Sentence examples for excessive vanity from inspiring English sources

Ho's own ruthlessness was absolute; Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap's matched only by his excessive vanity.

No, the exhibition itself is humbled a little by the excessive vanity of the institute's patron, who insisted on being painted again and again and again - as if she never looked quite brilliant looking enough for her own liking.

Vanity! Vanity!

"Now, unfortunately, there is a taste for luxury, excessive consumption and comfort, vanity, exhibitionism and greed," said Mehmet Sevket Eygi, a 75-year-old newspaper columnist, who has written extensively about Muslims and wealth.

Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Christians should not be "immoderately tickled with mere lascivious vanities," Prynne wrote, or "lash out in excessive cachinnations in the public view of dissolute graceless persons".

For adults excessive self-awareness has links to a host of ills from anxiety to vanity.

The moderator is primus interpares (though not without vanity - Harry has an amusing vignette of former moderators, dressed in full canonicals, moving with excessive eagerness to take their places of honour at the General Assembly).

So much so that the word "vanity" ("vaidade" in Portuguese), is generally not viewed as a negative thing when it applies to an excessive pride in your appearance.

"Retro vanity".

Vanity, perhaps.