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Example sentences for: vainly

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In a series of long interviews with me a year ago (for Worth magazine), I tried, vainly, to get Arthur to tell me how his ideas about increasing returns have encouraged a new strain of economic investigations.
But I looked all through Africana , hoping vainly they'd spelled his name "MacPherson" or that there was a list of black Pulitzer Prize winners.
In a bitter editorial Wednesday, the Moscow Times compared Russia's behavior in Chechnya with NATO's in Kosovo, in which each argued vainly to the other that there could be no military solution.
The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals.
It's a metaphor for our vainly putting our faith in modern technology instead of centuries-old superstition.