By degrees, however, Justinian came to understand that the formula at issue not only appeared orthodox, but might also serve as a conciliatory measure toward the Monophysites, and he made a vain attempt to do this in the religious conference with the followers of Severus of Antioch, in 533.

After a vain attempt to conciliate Vitellius by the offer of a share in the Empire, Otho, with unexpected vigor, prepared for war.

This, along with Daugherty's other activities, prompted one congressman, Oscar Keller of Minnesota, to attempt, in vain, to bring impeachment charges against the Attorney General.

He took a leading part in the deliberations of this assembly, and during the sittings made a journey to France, England and Burgundy in a vain attempt to secure the abdication of the three rival popes.

When pipe-turf cannot be got conveniently, a good wedge drain may answer well, when the subsoil is a strong, stiff clay ; but if the subsoil be only moderately so, a thorn train, with couples below, will do still better ; and if the subsoil is very sandy, except pipes can be had, it is in vain to attempt under-training the fiel d by any other method.

The States of Holland sent their highest official, the Grand Pensionary Adriaan Pauw to London in a last desperate attempt to prevent war, but in vain: English demands had become so extreme that no self-respecting state could meet them.

In a vain attempt to reduce expenditure, Romanos limited his wife's expenses, which merely exacerbated the alienation between the two.

At the outbreak of the Civil Wars it was deemed by Julius Caesar of sufficient importance to be secured with a garrison of Gaulish and Spanish horse ; and it was there that M. Coelius was put to death, after a vain attempt to excite an insurrection in this part of Italy.

In the local Corinthian tradition, Glauce threw herself into a well in a vain attempt to wash off Medea's poison ; from this circumstance the well became known as the Well of Glauce.

Iturbide was forced to reestablish the Congress and in a vain attempt to save the order and keep the situation favorable to his supporters, he abdicated the crown of the Empire on March 19, 1823.

It was fortified in 773 by the Lombard King Desiderius in his vain attempt to conquer Rome.

In the film Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 ), a scene graphically portrays the American Ambassador Standish erupting in flames after shooting his gun, before jumping out of the window and falling into a carriage below in a vain attempt to extinguish the flames.

He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin, but spent much of his life traveling through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, primarily in a vain attempt to recover his health.

The network changed the show's title to James Garner as Nichols during its second month in a vain attempt to rally the sagging ratings.

It wasn't even decided upon until after a rehearsal done without Simmons in a vain attempt to keep the band going, according to an interview with McDonald for " Listen To The Music ," the Doobie Brothers official video history / documentary released in 1989.

In a vain attempt to reconcile with China, he was duped and killed in CE 3.

Montaigne's brief essay " On sumptuary laws " criticized 16th-century French laws, beginning, " The way by which our laws attempt to regulate idle and vain expenses in meat and clothes, seems to be quite contrary to the end designed ... For to enact that none but princes shall eat turbot, shall wear velvet or gold lace, and interdict these things to the people, what is it but to bring them into a greater esteem, and to set every one more agog to eat and wear them?

In truth, Arthur stole the money to pay for a dinner date with an old flame, in a vain attempt to rekindle her interest in him.

John Cleland began courting the Portuguese in a vain attempt to refound the Portuguese East India Company.

In this scene, a nobleman guards a virus infected plot as soldiers trample flowerbeds in a vain attempt to stabilize the tulip market by limiting the supply.

In September 1713, Swift came to London, and made a final vain attempt to reconcile his two friends.

Meanwhile, the British Army that was supposed to advance up the Hudson River to meet Burgoyne, went, instead, to Philadelphia, in a vain attempt to end the war by capturing the American capital city.

He is killed by Drefsab, a Race security officer, in a vain attempt to stem the flow of ginger to Race soldiers.

In a vain attempt to halt desegregation by the enrollment of black students Vivian Malone and James Hood, he stood in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963.

) Yet she is vain enough to go to great lengths to cover her graying hair and hide her efforts particularly from Emerson.

The first in this cycle, The Crime of the 21st Century, shows a few outcasts who have fled the over-controlled cities to hide in a no-man's-land where they try in vain to rebuild their humanity by creating a semblance of community.

In its first decade, the West German government tried in vain to have him extradited for war crimes.

To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the sea, sent a sea monster named Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia including the kingdom of the vain queen.

He was vain and haughty and compared himself and his wife, Queen Rhodope, to Zeus and Hera.

Odysseus offers Zeus a sacrificial ram in vain.

They decided to make him a totally different character ; instead of the wacky, comic relief character he had been, they turned Daffy into a vain, egomaniacal prima donna wanting to steal the spotlight from Bugs Bunny.

Having looked around in vain for the five members and commenting " I see the birds have flown ", Charles turned to Lenthall, who stood below and demanded of him whether any of those persons were in the House, whether he saw any of them and where they were.

These were sent in what turned out to be a vain attempt to aid the besieged French Army garrison at Dien Bien Phu.

Probably Proculus had family connection with the Franks, to whom he turned in vain when his bid for imperial power was failing.

Having taken the speaker's chair and looked round in vain to discover the offending members, Charles turned to Lenthall standing below, and demanded of him whether any of those persons were in the House, whether he saw any of them and where they were.

