How To Use Vanity In A Sentence
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In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
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If he come to see me" (as it has always been reckoned a piece of neighbourly kindness to visit the sick) "he speaks vanity; that is, he pretends friendship, and that his errand is to mourn with me and to comfort me; he tells me he is very sorry to see me so much indisposed, and wishes me my health; but it is all flattery and falsehood.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Why such a paper has never been given to the world, I am much at a loss to saybut, perhaps, the autorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause.
The Philosophy of Composition
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Augustine or Aquinas at least had some attempts to nail down the philosphical problem: the problem with "superbia" (vanity) and "amor sui".
Armed and Dangerous
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The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed.
The Story of Mankind
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Everyone in this facility yields to the seven deadly sins… especially pride and vanity!
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Most of these good-looking, solid and sculptural vanity units are not cheap, although the high street and mail-order catalogues are catching up with the trend.
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Their professional neediness and primped vanity spells it out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, critical readers might suspect that the vanity press outlet was the only way these articles could get into print.
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In the middle of the vanity was another object made of rosewood - a jewelry box, I'd presume.
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And thereby to subduct them from under the absolute power of the vanity of their minds, by one means or other he fixeth in them steady thoughts concerning himself, and their relation unto him.
Pneumatologia
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Thus, the label vanity -- which I did not invent, BTW.
Philosophy at Ten Paces!
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However, while there are differences in ogrish cultures, especially those before and after the collapse of the last ogre empire and the historical decline of their race, all ogres exhibit anger, vanity, avarice, lust, and gluttony.
Dragons of a Vanished Moon
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In the harsh vanity of her conscious capableness and young strength she thought thus, half forgetting her own follies, and half excusing them on the ground of inexperience.
The Old Wives' Tale
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Here I want to clear one thing, that it is not vanity that has actuated me to adopt the doctrines of atheism.
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Perhaps it's his glaring vanity - it is surely disingenuous for a man in his sixties to sport such a pompadour and pretend that he doesn't want it noticed.
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The bedrooms each had a fitted wardrobe with a large mahogany sliding or tambour door (those in the smaller bedrooms concealing a vanity unit), which gave the rooms a tidy appearance and enabled them to be more simply furnished.
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The adjoining bathroom has panelled walls, a bath and a vanity unit with tiled surround.
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Furious now, his mother stormed across the room and yanked open his vanity drawer, rummaging around until she found a pair of shears.
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The show is a hodge podge of scenes, stories and standup about aging and how it can be an assault to our vanity and bafflement to our obsolete sense of self.
Erika Milvy: "Marga Gomez Is Not Getting Any Younger" Extended
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I'm the loser here, closeted in my room, thinking that study is an adequate substitute for life, or even, for vanity is something I've never quite outgrown, superior to it.
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The room was like some sort of ritzy hotel, complete with a dresser, a vanity, and a four-poster bed.
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She was at the vanity, fastening her pale blonde hair into a bun that was already unraveling.
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As the official photographer for Vanity Fair's Oscar shindig for roughly a decade, Fink has made Hollywood parties look as fatiguing as they are fabulous, and his aweless impressions are now collected in "The Vanities" Schirmer/Mosel, $68.
NYT > Home Page
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Vanity is the food of fools.
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Charles Churchwood, the author of the new book, is the former design director of Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines, two of Ritts's most important showcases, and he has pieced together a portrait of the portraitist from stories told by nearly 100 of the photographer's friends, relatives, lovers, and business associates.
David Schonauer: How Herb Ritts Created the Idols We Deserved
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She repeatedly invokes the ocean's radical non-humanity, asking readers to imagine underwater 'tides so vast they are invisible and uncomprehended by the senses of man', or lights traveling over the water 'that flash and fade away, lights that come and go for reasons meaningless to man', though 'man, in his vanity, subconsciously attributes a human origin' to them.
Rachel Carson's environmental ethics
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Its white suite includes a bath with overhead electric shower and a wash hand basin with vanity unit.
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The necklace lay in its box on her vanity dresser, among her other jewelry.
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I used to think that Barack Obama might match Washington and Lincoln in having the sort of self-discipline that keeps vanity in check.
