| 单词 | vain |
| 例句 | The merchant’s attempts to convince Siddhartha that he was eating his, Kamaswami’s, bread were also in vain. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “I looked in vain for the city that had been our target,” Alvarez recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Take the Lord’s name in vain, will you? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In vain he tried to summon the proud resolve, the brave words he had planned last night. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The fingers grasping the chaplain’s arm were hurting him, and he tried in vain to squirm loose. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When he first took her in his arms, Hagar was a vain and somewhat distant creature. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I had watched them grow, had tried to protect them, sometimes in vain, but always unhesitatingly, from the harsh elements of black life—violence, hate, poverty, hunger, ignorance, suffering, death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His lips were as soft and red as the worms you found after a rain, and his eyes were vain and cmel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Alice Paul believed that the suffering of the protesters would not be in vain. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z If I used the name of God in vain, then God would strike me dead. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z No one seemed to notice the change in her appearance, which proved, Henry said, that she was vain as a peacock, thinking everybody was looking at her all the time. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The next morning proved that hope was vain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The man looked at him sidelong a while and said, “The wise don’t need to ask, the fool asks in vain,” and so went on along the street. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Mothers were screaming the names of their lost children, and the lost children cried in vain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And she walks away, down the hall, opening each door and oohing and aahing, until she opens one door and calls the Lord’s name in vain. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z ‘Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Some parents tried in vain to discourage their children from joining. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Luther spent the afternoon sitting with Graham, offering him water and pleading in vain with officials to get the boy to the hospital. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are not vain, Mr. Knightley. I will say that for you.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Waving his hands above his head crazily, Hassan ran considerably faster and with more agility than Colin had ever thought possible, weaving around trees and hurdling bushes in a vain attempt to discourage the hornets. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z In vain Milton tried to get me to wear one of the paper hats his employees had to wear by law. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Now God be thanked that all has not been in vain! See! the snow is not more stainless than her forehead! The curse has passed away!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She wrote, “They are, however, amusing and spend hours in seizing hold of the edge of a cabbage leaf and trying in vain to pull it into their holes.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “They might,” said Arianne, “but peacocks are vain, proud creatures, strutting about in all those gaudy colors. Give me a swan serene in white or beautiful in black.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The man patted the thrashing legs in a vain attempt to soothe him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I learn quickly,” she added, hoping that it didn’t sound vain. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mantell was a lanky assemblage of shortcomings–he was vain, self-absorbed, priggish, neglectful of his family–but never was there a more devoted amateur paleontologist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I determined to waste no more time pursuing vain paths of possibility. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Once every three days we visited Kamator to see if people had returned, but each visit was in vain, as there wasn’t a sign of a living thing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Kwasi held her hand tighter and they ran even faster, Amari trying in vain to be as invisible and swift as the wind. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I wonder how long it will be before we really are caught and all the toiling and the slinking will be over, and in vain.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When it was over we were both laughing and trying in vain to brush it all out of our hair. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z For the next two days Riccio returned to Barbarossa's shop in vain, but on the third day the redbeard finally had the news they had been waiting for. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z This time, however, his efforts were in vain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he knew that the hope that had for one wild moment stirred in his heart was vain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “You know how and why she died. Make sure it was not in vain. Help me protect Lily’s son.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z This “integration” image, as it is popularly interpreted, has millions of vain, self-exalted white people convinced that black people want to sleep in bed with them—and that’s a lie! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The more I tried to concentrate on the good side of him, the more I saw a vain, greedy, unredeemed creature. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In vain Mr. Justice Dana’s ‘What have we here?’ and ‘I cannot accept this as testimony,’ and Cilia’s attempts to quiet her. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She hopped off TOC's lap, turned around, grabbed her first-aid box, and started looking through it in vain for asthma meds. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I think to myself, “Was his death in vain?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Juanita sniffed and hiccuped as she tried in vain to stop herself from bawling. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z They stood leaning back with their necks stretched and their heads tilted away, way back, making a vain effort to see over the shoulders of the tall adult who always appears in front of them. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Tobias is stubborn and proud, but he is mine—maybe he will listen, maybe there’s a chance that all I did was not in vain— “You know why I’m here,” I say quietly. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Matt leaned one way and Chacho leaned the other in a vain attempt to escape the smell. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Rachel wore her green linen Easter suit she was so vain of, and her long whitish hair pulled off her forehead with a wide pink elastic hairband. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Leopard was very pleased with this, as she was a vain person who liked to wear fine dresses and admire her reflection in the water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Alas, my sacrifice was in vain, since there was too much glare and I couldn’t risk opening a window. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Her eyes turned to Penelope with desire to make her lord, her husband, known—in vain, because Athena had bemused the queen, so that she took no notice, paid no heed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kudirat’s death will not be in vain, it will only galvanize the democratic movement in a way that even her life did not! I just wrote an article about this issue online in Nigerian Village.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The vainest, most slap-happy and irreverent of men, in the presence of redwoods, goes under a spell of wonder and respect. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knew it was a vain hope to look for him,” the king said finally, lifting his head. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Trotter was rocking her huge trunk in a vain effort to get to her feet. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Although this had nothing to do with the classification system, I was vain enough to answer and think that I might convert them to my beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It may be vain and wrong to say it, but—I’m afraid—Laurie is getting too fond of me.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He was lying on his side, trying in vain to get up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And even the thirty seem to have nested in vain, for no young grebes have been observed on the lake since the last DDD application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Momma would say I am a vain and foolish girl. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z He was hounded incessantly by an impression of vital duties left unfulfilled and waited in vain for his responsibilities to overtake him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But meals were nicer; and as for sweets, I won’t tell you how cheap and good they were, because it would only make your mouth water in vain. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Fires burned along the battlements, a vain attempt to drive the gloom away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘Master, dear master!’ said Sam, and through a long silence waited, listening in vain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z My grandfather had tried in vain to coax her out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Frank, Bill and Lill fought gamely against the invasion, but in vain. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It was quite in vain for me to endeavour to make him sensible that he ought to speak to Miss Havisham. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z A vain pursuit from its beginning, maybe, which no choice of mine can mar or mend. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But the whole town got vain over it after it came. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The rock against which the hordes of Asia dashed themselves in vain! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Yet she knew that her weeping and her prayers were in vain. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Her doctors tried in vain to ease her suffering. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The frieze alone boasted a thousand sparrows so lifelike that real birds had been known to while away their lives romancing them in vain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z No gene, no message, and no protein labored in vain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “For a man who says the Lord is set to end the whole Creation at any minute, he’s got a powerful concern for the vain things of this world.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Barrelhouse had prepared me for the darkened windows of the district, but not, when I let myself in, to call in vain through the dark to Brother Tarp. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul Ellis toiled on the night shift at the mill and painted houses during the day in a vain effort to raise his family a notch or two. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In the faint, faint light she made out the lean form and the sardonic smile of the Texan aeronaut, and her hand reached forward of its own accord, in vain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Both knights began waving their arms like windmills, anti-clockwise, in the vain effort to slow up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His bowler hat is already dry as he attempts in vain to cover both of them with the open umbrella. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In vain, for nothing could check him as he rushed on slaughtering all in his path and seeking everywhere for Hector. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The young hobbits stared at the door in vain for a while, and then made off, feeling that the day of the party would never come. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I held up my hands in a vain attempt to stop this runaway train of thought. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Albus Dumbledore was never proud or vain; he could find something to value in anyone, however apparently insignificant or wretched, and I believe that his early losses endowed him with great humanity and sympathy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I make a vain attempt;—they refuse to come away. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It has a quarrelsome nature but, being excessively vain, it will become docile on any occasion when it is called to act as an ornament. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But the commandment said, Thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was also arrogant and vain, it seemed to Asha, hungry for glory, deaf to caution, a glutton for praise, and contemptuous of smallfolk, wolves, and women. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Isaac the Joiner saith that the Lord shall smite down whom He wishes with His pestilential scourge; that no such vain practice as introducing fevers shall help a man escape Jehovah’s wrath. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The Patriots had tried in vain to recruit me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Mam was vain about her thick, dark hair and refused to cut it ever again. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Dad asked me, catching me serenading Teddy as I pushed him around the kitchen in his stroller in a vain attempt to get him to nap. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He isn’t religious, scoffs at Jesus Christ and takes the Lord’s name in vain, and though I’m not Orthodox either, it hurts me every time to see him so lonely, so scornful, so wretched. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I thought back to the time Chasca had found me covering my face with mud, trying in vain to hide my scar. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Truly, yes, to pray with. It would be pleasing to the saints if one used so fine a rosary as this, instead of wearing it as a vain bijou.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z All of the earlier fights with the giants had been in vain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The king of Svalbard was vain, and he could be flattered. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He ran his hands over his messy thatch as if wanting to make sure that Esther's efforts had been in vain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z By the mast pond, where the great spars of ships lay refracted, we saw a little girl with a bucket, a vain and minute assay at extinguishing the flames. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z For a while I struggled in vain, then knowing him already gone, retired two Steps to my Bed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I touched her with my right hand, and I was missing her already, I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts, “It’s not vain?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But he was, in any case, as vain as a peacock; that was why he had become a Magician. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Arthur’s were of the pitiful spectacle— the show of an earthly, sinful man, but the best of them, plodding along behind these three supernatural virgins; his doomed, courageous, vain toil. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He had tried in vain to establish a relationship with an alchemist. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It made him rather vain of his bridge game, and he talked several times of how a man could always make a living at bridge if he were ever forced to. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z All minds except Father’s, that is, who frequently takes the name of Brother Fowles in vain, feeling certain now that all the stones in his path were laid by this deluded purveyor of Christian malpractice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rules are rules, Miss New Hampshire. They exist for a reason. For taking the Lord’s name in vain, you owe me another quarter. You also spoke without the baton. Latrine duty for you, too.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Confused and jostled, Ranofer was swept along by the crowd, trying in vain to catch a glimpse of the palace walls over a sea of bobbing heads. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She tried in vain to awaken love in them by means of the bird cage that Úrsula had built during the first reconstruction of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I know looking at how you are now that my efforts were not in vain. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I want to write his story so others will know his death was not in vain! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And it was nothing at all next to those whose wait would be in vain. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The fairies he had known had not been particularly vain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He tried to defend his ride, protesting in vain that he had indeed used his whip and that he was stuck on the slow part of the track, but no one seemed to be listening. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesus Christ, oh, Jesus Christ, and the nuns are shocked at the way he takes the name of the Lord in vain. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It may be I must spend my life running from sea to sea and land to land on an endless vain venture, a shadow-quest.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z They tried in vain until they were worn out, while Jupiter and Mercury watched them greatly entertained. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Kit curtsied, noting with satisfaction that this was one woman who did not despise vain adornment. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Otherwise all my years here will have been in vain.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I tried to convince them, using every argument I could think of along with gifts and pressure, even bringing my political power to bear, but it was all in vain. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked moss out of my hair and tried in vain to brush the mud from my pants, but succeeded only in smearing it, making me look like some bog creature vomited from the earth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “But Monsieur Durant fell for it. Upset at Coach. But vain, proud I appreciated his skill.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z One day in the fall of 2015, two ninth-grade students sat in Biology class at Oakland High School watching a substitute teacher try in vain to control the classroom. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z He throws his hands up in vain, but too late—the power-up has blinded him for five solid seconds. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z DRACO: Do not use her name in vain, Scorpius. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z And so it went, the frog cheerfully insisting to all in the meadow that it was a princess-in-waiting, until one day, a real princess strutted into the meadow, proud and vain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Using a stool, Kendra had reached even the higher shelves, but so far the search had been in vain. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But she couldn’t think of a way to say it without sounding vain, so she kept still. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pita tugged at her wet shirt, squeezing out the water and pressing it down over her round belly to smooth it out, while Velia and Delia tried in vain to straighten out each other’s clothes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Like, I don’t even know how not to use the Lord’s name in vain. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But when I'd shouted "Hello" several times in vain an argument broke out behind a partition and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z But my mind continued to torment me, and every effort to clear away the terrible thoughts was in vain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “No sight of misery disturbs us, nor of despairing poverty out in vain search for employment.... We work our eight hours a day in peaceful security and in absolute confidence of our pay.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “So her coming to me was not in vain.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In vain men shook their fists at the pitiless foes that swarmed before the Gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Two people born in the social media generation who, despite being labeled as shallow and vain, are actually super self-conscious and would rather hide behind avatars than reveal themselves.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “You are taking the Lord’s name in vain. Why do you want to hurt people?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Asher is trying in vain to fend off three Cloud Knights. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He didn’t like it when her mother used the Lord’s name in vain. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “With the taking of the Lord’s name in vain, I suggest we now say a rosary for a safe trip,” Lillian announced. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Border police were swamped, trying in vain to ease the gridlock by dividing traffic into four lanes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t know then that I would spend the entire school year of 1958-59 in lonely isolation and despair—waiting in vain. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I set my alarm for the ungodly hour of six in the morning, and spent the next few hours trying in vain to fall asleep. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z When the full light of the morning came no signs of the wolves were to be found, and they looked in vain for the bodies of the dead. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z My death — our deaths — would not be in vain; if anything we might serve the cause greater in death as martyrs than we ever could in life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And in the next second he felt that it was all foolish, useless, vain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But after Uncle Andrew had struggled in vain with the hat for some time, two other policemen seized it by the brim and forced it off. