While I am on words is this not a perfect sentence?
...Michael Ignatieff's campaign for the Liberal leadership is expected to get a boost today with the endorsement of Senator Roméo Dallaire, the retired general who tried vainly to stop the genocide in Rwanda.
I know Linda Diebel did not intend "having an excessively high opinion of one's own appearance, abilties, worth, etc" or "empty, trivial, unsubstantial" but ever since I saw the good Senator try to blame Darfur on George W. Bush that is squarely where I put him.
Comments (5)
I think “vainly” can be used in the sense of “in vain”.
I’m not a Dallaire fan either.
Posted by Occam's Carbuncle | June 16, 2006 10:28 AM
Posted on June 16, 2006 10:28
Yeah, I know. But vainly is much better for puns that in vain.
Posted by Greg Staples | June 16, 2006 2:12 PM
Posted on June 16, 2006 14:12
The general has benefited greatly from the pity that Canadians have shown him for being such a colossal failure.
Posted by Dwayne | June 16, 2006 3:19 PM
Posted on June 16, 2006 15:19
The man was not a failure. He was the messenger. He did have the option to go out in flames, but I know that I would not have had the courage to do the same.
To see him descend to the level of hack, however, is most saddening.
Posted by David M. McClory | June 16, 2006 4:25 PM
Posted on June 16, 2006 16:25
I don’t think the Belgians are too happy with him either. You NEVER leave troop under your command with their asses hangin’ in the breeze.
Posted by x2para | June 16, 2006 8:57 PM
Posted on June 16, 2006 20:57