Presidential vanities
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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Henri Bergson
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He was too puffed up with his own importance, too blinded by vanity to accept their verdict on him.
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His hair, dyed an incongruous brown and brilliantined, an old man's vanity, glistened under the light like a waxy skullcap.
MAMBO
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He said:'It is fantastic this money will be diverted from vanity projects to saving lives.
The Sun
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Rodiya girls wander the country as dancers and jugglers, and their erect figures, elastic step, and regalness of carriage, would be envied by the proudest woman promenading Vanity Fair; some of them have faces so perfect in a classic way that a sculptor or painter might make himself famous by reproducing them.
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan
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In secular society, vanity is most readily identified with the sin of pride in bodily appearance, manifesting in luxurious garb and flamboyant ornamentation.
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The drama played to his vanity as well as his instincts as a political gambler.
Times, Sunday Times
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A knock at the door alarmed me and my silver filigree brush clanged off the glass vanity.
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Which of us, in fact, has the force of character to be superior to petty vanity, to _petty fine feelings_, sympathy and self-reproach? ...
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
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She pictured it the way she remembered it: light purple walls with a dark purple carpet, white wicker furniture and a small vanity in the corner.
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But the intolerable thudding forced her back onto the vanity stool, where there she reassumed her daily shape: poor sad, achingly human Beverly Saunders, to whom no Dr. Alfred Curie would ever deign to speak.
The Color of Silence is Radium Green
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The government also decreed against excessive vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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This I vow in full knowledge of my sins of pride and vanity and lustfulness, and of those sins known and unknown of my husband, and those too of my boy.
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Sabrina had none of the vanity so often associated with beautiful women.
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It screams of vanity, self-obsession and, quite frankly, weakness.
The Sun
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They should remember, what they uniformly and universally forget, that we are not invited, upon the rising of the curtain to behold a cosmorama, or picture of the world, but a representation of that part of it called Vanity Fair.
The Potiphar Papers
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Dorothy Parker wrote for the New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines with a caustic pen, but her biting wit also had a mournful edge.
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Tholouse, whom Montoni had mentioned with more eclat to his own vanity than credit to their discretion, or regard to truth, she determined to give concerts, though she had neither ear nor taste for music; conversazioni, though she had no talents for conversation; and to outvie, if possible, in the gaieties of her parties and the magnificence of her liveries, all the noblesse of
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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The extended family's financial embarrassment was closely related to some of their irrational practices which was out of their vanity.
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So, "Thriller" was just what you call a vanity video.
CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2009
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Hanging mirrors in your home shouldn't be seen as a sign of vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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And her motivation for her plots is always pure vanity.
Who are Your Favorite Science Fiction Characters From TV/Film?
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The interview is published in the next issue of Vanity Fair, on sale from December 3.
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It might be vanity, narcissism or just indifference.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vanity lighting and medicine cabinets blend into a mirror that segues seamlessly from the window.
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And the rooms' en-suites boast anti-mist mirrors and vanity basins the size of horse troughs.
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An innate horror at the sight of a naked sword averted him from the most just of wars; while his favourite Buckingham practised on his weakness, and his own complacent vanity rendered him an easy dupe of
The Thirty Years War — Complete
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Vanity is the cheese in the submarine sandwich of social intercourse.
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Upon examining the rest of the drawers, she realized it was more of a vanity than a desk.
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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Welcome copper, rust and olive pigments into your vanity case.
Times, Sunday Times
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This merely to set up a sight gag when the curtain rises: a vanity gallery of portraits of the old bachelor as wannabe maestro.
Times, Sunday Times
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I attribute it all to a vanity that has, by the foolish admiration of his acquaintance, been worked up into a kind of phrensy, I shall be very unwilling to believe that he ever intended to distress a friend whom he loved as much as I believe that he has done you.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
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If this is part of the reason the anecdote raises a smile, comedy would seem to be functioning here at its moral, corrective level, scuffing the shine on vanity and entrapping the diabolical self.
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He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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Her character portraits are cold and bloodless, the larger vision is prosy and constipated, and her self-conscious literary tone has the musty odor of a vanity-press poetry journal.
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The mite, Mr. Snow informed her, was called a chigger—he advised her to apply mud poultices to her itching legs, a remedy Tasmin adopted with some reluctance, since it rather cut against her vanity.
