Sentence examples for is vain to from inspiring English sources

Against such opinions it is vain to argue".

Maybe it is vain to say we have the pack against us.

A voice rings out telling Joseph that it is vain to attempt to hasten the footsteps of the Redeemer.

Amid Turks in Germany, Algerians in France and Pakistanis in Britain, it is vain to look for a simple cause that determines the conversion to jihad (literally, struggle).

God has given this earth to those who will subdue and cultivate it, and it is vain to struggle against his righteous decree".

If such a thought were vain, to me it yet remains the breath of life itself, greater than grief and lonelier than a cloudless sky.

He might learn, for example, to care about his body without being vain; to fight without getting angry; to make himself heard without shouting.

The catalog to his first American retrospective quotes the French critic Francis Ponge, one of Fautrier's early advocates: "It would be vain to try to express with language, with adjectives, what Fautrier has expressed with his painting.

Yet it would be vain to deny that the EEOC is effectively conveying a message.

Being vain to the extent of narcissism is not cool.

The image must have infuriated Mohammed, who is vain enough to have complained during a military-court hearing that a sketch artist had drawn his nose too big.