Sentence examples for vain confidence from inspiring English sources

This time around, in telling the quasi-autobiographical story of a screenwriter played by a largely mute Christian Bale, he relies on the same inscrutable languor, the same sure-footed and deeply vain confidence of visual taste, the same sweeping vistas and pink skies and birds in flight.

Enthusiasm is a vain or unfounded confidence in divine favor or communication.

But the world's leading CEOs have searched in vain for solutions to restore public confidence, Reuters reports.

As we hug goodbye, I can only pray that her confidence will not be in vain.

It does not inspire confidence to see a waiter fishing, in vain, for a pencil to take your order.

Market research shows that S.U.V.s tend to be bought by people who are "insecure, vain, self-centered, and self-absorbed, who are frequently nervous about their marriages, and who lack confidence in their driving skills".

And Jeremy is a vain man," said Kinnock, referring to Corbyn's refusal to resign after losing a no-confidence motion among Labour MPs.

How vain.

Too vain.

Vain hope!

But in vain.