How To Use vainglory In A Sentence
- The language of vainglory, of indignation, pity and revengefulness, optative: but of the desire to know, there is a peculiar expression called interrogative; as, What is it, when shall it, how is it done, and why so? Leviathan
- But a vain, or perverse desire for renown, which is called vainglory, is wrong; desire of glory becomes perverse, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- True revolution is not about glamour, vainglory, or self-promotion.
- Yet nothing hinders this from being directed to the end of another vice, such as vainglory or any other. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- Another strand recounts the author's debilitating experiences with the music industry in all its mendacious vainglory.
- [86] Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base and illiterate scribblers, that either write for vainglory, need, to get money, or as Parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men, they put cut [87] burras, quisquiliasque ineptiasque. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Yet the book is a heavy volume of historic narcissism - a magnum opus of upper-class vainglory and scrupulous evasion.
- It may be some one of our original stock of sins not yet mortified; or some new sin into which we have recently fallen; or some relaxation of our spiritual life, out of which has arisen, perhaps, one dangerous temptation, such as lukewarmness, selfishness, or vainglory. Sermons. Volume Third.
- But vainglory seems to have no prominence, neither as a sin, because it is not always a mortal sin, nor considered as an appetible good, since human glory is apparently a frail thing, and is something outside man himself. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- Rather, he draws his youthful lusts and his adult vainglory as closely as possible to his identity.