Sentence examples for obsessive vanity from inspiring English sources
It's difficult to make any sort of movie, good or bad, but to make a movie that's so bad it's good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity.
This can be minor, such as biting fingernails (which would indicate a worrier), or obsessive hair-combing (vanity or insecurity); or as serious as a drug addiction (somebody who evades responsibility and craves escape), or a death wish (hopeless and forlorn).
His hair fixation has nothing to do with vanity, but rather with obsessive-compulsive disorder — an anxiety illness that causes intrusive thoughts and repetitive behavior like tapping or humming to quell constant uneasiness.
Both are mocked for their alleged vanity, but both are also obsessive in their efforts to constantly self-improve.
And there is us, the once obsessive audience, no longer caring for Hollywood's vanity project.
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
I used to look at my waist all the time and be obsessive about it, but for me it wasn't so much a vanity issue as it was wanting to feel good about myself, to feel good internally, and feel good physically.
Sedaris is brave because he has no vanity at all, no compunction about revealing himself as weak and obsessive, sometimes cruel and hateful.
24) goes to great lengths to describe the author as compulsive, obsessive, immodest, hypertrophied in self-esteem and, most demeaning of all, possessed of a malignant, egotistical narcissism amounting to only dull vanity.
