Sentence examples similar to vain declarations from inspiring English sources

Posting to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter can seem like stale pandering for Likes and favorites, or a vain declaration of accomplishment.

We look in vain for a declaration that the costs are truly outrageous and laughably ineffectual.

It is Erdogan's declaration that Turkey's rivers must no longer "run in vain" and 100% of its hydroelectric potential be harnessed over the next 12 years that has environmentalists most worried.

This pressure contributed to the recent declaration by Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgia's president, that his country may drop its (vain) hope of becoming a NATO member and instead aim at neutral status.

How vain.

Too vain.

Vain hope!

Vain, P. Nat.

Vain his opinions, his pursuits are vain!

He tempts in vain.

But in vain.