Sentence examples for expression of vanity from inspiring English sources

She wasn't happy that getting a nose job might be seen as an expression of vanity.

Western dealers deride this yearning for reign marks as an expression of vanity.

Our lead fashion article, "The Image Makers," is perhaps the ultimate expression of vanity: the self-portrait, as taken by six photographers in situations and clothes they selected to glorify their own self-images.

Smith: It could also be a weird expression of vanity.

SAS Shampoo & Style owner Monica Ruggieri knows that a great hairstyle is more than an expression of vanity.

For years critics have railed against these cultural complexes as pointlessly grandiose expressions of vanity — a poisonous brew of architectural egotism and excessive wealth that was destroying America's urban centers.

Mostly, they criticize these works on aesthetic grounds: as flashy expressions of architectural vanity.

He regards civilization's greatest artistic and cultural achievements from architecture to music and film as expressions of human vanity, "worthless to the earth".

He regards civilization's greatest artistic and cultural achievements — from architecture to music and film — as expressions of human vanity, "worthless to the earth".

Some architects continue to give fuel to Scrutonian arguments with projects that are indeed offensive expressions of personal vanity: look no further than this week's revelation of a Norman Foster-designed "Tulip tower" proposed for the City of London.

"Hunger Games" isn't the only pop-cultural artifact that primes us to view fashion as an expression of some inner rot, as vanity, a grasp at wealth, the shallow aspirations of a classist society.