Sentence examples for extravagant vanity from inspiring English sources

Her facade remains willfully frivolous, incorporating some of the extravagant vanity Ms. Redgrave brought to Isadora Duncan on film.

The group has called it an "extravagant vanity project" and is worried nature reserves will be damaged.

And then, in that, you have two main strands of thought: everyone's dad, who thinks taking them is some sort of act of extravagant vanity; and anyone with more than 3,000 Instagram followers, who sees them as a near-violent act of self love.

Vanity! Vanity!

He described the Justices' building as "extravagant in its cold and stately vanity," and went on: There are solid marble pillars as big as the stacks of an ocean boat, and white marble benches like those in a stylish graveyard, where no one sits because it wouldn't seem right..

He described the Justices' building as "extravagant in its cold and stately vanity," and went on: **{:.break one} ** There are solid marble pillars as big as the stacks of an ocean boat, and white marble benches like those in a stylish graveyard, where no one sits because it wouldn't seem right...

In offering justifications, some distinguish their consumption from commodity fetishism and vanity: it is not extravagant as long as it is affordable.

His vanity was overweening.

Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

She is, after all, beyond harm (even by a service so extravagant as to be an exercise not of mourning but of vanity).

We see how that extravagant car brings to the surface each of its owners' vanities, yearnings, vulnerabilities and fears.