Sentence examples for would be vain from inspiring English sources

But he thought it would be vain.

The catalog to his first American retrospective quotes the French critic Francis Ponge, one of Fautrier's early advocates: "It would be vain to try to express with language, with adjectives, what Fautrier has expressed with his painting.

I would be vain to say that I stimulated the rise of Islamic radicalism, but I was the pretext that they found, given that they were looking for pretexts".

Smith proposes that it would be vain for us to expect benevolence in market societies.

Yet it would be vain to deny that the EEOC is effectively conveying a message.

It would be vain and empty merely to chronicle what happened to me, as if I were somehow so important that you needed to hear every event of my life in excruciating detail.

… For if no one could conceive something through the sign, it would be void and vain, nay, it wouldn't be a sign".

I know it would be in vain.

But human striving would be in vain if it were not for the "Liebe von oben" ("supernal love"), the divine love embodied in Margarete.

That sense was echoed by Hesham Alaa, a young religious activist who left the Center Party after the revolution for fear that his work there would be in vain.

Most of this elegance would be in vain, however, if the English version of Molière's language were stilted or simplistic.