The Berrybender Narratives
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All in all, it looks like a misconceived vanity project.
Times, Sunday Times
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A new Premium Pack for the four-door Flying Spur is available as a cost option and includes beautiful veneered picnic tables with vanity mirrors, a Mulliner 'jewelled' alloy fuel filler cap and chrome inlay strips to the door waistrails.
Autoblog
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Those irrepressible scamps Edward Sorel and Richard Lingeman offer their own take on the current financial crisis via Vanity Fair.
Straight for the Art: ‘Hell in Crisis’ | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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In the city of glorious ostent and vanity, he had come to look for humility and peace.
Where the Blue Begins
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Men who use steroids are motivated by sheer vanity.
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My bedroom has my bed and my vanity and my bathroom connected to it.
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If it points to the mind of the artist it becomes lost in solipsistic musings that can only feed the artist's vanity and hubris.
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As with anyone who appears on television by choice, it would be churlish not to own up to at least a soupçon of vanity.
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Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, she was tyrannized by her own image, driven to new levels of vanity in an endless, and ultimately foolish, pursuit of fame and immortality.
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She stood in front of the vanity and re-applied her rich, red colored lipstick, and long-lash mascara to her already long, dark lashes.
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There is a kind of officious attentiveness which is really the expression of a species of vanity.
Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls
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Does she think if she screams "Death Panels" it will deflect from the very unflattering Vanity Fair article about her?
Palin gets tough on Obama's health care proposals
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To play with important truths, to disturb the repose of established tenets, to subtilize objections, and elude proof, is too often the sport of youthful vanity, of which maturer experience commonly repents.
Christian Morals
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So I ate my way through the vending machines, drank coffee, read Vanity Fair while pretending to telemarket, and watched time not fly.
Candy bars, selling cars and satan
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From a distance it looked like a grotesque act of vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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My vanity and pride was slightly bruised, though, and that serves me right.
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Both are large doubles with built-in wardrobes and mirrored vanity units.
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The upscale LX trim level adds color-keyed bodyside molding, bolt-on wheel covers, a passenger-side vanity mirror, a cargo cover for the wagon, and upgraded upholstery.
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To the front, the well-proportioned master bedroom is fitted with double wooden wardrobes, a vanity unit and a pedestal handbasin.
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I think Frank's vanity is his Achilles' heel.
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The larger room also has a desk which could double as a vanity unit.
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It seems wonderfully natural and without vanity that he takes the Eucharist from a splendid golden challis but blesses the babies, the brides, grooms and the dearly departed from a salsa bottle.
Small Brown Bishops
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In fact, dramatic combinations that are made without fuss, fanfare or vanity could be the leitmotif of this menu.
Times, Sunday Times
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But recurrent episodes of Carterism -- sentimentality about "dialogue" as the dissolver of differences, leavened by vanity about the power of one's personality -- waste time, which we are running short of.
Jimmy Carter, Disappointed
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She rose from her stool at her vanity and hugged Michelle.
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Remic's new book BIOHELL is due out November 2008, and is about what happens when vanity nano-technology goes horribly wrong, and turns a full planet of vain footballer's wives into quite horrific zombies.
MIND MELD: Is There Gender Imbalance in Genre Fiction Publishing?
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A surrogate is a remotely controlled android, that's the personification of vanity, and acts as both a reflection of the user's ego and aspirations.
Getting Graphic: "The Surrogates" by Robert Vendetti & Brett Weldele
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Most of us can probably immediately recall the fleshy covers -- a pregnant Demi Moore on Vanity Fair, a topless Janet Jackson (foreshadowing, anyone?) on Rolling Stone, the bare and pseudo-tattooed Dixie Chicks on Entertainment Weekly -- that succeeded in generating some buzz.
'True Blood' stars get naked for Rolling Stone
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So here we/they are worshiping at - again in all inner rectitude - stones set down by one of their cruelest arch-nemeses for his own self-glorification and vanity and also as a sop (which many since have swallowed) to keep the people otherwise occupied, rather than in revolt.
Robert Eisenman: The Greatest "Heritage Site" of All
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The real books were worth buying and reading, the self-published were from vanity presses.
