Sentence examples for increasingly vain from inspiring English sources

After a while, the case was all but forgotten, set aside in the increasingly vain hope that fresh evidence might one day turn up.

In 1970, he moved to Westland, where he spent the rest of his career in an increasingly vain battle to build the helicopter company's commercial viability.

Lacking flexibility or imagination, he was unable to understand that those political deceits that he always practiced in increasingly vain attempts to uphold his authority eventually impugned his honour and damaged his credit.

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There isn't much spark to the relationship between Depp and his vain and increasingly combustible FBI handler Connolly.

Recent opinion polls show a majority to be increasingly convinced that the vain policies of our political and intellectual elites have made us less safe than before.

That said, the descriptions of the trashed countryside are hauntingly evocative and there is a real sense of pathos in the way that Jay, his mind increasingly adrift, tries in vain to battle the pitiless elements.

It approximates what most of us expect, and increasingly yearn for, in vain, our cinematic experience".

In the minds of the electorate, they are increasingly viewed as pompous, vain, and motivated by greed.

With the son's accession as Joseph II (1780), the foreign minister's powers were cut drastically, and the vain, eccentric Kaunitz was increasingly pushed into the background.

As a member of Mr. Ben Bella's cabinet, Mr. Harbi tried in vain to combat the increasingly authoritarian direction of the revolution.