Sentence examples for for being vain from inspiring English sources

Movie directors are known for being vain, autocratic and egomaniacal, but the curious nature of their art form also makes them invisible.

If teenagers get a bad rap for being vain – a generation too obsessed with social media and the Jenner sisters to care about anything else – the world they've created within that bubble is impressive.

He teased Benny for being vain and a tightwad, always greeting him with a cheery "Hi ya, Jackson!" In the late 1940s, while still appearing on the Benny show, Harris joined his wife on the NBC radio network in "The Phil Showis-anice Faye ShoutgrowthutgrofTheoFitche Fitch Bandwagon". He perpetuated the characterization that had made him a star on the Benny show.

So let's not make it harder by accusing other and ourselves of being vain for feeling this way.

What I lacked in modesty, I made up for by being vain.

Virginia Woolf titled one essay "On Not Knowing Greek," which she began, "For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek".

Briefly, crudely, yet strikingly, Malthus argued that infinite human hopes for social happiness must be vain, for population will always tend to outrun the growth of production.

But true or false, it hardly matters, for the wish is vain.

Definitely not a vanity project then, but a lot for Dunham to be vain about.

2 Moreover, when those whose habit it is to overload their stomachs twice a day, and to pass no night without a harlot, have enslaved the mind, which ought to have ruled, it is vain for them to hope to find it ready for action after they have dulled and crippled it.

"The whole context of what we're doing right now is vain for me.