| 单词 | in vain |
| 例句 | Yet she knew that her weeping and her prayers were in vain. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z 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 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 For the next few minutes, I scoured the bazaar in vain. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain, Eugenia Phelan. Just put some lipstick on.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 She looked in vain for the funny, serious little boy she knew. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 They appealed, nearly always in vain, to white morality. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 Juanita sniffed and hiccuped as she tried in vain to stop herself from bawling. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z 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 The Patriots had tried in vain to recruit me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I stretched out and tried to sleep, to doze a little, but in vain. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 Asher is trying in vain to fend off three Cloud Knights. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘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 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 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 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 For one of them we search two days in vain. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was nothing at all next to those whose wait would be in vain. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z 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 think to myself, “Was his death in vain?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 They waited in vain, for no lightning no thunder no rain came. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He is a crude, twisted line, but no brushstroke is in vain. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 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 They tried not to, but they tried in vain. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z But now the door was not opened any more, and Gregor waited in vain. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z “I looked in vain for the city that had been our target,” Alvarez recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Frank, Bill and Lill fought gamely against the invasion, but in vain. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 "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 “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 ‘Master, dear master!’ said Sam, and through a long silence waited, listening in vain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 ‘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 ‘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 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 “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 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 “Otherwise all my years here will have been in vain.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z No gene, no message, and no protein labored in vain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 He was tortured for weeks on end, in vain. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Despite the loss, Ashe’s trip to South Africa was not in vain. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 I had become, myself, the mama I’d searched the cliffs for once in vain. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Let me not seem to have lived in vain.’ Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The rock against which the hordes of Asia dashed themselves in vain! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z 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 They waited in vain for his telling but not long for the knowing. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I cried, falling to my knees and pawing the floor in vain for the lost bottle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z This time, however, his efforts were in vain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 “Don’t use the name of the Lord in vain,” Baby Kochamma said. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her doctors tried in vain to ease her suffering. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z ‘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 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 “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 The football boys gathered around their exalted coach, begging in vain for some reprieve. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 Some parents tried in vain to discourage their children from joining. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 He did not risk his life in vain. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 My grandfather had tried in vain to coax her out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 If I used the name of God in vain, then God would strike me dead. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 To this day I can’t decide whether my journey here was taken in vain. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Some campers waited in vain for it their whole lives. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He struggled in vain against a current of bodies, then gave up, exhausted. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 But today the bleating and clucking was in vain. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 He didn’t like it when her mother used the Lord’s name in vain. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z All the same, Farid listened in vain that night, the longest night of his life. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z 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 Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z For a week I sought Young in vain. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 But the commandment said, Thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 looked in vain for help but there was none. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 He was lying on his side, trying in vain to get up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 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 “You are taking the Lord’s name in vain. Why do you want to hurt people?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Alice Paul believed that the suffering of the protesters would not be in vain. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Reynie took a deep breath and tried in vain to stop trembling. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z All of the earlier fights with the giants had been in vain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Suddenly all the pain I had endured since entering the tournament seemed not in vain. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 When you die for your country, you do not die in vain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 ‘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 “Too awful,” she kept repeating, and all Bernard’s consolations were in vain. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Those men only murmured sweet nonsense to me, trying in vain to flatter me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “So, it seems my quest has been in vain. But what of the scabbard?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting... The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He had tried in vain to establish a relationship with an alchemist. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain,” Lillian admonished her daughter. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked as I tried in vain to loosen the ropes at my wrists. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z DRACO: Do not use her name in vain, Scorpius. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z 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 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 “So her coming to me was not in vain.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Take the Lord’s name in vain, will you? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z 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 But you read Williams in vain if you’re looking for fables of empowerment or inspiring visions of sisterhood. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z 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 One looks in vain for subversion or surprise. Jim Jefferies ? review 2010-12-20T22:00:04Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Possibly for one of those at the Midland Hotel yesterday the hollow stomach and the dry mouth were not endured in vain. From the archive, 5 October 1956: The search for an unknown Saint Joan 2012-10-05T06:30:00Z 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 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 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 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 In waves, in loops, in vacuums, in vain. The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage. 