Sentence examples for considerable vanity from inspiring English sources
Nelson was a great self-dramatist of considerable vanity, who changed his baptismal name of Horace to the more sonorous Horatio at about the time (when he was but 18) that he commissioned the first portrait of himself.
Ms. Streep is playing Arkadina, an aging actress of considerable charm and even greater vanity, in Mike Nichols's very starry and very spotty production of Chekhov's "Seagull," which was scheduled to open last night.
Of course, the poetic impulse to make a good story better leads to considerable exaggeration in daily conversation, suiting a vanity that goes with a sharp-edged sense of personal and family honour and the spoiling of children.
Ayer was a vain man whose vanity was part of his considerable charm.
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Biden's vanity and his regard for his own gifts seem considerable even by the rarefied standards of the U.S. Senate: in his telling, the room is always falling silent as he confronts his listeners with the killer insight.
Nor is Biden known for modesty; journalist James Traub has written that "Biden's vanity and his regard for his own gifts seem considerable even by the rarefied standards of the U.S. Senate".
They will find the pungent compassion, the unabashed lyricism and the homespun repudiation of vanity and banality that bathed Mr. Lynch's earlier writings in their considerable glow.
