Sentence examples for somewhat vain from inspiring English sources
Short, somewhat vain, with brilliantined hair and a waxed moustache, the aging bachelor Poirot enjoys his creature comforts.
Ellis confesses to a boyhood fascination with his subject, and Washington appears as a mysterious, somewhat vain, and altogether towering figure.
It's dishonest and somewhat vain, yes, but I don't believe anyone buys these claims any more than they think the roast chicken pictured on the packaging became golden without a stylist first brushing it with Ronseal.
They have taken aim at what they consider excess spending, but a sober white municipal Christmas tree made of Styrofoam and recycled cardboard did not go over well in Parma, which takes pride in its renown as a rich, somewhat vain, city.
They sat her down and took notes on her backstory: her big move, with her husband, Will, a somewhat vain but successful actor, from the city to Bloomfield, New Jersey, where their new neighbors greeted them with food in Tupperware containers — that they later wanted back.
"A pet," he writes, apropos of the parrot in "A Simple Heart" by Flaubert, "is a protection against life's insults, a defense against the world, the somewhat vain conviction of being truly loved, a way of being both less alone and more alone".
Men are somewhat less vain than women about their complexions (although skin-care products for the male face are a growing sector of the market) but they are just as afraid of losing their youthful zest, and they have certainly been more reckless in searching for an alchemical elixir of potency, or a Shangri-La where no one ages.
This was a relationship that Admiral Sims had tried, somewhat in vain, to establish with the Department during his years in Newport.
One was creating a Mary Poppins movie character substantially more charming and affectionate than the one in the books, where she's somewhat too fastidious and vain (a bit like her creator).
After a day obsessing about my social media performance, I felt vain, petty, and somewhat powerless in the face of this app that had somehow infiltrated its way into my psyche.
Though the original songs on Ms. Simon's new album carry much the same spirit of sexual challenge as "You're So Vain," the years have somewhat mellowed her brashness.