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Dogileva said she was dragged across the floor by police officers when she tried in vain to meet a local official about the matter. Russian Director's Power Play 2010-12-28T15:00:03Z 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 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 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 All eyes searched for the bathroom, in vain. Lower East Side Tenement Museum Welcomes a Former Resident 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 In a call that lasted 15 minutes, the operator attempted in vain to persuade the gendarme to help, but the officer insisted it wasn’t his place to intervene. Macron hears police officer refuse to help woman in danger 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z “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 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 "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 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 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 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 And she has tried, in vain, to figure out if soldier Jack Helnick, who wrote the first collection of letters she transcribed, survived his Army tour of duty. There’s a new top mission at this WWI museum: Preserving soldiers’ personal stories 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Surely, my grandmother could not have died in vain. Young Democrats in love 2012-11-02T23:30:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 The story doesn't end there, the kill may have been bad, but the camel did not die in vain. My father thought he was being helpful when he roasted the rabbit on an open fire 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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’ 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 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 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 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 "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 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 You search for allegorical resonance, let alone 21st-century values, in vain. Horsepower ? review 2011-04-04T21:15:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 Inside, you search in vain for reproductions of Puffin Club magazine covers. So Much to Tell by Valerie Grove 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z “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 “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 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 But any attempt to make a science of the relic cult is in vain. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z The hopeful audience waited in vain for an encore. Kavakos, Eschenbach offer ragged emotional truth in NSO concert 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 As it turned out, we worried in vain. David West Read Visits Vegas for ‘The Performers’ 2012-10-21T03:07:23Z 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 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 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 I called them oft, but called in vain;No speeches we could entertain:Yet did I there expect to findSome other world, to please my mind. Poem of the week: 'Shadows in the Water' by Thomas Traherne 2010-12-20T10:13:09Z "I pledge I will not let my son die in vain!" Calls for 'justice' at Trayvon Martin rally 2012-03-23T11:47:00Z Hassel was deeply disappointed and hoped in vain for better luck in the cinema. Sven Hassel obituary 2012-10-02T16:06:04Z 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 She tries to take control of her own body — through sex, as she did with Tom — despite knowing it’s in vain. Review | Want to know what revolution looks like? Watch ‘Underground.’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z 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 "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 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 We clawed, we chained, our hearts in vain We jumped, never asking why We kissed, I fell under your spell A love no one could deny. "Wrecking Ball," Miley Cyrus' “forgettable” pop ballad remains unforgettable and fun 10 years later 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z 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 Cops with rifles try to restore order, but it's in vain. Terror often disrupts movies within movies 2012-07-25T11:46:13Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Like really being able to show that all of the protests of last summer were not in vain. "The house has never not been on fire": How two "Daily Show" correspondents made comedy for our pain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z 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 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 “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 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 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 But I waited in vain for company, for visitors were scarce. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Two months ago, banana cream pie had lost its custard or pastry cream, so scraps of brown banana sat naked on a pie shell; the kitchen tried in vain to hide them under whipped cream. Restaurant Review: Blue Smoke and North End Grill 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “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 "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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 We thought that talking about this woman who stays in the same place waiting, most likely in vain, for her son to appear was more interesting. Unsettling "Madre" plays with perception of madness to examine a woman "clinging to the impossible" 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z 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 Cortez, a frequent air traveler who runs a tour company in Phoenix, waited in vain for the seatmate to react. Perspective | Stuck with an annoying airline seatmate? Here’s what you can do about it. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 That was surely in vain: the piece reflects preconceptions. Tom Ewing 2010-09-30T20:30:00Z Other people search in vain for a hobby to embrace. The Tipsy Diaries: Sweet on Tiki, Flower of Cocktails 2011-03-31T14:00:29Z 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 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 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 “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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 New Jersey Is Just So Embarrassing It’s impossible not to root for Kristen Wiig, even while you wait in vain for the funny to pop in her latest. Movie Review: In ‘Girl Most Likely,’ Kristen Wiig Has to Go Home Again 2013-07-18T21:25:47Z 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 “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 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 “Her pain will never go in vain and people will continue to be empowered by it all over the world. That’s all I wanted to do.” AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Adrienne Warren, Broadway baby 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Courage, in turn, must take on the Sisyphean task of protecting it, even though the tree knows it will be in vain. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Sure, “I Hate That You Love Me,” produced by Rodney Jerkins, is effectively a house record, with Diddy moaning, “Are we living in vain, or are we living in pain?” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-20T23:13:07Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “There are too few jobs here,” he said, “and no mobile connection,” he added, while fiddling in vain with his phone. A Journey to Kashmir’s Gurez Valley 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “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 You will search their oeuvre in vain for fat, colon-juddering bass wobbles. Mount Kimbie – review 2013-05-26T16:41:56Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 They tried their hardest to beat the most underpants worn at one time, the tallest stack of pancakes and the most capital cities named in one minute, obviously all in vain. Perspective | The perfect summer snack? Watermelon hydrates you and is packed with nutrients. 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z She waits in vain for a marriage proposal from one of her brother’s friends; when they meet again, decades later, he has become a convinced antisemite. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z But 75 years ago Washington DC was a segregated city and all protests by fellow artists in support of Anderson were in vain. Calm operatic voice for civil rights 2014-04-09T07:07:48Z 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 Ms. VanCamp, sad to say, must struggle in vain with an underwritten part. | 'Norman': Jonathan Segal?s ?Norman? ? Review 2011-10-21T02:30:11Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 The hospital staff struggled in vain to keep him alive one more day. From Georgetown to Copenhagen, a chef takes charge 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 "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 "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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 After experiencing a strange sensation of deja vu, she finds herself drawn to the “mystical aura” of the Tel Aviv Hilton, where we hope — in vain — that some kind of actual story may finally begin. Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 He provided a deceptively neutral backdrop for a noirish plot based on the true story of a woman who locks her rich, elderly husband in their laundry room, waiting in vain for him to die. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z 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 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 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 |
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