Sentence examples for vain view from inspiring English sources

By Lee Wilson Dodd The New Yorker, September 5 , 1931 P. 31Kimberly Crane, you read in vain, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Larissa MacFarquhar By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell.

By Lee Wilson Dodd The New Yorker, September 5 , 1931 P. 31Kimberly Crane, you read in vain, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Ceridwen Dovey By Malcolm Gladwell By Jia Tolentino.

By Margaret Fishback The New Yorker, January 26 , 1929P. 17 My darling, you are very vain View Article By Jia Tolentino By Alan Burdick By John Cassidy By Anthony Lane.

We may never comprehend the intimate relation between a significant fact and the perceiver who appreciates it, but we should trust that it is not in vain to view nature with "humane affections" (Journal, 2/20/57 & 6/30/52).

The foreign media are outsiders usually trying in vain for a view inside.

They are, however, much milder than politicians, at the same time allured and terrified by the glare of publicity, easily persuaded to be "patriots", perplexed, bemused, indeed terrified, yet only too anxious to take a cheerful view, vain perhaps but very unsure of themselves, pathetically responsive to a kind word.

You look in vain for his views on de Kooning or even Picasso.

The character based on Mr. Obama comes across as arrogant and vain, and in the view of his fictitious Republican rival, inexperienced and incompetent.

His expertly decorated signs and objects, of which there are examples in the show, were viewed as vain, luxurious, un-Friendly things.

For all its fustian, the picture offers an enchanting idiosyncrasy: a saga of a broken nation is told from the point of view of a vain and restless girl.

For all the faults in Iraq today, a world without Saddam and his sons in charge of Iraq is a better and safer world, and those who gave their lives to make it happen did not, in my view, die in vain.