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z When he came to live with us, he took my room, to which Mama objected strenuously but in vain. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Reynie took a deep breath and tried in vain to stop trembling. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I cried, falling to my knees and pawing the floor in vain for the lost bottle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I stretched out and tried to sleep, to doze a little, but in vain. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, Mary Poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Returned to the ship, the heroes held a council and one and another urged Jason to let him take the trial upon himself; but in vain, Jason would yield to none of them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I struggle in vain as Shahira approaches me, her gait now having the same predatory grace as Zero’s. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He thinks I’m in danger of becoming vain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In vain I study the three spotted pigs to see which one is sad. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They waited in vain, for no lightning no thunder no rain came. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z At any moment now he knew that the end would come: his master would faint or fall, and all would be discovered, and their bitter efforts be in vain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They were blown here, and fought in vain for sea room; the ships kept going in to their destruction, slammed on the reef. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d never been vain—never had anything to be vain about, to tell the truth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She thought, But why not ask what he wants to know about me; he is so extremely vain—and laughed in turn and said, “What can I ever know about you, beyond what I see?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Labadists believed that creating art for pleasure was a vain pursuit. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In vain we searched for traces of the assault, some sign of the intrusion, but the room was swept and in order. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I tried, persistently but in vain, to reach out for his love and understanding, and each time he reciprocated by becoming more distant and inscrutable, more morose and frightening to me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy tries in vain to pry the ring from his finger as it dissolves into his skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But she left anyway, and he was alone in his room, searching out anagrams for mymissingpiece in a vain attempt to fall asleep. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “So, it seems my quest has been in vain. But what of the scabbard?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I’m searching in vain for an elephant when my eyes come to an abrupt stop on a woman. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Behind that lay a courtyard with a dry pool and a fragile dogwood leaning over in vain to see its reflection. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I was so fully aware that only serious moods and occupations were acceptable, that in his presence every effort to sustain or follow any other became vain: I fell under a freezing spell. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I exchange a look with her, and I can tell that this is something she’s been trying in vain to convince Kaede to do ever since Day was arrested. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Those men only murmured sweet nonsense to me, trying in vain to flatter me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “We won’t talk about losing. There is enough talk about losing. What has been done this summer cannot have been done in vain.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He pounded in vain; no further reply came from the enchantresses, and even the window suddenly darkened with an impenetrable black fog. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I had tiny feet which made me very vain. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When you die for your country, you do not die in vain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For a week I sought Young in vain. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent a few minutes trying in vain to cut one of them free of its pedestal with a laser welding torch before calling it quits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was something patriotic about how when you die for your country, you do not die in vain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All I was trying to say—” “One more thing. In this house we don’t take the Lord’s name in vain.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I asked as I tried in vain to loosen the ropes at my wrists. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The eyeliner I put on in the morning—vain twit that I am—has long since streaked down onto my cheeks, and I could wring my braid out if I wanted to. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting... The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But now the door was not opened any more, and Gregor waited in vain. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z He is a crude, twisted line, but no brushstroke is in vain. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked in vain for help but there was none. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She was not vain, of course, but that did not mean she did not have feelings. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In vain her mother had explained that she could not bring about events, only see them somewhat in advance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "Don't tell me that I am risking my life in vain. Don't tell me that if I die, I will have died for nothing." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z They could be quite vain about the care of their queues, but that did not mean they loved the Manchus. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t cutting cane, since he doesn’t chew it—I think he’s a little vain of his strong white teeth with the handsome little gap in the center. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She moved around like a tin soldier, her legs stiff, trying in vain to grab the rope with her teeth. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Only in a world where everything is patently being lost can a priest stir men’s hearts as a poet would by maintaining that nothing is in vain. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly all the pain I had endured since entering the tournament seemed not in vain. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But Menoeceus had not died in vain; in the end the Thebans prevailed and of the seven champions all were killed except Adrastus only. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The fellow wedged in the floor space across from me punches a thin gray blanket, trying in vain to form a pillow. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He was tortured for weeks on end, in vain. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Even if they hang me,’ he said in a proud tremolo, ‘I will feel I have not lived in vain.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ophelia, such a course would be vain and dangerous. Claudius is more canny that you know. For proof, I have important news from Hamlet.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I fall asleep in the midst of these vain prayers, and when I awaken, my knees ache from the cold stone floor and my hands are numb. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Can you trust me with such flatterers?—Does my vain spirit ever tell me I am wrong?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “No, nor felt such thorns,” returned Laurie, with his thumb in his mouth, after a vain attempt to capture a solitary scarlet flower that grew just beyond his reach. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain, Eugenia Phelan. Just put some lipstick on.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Ranofer swallowed, pressing back against the wall in a vain effort to retreat. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It would be tragic to lose the elms, but it would be doubly tragic if, in vain efforts to save them, we plunge vast segments of our bird populations into the night of extinction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Howards rushed Pollard to the hospital Charles had built in memory of his lost son and called Doc Babcock, the same country physician who had tried in vain to save Frankie. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Blond and vain, he often dyed his hair, and he was known as a ladies’ man. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Isobel sits in a rarely occupied armchair in the corner of Marco’s flat, a rainbow of silk ribbon twisted around her fingers as she attempts in vain to form it into a single elaborate braid. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I tried in vain to remember something useful from the few shooting lessons Grandpa had been allowed to give me, but finally I just ran back up the steps to Emma. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Father always says I’m conceited, but I’m not, I’m merely vain! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z On a platter were the remains of a large fish, its fleshy head still connected to bones swimming upstream in vain escape. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Worn out at last, Arethusa called to her goddess, and not in vain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, “Rise up, take to the streets! Join my comrades and me in the mountains! When you die for your country, you do not die in vain!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her name was Andromeda and she was the daughter of a silly vain woman, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They tried not to, but they tried in vain. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z But today the bleating and clucking was in vain. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Montel was a middle-aged gentleman whose vain ambition and desire for the past twenty years had been to fill the void which Monsieur Lebrun’s taking off had left in the Lebrun household. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z All the same, Farid listened in vain that night, the longest night of his life. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She did not have the strength to bear their vain attempts to comfort. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Nailer slashed the membrane that the crew had laid down in their vain effort to save the ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z John and I are crouched together on the sofa, trying in vain to fix the radio that we’ve had in our family for years. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I put my hands on both ears and squeezed them in vain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Axelroot even got himself a little medal of honor for heroic service, which he is very vain of and keeps in a special box in the bedroom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked in vain for the funny, serious little boy she knew. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z To this day I can’t decide whether my journey here was taken in vain. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Surely, one of my faithful Death Eaters would try and find me . . . one of them would come and perform the magic I could not, to restore me to a body . . . but I waited in vain. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Herbert crossed his feet, looked at the fire with his head on one side, and having looked at it in vain for some time, looked at me because I didn’t go on. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I even tied on my mask in a vain attempt to keep my nose warm. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Colin shot a glance at his friend, who held a quail daintily in his hands, his teeth gnawing at the bone in a vain search for a half-decent meal. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I rested my cheek against the rough homespun of his jacket, knowing that my wish was a vain one. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I raised myself up on my elbows in a vain attempt to pull away from his touch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain,” Lillian admonished her daughter. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ulape had two boxes of earrings, for she was vainer than I, and when she put them into her baskets, she drew a thin mark with blue clay across her nose and cheekbones. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He struggled in vain against a current of bodies, then gave up, exhausted. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Siddhartha now also realized why he had struggled in vain with this Self when he was a Brahmin and an ascetic. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the loss, Ashe’s trip to South Africa was not in vain. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I had become, myself, the mama I’d searched the cliffs for once in vain. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Okay, so my mom has maybe said the Lord’s name in vain two times in her entire life. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z But I was too vain to think any one boy was good enough for me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Meggie tried in vain to keep her hand closed, but it was easy enough for Basta to pry her fingers apart. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Nothing grew; no seed sprang up; in vain the oxen drew the plowshare through the furrows. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Omi wasn’t vain or stuck-up or anything like that, but she really cared how she looked. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We wish to make God subordinate to our human understanding with its vain and feeble probabilities; yet it is he who has made both us and all we know. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In vain did Bolivia counterattack with its ally, Peru; Chile simply repelled their incompetently led forces and took over the entire territory, as well as a chunk of southern Peru. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were too big, too quick, too fast as he dove in front of them, flinging his body in a vain effort to stop them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must get out of this house if you take the name of the Lord in vain,” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon flew above Lyra’s head for a while until he tired of that, and then he became a little sure-footed mountain sheep, vain of his horns, leaping among rocks while Lyra scrambled laboriously alongside. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t have anything to be vain about. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Ser Lyn was a different sort of folly; lean and handsome, heir to an ancient but impoverished house, but vain, reckless, hot-tempered . . . and, it was whispered, notoriously un-interested in the intimate charms of women. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Do not let Anne’s death be in vain,” Miep said, using her words to bring it all together. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Liszt appears to have been a decent man, very gener-ons and modest, though exceptionally vain. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z If he regains it, your valour is vain, and his victory will be swift and complete: so complete that none can foresee the end of it while this world lasts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They appealed, nearly always in vain, to white morality. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z But Helen and Theresa and Mona and Callie all knew the rules; and so he waited, as he waited for everything, in vain. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Now his exhausted brain slipped into its accustomed circles: the withered paths, like those of the donkey in the treadmill, round which he had plodded many thousand times in vain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam knew before he spoke, that it was vain, and that such words might do more harm than good, but in his pity he could not keep silent. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Cassiopeia, after the vain and arrogant queen of the ancient Greeks who tried to sacrifice her own daughter to the sea gods.’ The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She pushed her way toward him, calling his name in vain, because he could not hear her in the confusion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next few minutes, I scoured the bazaar in vain. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In vain Mrs. Chester alluded to her ‘charming novel’, and the Misses Chester introduced parties, picnics, the opera, and the fashions. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma’s attempts to stop her father had been vain; and when he had reached such a point as this, she could not wonder at her brother-in-law’s breaking out. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Nancy was invariably the last of the family to retire; as she had once informed her friend and home-economics teacher, Mrs. Polly Stringer, the midnight hours were her “time to be selfish and vain.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He was also very vain, and being the center of attention on such a grand scale certainly satisfied his huge ego. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z While they waited for their supply of metals to be weighed out, Ranofer tried in vain to devise such questions. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He was vain of his voice, had been a radio announcer for many years before getting into his present line of business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He himself doesn’t always understand a work right away, but he has faith that Vincent’s efforts will not be in vain. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Only after weeks of vain effort did the right idea occur to somebody—namely, to utilise the force of gravity. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z At least that’s what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to stave off the epic loneliness I now felt. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Brilliant and ambitious, Claytor waited in vain to be recruited to join the country’s top math departments, but West Virginia State College was his only offer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I thought Uncle Willie sinfully vain, especially when I had to iron seven stiff starched shirts and not leave a cat’s face anywhere. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As the announcement day neared, I began making harried after-work trips to the department stores at Water Tower Place, rifling through the dwindling midseason supply of winter wear, hunting the clearance racks in vain. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I had been vain enough to worry about coming across as too educated for the jobs I sought, but no one even seems interested in finding out how overqualified I am. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat there for a long time, letting the sun soak in, waiting in vain for it to warm my heart. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Not your vain spirit, but your serious spirit.—If one leads you wrong, I am sure the other tells you of it.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Some campers waited in vain for it their whole lives. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “For an insignificant creature, you’re very vain. Give me one reason for their concern.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, she was a goodly maid, fair enough, but not too fair so as to be vain over it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z One may look in vain for living creatures in the daytime, but when the sun goes and the night gives consent, a world of creatures awakens and takes up its intricate pattern. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To know them is not to admire them, for they are vain and hysterical. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of him, Myrtlewood drove to an insurmountable lead, with local star Professor Paul rallying in vain to catch her. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And he had the use of his wits, and of his legs too. That is heartening. We do not pursue in vain.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "Only vain, lad. Theon has always had too lofty an opinion of himself, I fear." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Let me not seem to have lived in vain.’ Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They waited in vain for his telling but not long for the knowing. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He supposed he had been pleasant in his way, but he had also seemed vain and, whatever he said to the contrary, much too surprised that a Muggle-born should make a good witch. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z ‘And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain,’ said Gimli, gazing at the mail in wonder. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And then softly, to his own surprise, there at the vain end of his long journey and his grief, moved by what thought in his heart he could not tell, Sam began to sing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But woven throughout was his trademark ray of hope: And so my friends, they did not die in vain. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She was not vain, but she understood that she was fading. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Amari and the other prisoners in her boat watched, however, in horrid fascination as the two women—a mother and daughter— tried in vain to swim back to shore. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your father went out searching for vain riches. He ain’t never coming back.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Without that opportunity the strength of their spirit would have been exhausted, and without that strength, their opportunity would have come in vain. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Making the vain, or rather paranoid, assumption that they might be talking about me, I took a step closer and peered as far as I could risk around the corner. