Sentence examples for seemed vain from inspiring English sources

At the time the ambition seemed vain: Brazil was losing 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 square miles) of forest a year.

After last week's outstanding Page Eight, it seemed vain to expect something this good to turn up on ITV and yet here it was.

Female celebrities with plastic surgery no longer seemed vain and pathetic, but trapped and tragic.

That hope seems vain now.

He seems vain.

Don't worry about seeming vain or weird.

Viewed from the West, its efforts seem vain.

That was the hope anyway, and in 2002, it didn't seem vain.

He is an unobtrusively unforgettable writer whose style is so simple as to make most words seem vain and superfluous.

And he acknowledged the risk of further social media publicity "aimed at making the court's injunction seem vain".

"I don't want to seem vain or anything," Ms. Plimpton said, "but I was a little nervous about playing a grandmother.