Sentence examples for appears vain from inspiring English sources

The writer's art now appears vain to him, and also lacking: for all its descriptive power and harsh intelligence, there is little in it to refresh the soul.

The surrounding cityscape suddenly appears vain and fragile, the sculpture's most affecting feature.

"I was afraid of appearing vain.

In Morocco, people don't want to appear vain, to be seen to want to be shot.

"In France and Italy, it has always been thus, but English men have never wanted to appear vain or as if they care about what they are wearing.

He came very close to resigning, had responsibility for media policy taken away from him, and appeared vain and boastful – a middle-aged man trying to impress two attractive young women.

Like taking off your shirt, letting out excessive noise while you exercise (especially while you lift weights) can make you appear vain or attention-seeking.

Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland seems coltish and na? to readers of her own age today, while Emma Woodhouse, all of 20, appears loud, vain and bossy.

Arsenal's efforts appeared in vain until Ramsey's late intervention.

If you appear as vain and snobby, the examiner will not have a very good impression of you.

The level of misogyny, anger and distain that Rice shows is but the preamble to his heinous crime and just when you imagine that what you are watching couldn't be any worse, he finds a way to serve one last indignity to Janay Palmer when he mistreats her defenseless body in what appears to be a vain attempt to get away with what he has done.