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It is time to focus not on the vanity and egos of individuals but the good of the club as a whole.
Times, Sunday Times
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And there's one other rather endearing regret, his only sign of vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Self-publishing is also considered vanity press even if someone else (a printer or book packager) puts the book together.
Harlequin Begins Vanity Press « Colleen Anderson
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It is of all that is comprehended under the word nous, the understanding and the heart, that this vanity is predicated.
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
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And vain as Carlo was (the vanity being most intricate and subtle, like a nervous fluid), he was very open to the belief that he could diplomatize as well as fight, and lead a movement yet better than follow it.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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I've just come across a vanity publishing firm called Blogbinders, which turns blog content into bound volumes.
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But I think it's time to end the annual charade of these particular exercises in vanity and humbug.
Times, Sunday Times
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It might be vanity, narcissism or just indifference.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps it was vanity for they do look ridiculous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Vanity Fair editor on his new book about tailor Anderson & Sheppard, why going sockless has to stop and what clothing makes the man.
Graydon Carter
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The white suite includes a bath with wall-mounted shower as well as a handbasin with a vanity unit.
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Like a little plumped up raisin, he exudes vanity, smugness and frailty and desolation in equal measure.
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This is a perversity born of moral vanity.
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In her haste, Hailey had carelessly swung the bag into her vanity table, sending its various contents flying this way and that.
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My father used the upstairs bathroom as a darkroom when I was about young - light-tight blind, red lamp, sandbag thing along the bottom edge of the door to block light, developer/fixer trays in the bathtub, enlarger clamped on a sheet of heavy plywood over the sink & vanity - so darkroom chemicals are one of those deep-in-the-bone scents that mean "childhood" to me in some strange way, like yeast and cinnamon.
Making Light: Open thread 135
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From a distance it looked like a grotesque act of vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vanity of Notwithstanding all this denunciation, to the utter con - agrology. fufion of the aftrologers, there did not blow, during the whole time affigned, any wind to hinder the farmers from threfhing and winnowing their corn c.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time;
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But other desires kept them active: four in particular, which we can label acquisitiveness, rivalry, vanity, and love of power.
Bertrand Russell - Nobel Lecture
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Equality-pushing, nonequal elites have found new ways to collect and redistribute this surplus in ways that satisfy their moral vanity while perpetuating their hold on power.
Gates of Vienna
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Likewise excuseless is any man in our time who makes lifelong alliance with any one who, because of her disposition, or heredity, or habits, or intellectual vanity, or _moral twistification_, may be said to be of the Philistines.
The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
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Tholouse, whom Montoni had mentioned with more eclat to his own vanity than credit to their discretion, or regard to truth, she determined to give concerts, though she had neither ear nor taste for music; conversazioni, though she had no talents for conversation; and to outvie, if possible, in the gaieties of her parties and the magnificence of her liveries, all the noblesse of
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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There was a vanity on the far wall that was covered with powders and shades of rouge, brushes, hairpins, and jewelry of all kinds.
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There is plenty of such colourful metaphor in this book - it is one of the consolations as one contemplates the astonishing greed, vanity, chutzpah and arrogance of the CEO.
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All 446 rooms have balconies or terraces, hot tubs, bathrobes, hairdryers, vanity mirrors, data ports, mini-bars, irons, coffeemakers, and cable TV.
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I well know the vanity of decorative ribbonry and tinware, especially when, as too often happens, intrigue degrades the honor conferred; but, coming as it did, that bit of ribbon is precious to me.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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The fellow had not a little vanity, and was insnared, his suspicions quieted for the time.
What Can She Do?
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Vanity, thy name is genealogy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dumb beasts have less vanity than many a man who vaunts himself created in God's image.
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She put him on to researching the availability of marble vanity-unit tops and free-standing occasional tables.
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-- What we call liberality is often but the vanity of giving, which we like more than that we give away.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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To return to our former example: _All authors are vain_ is the same as -- Vanity is predicated of all authors; _Cicero is an author_ is the same as -- Cicero is identified as an author; therefore _Cicero is vain_, or -- Vanity may be predicated of Cicero.
Logic Deductive and Inductive
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She was now in her late seventies, although her blue-rinsed hair, plucked and penciled eyebrows, and imperious manner betrayed a vanity undiminished by the years.
