3332 examples of vanity in sentences

Raised by Titian and his contemporaries to the position of one of the noblest walks of Art, and in the generations following depressed to the position of minister to vanity and foolish pride, it has remained, during the most of the years since, one of the lowest and least reputable of the fields of artistic labor.

(In Vanity fair, July 1928) © 20Jun28; B793740.

Joan Crawford (E); 9May55; R149155. Golden vanity.

(In Vanity fair, Sept. 1931)

Vanity Fair's backgammon to win.

(In Vanity fair, Oct.-Dec. 1931, Jan.-May 1932) © 25Sep31, B128384; 24Oct31, B131792; 25Nov31, B136013; 24Dec31, B140969; 25Jan32, B143234; 25Feb32, B146157; <pb id='324.png' /> 25Mar32, B151415; 25Apr32, B152872.

(In Vanity fair, May 1934) © 25Apr34; B224292.

(In Vanity fair, Apr. 1935)

(In Vanity fair, Apr. 1935)

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(In Vanity fair, May 1934)

(In Vanity fair, May 1935)

Vanity fair.

How often, in pacing its venerable galleries and solemn cloisters, and musing over the memory of an ancient and illustrious ancestry, had he forgotten those bitter passages of daily existence, so humbling to his vanity and so harassing to his heart!

Claire's invitation to be one of a distinguished group fed her vanity long after her daughter had outworn the delights of retrospection.

All vanity aside, he had dropped a bomb under the feet of John Mark, and some day the bomb might explode.

Do you understand?" Shocked, she stared into his inflamed visage, which anger and tortured vanity had marred past all belief.

I will tell you more; this retreat, which satisfies my heart, also flatters my vanity; I like to imagine myself in the wake of those famous exiles of Athens or Rome whom their virtues rendered formidable to their fellow-citizens.

To insult Silvertree was to hurt the doctor in his most tender vanity.

But the vanity of authors is endless, and their prayers are apt to be but empty things.

" "That's true enough," said Father Payne, "and of course it is a riska man must run the risk of sacrificing a good deal of his time and energy to recording unimportant details, perhaps quite uselessly, but with this possibility ahead of him, that he may produce an immortal bookand I grant you that the infernal vanity and self-glorification of authors is a real difficulty in the way.

I don't like itit seems to me vain, and not proud, I don't mind a kind of prideI think a man ought to know what he is worth: but I hate vanity.

Why not wish them to do it well too?" "You mean that the difference between pride and vanity lies there?" said Barthrop.

The coterie means a set of inferior people, bolstering up each other's vanity by mutual admiration.

She was, poor child, supremely confident, and that not through conceit or vanity, but simply because she was a fatalist and believed that destiny had brought Lawrence to her feet....

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