Sentence examples for vain quest from inspiring English sources

For several years, she has been returning in a vain quest for one just like it.

The Knicks spent two years ripping up their roster in a vain quest to land James, losing dozens of games along the way.

It is proposed to focus less on the vain quest for anonymity of data before they reach the research domain, but instead on the safety of personal data once there.

In the vain quest for even one life to save, hundreds of people toiled endlessly to clear away, sometimes bucket by bucket, the rubble of what used to be the World Trade Center.

For their part, the French often seem indifferent to the British pursuing their own vain quest to maintain the leadership of Europe in the face of rising German political, as well as economic, authority.

The sculptor Dani Karavan, who has designed a monument to Bassani, which is planned for a Ferrara park, said that he took his inspiration from a packed tour bus that he saw drive up the Corso Ercole I d'Este boulevard on a vain quest for the Edenic garden.

Rather than reaching the end of narrative decision-trees that have been built up throughout the story or witnessing the journeys that allied NPCs make as you drag them on your character's own vain quests, will most players just focus on slaughtering NPCs for XP then gathering up loot?

NAOMI STERN PARKING LAMENT As I wander the streets in vain parking quest I ponder the number who seem special blessed.

In this sophisticated meditation on the limits of technology and the vain human quest to be immortal, a girl is contacted from the future by a clone of herself who gives her a preview of things to come.

In an area of the show labeled "Serious Science or Foolish Pursuit," 17th-century Dutch genre paintings, including "The Alchemist," by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, present alchemists' quest as vain and profligate.

I began to think that my quest was in vain.