Sentence examples for vanity of vanities 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".
Diderot, she writes, "is beginning to succumb to the art critic's syndrome: a need to dismiss paint and canvas as vanity of vanities and a corresponding hunger for something great and unchanging".
I feel that I must write regarding Anthony Tommasini's article about Lorin Maazel ["Vanity of Vanities: The Conductor as Composer as Entrepreneur," last Sunday], because I disagree strongly with its conclusions and with how he arrives at them.
The 1560 Geneva Bible – which gave us "the skin of my teeth", "from strength to strength", "vanity of vanities", "unto us a child is born" and "my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased" – was made in the Calvinist capital by Protestant exiles from Mary's reign of terror (including Coverdale) and is notable for its extensive and highly partial marginal notes.
Nevertheless, without this transcendent hope or faith, there remains a certain sense of futility, not unlike the "vanity of vanities" of Ecclesiastes, or at best, the tragic or transient beauty that haunts Japanese culture and art.
In his short story "Father Sergius," Tolstoy wrote about the most blinding form of vanity: religious vanity.
To a large extent, I think they come under the heading of what the old preacher called vanity — 'vanity of vanities, all is vanity' — and by the old preacher I mean Ecclesiastes.
The leitmotif of Ecclesiastes is the line best known in English in the King James translation: "'Vanity of vanities', saith the preacher, 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity'" (1 2).
"It's not vanity, the vanity of falling in love with yourself.
