Sentence examples for vanity of from inspiring English sources

The terms vanities and memento mori have, for centuries, referred to art that represents death; the label is derived from the warning of life's fleeting nature in Ecclesiastes: "Vanity of vanities, vanity of vanities; all is vanity".

The vanity of our lives.

Away with vanity of Man!

She begins to tease the vanity of her flawed self.

The vanity of believing that somehow we owned our lives.

There is no end to the vanity of a chicken.

"Losses and Loyalties" demonstrates the vanity of this notion.

"We absolutely played on that vanity of guys," Plank says.

It's the beautiful and horrible vanity of being an actor.

Or the vanity of our search for understanding?

Fantastic outbursts of priggishness, of vanity, of expectations.