Sentence examples for vain aspiration from inspiring English sources

The implication is that unrealistic body standards lead to eating disorders, which is an argument I believe reduces a severe mental illness to a vain aspiration to be a runway model – something I have never personally aspired to.

But as more and more firms have shut their final-salary-linked schemes to new members this has become a vain aspiration.

If a decent and brilliant man died because of that vain aspiration, the corporation will have suffered the greatest blow to its worldwide reputation".

But all of them knew that their efforts would probably be for naught and their aspirations in vain if a certain someone who was then half a world away decided to reach — again — for the White House.

His mother, Grace, was a vain, hypochondriacal beauty, with theatrical aspirations.

To dismiss these Iranians' aspirations as the vain fancies of the isolated rich is insulting and misguided.

How vain.

Too vain.

Vain hope!

But in vain.

Parker chased in vain.