vainglorious

How To Use vainglorious In A Sentence

• Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
• Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer.
• Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest.
• His promise to the commissioner of more to come is not just a journalist's vainglorious bluster.
• Lundberg noted the "slavocracy was not terminated .... for moral reasons; it committed suicide for political and economic reasons, blinded by simple greed and vaingloriousness, and long after slavery was abolished in most places elsewhere. Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"
• There are always men like him, eager vaingloriously to display their would-be-insuperable power.
• Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
• Each week another dire e-commerce venture sinks vaingloriously beneath the mire.
• His political conclusion repudiates the crude nationalism, a form of anthropomorphism when all is said and done, which projects upon regional botany its vainglorious xenophobia.
• The ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, warns Scrooge of his vainglorious ways.