Sentence examples for be vain for from inspiring English sources

Briefly, crudely, yet strikingly, Malthus argued that infinite human hopes for social happiness must be vain, for population will always tend to outrun the growth of production.

Cease, then, this brawling, and do not draw your sword; rail at him if you will, and your railing will not be vain, for I tell you- and it shall surely be- that you shall hereafter receive gifts three times as splendid by reason of this present insult.

Smith proposes that it would be vain for us to expect benevolence in market societies.

Christian Wade's hat-trick of tries proved to be vain for Wasps.

Today's the day you get to be vain for once!

"The whole context of what we're doing right now is vain for me.

I have 1,727 Facebook friends, but such a number is vain; for the word "friend" has nowadays become meaningless.

The roar of fire and shriek of pain, And the blood that boils and splashes ; These all consumeathe search were vain For the lovers' mingled ashes.

2 Moreover, when those whose habit it is to overload their stomachs twice a day, and to pass no night without a harlot, have enslaved the mind, which ought to have ruled, it is vain for them to hope to find it ready for action after they have dulled and crippled it.

So let's not make it harder by accusing other and ourselves of being vain for feeling this way.

In Polin, as the Jews referred to Poland, what pervades above all is the memory of life - of a life impossible to recreate, but whose memory isn't, and shouldn't be, vain nostalgia for a lost past.