Sentence examples for rather vain from inspiring English sources

"He was rather vain," said a foreign businessman who knew him.

'I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish.

Meg, the oldest, beautiful and rather vain but sweet; Jo, the main focus of the books, a spirited tomboy; Beth, a sickly, gentle musician who dies in the first novel; and Amy, pampered and artistic.

Her husband, a rather vain mediocrity, is ashamed that he can't keep her at home; her father-in-law withdraws into silence; her overbearing boss condescends to her and flirts with her.

It heralds a rather vain humanism that embraces "whatever influences conduce to freedom", as one scholar put it, or, even more grandiosely, the study of "the sum total of human activities".

I'm rather vain and typically shun anything that ruins my profile, so thick-faced Treos and older 'berrys were no-nos.

Narcissism revealed seems fastidious and self-aware rather than vain.

Nicolas Sarkozy, like them, became part of an un-French France: brash, self-promoting; vain rather than arrogant; in-your-face rather than bound by tradition.

No one, apart from the housemaster of West Acre, who appeared rather smug and vain, came across too badly.

If an ageing former winner no longer has a handicap mark worthy of a place in the field, he deserves to be considered for retirement, as seems likely for Rule The World, below, rather than a vain tilt at another National.

Although her review was mainly positive, she questioned whether the programme had become "a little vain, rather a show-off".