Word: vaines
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...given the task of enforcing the city's disregarded laws while the Duke is away traveling. In the course of purging the city of its sins, Angelo condemns to death a young gentleman, Claudio, for getting his finance, Juliet, with child. Claudio's sister, Isabella, pleads in vain for her brother's life. Angelo in return displays a lack of pity which proves all the more hidcous when his own unbridled lust is uncovered. In the end, Christian mercy and the "natural order" of life prevail over the "artificial" systems of government or morals...
Taking action in time to prevent disaster has been difficult for the U.S. Our society wants to be left alone and never quite gives up the vain hope that other people and governments want the same thing for themselves. American foreign and domestic policy has often been inspired and shaped by calamitous events that could have been anticipated and possibly avoided...
...terror that may go bump in the Western night, hardly know him at all. He made it his business to tell the truth at a time when many contemporaries believed that history had ordained the lie. Yet the very name that is now so often invoked, vaguely and in vain, is a fiction...
...writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose...
Regardless of the election's outcome. King's candidacy will not be in vain. He has managed to mobilize a major segment of the city's population that had been ignored by City Hall. And Ray Flynn knows that he will have to make a special effort to reach out to those groups, or his stay in Parkman House will be a short one indeed...