Sentence examples for degree of vanity from inspiring English sources
John Houseman had a degree of vanity and pomp in his own style, but it was proper and merited.
"His manners are tinctured with stiffness and sometimes with a degree of vanity that is highly disagreeable,", as one American military man described him.
My attempt to formulate this task and some ways to approach the problem Coleman used to call "choosing the right oversimplification" is my last book, The Logic of Social Research--Charles Tilly criticized me for the singular "The". Even using them (or Tilly) as a yardstick shows the kind and degree of vanity that I have to guard myself against.
It would disclose a high degree of vanity in me were I to announce that the end of the world would occur during my life span.
If you want the highest level of quality and service, and if you have a complicated prescription and at least a modest degree of vanity, you'll still do best dealing with your local optician.
The author turns it into a device through which, with artful restraint, she begins to reveal her subject's human weaknesses, including degrees of vanity, selfishness, ambition, drug use and sexual activity that would barely attract attention if attached to a male performer.
And in keeping with mature Chekhov, there were no true villains, only degrees of blindness, vanity and selfishness.
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity".
The terms vanities and memento mori have, for centuries, referred to art that represents death; the label is derived from the warning of life's fleeting nature in Ecclesiastes: "Vanity of vanities, vanity of vanities; all is vanity".
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