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z However, it is to the best interests of the great work which we are dedicated to perform, that he continue undisturbed in these vain hopes while remaining as far as possible from our midst. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her aunt had always prophesied that Elizabeth would come to no good end, proud, and vain, and foolish as she was, and having been allowed to run wild all her childhood days. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The group charged that Charles was conceited and vain, having an opinion of himself that exceeded reality. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z ‘All is vain, you say, if he has the Ring. Why should he think it not vain to assail us, if we have it?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Then she told them of her own first vain effort at running away, evoking the memory of that miserable life she had led as a child, reliving it for a moment in the telling. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In vain I searched for the banners of my union local. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I sent a valentine back that said: Dry is the desert, Wet is the rain, Your love for me Is not in vain. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z For one of them we search two days in vain. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My vain hopes for gaining a patron and my stronger hopes of entry to the Archives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even Beatrice wasn’t sure, turning the viewfinder sideways and upside down as she tried in vain to identify a telltale part of owl anatomy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t use the name of the Lord in vain,” Baby Kochamma said. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Daario is vain and rash, but he is dear to Her Grace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Pollard traveled around Canada, trying in vain to find a bank to lend him the money. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt like a coward, but he knew that any fighting—and any deaths—would be in vain if they didn’t get that code punched, the door to the Creators opened. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was an odd and vain wish, but no one could think of any grounds to oppose it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “He is the eternal urge of desire establishing the purposes of all creatures. He is an infinite patience, a tender care that nothing in the universe be vain.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Too awful,” she kept repeating, and all Bernard’s consolations were in vain. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I tried in vain to pin the thing down, and cut it, but it eluded me, and in my frustration I was clanking my knife on the plate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not risk his life in vain. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The football boys gathered around their exalted coach, begging in vain for some reprieve. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain,” I say, even though I don’t really know what that means and am only saying it because that’s what my mom tells me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z At three she was already vain and beginning to be proud. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And Cersei... the golden child had grown into a vain, foolish, greedy woman. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She squenched up her right cheek in a vain effort to return his wink. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z In vain Amy telegraphed the word ‘talk’, tried to draw her out, and administered covert pokes with her foot. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Beckendorf s sacrifice wasn’t in vain. You have scattered the invasion force. New York will be safe for a time, which frees the other Olympians to deal with the bigger threat.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I cry for the vain, thoughtless complaints I’ve made all summer. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It falls to us to pick up the mantle, to live by Kamal’s example and ensure that his life is not forgotten and that his death was not in vain. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The sun was glaring through the smoky haze, but he ignored the heat as he ignored the charcoal dust that blackened his white fur and the midges that searched in vain for skin to bite. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The concept works by substituting the closeness of an ethnic ghetto for the isolation of a village, both metaphors for prisons that Katya tries in vain to escape. Janacek opera in Vienna depressingly enjoyable 2011-06-18T11:27:10Z If the federal government had attempted to wipe out the Cherokee Nation, they had done so in vain. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z "You may look in vain for logic or consistency," he concedes. The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z Because I’m incredibly vain, this particular eco-fail left the deepest wound. My best eco-friendly failures: glass coffee jars and olive oil to fight acne 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z A retired actress I know has an all-purpose phrase she brings out when she sees performers struggling so mightily in vain. Early-’60s Absurdism in ‘Red Eye of Love’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In that piece, she spent five days in a sweltering Venice basement, trying in vain to scrub the bones clean. Marina Abramovic Just Wants Conspiracy Theorists to Let Her Be 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Our final North Unit stop was the panoramic Oxbow Overlook, where we looked through our binoculars in vain for bighorn sheep that might be clambering among the rocky buttes. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z He’s probably not so vain that he thinks this movie is about him. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Irving creates a comic villain as entertaining as Cruella de Vil or Snow White’s vain stepmother in the Disney animated films. | Long Island: A Review of ‘Phantom’ in Bellport, N.Y. 2012-09-01T04:29:56Z His entreaty was in vain, the orchestra says: All five were killed in concentration camps. Battle of the Bands: At 175, New York and Vienna Face Off 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z He's so vain that he's developed an image for himself that he likes. Cannes: Dominic Cooper on playing a "human vibrator" 2010-05-23T18:01:00Z They are self-indulgent and vain and they shop their brains out. "Gossip Girls" new fashion idols? OMG! Totally! 2010-11-19T06:01:00Z It’s a persistently alluring reversal-of-fortune story—the celebrity, especially one who blazed early and prodigiously, fading away, vain and lonely, ideally in a mansion. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z After searching in vain for Beach’s train, Lubell and I headed east. The New York That Could Have Been 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z I couldn’t allow their deaths to be in vain. ‘He saw our children as possessions': my husband killed our sons 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z I went on vacation, trying in vain to relax with my family. Fired from The New York Times over Trump 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z In the novel and film, Carlo is transformed from a heroic figure into a charismatic but vain leader; his English wife, Marion Cave, morphs into a treacherous spouse. Anti-Fascism With a Human Face 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z You’ll hunt in vain on both sides of the river for a straightforward geological explanation of Niagara Falls. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Niagara Falls 2011-05-26T18:29:08Z When a man enters his cab he’s thinking about overcharging; when a woman enters he’s thinking seduction, not always in vain. Irvine Welsh is back with another brazen novel: ‘A Decent Ride’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Also showing an intriguing presence is newcomer Cody Horn as The Kid's older sister, Brooke, who lets him sleep on her couch and tries in vain to help him find a real job. Review: Substance, sex appeal mix in `Magic Mike' 2012-06-26T19:37:15Z Mr. Conaway’s character, Bobby Wheeler, was a vain and handsome aspiring actor who never seemed to get a break in his show business career. Jeff Conaway, Actor in ?Taxi? and ?Grease,? Dies at 60 2011-05-27T20:02:15Z The corps de ballet re-forms, becoming an avenue or forest through which hero and heroine walk slowly on separate paths, looking for each other in vain. How Balanchine Turns a Fairy Story Into Tragedy 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z That’s right, writing these things on a microblog makes me feel good, for I am vain and sometimes even a bit hypocritical. Han Han: I had to break my Twitter obsession 2012-10-07T21:30:00Z Sciorra, now 59, said she tried in vain to get the burly film producer off her by kicking and punching him. Week 1 of Weinstein trial: Vile allegations, X-rated gifts 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Yes, the retrofit adds nothing to Clash of the Titans, and may detract from the film's old-fashioned vigor, as audience's wait in vain for some big monsters-in-your-lap moment. Clash of the Titans: A Hit from a Myth 2010-04-02T09:20:00Z I had arrived the prior night on a 33-seat prop plane from Nassau, exhausted and irritable from sleep deprivation and a roster of vain stresses. In the Bahamas, Cat Island offers spectacular diving and solitude for miles 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z She is vain and concerned about both aging and money. "It's very complicated": Salvador Dalí biopic delves into odd and kinky relationship with wife Gala 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Here are 10 of the least fortunate royal heirs in English history — those who waited in vain and died before they could reign. 10 royal heirs who died before they reigned 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The vain soldier pals around with not one, but two legalistic windbags whose job is to assert his courage. Review | Two 400-year-old soap operas rip along in stagings by Brave Spirits Theatre 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Massive volumes that he leaves out in the vain hope that I will one day read them. Ellie Kemper: By the Book 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Opera buffs waiting for Ms. Fleming to sing Puccini heroines or Verdi’s Leonora will probably wait in vain. The Week Ahead: Jan. 9 ? 15 2011-01-07T17:43:18Z He described the look on his face — “real angry” — and his memory of sitting for the photo: how his mother, her hijab slipping, kept urging him in vain to smile. Arian Moayed Plays Creepy Men for Thoughtful Reasons 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Ask him why people like to be photographed, and he practically hoots: “It’s because they’re vain!” Unseating the Chronicler of the Night 2011-02-16T22:14:54Z Moreau as a filmmaker is less vain than honest in presenting herself as a universally admired professional. ‘Lumière’: An Actress Destined to Be in the Light 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z I hope those above who achieved distinction will forgive me if I say that I looked in vain this month for clues in the alpha-plus category. Azed slip No 2,131 2013-05-27T23:01:00Z That was surely in vain: the piece reflects preconceptions. Tom Ewing 2010-09-30T20:30:00Z This is what he briefly does while we wait to bowl, squandering a couple bucks in a vain effort to win an oversized plush Sonic the Hedgehog. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z But we'll look for it in vain in the Pacific Northwest, at least for now. "Ebert Presents At the Movies" starts this month -- but not in Seattle 2011-01-10T20:20:06Z Trying in vain to convince him to sell his boat and make a steady living, she tells him, "Pop says you can have a job anytime on his lettuce ranch in Salinas." Phyllis Thaxter 2012-08-17T16:53:51Z Just as with the Brahms, I listened in vain for a distinctive vision from the podium. Rouse’s World Premiere and Batiashvili Plays Brahms 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z At the same time it's hard to recapture quite how shocking medieval people would find a vain oath. Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr – review 2013-05-23T06:30:19Z Then again, throughout the Trump years, the loudest voice on the right taking her name in vain was none other than the president himself. Maggie Haberman and the never-ending Trump story 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z No matter how vain any character is, however, they're forced to deal with each other, Orange County, America and the larger world. America is stuck in a state of Arrested Development 2013-05-24T14:00:00Z I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. “You have naked bodies and genitalia, don’t you? Why are you so adolescent?”: Director Peter Greenaway on “Puritan” Americans and the intense sex scenes in “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Trying to get noticed they played open-mike nights in New York City and aspired, in vain, to move up to the small clubs on the Lower East Side. The Lumineers’ Strange Road to the Top 10 2013-02-06T13:01:48Z I remember looking in vain in 2008 for the rave reviews I felt sure the gorgeous 3rd and Bird deserved. In praise of kids' television 2013-04-06T06:00:49Z I returned to my room and tried, in vain, to sleep it off. Perspective | Try these new tricks for fighting jet lag 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z This is the start of a work called “Breakthrough,” but if the dancers or their audiences are searching for an artistic one, they will search in vain. Review: Ailey II Displays Acrobatic Tussles Between the Sexes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z A French philosopher told me he once spent a week waiting in vain outside his house for an audience. Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' 2011-07-12T20:30:03Z Mercury died of an Aids-related illness on November 24 1991 and in this case, the statement "he did not die in vain" is truly apt. Freddie Mercury 30 years on – remembering the theatrical, eccentric genius 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z "Titanic" and "Avatar" director and deep sea diver James Cameron this week described as "morons" those working in vain on efforts to contain the spill. Robert Redford attacks big oil, politics on spill 2010-06-04T19:57:00Z Someone has read the work of this notoriously vain, ambitious and competitive writer closely and has been inspired to imitation. Movie Review: ?The Raven,? With John Cusack, Directed by James McTeigue 2012-04-26T23:19:38Z This storyline just seems like a vain attempt to make the action of the show seem deeper and more intellectual than it really is. Fear the Walking Dead: Season one, episode two – So Close, Yet So Far 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Elmosnino is very good at showing how sensitive Gainsbourg is about his looks, how self-conscious and even vain he is: fragile, sensitive, defiant. Film review: Gainsbourg (Vie H?ro?que) 2010-07-29T21:25:00Z After the trail, weeping family members comforted each other and reassured each other that their testimony had not been in vain. Fla. ex-coach gets jail time in Vegas casino death 2013-02-14T20:04:11Z The king finally agrees – for whatever reasons, worthy or vain – to allow a procedure, which succeeds in giving her sight. Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Trees take up a lot of our shelf space, and many give their lives in vain; lots of treacle is written about them. Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z “Your employees have constantly complained about how vain you are, how needy, a diva,” Lazarus said. Jon Stewart, Employee of the Month 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z He begins with an axiomatic assumption: that the self isn’t just “a parcel of vain strivings,” as Thoreau once wrote, but essentially a fiction. Review | At the Guggenheim, a memoir about America, colonialism and desire 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z But will it turn out that all has been in vain? Now that 'Mad Men' has changed the TV landscape, what does it all mean? 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z He said Anne's life had not been in vain because she had inspired children all over the world. How we made Blue Peter 2013-02-25T16:59:01Z She worries that she is going to sound foolish, or look vain. Is Agnes Gund the Last Good Rich Person? 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Dejanira reaches out in vain, eventually turning to booze and pills for solace. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z Leo fights his way up to his mother's room, forces his way in, and tries in vain to retrieve the Memory Box. The Truth About Leo by David Yelland 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z The vain stepmother in “Snow White” doesn’t need a back story. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Maleficent’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Surely, my grandmother could not have died in vain. Young Democrats in love 2012-11-02T23:30:00Z Why taketh in hand the people fond, vain things to bring about? Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z I’ll credit them with a lot of hard work, but for me, most of it was in vain. Review: ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ and His Misfortunes 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Surely some “Red Eye” fans, too lazy to change the channel, were still watching, waiting in vain for the punchline. In Praise of Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z The video shows the 17-year-old victim coiled on the ground in the alley, pleading in vain for the youths to stop punching and kicking him. 7 teens charged in Bridgeport beating video 2012-01-18T10:24:00Z On Tuesday evening, several diehard Kraftwerk fans waited outside the museum in the vain hope of scoring an extra ticket. Museum Crowd for Kraftwerk Embraces the Retro-Future 2012-04-11T10:37:07Z When their dogs realize they are being left behind, they “set up a dismal howl,” leaping into the icy waters of the Mississippi in a vain attempt to follow. In ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck Takes Aim at White Supremacy 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Love was to prove a vain hope; the most they ever managed was fondness, and that began to erode soon enough. John Ruskin's marriage: what really happened 2013-03-29T16:00:01Z I know he complained in vain about the scansion of some of the lines of verse I translated. Once upon a life: Margaret Drabble 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z One account has a distraught Lincoln trying in vain to save son Tad’s pet pony. Willow Biden joins long and varied line of White House pets 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “Green Water, Green Sky,” published in 1959, chronicles the mental collapse of a young woman, Florence, and its toll on her husband and her vain, domineering mother, Bonnie. Newly Released Books Include Novels by Dominic Smith and Marie NDiaye 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z At moments it also seems to channel the campy Adam West "Batman" TV series of the '60s, what with the on-screen sound-effect words and the array of vain and ludicrous villains. "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World": Canadian indie cuteness gone wild! 2010-08-10T21:30:00Z He says he isn't remotely vain, but he does look like someone who cares a great deal about his appearance. AC Grayling: 'How can you be a militant atheist? It's like sleeping furiously' 2011-04-03T20:00:01Z She was forced to stand next to her father on the red carpet while he tried, in vain, to chat up Kelly Rowland, who roundly shut him down. Oscars 2013: 10 things we learned on the night 2013-02-25T16:00:56Z Dominic Cooper plays vain indie-band drummer Ben, who also becomes entangled with the heroine. Tamara Drewe comic strip charms Cannes in film form 2010-05-17T16:33:00Z I did express my unhappiness behind the scenes at great length, in a vain effort to secure the release of a version I liked better. Oscar winner Kenneth Lonergan on director's cuts, Scorsese and studio battles 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z She waits in vain for Luke to come to her as promised. Review: ‘Among the Dead’ Deals in War and Family Mysteries 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z This vainest of Falstaffs is a genuine slob whom Boritt houses in a shabby bachelor pad wallpapered in purple zebra stripes. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z I was forced to stop for a few minutes to catch my breath, grab for my water bottle and search in vain for a gear below “1” that might make the steep incline more bearable. Explorer: Biking Maine?s Rugged Side 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z Scholars say that it reflects the chronic pain and insomnia brought on by the poisoning; if so he didn't suffer in vain. Barocci: Brilliance and Grace – review 2013-03-03T00:05:53Z They risked their lives to do this, and the movie argues that their sacrifice wasn’t in vain. ‘Fire of Love’ Review: A Volcanic Romance 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The glib alluring notion that spins through 80 minutes of contentious dialogue is that beneath the surface of civilized behavior lurks an unquenchable animal impulse, a principle of aggression we labor in vain to suppress. | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z His reputation among his fellow Victorians was that of a vain and excitable thug. The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde's Nemesis by Linda Stratmann – review 2013-04-17T13:00:03Z Elated by the crowd, the vain buffoon Absorbing every drop they send his way, Digests them like a tangerine spittoon, Extending lockdown day by endless day. Style Invitational Week 1410: Legends of the fall 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z “You’re so vain, you probably think this march is about you.” Many find solidarity — and catharsis — at the Women’s March on Washington 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z They are people struggling in vain “to keep their eccentricities to themselves.” Review | It’s been 18 years since Elizabeth McCracken’s last novel. ‘Bowlaway’ was worth the wait. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Because on a deep level, an illogical and arguably insane level, I am more comfortable looking the way I do than looking like a man vain enough to worry about how his hair looks. Perspective | Hey, President Trump, is there room on your staff for a spellchecker? 