The phrase "a vain of" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a misinterpretation or typo, as "vain" typically refers to excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements, while "vein" refers to a channel or a specific quality.
Example: "She was in a vain of self-importance, believing she was the best candidate for the job."
Alternatives: "a vein of" or "a sense of".
But last year it was a few months too early because all I could think of was R. A few weeks after we split, out of a vain sense of curiosity over how many enquiries I might receive, I signed up to a dating website.
He was selling the guitar for a last-chance excuse of contact, a vain improbability of pressing his fingers one more time down on her stretched-out legs, of pressing on as to what, if anything, was behind Beth's matter-of-fact and almost naive assumption of this posture.
Not this boasty-toasty aberration, a vain slice of life and relic of an age best forgotten.
The Brotherhood leadership talks of a year or two of transition, although that may reflect a vain hope of using that time to broaden its popular support enough to reach a controlling plurality.
Although traditional historians have paid tribute to them, Matsudaira's reforms are now generally considered to have been a vain resuscitation of an outdated system and to have hindered any adjustment of the process of government to changes already taking place in society.
7.13pm GMT Well, I m off in a vain hope of spotting Dave and Boris sharing a fondue.
Leave days rationed out by the computer, hoarded for a vain flicker of freedom.
Sometimes charity reflects a sense of mortality (as Joan Weill kindly reminded her husband: "shrouds don't have pockets"); sometimes, a vain hope of immortality, secured by your name on that university chair or hospital wing.
Manuel launched a vain invasion of the Norman kingdom on his own account in 1154, but it was too late for a revival of Byzantine imperialism in the West.
But she said the district would be better served by retaining her as a centrist pipeline to the offices of President Bush and Representative J. Dennis Hastert, the speaker, rather than tossing her out in a vain hope of overthrowing the Republicans.
Plus, she had tolerated her husband better when he wasn't such a vain custodian of the ephemeral — one mustn't fawn over that which will rot, someone important must have once said.
