The ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, warns Scrooge of his vainglorious ways. |
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In other words, he comes across as a vainglorious know-it-all, absolutely convinced that he's right about everything. |
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His fatuous smile alone would have aroused their ire before he opened his vainglorious mouth. |
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His promise to the commissioner of more to come is not just a journalist's vainglorious bluster. |
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Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer. |
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His vainglorious speech at the Oscar ceremony claimed a new dawn for British cinema. |
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He dishes out obloquy to former tutors and students and treats the reader to vainglorious self-congratulation. |
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Smith possessed a vainglorious streak to his character, but also showed great valour and judgement. |
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Today, they would have aired the vainglorious fiasco uncensored. |
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Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest. |
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Yossarian's vainglorious commanders raise the number of required missions and raise them again and again. |
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It is vulgar and it is vainglorious and therefore entirely typical of Palin's political style. |
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Will Jamie Oliver succeed where the vivacious, vainglorious Gayelord failed? |
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What the multitudes of innocent people have had to suffer so terribly for the guilt and folly, vainglorious ambition of a handful of gangsters. |
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Blind faith in an over-subscribed, vainglorious myth will only hinder you. |
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