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The large master bedroom, at the front of the first floor proper, has generous built-in wooden wardrobes, a corner handbasin and a marble vanity unit.
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Happy thoughtlessness! ay, and enviable harmless vanity, which thus produced a gaite du coeur worth all my philosophy!
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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Cheeks empurpled, spit launching in all directions, eyes afire with outraged vanity, the Colonel will have none of your treachery.
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And, perhaps, such is the vanity, as well as changeableness, of human estates, in their turns set up for pride of family, and despise the others!
Pamela
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The present little sacrifice of your vanity will afterward be amply repaid.
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It was not vanity -- it was ready sympathy that had made him alive to a certain appealingness in her behavior toward him; and the difficulty with which she had seemed to raise her eyes to bow to him, in the first instance, was to be interpreted now by that unmistakable look of involuntary confidence which she had afterward turned on him under the consciousness of his approach.
Daniel Deronda
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With her grey hair pulled into a Quaker-style bun and her lack of personal vanity she seems the archetypal wise woman, but photographs of her in her prime depict a beauty.
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It's an overblown solution, but probably politically necessary - and a sure sign of a dangerous vanity.
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Neither will national conceit remain only _national_ conceit, or _vanity_ be confined to admiration of a form of government; in the present mode of educating the youth of America, all sight is lost of humility, good-will, and the other Christian virtues, which are necessary to constitute a good man, whether he be an American, or of any other country.
Diary in America, Series One
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I'm not that far from you (I think) and I just had my bathroom gutted and refitted, including new tub, toilet, sin, flooring, vanity and mirror plus all fixtures, paint, and molding for 5000 all in and I didn't skimp.
We interrupt this blog so that the blogger can have a nervous breakdown over his latest home improvement project
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That form of male vanity is by no means absent from the seafaring tribe today.
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Silly talk is a sign of shallowness. Foolish vanity is a mark of stupidity. Dr T.P.Chia
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Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.
Ulysses
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The manufactured praise accompanying Grohl, supplied by a corps of pro fuglemen who lead and escort the illustrious on his vanity venture, is grand.
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This violated Quaker ideas about the vanity and worldliness of such titles, for they believed that Christ respected no man's person.
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But the story of how the best of us can undone and destroyed by our vanity is an old and important one.
Lance Mannion:
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Talking to him will only flatter his vanity.
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They will not lead the nation into unnecessary wars, overblown vanity projects or personal scandals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Public readings were an esteemed but ancillary activity, something an established poet might do spurred by vanity, ambition, or a shortage of funds.
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a blatant appeal to vanity
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Beware of arrogance and vanity when you bask in your glory.
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To be envied, is the grand and sole aim of vulgar vanity; to be filled with good things is that of sensuality; for Johnson perhaps no man living _envied_ poor Bozzy; and of good things (except himself paid for them) there was no vestige in that acquaintanceship.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
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Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour.
Quotha
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Mark Twain
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The correct purpose of food was nutrition; all else was vanity.
SPICE: The History of a Temptation
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He was certain self-knowledge and not vanity guided him.
O: A Presidential Novel
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Further, to think of organizing these papers for the sake of posterity is to think of posterity, which is the same as thinking of dying, which is different from vanity but equally unpleasant.
My “Papers” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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A bar stool is used as a chair for the high vanity.
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So I want us to get rid of the baggage of all worldly vanity and selfish love for ourselves.
Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
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In the dock she said of vanity: 'I often do not look presentable.
The Sun
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen
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Republican Administrations have been elected to enact the dramas of ego, vanity, paranoia, bravado, resentment, and one more grand rummage through historical baggage when the material and managerial condition of the country was good enough to survive the sustained period of incompetence, ineffectuality, abuse, raging, and waste that entails.
Matthew Yglesias » What Bush Got Right
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Other writers are very big on self-praise and vanity.
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Anything more would be sheer vanity on my part.
Times, Sunday Times
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Good gardening gloves are not about vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a northerner who is admittedly guilty of having done some southern bashing in my time, I am ashamed of the intellectual vanity of these people, and of my own past mockery.
