Sentence examples for have been vain from inspiring English sources

I have been vain since birth.

The Independent also thought "the horror in Paris should spur a fresh united assault" against Isis: "If Paris's 129 dead spur the diplomats at Vienna's conference on the Syrian civil war into bringing Isis's enemies together in a coordinated response, their deaths will not have been vain".

She may have been vain, but she was also one smart pig, given that researchers regard the ability to use a mirror as evidence of complex cognition.

The answers given by Bigelow and Boal to justify the normalizing of torture in Zero Dark Thirty have been vain, wheedling, and dodgy.

La Russa, who is awfully prickly and defensive for a world-historic genius, has been vain and sour and meddlesome to the point of caricature.

"What he had were vain, imperious, disputatious, dissolute popinjays and nonentities, many of whom spent the day drunk".

"My hopes may have been in vain".

But now it appears to have been in vain.

"Otherwise his life will have been in vain".

"All searches to date have been in vain," he said.

The final appeal appears to have been in vain.