This design failed however: first some ships, with difficulty beating up the wind, coursed too far to the west and were badly mauled by the fire of the English rear ; and hardly had the Dutch fleet moved to its intended position when it all proved to have been in vain because the wind turned to the northeast, giving the English the weather gauge again.

" However, he later wrote to Emilia Pavlovskaya, " The symphony has turned out to be huge, serious, difficult, absorbing all my time, sometimes to utter exhaustion ; but an inner voice tells me that my labor is not in vain and that this work will perhaps be the best of my symphonic works.

This was around 1777, when Mozart spent some time in Mannheim, where he had hoped ( in vain, it turned out ) to find employment.

The fate of the missing money remained a subject of wide speculation that a cab driver who took Hall to the Coral Court Motel had tipped off mob boss Joe Costello, that Hall tried unsuccessfully to bury the cash near the Meramec River ( FBI searched the area in vain ), that suitcases in Hall's possession upon his arrest were not brought to the 11th District Precinct Station ( with two arresting officers, Lieutenant Louis Ira Shoulders and Patrolman Elmer Dolan, subsequently federally indicted for perjury ), that the cash fell into the hands of mobsters or was hidden in the walls of the motel itself ( the 1995 demolition of the Coral Court turned up nothing ).

However, Lewis fumbled the ball as he gathered it, and it slipped between his body and the crook of his elbow ; Lewis turned around and tried in vain to reclaim the ball but only succeeded in knocking it with his elbow into the back of the net.

If anyone shall endeavour to represent the forms of the Saints in lifeless pictures with material colours which are of no value ( for this notion is vain and introduced by the devil ), and does not rather represent their virtues as living images in himself, etc.

Juvenal, in a passage in the Satire II dealing with homosexuality, specifically mentions Otho as being vain, looking at himself in the mirror prior to going into battle, and " plaster his face with dough " in order to look good.

Raised to be a selfish, vain, profligate spender, and is handsome and self obsessed himself, George squanders the last of the money he receives from his father and sets nothing aside to help support Amelia.

While Isabella and James spend time together, Catherine becomes acquainted with John, a vain and crude young gentleman who incessantly tells fantastical stories about himself.

Gríma himself is shot and killed by one of Legolas ' arrows in a vain effort to stop him from killing Saruman, who was in the process of revealing vital information.

It was in vain that Groote emitted a Publica Protestatio, in which he declared that Jesus was the great subject of his discourses, that in all of them he believed himself to be in harmony with Catholic doctrine, and that he willingly subjected them to the candid judgment of the Roman Church.

The Blot is, himself, very vain and his desire for money and power is only surpassed by his desire to immortalize his name in " the annals of crime ".

A giant mosquito with a top hat flies in through a window to feed on a man in bed, who tries in vain to defend himself.

After a series of vain attempts to sell his substandard merchandise, Hunnicut concludes that his livelihood depends on his ability to rid himself of this supernatural burden.

Somerset tried in vain to raise a popular force and entrenched himself with the King at the fortress Windsor Castle.

Francis Asbury was a vain person, he did not like having his portrait done or to hear good things about himself.

At Gloucester he had in vain exposed himself to risks.

Charles V pressed in vain upon him the archbishopric of Cambrai, but Blosius studiously exerted himself in the reform of his monastery and in the composition of devotional works.

In The 48 Laws of Power, American author Robert Greene states that Hideyoshi was enraged by Rikyū's commissioning of a vain statue of himself which was placed inside the palace gates, through which Hideyoshi entered, thus putting himself below Rikyū.

The first appearance of the invisible hand in Smith occurs in The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) in Part IV, Chapter 1, where he describes a selfish landlord as being led by an invisible hand to distribute his harvest to those who work for him: " The proud and unfeeling landlord views his extensive fields, and without a thought for the wants of his brethren, in imagination consumes himself the whole harvest ... the capacity of his stomach bears no proportion to the immensity of his desires ... the rest he will be obliged to distribute among those, who prepare, in the nicest manner, that little which he himself makes use of, among those who fit up the palace in which this little is to be consumed, among those who provide and keep in order all the different baubles and trinkets which are employed in the economy of greatness ; all of whom thus derive from his luxury and caprice, that share of the necessaries of life, which they would in vain have expected from his humanity or his justice ... The rich ... are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society ..."

There is much textual evidence to support this interpretation: he describes himself as " one so pale / for love of her, and all in vain.

He appears, however, as a vain, jealous and quarrelsome man, but he combined the qualities of an elegant humanist, an acute critic and a venomous writer, who had committed himself to a violent polemic against the temporal power of Rome.

In the rodent wrangler episode, McKellar plays and parodies himself as a stereotypical vain, role-hungry and superficial actor, as well as voicing the anti-hero, Jack, and is the subject of a self-deprecatory episode based on Being John Malkovich in which a tunnel is dug from Jack's kitchen into McKellar the actor's ego.

It has since gained a cult following for its numerous in-jokes skewering pompous directors — including Cecil B. de Mille, John Huston, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and De Sica himself — vain film stars, their starstruck audiences, and pretentious film critics.

He had married shortly before discovering his illness, and had a daughter, Penelope, in October 1916, but was later moved to discover that his prospective wife, Eleanor, had been informed of his condition long before he himself knew his fate, and his efforts to spare the feelings of his family had been in vain since they had known his condition even before he had.

He does not believe he is vain and says that the idea started in 1955 when he decided to take a picture of himself every day, which he continues.