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I can still see and hear him, as he went his way along the lamplit streets, La ci darem la mano on his lips, a noble figure of a youth, but following vanity and incredulous of good; and sure enough, somewhere on the high seas of life, with his health, his hopes, his patrimony and his self-respect, miserably went down.
Memories and Portraits
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Yet the banana seems unmoved by that outward display of vanity.
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Meanwhile you did not have to live long enough to experience the vanity of human achievement firsthand, seeing the records that you broke broken anew by someone else, feeling your flesh slowly sag and fade, so that the athlete in you would disappear long before you did, and “the name died before the man.”
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Is anyone really interested in the vanity and vulgarity of a couple who make their living by playing up to the media?
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The cynical view is that the mirror's revival into the high-style vernacular mirrors our own vanity.
Globe and Mail
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He contrasts this with "destructively arrogant," which he defines as an attitude that lacks empathy and reeks of insolence and vanity.
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.: I Don't Think Physicians Are as Arrogant as You Do
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Had not the wisest of men taught us this lesson, that all is vanity and vexation of spirit, yet our owne experience would soon have speld it out; for what do we obtain of all these things, but it is with labour and vexation?
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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He said:'It is fantastic this money will be diverted from vanity projects to saving lives.
The Sun
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BOB COLACELLO, "VANITY FAIR": Well, it was quite amusing actually to see all these sophisticated kind of blase New Yorkers normally suddenly when the prince and duchess appeared in the museum, everyone was jostling for position trying to get close to them and talk to them.
CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2005
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The delusional belief that his solidary architectonic can be studied in isolation by decoupling it from the fundament as well as the transcendent is nothing but intransigent vanity.
Deleuze’s solidary architectonic can't be studied in isolation by decoupling it from the fundament
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As a lesson in vanity and sheer human folly, it deserves to be a classic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes it's just the hippest sort of vanity, an easy form of self-congratulation that utterly fails at detoxifying the original object.
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Every now and then, a vanity press mogul makes a go of his venture.
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Just began, 3 suspects rob the vanity of effeminate woman technically, procurable hind sneak away.
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All kinds of Granite and Marble for building and construction like : Floor tile, Vanity, Counter top, fireplace, pavings , small cubes, curbstone, garden decoration , sculpture etc.
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She had one vanity, however -- that of having her picture taken nearly every day in her farmerette clothes.
Hidden Treasure
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Who I was, painted seagreen with vanity or socketed modesty.
42 Mirrors
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In theology, it is what we call vanity or the sin of pride.
Self-love will change the world
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Deficiences in these knowledges I will report none, other than the general deficience, that it is not known how much of them is verity, and how much vanity.
The Advancement of Learning
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This is the mother of all vanity projects.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was not vanity so much as the self-consciousness of a shy man who had spent his entire adult life in the spotlight.
The Sun
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Amour-propre keeps us from knowing our limits, disguises the often crass interests behind what we think our benevolent actions, and camouflages the full extent of our pathetic vanity.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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The second bedroom is a single with a built-in vanity unit and both of these rooms have en suite shower rooms.
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-- I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity, in useless or blameable distrust.
Paul Raushenbush: What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live? Reflections On Graduation Day
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It all lacks focus and just comes across as a vanity project.
The Sun
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A curious mixture of vanity and insecurity, she is keen to play down her on-screen image.
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She's claiming the things she said were ‘misused and misconstructed,’ by Vanity Fair.
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Happy thoughtlessness! ay, and enviable harmless vanity, which thus produced a _gaite du coeur_ worth all my philosophy!
Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
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In art, women looking into mirrors have always represented vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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"Nowadays men are also indulging their vanity.
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It used to be translated as “vanity of vanities,” a beautifully resonant phrase, but one that misrepresents somewhat the Hebrew word hebel, which does not mean “vanity” in our sense, but rather anything fleeting and insubstantial, hence also, sometimes, ungraspable.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Several characteristics are deemed essential to the constitution of the dandiacal identity, among which vanity reigns supreme.
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But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Pride and Prejudice
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Touch his silly vanity, which he exalts into high-sounding pride — call him a liar, and behold the red animal in him that makes a hand clutching that is quick like the tensing of a tiger's claw, or an eagle's talon, incarnate with desire to rip and tear.
The Somnambulists
