Sentence examples for question of vanity from inspiring English sources

But, despite the worries and emotions she was experiencing, the first question the 45-year-old needed answering was: "Will I lose my hair?" For many women undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy, it's not just a question of vanity.

This is not a question of mere vanity.

Mr. Wiltse does try to even the scales a bit: both the professor's wife and his employer accuse him of vanity and question his priorities.

If cosmetic plastic surgery is available to the average consumer -- thanks in part to lending agencies that specialize in financing cosmetic procedures -- and no longer bears the stigma of vanity, the question arises: Are we on our way to becoming a nation of the surgically enhanced?

It had all been a question of "size" and male vanity.

There is, of course, another question about the vanity of those taking part.

Selfies often veer into scandalous or shameless territory — think of Miley Cyrus or Geraldo Rivera — and at their most egregious raise all sorts of questions about vanity, narcissism and our obsession with beauty and body image.

It's also a story of long-tangled relations between her father and the family of her late mother, who died in childbirth, and it moves through questions of money and vanity, of social status and prescribed possibilities, of breaking out and of settling in.

Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity".

The terms vanities and memento mori have, for centuries, referred to art that represents death; the label is derived from the warning of life's fleeting nature in Ecclesiastes: "Vanity of vanities, vanity of vanities; all is vanity".

Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.