Sentence examples for academic vanity from inspiring English sources
It is true that he is guilty of academic vanity and paternalistic posturing; but, because we have seen what happens between him and Carol, we know that her charges are false.
Their names change from book to book, but their identities are the same: the husband a French professor who becomes a minor hero of the downtown scene, the wife an unsuccessful artist but an astute observer of art-world and academic vanities.
Jim's career prospects depend almost entirely on the professor's good will, and so the senior man embodies both the soulless, bureaucratic aspects of academic labor and the vanity and capriciousness of wealth, cultural privilege and social entitlement.
Procuring academic titles for reasons of vanity is not unique to Russia: in the past two years, in Germany, a defense minister and an education minister were found to have plagiarized parts of their dissertations.
DeLorenzo stages the play on a mirrored set by Takeshi Kata that suggested to me a Lacanian joke but wound up merely emphasizing the vanity of this academic environment, where appearances are never exactly what they seem.
The academic grunt does have his jock vanities.
Veteran fund managers and academics argue that deals satisfy executives' vanity and enrich their bankers, but destroy value for shareholders.
And so began her journey back into academic life, her PhD on the idea of vanity fair, and in the midst of this, her cancer at a shockingly young age.
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Unlike other academic novelists, he clearly wrote these books neither for money nor vanity, but because they were where he could dramatise the themes and memories that preoccupied him.
