Sentence examples for human vanity from inspiring English sources

"My generation's obsession with youth," Cross writes, "stands out in the history of human vanity".

He imagined that horses, unencumbered by human vanity, would see the world in a clearer, calmer, and more honest light.

Unavailability does sometimes increase the desirability of things, but why? Economists, philosophers, and sociologists have tended to attribute the appeal of unavailable commodities to human vanity.

Miles Gloriosus is a comic assault on human vanity and self-importance, as manifested in the persona of an absurdly swaggering military officer.

I suspect that his human vanity and vulnerability were at least as important to his ability to get leaders to listen and consider changing their minds.

The Last Resort (1998) follows a naturalist writer and his wife on a trip to Key West, where they encounter human vanity and sexual desires.

(Duveen seems never to have been ruffled by anti-Semitism, which may well have struck him as one among the many human vanities he could exploit.

Thus the Flemish artist Frans Pourbus the Elder drew "It Is All Hay" (1575), an allegory of human vanities and materialism depicting a crazed mob striving mindlessly after goods of little worth — in this case, hay.

"One Hundred Years from Now" has a quicker tempo than most of the material on Sweetheart of the Rodeo and functions as a speculation on current human vanities and how they might be viewed by successive generations.

The obituarist for The Manchester Guardian wrote that Formby was one of the "great drolls" of the music hall whose humour "always seemed to take its rise in a sympathetic perception of human vanities and weaknesses".

"The Abyss of Human Illusion" is written in the manner of my father's later work: brief and episodic, scrutinizing working stiffs, bored GIs, the literary and artistic establishments, self-styled creative types and midcentury Brooklyn losers, while leveling the differences between them to expose the universal presence of the same human vanities, sins and frailties.