(1) She was ambitious to the point of vainglory .(2) At the age of seventeen, brimming with optimism and ruled by vainglory , Victor leaves his native Switzerland to attend college.(3) his vainglory put the Republic at risk(4) True revolution is not about glamour, vainglory , or self-promotion.(5) Yet the book is a heavy volume of historic narcissism - a magnum opus of upper-class vainglory and scrupulous evasion.(6) The first stanza reveals a speaker characterized by vainglory and chivalry at one and the same time.(7) I too have at times fallen victim to this unfortunate and vainglorious impulse.(8) It was an unspoken protest against vaingloriousness .(9) The book gives readers an unvarnished portrait of the man in his own vainglorious and poisonous words.(10) He vaingloriously longs to play all the parts.(11) I was young and vainglorious and often self-absorbed.(12) Each week another dire e-commerce venture sinks vaingloriously beneath the mire.(13) If the city only thinks of its own image, it is actually behaving vaingloriously .(14) If I may say so, lording your success over me by boasting that you told me so is truly the height of vaingloriousness , considering that when we last spoke I remember offering only encouragement.(15) But are they really any more vaingloriously ambitious than those constructed by the landed aristocracy of the 18th century, Victorian mill-owners, or Citizen Kane himself?(16) In some situations it makes good sense, at least in the short term, to use violence and to behave selfishly, fearfully or vaingloriously .