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z "I waited my whole life for a storm like this," top chaser Moore says, and "Into the Storm" shows us that that wait has not been in vain. 'Into the Storm' is a howling visual-effects success 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z He learned to telegraph to the world that he wasn’t vain and guarded like other handsome actors. Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z It’s fun to play the insecurity of a vain actor. Jerry O'Connell talks murder, dog hoarding, Drake & "Real Housewives" 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Her three children had been killed by her ex-husband, even though a restraining order was in place and she had repeatedly called the police for help, in vain. Perspective | She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Makela has a broad imagination for sound, but he applies with it such lavish flattery for details that the results can be a little too impulsive, although never vain. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z That may be a more important vocation than hunting in vain for a single avant-garde in a world as large as ours. Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Even though Louis is weak, vain and petulant, and the Cardinal is powerful, ruthless and conniving, the actors hint at an underlying love-hate relationship that is a little surprising and almost touching. A New Version of ‘The Musketeers,’ on BBC America 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z By high school, they were very vain: Blake writes of being acutely aware of the years when Scott was the more authoritative and handsome of the two. Books Of the Times: ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s Memoir 2014-02-23T22:48:06Z But at the same time is a little vain.” | At Berluti, Antoine Arnault Puts Business Before Pleasure 2013-09-12T08:00:08Z The character as written is vain, self-serving and demagogic, cynically manipulating the whiplash passions of his followers. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z He would spend all his free time writing, hoping in vain to get something published, hoping in vain to receive the validation of being an artist. Books of The Times: Hanif Kureishi Recalls His Mentor, Critic and Father 2010-03-22T20:04:00Z Compton’s art endures, but her efforts to make a career were in vain. Juleen Compton, a Director and Actor Whose Career Was Tragically Overlooked 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Even a rainy-day bowl of gnocchi with wild mushrooms and Parmesan was shot through with acid in a vain attempt to cut the richness. The Europe Issue: Six Prix-Fixe Restaurants in Paris 2010-04-16T19:17:00Z A few years ago Speleers was best known as "Downton Abbey" footman Jimmy Kent, "a vain and silly flirt" fired for bedding one of his betters. From "You" to "Barry," we're fascinated by audacious grifters: The man who deceives us and himself 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z The crowd quietly simmered in annoyance, waiting in vain for Future and Varner to materialize. MeccaFest is no Yardfest: Disorganization aggravates crowd’s discontented mood It’s not as if Carrie’s colleagues are callous; it was, after all, Saul who tried in vain to stop her electroshock. Homeland Watch: They Pull Them Back In 2012-10-01T12:00:20Z I’m now going to share this method with you so that my childhood travails weren’t entirely in vain. How to polish silver in a few minutes – the green way 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Stewart illustrated the disingenuity of Paul’s stance by explaining that a bakery owner would never badger Paul about whether or not he’d “used the Lord’s name in vain,” prior to being helped. Jon Stewart blasts Rand Paul’s “disingenuous” stance on religious freedom: “Don’t they sell cakes to sinners all the time?” 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The adults would share their latest news, the cousins would play and my mother-in-law would love/hate the chaos that she tried in vain to control for yet another week. Readers Comment on Sabbath and Modern Love 2010-07-23T21:55:00Z Dozens of overjoyed relatives waited in vain at the prison gates. April Fools’ Day is a garbage holiday. Here is its terrible history. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z What must it be like to be her, of all people, watching a crazed, vain king with scheming adult children destroy his kingdom? The Broadway Life of Hillary Clinton 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Each person reveals why he or she is so enraged, vain, sulky, frustrated, disappointed and so on. Sinister Doings at a Luxury Spa? Must Be a New Liane Moriarty Novel 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z I try in vain to remove his hand, which only angers him further, making him increase the pressure. "You never go into the upper kitchen" and other survival tips from a waiter in Paris 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Television producer Hal Tulchin filmed the concert series in its entirety, searching in vain for a distributor to share the magical event with the world. A revolution, finally televised: Questlove's "Summer of Soul" corrects pop fest history of the '60s 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Perry’s title refers, at least officially, to Philip Lewis Friedman, the vain, ambitious and tremendously unhappy young novelist played by Jason Schwartzman. “Listen Up Philip”: Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss star in a brilliant, bristly Philip Roth knock-off 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z “Trip in vain” policies vary from airline to airline, but generally, they should offer a refund of the unused portion of your ticket. A dream trip ends early when her London flight is canceled 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Not everyone likes him: He’s vain and politically conservative and sometimes seems to practice “competitive glowering.” Review: Mischa Berlinski’s ‘Peacekeeping,’ a Portrait of Haiti 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In season 2, we saw that they could be greedy, vicious and vain too. REVIEW: The Dark Optimism of Orange Is the New Black Season Two 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Wynne-Jones is a genius, and vain, cowardly Howl is my secret crush. Laura Powell's top 10 heroes in disguise 2013-04-11T15:55:00Z You wait in vain for some visual metaphor of the way our passions put meat on the bones of our world, even if the bones sometimes snap in the process. A cold winter in Lookingglass 'Ethan Frome' but not much blood running through the snow 2011-03-06T20:55:54Z Lovingly made but ultimately ill-conceived, “Doctor Sleep” is like the members of the True Knot, imbibing the essence of Kubrick’s original in the vain hope of remaining vital. ‘Doctor Sleep’ tries to reconcile the visions of Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick. But is that possible? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z All the selfless courage of two nations is being thrown into the resistance at Dunkirk, and it looks as if it will not be spent in vain. Dunkirk: how the Guardian reported the evacuation - archive, 1940 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z She notes that prison-issue canvas slippers are not unlike the cult favorite Toms shoes and tries in vain to explain Barneys, the store where the character’s “artisanal bath products” are sold, to a corrections officer. Prison Life, Real and Onscreen 2013-08-02T21:08:42Z It is, most affectingly, a series of portraits depicting men and women who, while they are undeniably selfless, brave and hard-working, can also be vain, jealous, self-righteous and, from time to time, drunk. | 'Living in Emergency': Machete Wounds and Malaria in Global Trouble Spots 2010-06-03T22:08:00Z The venue was the vast Albert Hall, built in 1910 as a Methodist central hall in the city's entertainment district in vain hope of fostering temperance and saving souls and livers. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z The debate, traditionally set up on stage, made a vain attempt at preserving a dignified academic air. When feminist debate turns into an ideological free-for-all: It's the Wooster Group's 'Town Hall Affair' 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Rapper Spank Rock appears for several songs, but his attempts to be heard over layers of synths are in vain. Mark Ronson and the Business Intl 2010-09-30T20:30:00Z Loser still pays — neither side can allow those soldiers to have died in vain, so they throw more soldiers at it, thereby increasing their unwillingness to tolerate even more soldiers having died in vain. Infallibility battles: How to avoid those ‘I’m right and you’re wrong about everything’ fights 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z It’s harder for gibbons, too; we watch as they swing gracefully from tree to tree looking for fruit, often in vain. “Hostile Planet”: Animals Are Struggling to Adapt, and National Geographic Is, Too 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The song’s title is “An Old-Fashioned Love Story,” which Madelaine sings as she cruises the crowd in vain for potential pickups. Review: ‘The Wild Party,’ With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Lissitzky-Küppers tried in vain to reclaim her collection after the war. After 26 Years, Munich Settles Case Over a Klee Looted by Nazis 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z But don’t mistake him, as Ms. Giannini did, for his stylistic betters, the gorgeous, irresistible, impeccably tailored and ludicrously vain peacocks of the early Jet Set era, men with names most Americans have never heard. Fashion Review: Review of Men?s Fashion From Milan 2010-06-23T21:42:00Z By the final page of “Last Day of Summer,” this hope — that “none of us be missing” at dawn, when the birds sing — proves vain. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s natural to be a touch vain, he suggested: “You want to be able to look your best when you’re at the center of the world.” The Artist Jimmie Durham: A Long Time Gone, but Welcomed Back 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z A year after producers tried in vain to overhaul the format of the awards telecast, there were no big changes this year, but there were some tweaks around the edges. ?Glee? and ?Modern Family? Face Off at Emmys 2010-08-30T03:25:00Z If Slow is anything to go by, that struggle was not in vain and she's finally going to get the success she thoroughly deserves. John Prescott on Rumer: 'She sang only one song but it moved me' 2010-09-22T12:12:00Z His direction of it isn’t artistically original or imaginative, but it’s brazen: he filmed himself with a vain profusion of close-ups that delivered him his Best Actor nomination. 2019 Oscar Nominations and Predictions (And Who Should Have Made the List) 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z They are exceptionally vain, and many are ripe for a takedown. Review: David Gates Delivers More Havoc in ‘A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me’ 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z After banging on the door and calling for Ham in vain, they entered his house and found his body. Men at Work musician Greg Ham found dead 2012-04-20T01:36:08Z People on the margins of society just like Dobyne spend money they don’t have in the vain hope of making that money back, plus a whole lot more. Viral video news memes bring fame – but still feel almost racist 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z When it was new in 2005, the artist, like a homeless Diogenes, pushed it through the streets of Chelsea, searching, mostly in vain, for public sources of electrical power. ‘Under the Same Sun,’ Art From Latin America, at Guggenheim 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z We loved the part when meek little orphan Oliver, born out of wedlock in a workhouse, asks the proprietor in vain for a refill of his bowl of gruel. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z Their characters are vain, vapid and almost too self-absorbed to be cruel to Cinderella, who is more ignored than abused. Dance Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Edinburgh International Festival 2012-08-31T22:50:44Z Caldwell, who died last month, gave expansive, entertaining breadth to one of McNally’s great conjurings, the vain and intimidating Callas, who bullies and inspires a series of opera students in “Master Class.” Perspective | With Terrence McNally’s death, the theater has lost a voice of consummate wit and passion 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z “Please know he didn’t die in vain,” Sewell tells Jackson’s sister and niece, her voice cracking for a moment. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Pompous, vain, self-satisfied, humourless, he speaks as if from a mountaintop, and refuses to compromise with real life, even in a time of war. Westwood by Stella Gibbons 2011-07-29T21:53:01Z The ballerina also goes in drag, to toy with the old man’s wife: women are vain fools here too, just not as much. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z A 70-minute work for chamber orchestra, “in vain” hovers in the air, rising to burning climaxes but always slithering free of them, chastened, and returning to hushed stasis. Music Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s ‘dark dreams,’ at Berlin Philharmonic 2014-02-23T18:48:18Z They say he deserves credit for not resorting to widespread bloodshed in a vain attempt to cling to power. Poland's Walesa to pay last respects to foe Jaruzelski 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The experience of “in vain” is specific to the point of exploring, and raising questions of, the relationship between a composer and musicians, and in turn the audience. Online, Simon Rattle Gives a Preview of His Future in Munich 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z As Anna tries in vain to contact Sally’s only living relative, her estranged daughter Mabel, Anna’s unanswered stream-of-consciousness voice mail messages become the narration to the show. 7 Fiction Podcasts Ready Made for Vacation 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Kept their £57m "management bonus" despite a staggeringly inept Olympics security performance that would have had The Thick of It's Malcolm Tucker reaching in vain for sufficiently toxic new swear words. 2012 review: it was the best of times. It was the worst of times … 2012-12-29T23:46:00Z Some think she was vain and devious, while to others she is a tragically romantic figure.It's no wonder writers are drawn to Mary as a subject. Spy for the Queen of Scots by Theresa Breslin – review 2012-08-17T21:55:01Z His character understands perfectly: He’s a bit of a mess, too, an emotional wreck since the death of his wife and he’s trying in vain to connect with his tween daughter. Love bites in ‘Wolf Like Me’ with Isla Fisher and Josh Gad 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z He may be vain and thin-skinned, but that doesn’t quite account for the self-destructive fights he picks. Seth Meyers on Trump the candidate: 'I think he knows he'd hate the job' 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Writing in the Spectator, Lloyd Evans summed the fringe up as no less than "vain, greedy, embittered, jealous, self-obsessed, megalomaniac, drunk, stoned and bankrupt". Edinburgh fringe hecklers should exit stage left and right 2010-09-03T16:03:00Z The time to be a better, deeper and less vain person is after you’ve committed yourself to someone. Carolyn Hax: When his weight leaves her wanting to wait 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Set off by a chancel at one end, where a constellation of votive candles burn wanly and in vain, this linear stage is a limited space. Critic’s Notebook: Something Wicked This Way Runs 2013-07-08T21:17:36Z You will search Kael’s collected work in vain for a theory, a system, or even a consistent set of principles. Pauline Kael and Her Legacy 2011-10-15T22:17:20Z But an anticlimactic last stanza like that of Duparc’s “Sérénade,” in which the poet Gabriel Marc fears that “in vain I seek to please you,” requires a more psychologically curious singer. Review: Jennifer Johnson Cano and Dimitri Pittas at the Morgan 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The lyrics in the chorus accuse him of being "so vain I bet you think this song is about you." 2010-02-16T11:14:00Z If you miss the window, you’ll be forced to watch helplessly, tapping in vain, as it unfolds without you. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Some colleagues found him vain and preening, and his teaching mediocre. How did one of the worst paedophiles in history get away with his crimes? | Robert Booth 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z It is repeated so often and in so many different ways that viewers may start shouting in vain at the screen hoping Bowie will finally hear it. Wretched David Bowie biopic "Stardust" should be launched into the sun 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Martin Skegg Deep in a tunnel beneath the Somme, a poem is scratched on the rock in pencil: "If in this place you are detained, don't look around you all in vain". TV highlights 20/05/2013 2013-05-20T06:00:13Z That sounds more like the behavior of some massively vain celebrity who's totally convinced himself of his own authenticity, good intentions and all-around coolness. "The Town": Ben Affleck's Boston fantasy 2010-09-17T14:01:00Z “If they compare themselves with others they may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than themselves,” Sheeran writes in looping cursive, signing off, “Your friend Frank.” ‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Most say, “I want to improve my health”, when really they want a better body but won’t say it for fear of appearing to be vain. What I’m really thinking: the nutritionist 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Eventually it grows so large that he becomes lost in the immense darkness, and cries out in vain for help. Lost literature: the unknown unknowns 2010-04-07T12:46:00Z He might learn, for example, to care about his body without being vain; to fight without getting angry; to make himself heard without shouting. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Joyce did not judge them, but was utterly alert to their weaknesses and their failures and was concerned to do them justice, whatever vanity or vain hope impelled them. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z Much of his humor involves him impersonating women while saying vain, childish, and stupid things—he pitches his voice high and screws up his face. Is Social Media Ruining Comedy? 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The man may be a vain, ethically obtuse, generally clueless buffoon, but it would not occur to him to allow a fictional character on his air to sell a product. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z Do we really need yet another show that revolves around a bunch of vain alcoholics who can barely read and their banal shenanigans. MTV Searches for ‘Jersey Shore’ Magic on the Florida Panhandle 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Her devotion to Bran ever since has been in Jojen’s honor, so he did not die in vain. ‘Game of Thrones’ Deaths: Every Major One So Far 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Indiana Jones may an all-time movie icon, but Han Solo launched a specific sort of American hero Hollywood has been trying in vain to recapture ever since. The First Reviews For 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Are Here 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Seek for him in vain at your local literary festival, or on the shortlist of literary prizes. Nostalgia by Jonathan Buckley – review 2013-03-15T18:34:01Z This is one of the least vain performances I have ever seen an actress give, and certainly the most natural that Shaw, whose intelligence can make her mannered, has ever given. This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z Idiosyncratic and biased, obfuscatory and boastful, even unctuous and vain, the Hollywood memoir is not going to portray the past in a clear light. The guilty pleasure of reading Hollywood memoirs 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z J R, who aspires to be a television news anchor, is vain, needy and abrasive, but at least seems to possess an idea of what it would mean to be charming. Movie Review: ?The Color Wheel,? Directed by Alex Ross Perry 2012-05-17T21:26:59Z It really annoys me that I’m vain, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to discard that tendency. Carrie Fisher on the Importance of Princess Leia Aging 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Re: Food waste: Etiquette says that it is rude to waste life in vain. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Take a general step to try to bring friendship back to life 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z This inward searching which I ask of you will not have been in vain. How to Grant Your Child an Inner Life 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Christian Bale, in arguably his best performance to date, plays a competitive, vain businessman obsessed with haute couture, business cards, Phil Collins, facial scrub and serial murder. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'? Take stock of other DVDs that explore the dangers of greed 2010-09-23T22:26:00Z Scouts headed to South Africa but looked for Vicus in vain near Cape Town. Fame finally finds 10-year-old township singing sensation 2013-01-23T16:11:20Z They didn't all die in vain, though, because now six lucky souls are being put back together. Last night's TV 2010-06-15T06:59:00Z But while America couldn’t stop staring at her, Shields began avoiding her own reflection, dodging mirrors in fear of becoming too vain. Brooke Shields is just getting started 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z A band called Design are invariably introduced as "top recording artists Design", but you search the internet in vain for any evidence of their top recordings. The bizarre lost world of 1970s cabaret pop 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z I do portray an actor who moves back to his small hometown and makes believe he's a cop and I get to play sort of this vain actor type. Jerry O'Connell talks murder, dog hoarding, Drake & "Real Housewives" 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z To some guys, that can seem a little, well, vain. What Happened to That Comb-Over? