How To Use Vainglorious In A Sentence
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She always has that vaingloriously blasé look on her face.
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In other words, he comes across as a vainglorious know-it-all, absolutely convinced that he's right about everything.
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Smith possessed a vainglorious streak to his character, but also showed great valour and judgement.
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Both of them knew that Beynor of Moss was a vainglorious young blowhard, treacherous as a weasel and even more wily.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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You shall find that of Aristotle true, nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae, they have a worm as well as others; you shall find a fantastical strain, a fustian, a bombast, a vainglorious humour, an affected style, &c., like a prominent thread in an uneven woven cloth, run parallel throughout their works.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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His fatuous smile alone would have aroused their ire before he opened his vainglorious mouth.
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His vainglorious speech at the Oscar ceremony claimed a new dawn for British cinema.
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He vaingloriously longs to play all the parts.
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(Survey report 6801 summarizing Adm. 68/195, 156v, and other data in Adm. 68/194 and/196, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; A letter of Carter's executors to Dawkins 1738 May 10 refers to "your ship Bailey.") [3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "rodomontade" is "a vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech.
Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Athawes, July 31, 1731
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You will be amused to hear that although, or perhaps because, I had evolved out of myself 'Mr. Quirke' as a conscious philanthropist, an old man from the workhouse told me two days ago that he had been a butcher of Quirke's sort and was quite vainglorious about it, telling me how many staggery sheep and the like he had killed, that would, if left to die, have been useless or harmful.
Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
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The bombastic, vainglorious Nivelle had virtually announced to the world his grandiose expectations, making the dreadful defeat doubly damaging.
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For years they have provided a power base for him - realising he still clings to the vainglorious Brussels dream, while the Chancellor thwarts his ambition.
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In some situations it makes good sense, at least in the short term, to use violence and to behave selfishly, fearfully or vaingloriously.
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
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Mr. Jeal is similarly generous to the demons that drove Henry Morton Stanley and puts his search for, and hero-worship of, Livingstone in context, making his famous staged meeting, "resplendent in pith helmet and white flannels," mounted on a stallion, with the Stars and Stripes flying, touching and admirable rather than vainglorious.
To the Source
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He dishes out obloquy to former tutors and students and treats the reader to vainglorious self-congratulation.
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Blind faith in an over-subscribed, vainglorious myth will only hinder you.
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A small bird trills its song, vaingloriously trying to compete with the thundering waters below.
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
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As vainglorious was Richard Westmacott's retreat from the field of unstricken battle as his advance upon it had been inglorious.
Mistress Wilding
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At the suggestion of my friend, the Rev.Mr. Hunt, I have restored the original readings, as in truer consonancy with the vainglorious, insolent, and swaggering ballad spirit.
Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
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Both of them knew that Beynor of Moss was a vainglorious young blowhard, treacherous as a weasel and even more wily.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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He is given the part of Pyramus, though he vaingloriously longs to play all the parts.
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Today, they would have aired the vainglorious fiasco uncensored.
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At dawn we convene, an adiaphorous wind caresses us with listless fingers, vainglorious and animal.
THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems
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Make no vainglorious boasts, I beg you.
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Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer.
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Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest.
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His promise to the commissioner of more to come is not just a journalist's vainglorious bluster.
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Lundberg noted the "slavocracy was not terminated .... for moral reasons; it committed suicide for political and economic reasons, blinded by simple greed and vaingloriousness, and long after slavery was abolished in most places elsewhere.
Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"
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There are always men like him, eager vaingloriously to display their would-be-insuperable power.
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Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
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Each week another dire e-commerce venture sinks vaingloriously beneath the mire.
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His political conclusion repudiates the crude nationalism, a form of anthropomorphism when all is said and done, which projects upon regional botany its vainglorious xenophobia.
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The ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, warns Scrooge of his vainglorious ways.
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Before Jacob went to sea and was miscalled Yawcob by sailormen, he dwelt in dark woods, capered up jungle trees, and swayed vaingloriously from jungle boughs.
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As the political darling of the resurgent military nation, Turenne's tomb tacitly reinstated the ‘vainglorious’ funerary monument and the theme of the dying hero in official funerary designs.
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Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
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Left-wingers, rather than jingoes, should be the ones least willing to forgive "Hanoi Jane"; although her characteristically vainglorious, self-dramatizing decision to publicly oppose the war was the most morally justified one of her life, her judgment of how to put it into practice was disastrous.
Calamity Jane
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`It's the milk of human kindness,' he explained, a trifle vaingloriously.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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The vainglorious presence of Marilyn Monroe is placed alongside the subdued countenance of Mother Theresa, Che Guevara glares vehemently in opposition to the pacifistic visage of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
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While not asserting that the Galatians are "vainglorious" now, he says they are liable to become so. provoking one another -- an effect of "vaingloriousness" on the stronger: as "envying" is its effect on the weaker.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Ph. D, author, and a man of great note in his own mind, he patricianly attempts to lectures us all about his vainglorious sense of political civility, use of common day technology (e.g.,
GraniteGrok
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If the city only thinks of its own image, it is actually behaving vaingloriously.
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His naive, fatuous smile alone would have aroused their ire before he opened his vainglorious mouth.
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Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer.
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He was a lying, deceitful, disingenuous, hopeless, untalented, flatulent, vainglorious, double-dealing, warmongering, blow-hard ...
The Sun
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But are they really any more vaingloriously ambitious than those constructed by the landed aristocracy of the 18th century, Victorian mill-owners, or Citizen Kane himself?