Sentence examples for sort of vanity from inspiring English sources

What Fielding always did best was use modern frustrations to fondly lampoon a particular sort of vanity and pretentiousness that secretly everyone has.

An Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, Khader Habib, said "the escalation against the Palestinian fighters makes any talk about a lull a sort of vanity".

Woolcott Publishing is the sort of vanity press that fulfills the dreams of aging veterans, each certain that his version of "My War" is the book the world's been waiting for.

The book is put out by Arcadia Publishing, which has produced books of old photos of towns in New Jersey and other states, sort of vanity publications with very local appeal.

His chief adviser and financier in the $16 million sports spree was his father, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. "I had to convince him that this wouldn't be some sort of vanity play and sell the business plan to him," said Paulson, who owns 80percentt of the teams with his father owning the rest.

Changes that are "too obvious" make us uncomfortable in their display of vanity, because it's the exact sort of vanity we try to keep to ourselves.

However much a woman of a certain age claims to be happy in her skin, the promise of a forthcoming marriage sends her into the sort of vanity-induced spin that has her considering radical facial peels, liposuction and, at the very least, intravenous Botox for the period leading up to the wedding.

"And hopefully people would see this as not something I'm doing on a whim, sort of a vanity project, like Madonna writing a picture book".

Mr. Rove pronounced it a good deal -- in part, he said, because there was a sort of "hidden vanity mirror" in a cranny of a bookcase.

For nearly all of Steuben's existence since it was founded in 1903, it was sort of a vanity venture, demonstrating the finer side of the everyday glassware and crockery that Corning sold.

"That was really important to telling a truthful story, leaving hair and makeup and all sorts of actress vanity aside to play this role," Appleby says.