Vanity

Thus I was able to start this new industry by flattering the vanity of the Sakai females ( "oh, Vanity, thy name is Woman" even among the savages) and the goods produced, after having been awarded a silver medal and a diploma at Penang were the object of general admiration at the Milan Exhibition of 1906.

My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882

The Social Network understands obnoxious old-money (the cartoon-colored, Zuckerberg-suing Winklevoss twins), obnoxious new-money (Sean Parker, though David Kirkpatrick says in Vanity Fair that he is "both more complex and more interesting"), and the pretentious intellectual (a fantasy of Harvard's then-President Larry Summers).

Jeff Jarvis: The Antisocial Movie Jeff Jarvis 2010

Ditching Adobe Acrobat Reader will greatly reduce your chances of getting your PC infected by a drive-by download, says the pony-tailed Hypponen, who was recently profiled in Vanity Fair.

Hackers use PDFs to take over PCs 2009

The novelist Thackeray, for instance, ridiculed Lawrence's flashy values in Vanity Fair (1847), and attacked his female portraits as "tawdry".

Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010

Their ethos (or at least the ethos of those who aspire to Upper-Class Gentilehood) is lovingly enshrined, for instance, in Vanity Fair, with its wide-eyed revelations from the dusty alcoves of Kennedy history and obsessive detailing of the summerings, winterings, and fallings of obscure Eurotrash.

Class Dismissed 2009

The Social Network understands obnoxious old-money (the cartoon-colored, Zuckerberg-suing Winklevoss twins), obnoxious new-money (Sean Parker, though David Kirkpatrick says in Vanity Fair that he is "both more complex and more interesting"), and the pretentious intellectual (a fantasy of Harvard's then-President Larry Summers).

Jeff Jarvis: The Antisocial Movie Jeff Jarvis 2010

According to a 2007 article in Vanity Fair, he and his business partner, Scott Custer, were given permission by the White House to enter Iraq shortly after coalition troops seized control of Baghdad.

Scott Lilly: If Deficits Don't Matter, Does Contract Abuse? Scott Lilly 2010

As confirmed later by an article in Vanity Fair, they simply wanted Bush to be President, and installed him in the greatest threat to our Constitution ever.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Health-Care Reform Constitutional?  2010

According to a 2007 article in Vanity Fair, he and his business partner, Scott Custer, were given permission by the White House to enter Iraq shortly after coalition troops seized control of Baghdad.

Scott Lilly: If Deficits Don't Matter, Does Contract Abuse? Scott Lilly 2010

Some details of the tension were reported earlier in Vanity Fair magazine.

From Tense Call to Legal Standoff Michael Rothfeld 2010