God is not so much wrathful as cross; Lucifer is at least as vain as he is proud, pulling down his vest to show his name tattooed on his puffed-out chest; Mrs Noah is so keen on finishing her knitting that she has to be lifted into the ark; one of the executioners has to be helped out when he hits his thumb while hammering in a nail.
We learn from the first pages of the first book that she's managed to disappear -- a feat Lenu, who's characterized at times as vain, is puzzled by. .
Defender Tim Ream, who entered the match in the 70th minute, was a step late as Jaime Ayoví forced his way past and sent a header low to the near post that goalkeeper Tim Howard could only wave at in vain.
Huh? Huh? Like the perpetrator of an unsolved casino heist, all the clues in this new, not-at-all-vain landscape seem to point back to George Clooney.
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"He's amazingly not at all vain," Mr. Close said.
"It's always a seller's market," growled someone who was obviously filled with resentment at the vain sacrifice of her lunch hour.
Carpenter explained his artistic intentions: I conceived of that band of men, upon whom the eyes of the world centered as never before upon ministers of state, gathered in council, depressed, perhaps disheartened at the vain efforts of many months to restore the supremacy of the government.
For anxious patients, this attitude was reassuring in more ways than one: it dispelled feelings of guilt at being vain enough to seek out Fred's ministrations, and it conveyed that he was cognizant that what he did wasn't all that serious — it wasn't brain surgery, for instance, although to some women it might have felt as important.
The legal challenge has been welcomed by campaigners at Glos Vain, as it will temporarily halt any building work.
When her autobiography, "Memoirs of a Bullfighter," was published in 1968, an article in Vogue described how she got used to the idea of killing by practicing at a slaughterhouse, for days on end jabbing in vain at doomed oxen with a dagger.
