Sentence examples for probably vain from inspiring English sources

This is doubtless naïve, and probably vain, but it is a necessary and continuing self-deception.

The writer in this tradition toils in the hope (probably vain) of reversing more than a hundred and fifty years of gardening history.

And plans are afoot to turn the bureau into an independent agency, in the probably vain hope that this would free it from politics.Poor Mr Groves will have his hands full.

This is doubtless naive, and probably vain, but it is a necessary and continuing self-deception... Novelists have never much operated in schools; and they do so perhaps even less nowadays.

Protestations that the poem is satirical are probably in vain.

But you are probably more vain about how intelligent you are.

They will also struggle, probably in vain, to make the much-abused ceilings on euro members' fiscal deficits more enforceable.

Blair, sensibly if probably in vain, is trying to win remission by good works in the Middle East.

The top ten two-beer arguments that I hope (probably in vain) not to have to keep having with friends/acquaintances/enemies/family members in 2011: 1.

The Sunnis then hope that a new document would—among other things—soften the present version's federal character.That is probably a vain hope.

Meanwhile, the Mariners are once again in first place, using good young players obtained in the Johnson deal, and hoarding money from Junior's departure that they will try to use to retain Alex Rodriguez, probably in vain.