superficial note, I struggled mightily BOTH times with how very pregnant I looked for several weeks after giving birth.

But astrophysicists have searched in vain for signs of antimatter galaxies, which would reveal their presence in a very dramatic way: Any matter hitting an antimatter star, for instance, would create a titanic burst of energy.

And, in this knowing, may we be guided to embrace every moment, to live fully and to love so very deeply so that their suffering will not have been in vain.

This claim does not go in vain because even bodybuilders say that it is a very efficient machine that provides you with the perfect workout and is perfectly safe.

I loved the flavor the hazelnut flour imparted, however, the bread cubes are very dark and for appearance sake (what can I say, I am vain about my food presentation), the almond flour cubes will lighten the dish up.

Very inspiring: — RRB - I actually have that pattern as well and have been searching in vain for the perfect fabric.

The brush helps with separation but I sometimes follow behind with a safety pin to get the best look possible (I know, I know — this is absurd but I'm very careful and vain and I just don't mind the extra effort).

A lot of people work very hard to lose pounds and maintain a healthy lifestyle, but do so in vain because of what's in the food they're eating.

Bening enjoyably makes Gloria a vain diva whose underlying insecurity makes her very likeable.

This protection would be vain, however, if a state would at the same time violate this right itself on the very basic level — in school education — by either not having the topic in the programmes or teaching it in the way which actually diminishes or denies the crimes.

The distributor change was not in vain because the older one was already very worn out and used to get the governor stuck with advanced timing after a few revs.

by the very man thats been trying so hard to silence all of us for years in his vain attempts to push forward with Marchinonne's Madness..

The intent of this book is to rebuke the very image elicited from reading the title: Millennials are more than gloomy young men who sing depressing songs into their iPhones or vain young women who purse their lips to take the perfect Instagram photo.

They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self - controlled, only obtuse; not self - respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all: liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls.

George Orwell had this to say, about his own writing: All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom -LSB-...]

Chrono Trigger is probably my favourite JRPG ever and to hear that this game is very much in the same vain has me excited.

But not in vain — it provides an excuse to consider the very idea of collecting and its limits, while remaining open to doubt and pleasure.

Ikait is stable below +5 Celsius, and if that forms, the very plaster will fall down like dry chalk powder next summer, and all that burning of wood was in vain.

They have understood that all these measures taken to reduce coal and oil dependency are very much in vain, and, not only that but they provide lots of new opportunities for oil companies.

Concerning yourself with your income is not as vain as some would have you believe, especially when your very quality of life is closely tied to the number.