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z I’m not vain enough to think they’re coming out because they know the music. ‘The X-Files’ star David Duchnovny has a new gig: touring musician 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z He knows firsthand that men, deep down, are more vain than women, that in their fantasies most men see themselves as irresistible lady-killers. Review: In ‘Zoolander 2,’ All Is Still Vanity 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z "Though my run for the presidency was cut short, I feel it was not in vain," Jean said. Wyclef Jean drops presidential bid in Haiti 2010-09-21T21:07:00Z A tedious federal minister, a terminally vain titan of Ruhr industry, a Hohenzollern pretender and a quartet of free-loading parliamentarians have finally called for their limousines. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – extract 2013-04-12T20:01:02Z Save the Corcoran promoted him in vain as a good candidate for chairman. What you need to know as the fate of the Corcoran Gallery is argued in court Diana discovers that her entire life’s mission is built on a lie, and that her great battle was undertaken in vain. Wonder Woman Review: Patty Jenkins's Hard-Won Wisdom 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z She is not vain about them, however; she thinks they are just part of her body. Love's True Kiss: 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Still, I worried that all this progress might be in vain. 'It's a hustle': Jon Ronson on how he made it into movies with the help of Okja the giant pig 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z He is prim, charming and ultrafastidious; he is vain but considerate, sharp but deferential, faultless about manners and etiquette but, when it is time to issue a verdict, thoroughly ruthless. What Makes a Good Hercule Poirot? (It’s More Than the Little Gray Cells.) 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z And although there is no way to say this without sounding vain, I will risk the potential alienating effects: I have come to realize that men find me very attractive. The lasting trauma of rape 2013-02-18T01:00:00Z If I am not vain, why do I care about this photo? Dear Wikipedia: Please change my photo! 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Still, she was called “vain”, “shallow”, “frivolous”, “egotistical”, “materialistic”, and many other more vulgar insults in endless media pieces and online rantings. 'You inspire me to be hot and famous': how Kim Kardashian became a teen idol 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Campbell portrays both the general Agamemnon and the vain warrior Achilles with brooding tough-guy diction that appears to be in homage to the theatrical locutions of one Christopher Walken. Review: A Modern Makeover for ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z You wait in vain for the full weight of bereavement to become apparent, and also for an indication of the density of experience. Review: ‘L’Attesa’ (‘The Wait’) Turns Life Into a Ghost Story 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z They were light enough to drape across a divan — or better yet, to wrap around my hips in the vain hope they would pass as a Dries-like sarong. | ABC Carpet & Home: ABC Carpet & Home: the Name Belies the Exoticism 2010-05-04T23:40:00Z I’d often be all by my lonesome, struggling to fold down the immense denim walls in the vain hope of leaving by midnight, when he’d show up. I sold my body (and nearly my soul) to Abercrombie 2014-05-05T00:00:00Z Was that the Lord’s name you just took in vain? Miss your Aunt Hattie’s reprimands? Borrow this voice. 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z “And yet, many of these same men expect none of those characteristics from Trump, who is a vain, cowardly, lying, vulgar, jabbering blowhard,” he writes. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Browne: “In vain do individuals hope for Immortality, or any patent from oblivion.” Thomas Browne, 17th-Century Author, Draws New Interest 2012-08-07T12:00:00Z The prospect of immortality, however vain, can be vested in precincts of incalculable wealth and extraordinary power. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Tino partly blames his vain, foul-mouthed mother, whom he embodies with a ruthlessness that borders on misogyny. Theater Review: ‘Silent,’ by Pat Kinevane, at Irish Arts Center 2012-09-10T02:07:31Z England’s new hero–mild-mannered but inwardly vain and controlling–decides that the best way to keep magic “respectable” is to keep it to himself. Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Brings the Old-Time Magic 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Whatever phrases spill out look so vain, so entirely not up to the occasion. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z The images are so shiny they almost feels hot, as if they’re shimmering an inch or so off the screen, looking in vain for something to grab onto. Review: 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' Favors Technology Over Faces 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that they are waiting in vain, though there is one idyllic scene that briefly and cruelly suggests otherwise. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Locho, who was 31 when the film was shot in 2007, is a charming, vain ladies man, who is shown meticulously applying skin cream. | 'Summer Pasture': A Life Herding Yaks, Modernity on the Horizon 2011-08-14T23:21:49Z And as the camping trip started to go haywire, I had vague, vain hopes that we might be detouring into the territory of madcap all-American satire à la “The Simpsons.” | 'Wild Animals You Should Know': ?Wild Animals You Should Know,? by Thomas Higgins - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:27Z It’s easy to understand their impulse to defend Amazon’s e-book publishing programs, given that many had tried in vain to publish their books with traditional houses before opting for, say, Kindle Direct Publishing. Amazon is not your best friend: Why self-published authors should side with Hachette 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z A vain, bilious misanthrope, Gordon has all the charm of a troll dragged up from a sewer outlet under a bridge. Review: ‘Some Kind of Beautiful’ Stars Pierce Brosnan as a Serial Seducer 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z I’m vain, so I work out just enough to look good. David Hasselhoff: ‘Whatever I do, I tell myself: I am good. Fake it till you make it’ | Sanjiv Bhattacharya 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z The dinner was mostly me being a nervous chatterbox, trying in vain to spark conversation between two people with little in common. ‘The Big Sick,’ South Asian Identity, and Marriage 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z He’s as vain as they come; though he’s sly he is dumb, Mr. Donald Trump; Condescending, of course, but consider the source; He is Donald Trump. Style Invitational: It’s easy as 1-B-iii 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The only things in life I find Not wholly vain.Books in my hands – books in my heart enshrined – Books in my brain. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z “The whole context of what we’re doing right now is vain for me. But all of our lives have unusual circumstances. And you learn to live with those circumstances.” Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z I’d install a fireplace or one of the tall European ceramic heating stoves that De Wolfe so greatly loved and hoped, in vain, that Americans would learn to embrace. AD’s Aesthete Discovers a Perfect Multi-Season Room 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Harris threatens to steal the movie with his portrayal of this vain, preening fop, a hissable baddie whose mug is plastered with a ridiculous, curling handlebar. Seth MacFarlane’s ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z “I would be more vain if I didn’t commit. I’m so vain that I don’t want to be embarrassed.” Matthew McConaughey: ‘My agent said no to romcoms. And then there was nothing’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z From the beginning — “Hence, loathed Melancholy” cries L’Allegro; “Hence, vain deluding joys” cries Il Penseroso — it is evident that each has the other on his or her mind. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z As it turned out, we worried in vain. David West Read Visits Vegas for ‘The Performers’ 2012-10-21T03:07:23Z After his diagnosis, disabled as an oboist, Klein sought remedies and solutions in vain as his life fell apart around him. After 15 years, musician makes miraculous comeback 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z As well as talking to scientists and discussing past attempts to explain these hidden oceanic pathways, he travels to Norway, searching in vain for the mythical whirlpool the Maelström. Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents by Erik Orsenna, translated by Moishe Black 2010-09-27T16:49:00Z We both smile at the three Family sins she’s just committed – drawing attention, unwomanly loudness, and the greatest and least forgivable, taking the Lord’s name in vain. Work, pray, fear: my life in the Family cult 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Cyrano is at once vain and compassionate and funny and just the most fascinating person you could possibly meet. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The hospital staff struggled in vain to keep him alive one more day. From Georgetown to Copenhagen, a chef takes charge When the generally incurious Daphne figures that out, she tries to get the yearbook back and, in the process, discovers more about her pretty, vain mother than she wants to. In This New Caper Novel, a Yearbook Reveals Family Secrets 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s so rare, actors who are not vain. 'Game of Thrones' Finale: Sibel Kekilli Takes Home an Odd Souvenir 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z In the “Empire” pilot, the Lucious character is presented as ruthless, vain, vulgar and ashamed of his gay son, while Cookie uses a slur for gay people. The Cast and Director of ‘Empire’ Discuss Their New Show 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z And he allowed his own reputation to be ruined in a vain effort to save Mr. Edwards from embarrassment. 2010-01-29T06:14:00Z The girls fled in terror when the aircraft abruptly turned its attention on them, and they tried in vain to convince the one friend's father that they had seen something truly extraordinary. 11 strange stories from the national UFO reporting center 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Unwilling to return to the plywood mill, Bell searched, in vain, for a response to Jadin’s suicide. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z But all this speculation was in vain, because Gendry is apparently going to make an appearance in the new season of Game of Thrones. The fate of Gendry: is Game of Thrones’ biggest mystery about to be solved? 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The bankruptcy saga of the famed New York department store involved last-minute alliances and vain attempts to cobble together competing bids. Jennie Sears, Zachary Fried 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Edward Tulane is a rabbit doll made of china — precious, vain, selfish — who passes through hardships and the hands of several owners. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The racism and anti-Semitism of the conservative community showed up in many of her stories, along with cold mothers, matricidal daughters and vain, cruel husbands. ‘Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z History, experience and science all suggest that much of his effort is in vain; in clothing the words with music, I will inevitably conceal them. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z That the nation presses forward knowing that there’s so much hard work ahead, but confident that the good we do is never in vain, and that even in the darkest moments, it’s possible to win. Julian Bond had the long view of this journey toward justice 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z But, she adds: “I’m an actress and would never intentionally mark or mar myself. I’m just that vain.” Marilyn Monroe’s Musings, Letters and Lipstick to Be Auctioned 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Far from conventionally attractive, DeHaan's willingness to sweat, ache, and generally act ugly on screen is a rare trait among his habitually vain peers. Top 23 character actors in film 2013-04-12T15:00:00Z In this religion, which came with an ever-expanding canon, Nimoy’s Spock served a role that was at once rabbinical and monastic, wise but not preachy, certain but not vain. Leonard Nimoy and the lasting dignity of being Spock 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Soulages came to a new understanding of the possibilities of black paint in 1979, after struggling in vain with a canvas in his Paris studio. Pierre Soulages, Leading French Abstract Painter, Dies at 102 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Linda Tulloch waited in vain for teachers at the North Street School, a public elementary school in Greenwich, Conn., to provide her son, Jack, now a fifth grader, with handwriting instruction. Watch How You Hold That Crayon 2010-02-24T21:54:00Z And he flat out played the vain millennial fool. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z It aspires to something large and lofty, but in the end it’s a big pile of rocks, ice and vain and valiant human effort. Review: ‘Everest’ Revisits a Fateful Adventure in 3-D 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z You look in vain for a special handshake or smile: he may be speaking he truth. Proms 9, 10, 12 ,13: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Cadogan Hall Proms; Falstaff – review 2012-07-28T23:06:25Z Mr. De Palma is remarkable company — witty, insightful and neither unduly modest nor overbearingly vain. Review: Brian De Palma Says He Is Hitchcock’s True Heir 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z But you'll search in vain for the heartfelt musical tributes to the Iron Lady. Five songs about Margaret Thatcher 2013-04-08T13:36:00Z Behind the mask and despite the self‑denigration, Berlin was insecure and vain. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z You will search their oeuvre in vain for fat, colon-juddering bass wobbles. Mount Kimbie – review 2013-05-26T16:41:56Z She stood on the dais, trying in vain to silence the crowd. Oscars 2015: A Scrum for Votes at the Governors Awards 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z He is considered, verbose, dapper, charming, mysterious, vain, pretentious, aphoristic, arrogant, refined and absolutely catastrophic. 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Apparently, we're meant to believe Muslim women in the Middle East are equally self-absorbed, vain and materialistic. "Sex and the City 2's" stunning Muslim clich?s 2010-05-26T18:45:00Z But it’s exactly this – her unashamedly vain attempts at immortality, with three hit shows at 81 – that appealed to so many of her fans. Joan Rivers’ defiant star power: What she reveals about the cultural obsession with youth 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Like many teenagers, I was overwrought, vain, insecure, filled with an excruciating longing for exceptional experiences and terrified that I was too ordinary to attract them. Our school shooting 2012-08-20T01:00:00Z We typically think of objects as “useful or aesthetic,” “necessities or vain indulgences,” as Sherry Turkle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology puts it in “Evocative Objects: Things We Think With.” Prized Souvenirs, Found for Free 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z "I have tried in vain to work my way through the trauma that the doctors who saved my life warned I would experience," he said on his website. George Michael cancels Australian leg of his tour 2012-09-30T18:38:47Z North’s performance chafes in vain against the material’s ick factor, to curious and frustrating ends. ‘1 + 1’ Review: She Just Wants to Be His Plaything 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z So, if actors are disposable, replaceable commodities, vain, silly and mean, why do we get the feeling this director loves them so? Fran?ois Truffaut ? the man who loved actors 2011-02-17T22:23:01Z He is so vain, Simon sings in the chorus, "I'll bet you think this song is about you." 2010-02-15T13:34:00Z The withholding inclination of this show unreasonably restricts our access to the characters, leaving us waiting in vain to discover more about them. ‘Little Dancer’ at the Kennedy Center, with the accent on ‘dancer’ He’s much less vain about his dancing now. Dancing Down the Years 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Among the many interplanetary travels that eventually landed the Little Prince on Earth, the most emotional involves his fraught romance with a vain, high-strung rose, which drove him to leave the asteroid. Review: Fanciful Classic ‘The Little Prince’ Is Turned Into Modernist Fable 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z "I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that they are waiting in vain, though there is one idyllic scene that briefly and cruelly suggests otherwise." Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z He's built a reputation for playing weak, vain men with a superficial charm that can't hide their hopeless neuroses. Rewind TV: The Kennedys; The Crimson Petal and the White; Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis; My Brother the Islamist 2011-04-09T23:05:33Z As for the Seventh Cavalry, it marched into campaigns with a band and flag bearers, and Custer, who was as vain as he was impulsive, flaunted a ridiculous fringed white buckskin suit. Books of The Times: Recalling Custer in Nathaniel Philbrick?s ?Last Stand? 2010-06-03T21:17:00Z “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” How to take ‘Pride & Prejudice’ to Cincinnati 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Amateur cricketers tend to be vain, anecdotal, passionate, knowledgeable, neurotic and given to fantasy. The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon by The Authors Cricket Club – review 2013-07-07T11:00:00Z You'll search in vain for an underlying system or structure to explain what's happening in, say, Crippled Symmetry, another huge piece for flute, percussion and piano. A guide to Morton Feldman's music 2012-11-12T19:01:09Z His struggles to find meaning have been in vain, like interrogating an unexamined life, or a forever war or a plague. ‘My Dinner With André’ at 40: Still Serving Hot Takes 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z That vain, rather silly fellow is played by Bill Nighy, in a performance crafted to pilfer every scene he’s in. Review | The charming, affecting ‘Their Finest’ pays homage to the films of World War II 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z When The Comeback was first on, it seemed cruel to its protagonist, so vain about her elaborate red hairdo and her dreams of stardom; now, it just seems prophetic. Don't Call Lisa Kudrow "Brave" 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Even though he's been called Egypt's Indiana Jones, the name that probably describes him best is his very own, Zahi, which means vain or conceited in Arabic. Sacking Zahi Hawass is a sign of Egypt's ongoing revolution 2011-07-22T07:00:00Z “There are many vain people here, people in sharp competition with one another,” the staff member adds. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z Other people search in vain for a hobby to embrace. The Tipsy Diaries: Sweet on Tiki, Flower of Cocktails 2011-03-31T14:00:29Z Howard Jacobson published a satirical political allegory about a vain, vulgar prince that fell flat with critics and readers. A 1965 Novel About an Unhinged President Is Being Rereleased 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z And it feels vain, too, at the end of this incredibly sad summer of 2020. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Kaschei, traditionally a nondancing grotesque who despotically holds his realm in terrified thrall, is here a vain, highly mobile figure of bizarre glamour with black robes, green gloves and green headdress. Dance Review: Ratmansky’s ‘Firebird,’ for American Ballet Theater 2012-06-12T22:16:25Z "I pledge I will not let my son die in vain!" Calls for 'justice' at Trayvon Martin rally 2012-03-23T11:47:00Z Still, his name is not dropped in vain. Review: In ‘Maggie’s Plan,’ Greta Gerwig Aspires to Motherhood on Her Terms 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z But if you were listening for national styles or accents, you listened in vain. Music Review: Seven Composers, Seven Countries 2011-05-11T21:21:27Z Over the years these women have grown older, transiting the vain decade of their 20s and the more sober decade of their 30s, and slowly settling into the slough of middle age. Books of The Times: Helen Simpson?s ?In-Flight Entertainment? 2012-03-22T21:51:09Z New York Hate to break it you, darling, but you’re a little vain. Social Q?s: Keep a Straight Face 2011-06-09T20:51:29Z He disdained multicultural programs and pushed in vain to establish a special Western Civilization course at Yale. Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z They're vain, competitive, ingenious, witty, sulky, timorous, creative, ironic, adaptable, adventurous, quarrelsome, collaborative and romantic. Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z She is cruel and vain, an entertainingly horrible person who asphyxiates enemies in her imagination, one of the touches that lends this high-strung comedy an intriguing darkness, I think. The Provocative, Preposterous Power of “Insatiable” 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z My children have heard me take “the Lord’s name in vain.” I’m raising my kids atheist in a God-obsessed culture: How I learned to parent godless children 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Director searched in vain, but ultimately found a solution that subtly raises the bar for movie-twin technology. The secret of The Social Network's twins 2010-10-17T19:00:00Z “I must be very vain to continue doing this kind of work,” he said. Derek Walcott, a Mighty Poet, Has Died 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York even invited the Taliban leadership to sell the Buddhas to western museums, but all in vain. Afghanistan's surviving treasures 2011-03-04T09:00:01Z But Ms. Tharp’s goblins are vain in the way of dancers. Dance Review: Twyla Tharp?s ?The Princess and the Goblin? 2012-02-13T00:28:50Z And who now would turn to a map of the world in a vain quest for the wastelands called Never Has Been, Never Could Be and Never Should Be? Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Capable gloved hands palpitate the little chest to start the lungs – surely in vain. ‘My daughter was raised during the siege of Aleppo. I had to make a film for her’ 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z It seemed a bit retro, a little vain, even. New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Anne’s court is populated by vain creatures in sky-high curly wigs and elaborately painted faces. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Oisin Monaghan, looking with his white-blond curls like a vain prince from “Game of Thrones,” periodically lies on his back in the middle of everyone, as if in an occult ceremony. Dance Review: Tere O’Connor’s ‘Bleed’ Debuts at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-12-13T22:05:12Z Which he doesn't mind, as he is self-confessedly vain, but which he does mind, because he's vain. Paul Weller: National treasure 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z His actions are selfish and vain, his sacrifice pointless. ‘A Hidden Life’ Review: Refusing Hitler, Embracing Beauty 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z "It contains," he wrote of the document, "excellent fragments of a much better age, which you would seek in vain to find elsewhere". History in the making: a Roman map… and an 18th-century hoax 2013-07-19T07:30:01Z In the demon’s description, he is as vain, temperamental and easily distracted as a spoiled emperor and cares more about his power than his loved ones. Review: In ‘Last Days in the Desert,’ Ewan McGregor Is a Conflicted Jesus 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z For years this made Charo the butt of a running joke, where she was cast as a vain celebrity desperate to fool audiences into thinking she was younger than she really was. The Brilliance of Charo 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z In a heated Twitter exchange I tried in vain to dissuade one fan from tattooing my signature on to her leg. Gina Bellman on Leverage: 'Fandom is a world with no prejudice' 2013-02-02T17:00:00Z Cops with rifles try to restore order, but it's in vain. Terror often disrupts movies within movies 2012-07-25T11:46:13Z I’ve been a twister since I was 8 years old, when I first struggled in vain to inflate a balloon with a bicycle pump. From thin air, 40,000 balloons add up to one giant public art installation 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Reviewing the film in The New York Times, A. O. Scott wrote that Ms. Hoss “embodies Mr. Petzold’s fluctuating idea of postwar Germany itself: vain, guilty, vulnerable, confused.” Refugee Influx in Germany Sets Off a Brooding Cultural Debate 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z How could I be vain, dumb or deluded enough to believe that this was a job I could actually do? And Now Let’s Review … 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z “It’s made me a lot more vain,” he said. Jack Harlow Knows What He Wants. And Where He Stands. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z “Let’s see what’s happened when we wake up on November 4th. Because regardless of what’s happening now, if Agent Orange gets reelected, then it’s been in vain.” Perspective | Spike Lee on his role as an artist in tumultuous times: ‘I’m built for this’ 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z “Women gather together, singing tunes, longing in vain for the return of their heartless lovers,” the artist wrote. Antiques: Database of Viginia Slave Names Goes Online 2011-09-08T20:55:45Z But we’d rarely been shown that he might feel vengeful, envious or vain. ‘Watchmen’ Is Coming. (Actually, It Never Left.) 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Her vain, erratic mother, Yaa, constantly tries to prove she both does and does not belong in Europe. Wrestling With Prejudice in Three Debut Novels 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z I had anxiously worked and reworked my list of questions, but while my preparation was not in vain, it was swiftly put into perspective by an unexpected turn of events. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z Which made me feel even more self-obsessed and vain for caring about them in the first place. Hiding my freckles 2012-12-27T22:35:00Z The researchers also provided participants with a definition of narcissist: egotistical, self-focused and vain. Narcissists are self-involved enough to know they’re narcissists 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s direct, vain, cranky and slashing — a voice of outraged intelligence. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Former President Donald J. Trump “can appear less dangerous because he’s a clown and so weak and so vain,” she said, adding those qualities felt similar to John Paul’s. How Sharon Horgan Shaped a Monstrous Brother-in-Law 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z His James is the usual vain, dashing skinflint, yes. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z “Does he think his precious hair Won’t survive the weather? Therefore, Mr. Trump, be sure, You’ll look vain and snooty If you let your prized coiffure Keep you from your duty.” Style Invitational Week 1310: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z In her hands is a paperback copy of Saul Bellow’s “Herzog,” possession of which surely signals, at the very least, a high tolerance for vain, verbose and vulgar Jewish men. | 'Barney?s Version': Maybe a Dinosaur, Just Not Purple 2010-12-02T22:38:00Z And since there is very little action in either mode — you will wait in vain for a breakdown or fistfight — both, lacking clear contours, grow muddy. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z The men around Maisie flit around her in a vain effort to protect her from herself and others, but ultimately, Maisie must grapple with the implications of her powers on her own. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z "She wasn't a vain person, and had no interest in her past career," he says. Secrets of the Psycho shower 2010-03-29T21:00:00Z The Jackie we met in Season 1 was vain and selfish when it came to survival. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Dig In 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z They also remind us how often the rich and physically attractive can be heartless, vain and cruel. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Ewart's conclusion: "the worst journey in the world in the interest of science was not made in vain." The worst egg hunt in the world 2013-07-16T13:12:00Z Dawkins’s bracing asperities are now routinely met in kind: ‘Puffed up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant’ was one columnist’s string of adjectives for him. Richard Dawkins’ moralizing atheism: Science, self-righteousness and militant belief — and disbelief 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Neither extreme, Khan seems to suggest, is more than a whistle in the dark, or a vain attempt to define ourselves against the uncaring vastness of the universe. Raven Girl/Symphony in C; iTMOi – review 2013-06-01T23:05:33Z After the laughter died down, Leonard said, still dry as a martini, “You hope in vain to see a quote like that on the back cover of your next book.” Elmore Leonard shoots his way into the Library of America No spoilers, but it looks as if Pascall will get his wish: that Hayley didn’t die in vain – because she brought him more downloads, reviews and awards than any other podcast. Could A Very Fatal Murder kill off the true-crime podcast? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z One November day, I shivered on a concrete floor and fought in vain to keep my insides from erupting. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z We are, as a species, ridiculous: vain, ugly, selfish and self-deluding. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z The characters in “The Seagull” are vain, sometimes miserable creatures, but they are also aware of the comical aspects of their existence. Review: In ‘The Seagull,’ a Great Play, a Great Cast and Yet ... 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z All the competitors are vain, insecure and capable of good sportsmanship, though each one shows these qualities in his own way. Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ the Manly Games Played on the Aegean 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But Foster, indifferent to his boundless wealth, spends a decade pursuing Sylvia in vain. The Best Movies I Saw at SXSW 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z I guess it’s kind of vain that I thought he looked good. He looks just like Steve Bannon, moves in the same circles. What is that like? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Rader makes vain attempts to create a Tennessee Williams play about Tennessee Williams, but bookending his drama with overripe monologues isn’t enough to turn “God Looked Away” into “The Glass Menagerie.” 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The current mania for cosmetic surgery must surely be a contender: an expensive, dangerous medical procedure that often makes the vain look worse. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z Organizers then attempted in vain to seek permits in Vernon, New York. Miley Cyrus latest star to abandon Woodstock 50 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z “Having combed Roget’s Thesaurus in vain for a suitable adjective to describe the Johnny Depp comedy Mortdecai, I’m forced to say it’s just … bad.” Here Are the Worst Things Critics Had to Say About Mortdecai 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z As the violent, manipulative alcoholic and the vain, snobbish fabricator punch and counterpunch in “A Very British Scandal,” the opaqueness of the characters gets tedious and increasingly mystifying. ‘A Very British Scandal’ Review: Claire Foy Gives Up the Crown 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z “At face value he appears to be vain, self-involved and shallow — yuppie,” he said. Peter Scolari, ‘Newhart’ and ‘Girls’ Actor, Is Dead at 66 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z It's a particularly striking achievement because Blake specialises in moods and atmospherics rather than fully fledged songs; you will wait in vain for a riff or a rousing chorus. James Blake – review 2013-04-10T15:15:01Z As a substitute for American ham I tried in vain to find ham made of wild boar. Traditional Italian Flavors, in a Bundle 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z As the two characters wait in vain for the school principal, Corryn doesn’t talk — she attacks. ‘Gidion’s Knot’ is sharp as a knife, but undone by threadbare plot details It became a message that wasn’t sent in vain. Perspective | A secret 9/11 note from beyond the grave 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z We agreed on a price, and he proceeded to drive me all over the city in a vain search for an empty room. New Writer, Same Goal: Exploring the World on a Budget 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z “For a moment there, I swear I saw me,” Bain sings, her 20-something growing pains palpable as she yearns — in vain — for a stable, unchanging sense of self. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z And in Mrs. Clinton’s speech, she fitted her opponent with an absurd crown to cast him as her show’s erratic, vain and autocratic King George. Her Shot: Hillary Clinton Shares a Vision of America Out of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z “And I’m not vain enough — or stupid enough — to think this is going to change anything on the ground in Syria.” The Kitchen Is Her Stage. (It Could Actually Be Your Kitchen.) 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z In the clear light of the morning, Shkreli backtracked a bit on the ludicrously vain offer. Shkreli, Kanye and Trump: a most heinous trinity not worthy of our hatred 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z I tried to put these questions to Dollar directly, but my attempts to reach him were as much in vain as the Rastas trying to communicate with the queen. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z Most importantly, be assured that none of your efforts, whether successful or not, will be in vain. My partner of 30 years wants to leave. How can I get her to stay? 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z On the contrary, what makes “Le Amiche” so bracing — so sad and, sometimes, so funny — is that its heroines are fallible, flawed, vain and powerful, each in her own way. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z Seth is not sentimental about his latest creation: Sprott is a monster of selfishness, fat and vain and lacking in self-awareness. George Sprott 2010-06-19T23:22:00Z Reaction on Facebook ranged from gratitude for being cautious, to someone objecting to having made the effort in vain to arrive from Portland. Seattle Symphony suddenly cancels concert, citing COVID-19 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Archaeologists here, we learn, have searched in vain for its legendary lighthouse. TV review: Rome's Lost Empire; The Trouble with Aid 2012-12-09T23:45:01Z He vividly portrays all the Washingtons: the young man, vain, ambitious and prone to overreaching; the general, struggling to keep his troops clothed and fed; the president, shouldering the weight of the new republic. A year of magical biographies 2010-11-19T22:09:00Z Hassel was deeply disappointed and hoped in vain for better luck in the cinema. Sven Hassel obituary 2012-10-02T16:06:04Z In one of the film’s most powerful moments, these voyagers, faces full of shame, flee from another pirogue, this one long-stranded, leaving its desperate passengers crying in vain to be rescued. ‘The Pirogue’: Disaster and human drama on the high seas 2013-08-15T19:29:38Z These are the pieces of a puzzle waiting in vain to be assembled. | 'The Really Big Once': ?Camino Real,? Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan 2010-04-19T21:52:00Z Migrant workers are persecuted and surveilled by “soldiers sneaking around through the bushes. Making sure the president’s name is not spoken in vain. Making sure there are no whispered plans to overthrow the real estate.” In His Final Fiction, Sam Shepard Chases Familiar Themes 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z “With this, I’m pushing a whole new way of making work which is much more in the vain of the decorative arts.” Lindsey Adelman’s Music Video Inspires Mirrors and Jewelry 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z “The lecturers were full of themselves and vain. But they might be able to teach us something all the same.” At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z But as Jason O’Connell proves in a hilarious and explosive performance as Harold, the cult of masculinity that Vonnegut lampooned is still with us, absurd and menacing and terribly, terribly vain. Review: Toxic Masculinity, Vonnegut Style, in ‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The perverse narrative function of the menace stalking Angela is to swoop in like a deus ex machina, attempting in vain to rescue the play. Review: In ‘Natural Shocks,’ a Storm Is Coming 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z A vain German commandant is tickled to learn — from a fake source — that his nickname back in Berlin is “Concentration Camp Ehrhardt.” When We Laugh at Nazis, Maybe the Joke’s on Us 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Falstaff, as you may remember, was a vain rogue said to be Shakespeare’s own favorite character. A Not-So-Merry Mix: Shakespeare, Bluegrass and Randy Quaid 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z This is not exactly the art-commerce divide that sentimentalists of cinema invoke in a vain effort to distinguish aesthetic ambition from mercenary zeal. Film: In Line at the Movies, Hoping for Good Enough 2010-11-20T19:14:00Z In the two decades after cholera first reached Europe, individual European nations, acting in isolation, tried in vain to prevent and contain it. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z I am now at least a little bit the wiser, and I also understand how vain and fallible judges can be, and how they get that way. Forever Rumpole by John Mortimer – review 2013-02-05T07:00:06Z He’s hardly the first person to complain that baseball is boring, or to ring a laugh from the notion that the denizens of L.A. are fame-obsessed and vain. Gad Elmaleh’s Translated Comedy 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z He's vain, offensive and so ignorant that he doesn't even realize when he's saying something anti-Semitic. Due Date Review: Downey, Galifianakis and Road Rage 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z But Motley also counseled exhausted and frightened clients to persist, ensuring that all the hard work they had put in wouldn’t be in vain. ‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z On September 1st, when the Germans invade Poland, the Origos try in vain to listen to the BBC, but hear only that children are being evacuated from London to the countryside. Not a Moment Too Soon: Iris Origo’s War Diary 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z But after months of waiting in vain for a resolution, Bior wrote again in October to Green and Keith Wallace, the Africa division’s executive TV producer. When plagiarism was reported to Voice of America, managers delayed action for months 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Anthony pleaded in vain with her; Kirk was, she warned, “making the great mistake of her life.” How to Pitch a Magazine (in 1888) 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Ms. VanCamp, sad to say, must struggle in vain with an underwritten part. | 'Norman': Jonathan Segal?s ?Norman? ? Review 2011-10-21T02:30:11Z Alone in the high-tech quarters, Lofthouse, a stolid, stoic figure whose face is framed by an expansive but not inordinately unruly beard, signals to the ship, seemingly in vain. ‘The Midnight Sky’ Review: It’s the End of the World, in the Arctic 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z You will search in vain for a baked potato or creamed spinach on David Shim’s menu. This May Be the Best Beef at Any Korean BBQ in New York 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The crab cake leaves a metallic taste in its wake, and the most memorable part of the gray beef brisket is the horseradish sauce that tries, in vain, to come to the bland meat’s rescue. Pop’s SeaBar and Walrus & Oyster Ale House: 2 joints where seafood rules And now, as a result, Dave is playing the Hollywood game in vain, glued to his cell phone, chasing down his agent, awaiting the phone call in which his artistic future hangs in the balance. Todd Solondz’s Exquisite, Imperfect “Wiener-Dog” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z “No one so alone as the bereft mother seeking her lost child in vain,” Oates writes. Book review: ‘The Sacrifice,’ by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by Tawana Brawley case 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z And in “Alcatraz,” a woman fights in vain to reverse her relative’s dishonorable discharge, focused on the sum she estimates the U.S. government owes her family: $227,035.87. Short Stories Need a Defender. She’s Ready. 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z Marvell was also wary of Milton “lest he perplexed the things he should explain/And what was easy he should render vain.” Critic?s Notebook: His Back Pages, Captured on Film 2011-05-17T19:00:20Z Picasso himself made three vain attempts to prevent the book from being published in France. Françoise Gilot, Artist in the Shadow of Picasso, Is Dead at 101 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z In vain, he tries to fit in, pretending to have a taste for football, girls, even for homophobia, until escape becomes “the only option left to me”. From the bottom up 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z “She told me that during my time in prison that she wanted me to do something productive with my life so that her dad’s life wouldn’t have been taken in vain,” he said. Running with criminals: the prison that helps inmates rehabilitate a mile at a time 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The result achieves, with style and wit, what the “Trovatore” aims for in vain, sending a breath of fresh air through the operatic museum. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “Fame was not only part of greatness, it was more. It was the evidence, the only proof. All the rest was nothing, in vain.” James Salter, novelist with exquisite prose style, dies at 90 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z What follows almost always happens in these situations: The killer is so vain and/or stupid that he won’t shut up and shoot. Spoiler alert: Jack Reacher survives, but the 19th Lee Child novel is fascinating After her sterling Pacific service she was then remaindered and renamed the Lord Sandwich, and ended up carrying Hessian troops to New York in a vain attempt to counter the American Revolution. How Was Polynesia Populated? Two New Books Explore the Pacific’s Mysteries 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Everybody needs to twist an arm; everybody ought to quid pro quo allies; And make them do things they despise; then let them wait in vain. Style Invitational Week 1361: 2020 vision: The year in preview 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “I have tried in vain,” he said in another lecture, “to find out what the aim of it all is.” Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z You search for allegorical resonance, let alone 21st-century values, in vain. Horsepower ? review 2011-04-04T21:15:00Z But I waited in vain for company, for visitors were scarce. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z But there are those who are way worse: vain, past-their-prime actors who want to recapture their former glory. Who’s the Greatest Star of ‘The Prom’? Me. Me. Me. Me. 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Witness Charlie Camp saw two teenage boys getting swept away, and their parents trying in vain to help them. Lee weaker, but still a threat 2011-09-05T10:22:00Z Cook said he tried in vain for years to discuss his “Georgia Peacemakers” plan with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians in Alabama. Muscogee dismayed by nearly naked statue of Georgia ancestor 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Sam, even though he is about to receive a lifetime achievement award, is still vain and insecure about his status. Movie Review: Lake Bell Stars in Her Directing Debut, ‘In a World’ 2013-08-08T22:02:17Z They feel like, 'See, it wasn't all in vain. The Clash is back, at least with a box set 2013-09-20T16:55:50Z I’m still vain enough to like being asked about it. How we made The Inbetweeners 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Carmen's is a vain attempt to insulate herself against chronic pregnancy. 