Sentence examples similar to vain tradition from inspiring English sources
Published mainly in Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and Scribner's, many of her stories were collected in Vain Oblations (1914), The Great Tradition (1915), and Valiant Dust (1922).
Laurent Jalabert's day was in the best tradition of long labours in vain.
The writer in this tradition toils in the hope (probably vain) of reversing more than a hundred and fifty years of gardening history.
Greatly influenced by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Montesquieu, Trinh began by appealing in vain to French colonialists in terms of their own revolutionary tradition.
Nicolas Sarkozy, like them, became part of an un-French France: brash, self-promoting; vain rather than arrogant; in-your-face rather than bound by tradition.
With consoles and home computers, the tradition was largely maintained: games were obscure, flighty, and vain.
The normative function of doctrinal formulation is a typically vain effort to fix and conserve an interpretation of the original dogmas of a given tradition.
There was a family tradition of photography, fostered by Granny's aunts, the Wells sisters, who were vain and fashion-conscious.
