Sample Sentences forvainglorious (auto-selected)
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"I don't mean to be vainglorious," Uncle Monty began, using a word which here means "braggy,"† (source)
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the teeth of the Crafty, the Unstable, the Audacious, the Vainglorious, and your Murderous Beast?† (source)
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I know that tale as well, but Daeron made too much of it in that vainglorious book of his.† (source)
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And was this imprisonment God's way of curbing his pride, tempering his vainglorious dreams?† (source)
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But I was glad I didn't speak, because to Father Huismans the words were not vainglorious.† (source)
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Observers have described Charlestonians as vainglorious, obstinate, mercurial, verbose, xenophobic, and congenitally gracious.† (source)
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My thoughts were further distracted by the excessive pride of Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, who were surpassingly conceited and vainglorious in being members of so distinguished a procession.† (source)
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We streaked with idiot vainglory through the frosty countryside, and as the afternoon faded and evening fell, so did the mercury; at about five o'clock the Clipper halted somewhere far from home out in the pinewoods and I became aware of the sudden descent of windy, vicious cold.† (source)
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Preening and pruning himself effulgently and strutting vaingloriously about the platform as he picked up momentum, he gave the men the colors of the day again and shifted nimbly into a rousing pep talk on the importance of the bridge at Avignon to the war effort and the obligation of each man on the mission to place love of country above love of life.† (source)
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The party stood for a moment exchanging vainglorious remarks with Devil's Row.† (source)
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Your efforts to instil either vainglory or false modesty into the patient will therefore be met from the Enemy's side with the obvious reminder that a man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving them to the best of his ability without deciding on his own precise niche in the temple of Fame.† (source)
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The brazen insensitive spirit of the boys he envied but could not imitate: they would howl loudly under punishment, in order to mitigate it, and they were vaingloriously unconcerned ten minutes later.† (source)
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But that's rather good, by the way—not to be vainglorious.† (source)
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You could call it vainglory.† (source)
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Vaingloriously, we try to substitute ourselves for this faith, creating thus for the rest of the world a reality which we believe after their fashion, while, actually, it doesn't exist.† (source)
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A desperate gleam, baleful and vainglorious, flashed over his face.† (source)
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