'Real Women Have Curves': funny, flawed and fabulous 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Her new collection, “Honeydew”, may be more muted in tone, but it retains the 78-year-old author’s ferociously individual style, characterised by prose that is bolshie yet nuanced, elegant but not fussy, stylish without being vain. First among equals 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s all about individuals trying to connect with and understand one another — ultimately in vain perhaps, but that’s just what makes such daily struggles heroic. Theater Review: ‘Love and Information,’ by Caryl Churchill, at Minetta Lane 2014-02-20T03:00:14Z All attempts to save her were in vain. Life and death of Tilikum: “Notorious” orca’s death yet another cry for help for captive killer whales 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z He wasn’t being vain, he swore to them. Ben Affleck Discusses Directing ‘Argo,’ His Third Film 2012-09-08T16:46:04Z If you are searching for signs of rejuvenation in “New Photography 2011,” an exhibition of six artists at the Museum of Modern Art, you will look in vain. Art Review: ?New Photography 2011? Features 6 Artists at MoMA - Review 2011-10-14T05:00:49Z He has the kind of face that makes even the vainest woman jealous: high cheekbones, flawless skin and plump, shapely lips. Gender-bending model pushes limits of the runway 2012-02-09T07:48:09Z You wait in vain for the vivid musical picture painting that animates “Messiah” and “Israel in Egypt.” Music Review: An Ancient Victory, Honoring a Later One 2011-05-18T22:31:14Z Her mother died in childbirth and her new stepmother, Rosalind, is vain, beautiful and cold like the snow, though not evil. Bright Young Things, Revisited: War Clouds a Childhood Idyll 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Also rejected is the hardening of character that Shakespeare implicitly endorses in dragging Hamlet from vain introspection to the “nobler” action of murder. ‘Fat Ham’ Review: A Queer, Black ‘Hamlet’? Ay, There’s the Spice Rub. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Unrepentant and vain, he waits to be vindicated. John Gabriel Borkman ? review 2010-10-15T20:45:00Z Steve — a vain action-flick headliner whose films include “Pain Merchant 3: Hell Hath No Fury” and whose career arc suggests Tom Cruise’s or Bruce Willis’s — provides the biggest target. ‘The Money Shot,’ by Neil LaBute, Satirizes Hollywood 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z “Last Sentinel” may remind fans of literary fiction of the Dino Buzzati novel “The Tartar Steppe,” which painted the existential futility of a remote outpost waiting in vain for the enemy to show up. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Now, wandering down deserted alleys, past mosques and crumbling archways, I searched in vain for the square. In Eritrea, a Diver’s Dreamscape 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z In Florida an adoption ban kept kids lingering in foster care while loving gay parents waited in vain; it was overturned only in 2010. Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z People that vain, they want their place in history and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations. Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time' 2013-04-25T15:54:10Z He said governments today were dominated by "not very nice people – touchy, vain, power-hungry male politicians obsessed by maintaining face." Martin Amis dismisses politics of Britain as an irrelevance 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z The action is set backstage at a jousting tournament, where an impossibly vain and not terribly bright Sir Lancelot performs his usual feat of trouncing allcomers. Merlin and the Woods of Time ? review 2011-07-21T17:17:38Z Matthew Gilbert, of , described Morgan as "charming, vain, well informed, and fawning - but mostly just fawning". Morgan makes US talk show debut 2011-01-19T09:04:21Z All eyes searched for the bathroom, in vain. Lower East Side Tenement Museum Welcomes a Former Resident 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z His heteronyms were addicted to their obscurity, vain about their privacy and pained when forced to “publish” their work. ‘Pessoa’ Is the Definitive and Sublime Life of a Genius and His Many Alternate Selves 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Everyone is a little vain inside, myself included, so I was happy that he wanted me. Experience: my face became a meme 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z I looked for a doorbell, in vain, and then I knocked. Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane 2013-06-10T10:21:27Z Winter also stars as Ricky, a vain actor who's chosen to be a spokesperson for a nefarious chemical company. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Green Lantern" 2011-06-16T13:27:48Z Clara’s father is dead, her mother works as a maid to a vain aunt, and it’s unlikely that Clara will grow up to find America a land of plenty. Critic?s Notebook: ?Nutcracker? Nation: Yes We Can! 2010-12-08T23:32:00Z Taking the name of the classic cop show in vain, it's just the usual sloppy film-making from director Nick Love. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-01-19T06:00:10Z Luckily, all those terrible holidays weren’t in vain, at least some saw the lighter side: Guardian readers on their worst holidays: rats, sewage and lots of vomiting 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z You'll look in vain for direct evidence of the effect of the Amazon on Elgar's life after he returned home. Beyond the Malverns: Elgar in the Amazon 2010-03-25T22:15:00Z “It’s direct, vain, cranky and slashing — a voice of outraged intelligence. It’s among the more memorable in recent American literature.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z At first you just roll your eyes at the crater-sized disconnect between knee-jerk corporate food marketing and the ethos of the band whose name is being taken in vain in block caps. Radiohead – review 2012-10-13T23:06:12Z They’re thrown together raw and then overcooked beyond recognition; what comes off above all is Knight’s own vain sense of cleverness at daring to throw them together in the first place. “Serenity,” Reviewed: An Earnestly Absurd Film-Noir Grab-Bag 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z It is evidently vain to see this as a catastrophe. Rose Tremain: The art of not winning literary prizes 2012-11-08T15:15:00Z Quietly charismatic, able to flicker from steeliness to desperation with an eye movement or a hand gesture, Ms. Hoss embodies Mr. Petzold’s fluctuating idea of postwar Germany itself: vain, guilty, vulnerable, confused. Review: ‘Phoenix’ Shows Rebirth and a Ruse in Postwar Germany 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z It’s also worth noting that in this interpretation, Him is vain and enjoys being worshipped, even when it means his muse is abused in the process. Explaining the Many References in the Movie 'mother!' 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Cherry Blossoms and a Fan Telling Tales Virginia Woolf titled one essay “On Not Knowing Greek,” which she began, “For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek.” Dance Review: Kabuki With Bando Kotoji at Japan Society 2012-04-01T21:13:38Z Mona is brilliant, superficial, mysteriously bruised, exhibitionistic, insecure, vain and impossibly glamorous. So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Mike will soon work for some very bad people, earning large sums of money, all of which he will try in vain to leave to his granddaughter. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: What Kind of Show Is This? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The result was a chilling but strangely magical panoply of twilit, dust-sheeted chambers that seem to wait, in vain, for Prince Charming's kiss. Deborah Turbeville's magical photographs of Versailles in a new exhibition 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Just like all of us, they are vain, weak and ambitious. Rev 'rather good' says Archbishop of Canterbury 2010-08-01T19:34:00Z In his towering gray pompadour, Ashby suggests a vain, surgically altered Mafioso relocated to Virginia through the witness protection program. Review: ‘Ashby’ Pairs a Retired C.I.A. Killer With a High School Nerd 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z They’re the kind that send you to program notes in vain hopes of clarification, the sort that might leave you wondering what’s wrong with contemporary dance. Review: A Los Angeles Troupe in Search of Choreographic Vision 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Perhaps in the confusion of the current moment it is vain to expect more from master narratives. The Future of Energy 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Considering the warm reception to “Winning Star Champion,” one of the best local albums of the year, it seems Batey’s commitment hasn’t been in vain. Pop-rock dynamo Ruler’s breakout debut was worth the 7-year wait 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Impulsive, vain and sometimes cruel, she is hardly the most sympathetic character in 19th-century literature, but she is among the most vivid and complicated. Review: ‘Madame Bovary’ Features Mia Wasikowska as a Notorious Adulteress 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Rohan, a vain, spoilt princeling, feels cheated of the political career he believes he is owed but lacks the talent for, and deep shame that Marie Antoinette despises him. Queen, thief, wife, lover 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z As the wayward Channel Swimmer, he was clad in a bathing cap while searching in vain for the White Cliffs of Dover. The role Beatles roadie Mal Evans was born to play 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z The show makes people angry, because its success suggests that the battles alternative comedy fought – aesthetic battles, political battles – were in vain. Mrs Brown's Boys: how the 'worst comedy ever made' became a smash hit 2013-01-29T16:57:30Z Religious fruitcakes, vain matinee idols and a train full of would-be playwrights ensure that havoc ensues as Oscar uses fair means and foul to win Lily to his cause. On the 20th Century ? review 2011-01-05T22:31:01Z Just the thump of vain chest compressions to a body that was probably already dead. How Brian Cox Felt About That Big Episode 3 Twist in ‘Succession’ 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z We adore her because, in her uncalculated, uncensored “realness”, she seems to present the antithesis of the kind of actress we love to loathe - that cliche of the neurotic, vain, self-starving starlet. Jennifer Lawrence: whip-smart and witty star who likes a good fight | Observer profile 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Finally, after a few vain attempts to catch it, she gave in and stopped explaining herself and sang along. How Camila Cabello Lost Some Friends and Found Her Voice 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Buchanan is described by the production company as “a vain, charming acting legend whose star has fallen somewhat in recent years”. Hugh Grant to star in Paddington sequel as a vain acting legend past his prime 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The teetotaler washes meals back with Diet Coke, an ironic choice given that the vain billionaire once tweeted, “I have never seen a thin person drink Diet Coke.” The world is Trump’s oyster, but he prefers Filet-O-Fish 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z And a vain tyrant destroying his realm with incompetence carries the satirical whiff of a certain Very Stable Genius. Review | Michel Faber’s ‘D’ is a quirky adventure for readers young and old 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z But the title of the book – taken from Friedrich Schiller's dictum that "against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain" – is borne out. Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z They were confident, focused and at times, it seemed, vain. ‘Battle of Versailles’: How African American models reshaped fashion 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In the delightfully dated city of Córdoba, I dispatched my husband to the men’s floor while I hunted in vain. Chasing a Fast-Fashion Knockoff 2010-10-13T23:42:00Z Galactia herself, aside from being brilliant, is vain, arrogant and politically naive. Scenes from an Execution – review 2012-10-05T16:58:22Z It is set in Cornucopia, a pleasant kingdom ruled by the vain but harmless King Fred the Fearless. J.K. Rowling’s New Non-Potter Children’s Book 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Likewise, these authors' motivations are rarely frivolous or vain, DiPreta says. How rock music is saving books 2011-04-25T05:06:54Z American revolutionaries later would try in vain to convince the French Quebecers to join their cause. At 375, Montreal’s cosmopolitan charm still seduces travelers 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Reporters, who had been searching for celebrities in vain for most of the day, quickly zeroed in on the couple, prompting Danson to ask, "Are we the only celebrities in town?" Crowd on VIP alert at site of Clinton's NY wedding 2010-07-31T21:26:00Z “Culture, education, even science have been nurtured and supported, in spite of all the challenges. This has certainly not been done in vain. The question is how much of this will stay.” Perspective | Artists and cultural workers face life under Taliban 2.0 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z About 20 police units from two forces tried in vain to find the drone operator as soon as the first unmanned aircraft was spotted above Gatwick on Wednesday evening. Holiday chaos as drones shut London's Gatwick Airport 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z They are pompous fools, who are vain and mistaken in what they do. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z Holmes's pursuit of Swan was in vain, but in 1883 he went into business as an electrical contractor, promoting the advantages of Swan light bulbs over gas lamps. What's in store: how First Time Out opened our eyes to new possibilities 2013-06-07T10:55:00Z Agu, who describes himself as “a good boy from a good family,” seems perfectly harmless — a skinny preadolescent whose capacity for malice doesn’t extend beyond pranks directed at his vain, girl-crazy older brother. Review: ‘Beasts of No Nation,’ a Brutal Tale of Child Soldiers in Africa 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In New York, at least, I have searched in vain for an oeuf mayonnaise as good as my first one. Oeuf Mayonnaise, a French Classic Good Enough to Win Over Egg (and Mayo) Skeptics 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z It was a vain dream — painting doesn’t need the validation of music — but many were obsessed with it. Phillips Collection’s Neo-Impressionism exhibit captures movement’s escapist mood Nor is he the lovably vain city employee and failed entrepreneur from the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation.” Aziz Ansari Is Still Searching 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z But flaunting it, or enjoying your physical appearance for its own sake, was gauche or vain. Body transformation: from ‘dad bod to rad bod’ in just seven weeks 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z However, there is a vain slickness to the design. Avignon festival week one roundup: Complicite is masterful, Camille captivating 2012-07-19T13:16:45Z In a vain attempt to stall the tide of endless chitchat streaming from Emma’s mouth, Charlie defiantly explains what brought him to such a ghastly pass: “I killed six people,” he announces. | 'All New People': At the Jersey Shore, at the End of His Rope 2011-07-26T22:45:28Z Attempts have been made to beautify the green with pebbledashed walkways and the public loo has been converted into a nightclub, but all in vain. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z In their midst, aglow with a devastating mix of determination and bafflement, is Hester, a Sisyphus of the streets, forever struggling in vain to move upward. Review: ‘In the Blood’ and the Singular Talent of Suzan-Lori Parks 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z But even if executed perfectly — and it won’t be — much of this will be in vain. Perspective | Social media was a cesspool of toxic Iowa conspiracy theories last night. It’s only going to get worse. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Well, people are vain But, hey, I can't complain 'Cause self-regard made me a millionaire There's still time to look like Jane Fonda, ooh! Style Invitational Week 1424: We Bee back — a neologism contest 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z When I got home that afternoon, I tried in vain to find the rabbi who would grant me permission to enter. From Cairo to Kolkata, Traces of a Vibrant Jewish Past 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z “But men have always been very vain and always have groomed, and these are just new grooming tools.” Skin Deep: Men?s Cosmetics Becoming a Bull Market 2010-09-01T22:23:00Z In 1860 Vanity Fair characterised them as “vain, mean, selfish, greedy, sensual and sly, talkative and cowardly”. Inside the box 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z Her English males tend to be conventional, complacent, even feeble creatures, whose wives abandon them either for Indian lovers or for an itinerant life of seeking in vain for spiritual enlightenment. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: a passage to India 2013-04-05T12:56:01Z His death was not wholly in vain: Sophia and Lulu gave me a lot less trouble after that. Digested read: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua 2011-01-31T21:30:02Z Little Women by Louisa May Alcott And so begins Little Women and the tale of the March sisters: pretty, vain Meg, tomboy Jo, self-centred Amy and saintly little Beth. Season's reading: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 2010-12-22T12:40:55Z In one of the wittiest sequences, this suave, vain, silver-haired snake is shown emerging shirtless from the sea “like Ursula Andress in a James Bond film,” in the words of one observer, as flashbulbs pop. | 'The Conquest': ?The Conquest? Sarkozy Made - Review 2011-11-10T23:13:46Z A baleful memento mori, this twosome promises horror to vain and faithless sinners. Art Review: At the Rubin Museum, ?Remember That You Will Die? 2010-05-06T20:57:00Z Several weeks of waiting in vain, in fact, can spell the end for a venue surviving month to month. Desperate for cash, strapped arts venues wait out delays in federal covid relief 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Schubert kept trying, but throughout his short career he struggled in vain to compose an opera — singspiel or otherwise — that the public would embrace. Music Review: Schubert?s ?Verschworenen? at Manhattan School of Music 2012-04-01T21:50:30Z In the book he refers to Ms. Lakshmi as his “Illusion,” and he describes her as irrational, vapid and vain. Padma Lakshmi Opens Up About Rushdie in Memoir 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Inside, you search in vain for reproductions of Puffin Club magazine covers. So Much to Tell by Valerie Grove 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z Hers was the shadow none of us could escape, and whose contours we puzzled over and tried, often in vain, to precisely measure. A critic's take on the power of Zaha Hadid 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z For, as the “groom of the stool” knew in the reign of Henry VIII, only those close to majesty may whisper in its ear, though often in vain. Review | Future kings don’t squeeze their own toothpaste: Tales of the pampered British royal family 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z He doesn't want to be seen being that personal or vain, I suppose. David Thomson on Stephen Frears 2010-09-02T21:05:00Z The suggestion is that efforts at improving public space aren’t just vain and “utopian,” they are doomed to fail, dragging the rugged libertarian ethos of American individualism down with them. Perspective | One of the world’s greatest sculptors warns America about the NRA 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z “My father’s life and death was not in vain. My mother’s tears, shame and embarrassment were not in vain, because I am living my purpose.” Alex Alpharaoh put his own DACA story onstage, and the audience keeps on growing 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z I'm probably the least obvious choice to play the role … The character is everything that I felt really strongly against – she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. Emma Watson in 'transforming' role as Coppola's thief 2013-05-08T15:34:35Z Though she says she doesn’t take the Lord’s name in vain, she regularly flouts many of the other commandments she grew up with. Arts & Leisure Preview: Katy Perry, Pop Cartoon Sprung From the Playbook 2010-08-19T17:54:00Z If his building went up and stayed up, Jocelin would remain cruel, and vain, and foolish and avaricious – but perhaps not so broken. Reading group: What does William Golding's Spire stand for? 2013-04-09T12:35:20Z It looked like a sculpture, but you searched in vain for signs of introspection or reflection and intimations of complexity or revelation, such as you might hope for in a real work of art. Heatherwick Studio; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – review 2012-06-02T23:05:42Z “April was supposed to be a huge month. It seems like it was in vain. What do I do? If we go into quarantine, I’ll use this time to create. I’ll have no choice.” It Was Their Big Debut. Then a Pandemic Hit. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Though treating his ballerina with tenderness and courtesy, he was a Prince without much depth, finding reality only when he tries in vain to find a husband for his bride’s elder stepsister. American Ballet Theater Performs Ashton’s ‘Cinderella’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z I associated Pilates with women in expensive Lycra who had too much time on their hands: vain women who wanted only to make their stomachs flatter, and the gap between their thighs wider. 