Although that phrase, itself depicted in a type of still life, vanitas, originally referred not to obsession with one's appearance, but to the ultimate fruitlessness of man's efforts in this world, the phrase summarizes the complete preoccupation of the subject of the picture.
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Indeed, the playwright A . R . Gurney, who resigned from the nominating committee this year because he was not allowed to abstain from votes in which he felt ill equipped to take part, said he felt frustrated by the fruitlessness of the nominators'attempts to make their concerns heard.
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"The pilgrim of that satire pays a visit to Paris, and describes the hardships of the students and the fruitlessness of their studies; he afterwards arrives at the hill of Presumption, which is the haunt of all manner of monks and ecclesiastics, as well as the great scholastic doctors and professors ."
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Although that phrase, itself depicted in a type of still life, vanitas ( Latin, " emptiness " ), originally referred not to obsession with one's appearance, but to the ultimate fruitlessness of humankind's efforts in this world, the phrase summarizes the complete preoccupation of the subject of the picture.
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Following Gump's death, herpetologists John Woinarski and Hal Cogger wrote that : " For the Forest Skink, the trajectory of decline and the fruitlessness of dedicated searches provide reasonable grounds to presume extinction, although this conclusion may take some years to be officially recognised . " If true, this would represent Australia's first reptile extinction since European colonisation.
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"The Wire, " an unofficial sequel to HBO's powerful, Emmy-winning miniseries " The Corner, " comes from journalist David Simon and, based on real cases, delineates the unending cycle of victimization the drug war claims on West Baltimore's projects, offering a persuasively convulsive commentary on the unrelenting fruitlessness of overworked and underpaid government employees battling far more organized, moneyed and ruthless organizations dedicated to slowly killing its clientele.
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Robbie Collin of " The Daily Telegraph " wrote that there's a " tiring fruitlessness to the mayhem ", describing the lead character as a " rambling headcase ", though noting Lawrence as the film's " only silver lining " . " The Globe and Mail " s chief film critic, Liam Lacey, gave three out of four stars, but wrote " you can easily see " Silver Linings Playbook " as a better-acted version of any number of Sundance-style films about quirky outsiders who find a common bond ."
