"It is in vain to talk of Aristocracy and Democracy," a stonecutters unionist declared in 1835.
She politely waded through the crowd of journalists waiting in vain to talk to her, then hugged board members and blew a kiss to a police officer.
Powerful men with oversize ambition cross swords, while the women in their lives try in vain to talk some common sense into them.
Mr Pantaleo also testified that he had tried in vain to talk Mr Garner into complying with police instructions - something not seen on the video.
The American actor William Redfield had a similar view: In comparing Olivier and the other leading actors of his generation, Ustinov wrote, "It is of course vain to talk of who is and who is not the greatest actor.
"Arafat is not yet finished, as Sharon claims," said the Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres, who has argued to the prime minister, in vain, that talking to Mr. Arafat is in Israel's best interest.
In what a fellow physicist described as a "very vain, very inappropriate" talk delivered on the 80th birthday of Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate in physics, Frampton veered into autobiography, recounting how his ability to multiply numbers in his head at 4 led him to see himself as "cleverer than Newton".
Virginia Woolf titled one essay "On Not Knowing Greek," which she began, "For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek".
"Michael isn't one to talk in vain — he doesn't say things just to say things or because he likes the sound of his own voice," Ms. de Gutierrez said.
American hopes of a breakthrough during Mr Bush's trip proved vain, though at least talks will continue in America next month.What particularly concerns the Americans is China's involvement with Pakistan's missile programme.
