Sentence examples similar to vain worries from inspiring English sources

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If the reason is anxiety about being influenced, then this seems to me a vain, shallow worry.

I have many concerns – waffling on for too long; wasting an opportunity to speak to people I respect and care for; boring them; and, yep I'm vain enough to worry about not getting cheered.

His grateful mother bakes the boys a cake, but the author worries in vain that they should not accept a Jewish cake.

As it turned out, we worried in vain.

Fortunately, I worried in vain, for while a few have disappeared, many remain, dispensing specialties with great flair and showmanship and giving visitors a chance to sample the world's most succulent and inexpensive fast food.

He called foreign attempts to stop the government "totally inappropriate" but said, "We will convince those who expressed concern that their worries were in vain".

Of course there is no better way to deflect one's worries about seeming vain and petty than to give an extravagant performance of both.

Don't worry about seeming vain or weird.

Our worry was in vain.

Honestly, when I get to heaven I imagine God's sweet embrace followed by, "so that vain phase in '09....had us worried there".

And that's worrying if you're vain," he adds, laughing.

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