Sentence examples for kind of vanity from inspiring English sources

I also didn't want to come in and feel like it was some kind of vanity thing.

But we're not talking about the kind of vanity you might conventionally be tempted to ascribe to film stars.

But this is just the point duBois wants to make — that obsessing over your own end is a kind of vanity, even a kind of ahistorical thinking.

The democratisation of celebrity, she says, is tempting us all into becoming exhibitionists, and new manufacturing techniques are making this kind of vanity production a viable commercial option.

His evident lack of vanity is its own kind of vanity, one that is well matched by Ms. Miller's utter confidence.

20,000 Days on Earth is an odd kind of vanity project, like something in which Joaquin Phoenix or a younger Bob Dylan might have starred.

For him, father and son represent two kinds of vanity, and he takes a sardonic view of both men.

Maybe you just have a different kind of nervous system, a mutant form of vanity.

It invites confidences, flatters a certain kind of understandable vanity.

Christianity, with its emphasis on the afterlife, has always had a tendency to derogate earthly living as a kind of spectral vanity.

The first is that this is a kind of western vanity project, an imposed solution that places Africa in a position of supplication, and does not involve Africans in that solution.