Meanings (ES + gloss)
de balde • de momio • en balde • en vano • inútilmente
Without success or a result; ending in failure.
19th c., Friedrich Nietzsche On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain.
[…]that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain[…]
a la ligera
In a disrespectful manner, without honoring the proper meaning; insincerely or without proper respect.
A fetishist regime attempts to annul the separation of image and spectator, to reinstall an immediate relation that promises (in vain) to provide satisfaction to desire itself.
Methinks I see him even now in my mind's eye;— the firm and upright figure,— the step, quick and determined, — the eye, which shot so keen and so penetrating a glance,— the feature…
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