'Pilates-changed-my-life’ stories are annoying… but it did 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Mary, conveying a sense of unexplored potential, waits stoically but in vain for Claude to fulfil the lover's role he has seemed, at times, to promise. Poem of the week: Amours de Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough 2011-08-29T12:49:42Z When Hamilton conceived of the house, he teased his wife about a secret “sweet project”: “You may guess and guess and guess again/Your guessing will be still in vain.” Museum Review: Alexander Hamilton?s Renovated Grange - Review 2011-09-15T22:35:12Z After rejecting our first room with its “city view” of the traffic-choked highway, we ended up in a giant “wine-themed” suite, where we searched in vain for anything related to wine. India’s Wine Country: A Charming Work in Progress 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z "One thing in his favour is that he was narcissistic but not prickly or vain," he said. Christopher Hitchens faces posthumous 'prosecution' in new book 2013-01-16T11:43:48Z The activity was not done in vain, though. Writer, cross-country traveler visits Seattle and Spokane on his cultural tour of the United States 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The depressing thing is that he really hated parliament, and everything he says about it is how awful it was - how pompous, vain the MPs were, how foolishly they spoke. AUDIO: Charles Dickens: Parliament reporter 2012-11-21T08:54:55Z When Bradley Cooper, who plays an FBI agent in The Mule, directed himself last year as a fading country-rock singer in A Star Is Born, he gave us vain without the pain. You're so vain! The phenomenon of the self-loving actor-director 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Goulian traces his vain, neurotic behavior to his early teens when, he says, his body began to betray him. Books of The Times: Why Be a Tree Stump When You Can Soar? 2011-05-18T00:52:01Z Does Kartheiser think that is one reason that men – vain, unfaithful, treacherous – don't come out of it too well? Mad man 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z My niece, Crystal, sobbed as she lay on the floor next to Oreo, trying in vain to comfort her. The worst part of being poor: watching your dog die when you can't afford to help 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z She renders Bill sympathetic but also vain and shallow, the kind of woman who congratulates herself for being generous to the help. Newly Released Books 2011-07-20T21:21:46Z My parents belong to the generation that took a crucial part in that work, only to discover that it was all in vain. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z In recent years, she shopped in vain for a label home for a self-produced album. Tanya Tucker Would Rather Be Celebrated While She’s Alive 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z I watch with subtitles on so I don’t miss a throwaway moment, such as when the vain Jacqueline responds to the discovery that “these millennials like us old broads” by adding “and us young narrows”. PTSD and pervy Muppets: Kimmy Schmidt’s finale pushes the reset button on satire 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z “Tumacho” is the platonic theatrical version of the artfully anarchic, shrewdly mindless comedies we wait for every summer to hit movie theaters, often in vain. Review: ‘Tumacho,’ a Rootin’-Tootin’ Musical, Keeps Its Poker Face 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z And that is perhaps as it should be, for this tale of a woman’s vain quest to regain a remembered or imagined ideal state, leading to growth in a new direction, is partly her own. An Opera That Springs From China but Laps Distant Shores 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z “I search in vain for the guttering candle of Mozartean myth,” Mr. Gutman wrote. Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z His camera is a fly on the wall at meetings where Mr. Decouflé argues in vain that the club should close while new dances are developed. | 'Crazy Horse': ?Crazy Horse? by Frederick Wiseman - Review 2012-01-17T23:09:27Z Scholars have searched mostly in vain for paperwork from his workshop and newspaper accounts of his prolific output of chiming clocks in walnut and mahogany cases. Antiques: Clocks That Have Been Ticking Since Before the Revolution 2013-08-22T21:31:46Z Yet he saw people lonely and paranoid and vain, isolated and beset by their imaginary selves, and he wondered, perhaps, over human beings’ chances for connection. Tweets from underground: How Dostoevsky anticipated social media 2014-03-18T12:00:00Z When it ended, the audience howled in vain for an encore. Review | The Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Kennedy Center concert was both liberated and liberating 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Mark Farrelly is buoyantly funny as a vain celebrity lawyer who helicopters in to destroy the charges brought by the litigious clown, played by Helen Mortimer with a touching solemnity. Drowning on Dry Land - review 2011-02-27T17:58:03Z Susan, his daughter, keeps a watchful eye on him and tries in vain to scale back his speaking engagements and charitable commitments. The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The Room of Royal Sorrows is a dramatisation of the travails of Queen Mary II as she tried in vain a produce an heir. Princess Diana's former home becomes the Enchanted Palace 2010-03-25T17:25:00Z “Piranesi” is far less devoted to such blending, though it opens with two epigraphs, one of which you’ll Google in vain. Review | Susanna Clarke’s infinitely clever ‘Piranesi’ is enough to make you appreciate life in quarantine 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Not this boasty-toasty aberration, a vain slice of life and relic of an age best forgotten. Kitchen gadgets review: the Selfie Toaster – ‘a boasty-toasty aberration’ 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z “The iconoclasm and the destroying of the statues and stained glass. The sense that these are vain fripperies and we should go back to the purity of language without pictures. I’m just guessing.” Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z It's an optimistic idea, based on role play: little Stella becomes Mummy – with a trio of insomniac toys, whom she reads to in vain. Picture books for children ? reviews 2011-07-21T10:40:30Z Google’s former engineering director James Whitaker blogged about his last months on the job as “a whirlwind of desperation, trying in vain to get my passion back.” Cultural Studies: Parting Is Such Sweet Revenge 2012-08-10T21:10:47Z We talk about my gold trainers instead, about sourcing cool secondhand jeans – just as vain, really, but the stuff of vanity that suits my self-image. ‘I’d rather spend £300 on fillers than face cream’: the rise of tweakment face 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Broken windows had been patched with duct tape in a vain attempt to seal out the unique chill of a San Francisco Bay fog. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z I look in vain for evidence of the seals that make their home here in the winter. On Long Island, skip the beach and take a hike Chekhov’s characters, after all, want so desperately to believe that they do not speak in vain, that what they say might somehow be remembered, even many years from now. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z Yet there remains a reluctance to discuss image – something that, Barry says, can be traced to “dominant western notions of masculinity, that attending to the body is vain, crosses into femininity, and makes one vulnerable.” No more Mr Muscle: the activists championing body confidence for men 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z I was reminded of this as I stared at Amer, trying in vain to get a handle on the stream of beautiful and startling imagery. Anne Billson 2011-01-06T22:00:03Z He could be vain, but elites often are. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z So, it's meant, for me, that Elijah's death would not be in vain. ‘This one is for Elijah’: Kweisi Mfume on trying to fill the seat for the deceased congressman 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z As I achieve more in life, I can pretend to be less and less vain, since I have more reason to think highly of myself. Han Han: I had to break my Twitter obsession 2012-10-07T21:30:00Z Aldous is vain, deluded, pretentious and probably chronically depressed, but definitely not stupid. "Get Him to the Greek": '30s screwball bromance 2010-06-04T00:20:00Z It's not enough to call Valerie shallow or vain or self-centered when she is so clearly at sea. Lisa Kudrow and 'The Comeback' clock in again at dream factory 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Michael, the responsible Bluth sibling, tries in vain to finish the development. Why we love to hate McMansions, but still buy them 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z He can be charmingly self-deprecating one moment, and repellently vain the next. Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's review 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z You sometimes wonder what a Gregory Porter song would sound like if it complicated the picture by not being entirely positive: not venal or cruel, but maybe just a little bit ravenous, vain, impatient. Music Review: Gregory Porter, a Grammy Winner, at Town Hall 2014-02-16T20:47:48Z Complaint: You are vain and petty and imperious and impossible to work for. Gene Weingarten: Taking a page from Dan Snyder’s playbook 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z So from the start, the narrator makes sure that the reader knows that there is no return to normalcy in the last chapter, that hope for a Disney ending is in vain. 'The Fireman' may be the best apocalyptic read of the year, if you can stand the heat 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z As the Man narrates, we see that the young William searched in vain for the badly injured Dolores after her escape from the army camp. “Westworld” Season One Finale: Violent Ends 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z And, if you can find your way back to the fun, you will find that the hideously unfortunate double bind of the late vain period turns out really to have been good luck for you. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z I searched in vain for an outlet to turn around as the last light dribbled away. Explorer: The Island of Sant?Antioco, off Sardinia, Italy 2010-03-26T07:58:00Z During that trip, which he remembers as “a beautiful time” in his life, he kept waiting in vain for confirmation from God that everything he had been taught about Mormonism was true. Playing Neil Diamond: A Dream Role, and a ‘Crazy Privilege’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Gaye’s record was rambling, looping, petty, vain, like a man talking to himself. New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z Oliver, who is thirty-seven, established his comic voice in Britain by pillorying conservative social values and entrenched institutions: the Catholic Church, the monarchy, finance types, vain and dangerous dictators and autocrats. John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z You wait, in vain, for a hero to appear and take her by the hand. A Dive Into the Abyss in the Anonymous ‘Incest Diary’ 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Relentlessly vain, she is in constant search of a mirror, an industrial spotlight or, preferably, both. Analysis | The newly relevant relationship between Trump and ‘Sunset Blvd.’ 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z For lots of actors this would be death, because they’re too vain to stand for it or lack what it takes to overcome that kind of obscurity. Cicely Tyson Kept It Together So We Didn’t Fall Apart 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z I called them to join me on the couch; open on my lap was a large illustrated Bible identical to one my grandmother had given my brother and me in vain 30 years ago. Our faith-free Christmas 2012-12-23T23:00:00Z Breaking Bad is really just a drawn out character study watching one man’s descent into sociopathy and his vain attempt at redemption. Fargo will return for a second season, but you might not recognise it 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z “I am far from being a vain man,” he pompously informs us. Review | My plan for fending off the holiday blues? Escaping into light fiction from another era. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z But while you may wish in vain, as I do, for Manford to surprise us or widen his range, you can't gainsay his skill. Jason Manford – review 2013-07-22T17:49:08Z Yes, the kids — Jack and Red Riding Hood — are bratty, and the male characters variously vain, weak or outrageously predatory. REVIEW: 'Into the Woods': A Disney Musical for Adults of All Ages 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Eastwood’s film, without expressly challenging so-called American values, raises the question of the abuse of those values in a system that lets armchair warriors send real ones to destruction in vain. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z His aides tried in vain to keep him from making impromptu speeches to rowdy crowds lest he do something like call for the hanging of a member of Congress. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z On Elin’s first date with Morten at an upscale restaurant, she is humiliated when she suddenly loses her sight and tries in vain to cover it up. Review: In ‘Blind,’ Perception and Fantasy Converge in a Writer’s Mind 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z One looks in vain for subversion or surprise. Jim Jefferies ? review 2010-12-20T22:00:04Z But the wait wasn’t in vain, since the newfound friends hatched a plan to work together for Monday’s public sale. The dedicated, and the patient, score tickets to ‘Hamilton’ at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z On the real Wall Street, the only time big shots use the Lord's name, it's in vain. Bad Business = Good Entertainment 2010-04-22T18:09:00Z Philip gives him power, knowing full well that it will make him proud and vain.” New ?Don Carlo,? That Ever-Changing Opera 2010-11-20T19:37:00Z The second point is that the national chorus of indignation over the vain, clumsy lies that Williams told is, in fact, a direct measure of our own neurotic impulses. Our dangerous macho delusions: Brian Williams’ fraudulence — and our own 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z I of a Cyclone: He’s so vain, he probably thinks this storm is about him. Style Invitational Week 1247: Script tease 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Felder added, "The bloodshed that day was not in vain, but served as the catalyst for the destruction of tyranny and ensured the freedom of millions for generations." Pearl Harbor's 80th anniversary: Veterans share why America must 'unite' today 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Nor were her characters deaf to the rumble of time’s winged chariot: Anne Elliot’s vain father, Sir Walter, entertains a theatrical horror of aging. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z In Tompkins Square Park, we paused at the Temperance Monument, raised in a vain attempt to curtail boozing in the raunchy neighborhood. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z In her comedy routines, Joan Rivers was often quick to cackle over the ages of other celebrities and their vain attempts at staying young. Joan Rivers’ defiant star power: What she reveals about the cultural obsession with youth 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Still, next time you're taking the Lord's name in vain over the fact that some Idol contestant is caterwauling through a Jewel song, is something to consider. Why You Aren't Watching BET's 'Sunday Best' 2010-05-14T00:09:00Z In vain did new American fortunes made in railroads, minerals and real estate campaign for invitations. Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Early on, I was charmed by a feisty cluster of boxers at a gym in Sardinia — perhaps the only young men in Italy who dislike soccer — and I waited in vain to see them again. ‘Futura’ Review: Youth, Italian Style 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Two of the Best Picture nominees excluded from the directors’ five are “Little Women” and Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story,” two movies in which the directors’ inventive power is neither vain nor bombastic. The Fossilized 2020 Oscar Nominations 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Pilots of each plane struggled in vain to regain control over the automated system. American Airlines extends Boeing Max-related cancellations through June 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z On one recent jaunt through Paris, seized by a craving, he walked for half an hour, searching menus in vain. Eggs and mayo is a way underrated French bistro dish 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z He thought of them as kind of phony people, very vain, who just wanted to look their best even when they were supposed to look their worst. Ingrid Bergman’s Great Sacrifice for Cinematic Art 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Batya scrambled in vain to save her parents, then escaped to Italy disguised as an Italian soldier. Review | A memoirist faces the consequences of revealing her family’s secret past 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Since her father received his diagnosis, Ms. Maldonado had searched in vain for others like herself. Adult Children of AIDS Victims Take Their Memories Out of the Shadows 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z It isn’t morbid, nor is it vain, a celebrity’s ponderous concerns about her legacy. Annie Lennox Cleans House 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z It is a floating world of garrulous, witty, vain, often acid yet strangely agreeable young people. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z U fill my life with pain, V means you’re very vain, W, X, Y, Z. It’s fun to wander through the alphabet with you to tell you what you mean to me. Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Meet Liz, an aspiring pop socialite in the Olivia Palermo mold, haughty enough to disdain the commoners around her but vain enough to crave their attention. Television Review: ‘Gallery Girls’ Follows the New York Art World on Bravo 2012-08-12T21:35:06Z "It shows that Ahmed is still living among the children, and that our sacrifice has not gone in vain," said Khatib, who has five surviving children. Former West Bank militant stronghold gets cinema 2010-08-05T15:29:00Z The amorous German lingered in Douglass’s circle year after year, waiting in vain for the divorce that would allow her to “walk tall as the rightful ‘Mrs. Douglass.’” Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z He popularized a rhetorical stance that makes people feel worried about caring too much about their values in public lest they get mocked as vain blowhards. From Stuff White People Like to #NotYourShield: How irony is killing activism 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z The Danish actor Claes Bang gives a tremendous performance as Christian, chief curator at Stockholm’s Royal-X Museum – a man by turns insecure and honourable, vain and generous. Ruben Östlund: ‘All my films are about people trying to avoid losing face’ 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z BERKELEY, Calif. — A vain politician runs for the presidency, short on specifics but long on bluster, inveighing against a religious minority and promising to make America prosperous again. A Play Timed to Trump’s Candidacy Asks What If 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z He’s vain, insecure and unpredictable, and he’s the commander in chief. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z "She's not your problem," he tells himself in vain, like any rugged romantic lead, before turning his truck around and going back to rescue Asta. When Harry met Asta: Syfy's kooky "Resident Alien" is a love story 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z You might want to think twice before taking the Line’s name in vain. Finding your religion at the Line, a new hotel in Adams Morgan 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z With these safeguards, I believe the battles which created the Army of the Tennessee will not have been fought in vain.” Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America 2012-08-16T17:47:00Z That said, by the end of this particularly lively and scathing essay, you may not think Picasso — a genius to be sure, but also portrayed here as a vain and manipulative Lothario — deserved much better. How Liz Taylor liked her pasta and other secrets from a ‘food detective’ 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In waves, in loops, in vacuums, in vain. The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage. 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Oleaginous and vain, Mr. Minter’s Egeo nevertheless reveals the nobility of his birth through a warm and vibrant tone that remained even across his dazzling runs. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in ‘Teseo,’ at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z For Henry, the call to service never arrived and his efforts at political reform were in vain. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z “Congressional subcommittees used their name in vain, newspaper editors refused to print it.” Shock ‘n’ Roll: 7 Controversial Band Names 2013-10-25T09:45:45Z The Tiger King characters are just as vain. Ewen Bremner: 'They should let Irvine Welsh script the Tiger King movie' 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z On some nights, there had been that many revelers waiting outside by the velvet rope and 1,500 customers inside, jostling elbows, trying in vain to order $18 drinks and getting into fights. A Wealth of Ideas 2014-03-26T22:52:55Z But all their efforts prove in vain against a movie beyond salvation. Review: In ‘Dark Awakening,’ a Haunted House and Surfeit of Gore 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z I've picked the latter, in a vain attempt to distract from the fact that the other two songs came from a Liverpudlian and a Mancunian. Readers recommend: songs about Scotland – results 2012-12-06T14:27:37Z Set in an isolated village in Southern Spain, Lorca’s tragedy tells the baleful, simple story of a farmer’s wife who prays, insistently and in vain, to be a mother. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z They must be vain because, I swear, they pose for photos. South Africa, from rhinos to Robben Island 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The witness, "overwhelmed with a feeling of calm and peace," pinched himself several times to make sure he wasn't simply dreaming and scanned the room in vain for some other explanation. 11 strange stories from the national UFO reporting center 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z But except for the occasional college-boy locutions -- which pleasantly surprised the intellectually vain Arnold Rothstein -- Jimmy still isn't a terribly distinctive character. The plot-crazy spectacle of "Boardwalk Empire" 2011-09-26T01:26:00Z |
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