| There were six archetypes, including the daredevil, the oppugnant duelist, and the vainglory swashbuckler. |
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| Another strand recounts the author's debilitating experiences with the music industry in all its mendacious vainglory. |
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| At the age of seventeen, brimming with optimism and ruled by vainglory, Victor leaves his native Switzerland to attend college. |
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| The first stanza reveals a speaker characterized by vainglory and chivalry at one and the same time. |
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| He refused to countenance all the signs of worldly glory and churchly vainglory. |
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| As a rough rule of thumb, marble and fountains set within a soaring atrium are suggestive of self-importance and vainglory. |
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| Many staffers, encountering him in the canteen or in early meetings, were surprised by his lack of bluster and vainglory. |
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| The observance of poverty, that radical detachment from material goods and from all forms of vainglory, features strongly in his experience. |
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| True revolution is not about glamour, vainglory, or self-promotion. |
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| Upon them sat antique pots holding ancient plants nobly maintaining their vainglory and smugness as they grew greedily towards the late summer sunshine. |
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| From victory one can derive pleasure and even joy, but never the satisfaction of vainglory. |
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| For men it is frequently more difficult to face lust, and then gluttony, sloth, anger, vainglory, envy and avarice. |
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| But the shadows of vainglory will disappear in the river of the waters of life, clear as crystal, issuing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. |
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| I note this without vainglory, from a simple need to establish the truth, which has been travestied by ignorance or intent. |
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| It made me uneasy because I believed that the Evil One now wanted to tempt me by vainglory. |
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| And rightly so, for their values promote empty happiness and vainglory. |
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| The country's experts have long discussed the possibility of such a mission, but this is the first official acknowledgment of a decision to proceed. The document is, however, more than a mere claim to vainglory. |
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| I wanted to draw their attention to the vainglory manifested by certain persons with respect to their good works, forgetting that very often these good works camouflaged a corrupt heart. |
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| And yet there are lots of reasons to see it as vainglory. |
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| Surely it is not vainglory nor a desire simply to outshow other nations which lead to the enormous expenditures involved in every international exposition. |
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