vain-glorious

As great as was her appreciation of the beautiful and the good in human nature was her horror of all that was false, corrupt, narrow, selfish, self-satisfied, or vain-glorious, with which she, no less than all of us, came into contact on her way through life.

Archive 2009-04-01 Matterhorn 2009

As great as was her appreciation of the beautiful and the good in human nature was her horror of all that was false, corrupt, narrow, selfish, self-satisfied, or vain-glorious, with which she, no less than all of us, came into contact on her way through life.

Sophie Mannerheim Matterhorn 2009

I'm sorry for the loss of the esteem of my vain-glorious former selves, but it's true: the aesthetics of hair and make-up and fashion have slid to the very rock-bottom of the list of things that I am currently worrying about.

Self-Portrait Of Truthiness 2008

I'm sorry for the loss of the esteem of my vain-glorious former selves, but it's true: the aesthetics of hair and make-up and fashion have slid to the very rock-bottom of the list of things that I am currently worrying about.

Archive 2008-03-09 2008

In this sense, the United States, under the misguided stewardship of the Bush/Cheney administration, has been acting in ways curiously similar to past empires at some point during their peak: neurotic, paranoid and hysterical, and yet overconfident, arrogant and unnecessarily aggressive to foreign countries in vain-glorious and utterly unproductive ways, all at the same time.

The Decline of Empires in the Past, the Future of the United States and the Contribution of President Bush 2008

“God forbid that I suld make sic a vain-glorious speech, when there are sae mony professing Christians!” answered

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Diogenes I hold to be the most vain-glorious man of his time, and more ambitious in refusing all honours, than Alexander in rejecting none.

Religio Medici 2007

Frenchman should stand up against Britons at all: a good-natured wonder that the blind, mad, vain-glorious, brave poor devils should actually have the courage to resist an Englishman.

The Book of Snobs 2006

And the more vain-glorious they are, the more difficult is the capture of them?

Lysis; or Friendship 2006

According to these friends of mine I have grown vain-glorious perhaps due to the undue popularity gained during the trials-both Delhi Bomb and Lahore conspiracy cases.

Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006