Sentence examples for the vanity that from inspiring English sources

Krakow has the looks, the brains and the vanity that comes with it.

He had the vanity that often accompanies good looks, and the querulous temper that goes with innate weakness.

And the vanity that leads him to surmise it may be time to start dying his eyelashes ("if I want emphasis") makes for similarly slow going.

Mild mannered and deferential almost to the point of shyness, he shows no trace of the vanity that often comes with being an actor, nor of the destructive personalities he has played so well.

All because of the vanity that thought it more important to make a juvenile joke than to speak for the people who are, and who will be, hit hardest by a Tory government unbound.

Hector Elizondo plays Marty Constable, an older, wiser senior partner in tonight's new CBS series "Century City," a legal drama set in the not-so-distant future; he alone seems immune to the vanity that drives most of his ilk to age-reversing specialists and plastic surgeons.

Forgive me for the vanities that now allow me to suggest they're finished; gone.

But this is not a roman à clef; it's a satire of Washington types and the vanities that guide them.

Here too there are catastrophic flames, bonfires of the vanities that signal both the approach of the novel's conclusion and the imminent melt-down of its precarious patterns.

A signed copy of The Bonfire of the Vanities that still sits proudly on your bookshelf.

And bet your last paperback copy of Bonfire of the Vanities that an extra pounds 33 million won't make a jot of difference to his lifestyle.