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How to use vanity in a sentence

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If dispassionateness with understanding does not take place, it is vanity and pride that surfaces.
All the furniture was mahogany, from the four poster bed, to the vanity and armoir.
For all her doughty declarations, there's the odd hint of vanity and vulnerability in this targe.
And the rooms' en-suites boast anti-mist mirrors and vanity basins the size of horse troughs.
Sometimes it's just the hippest sort of vanity, an easy form of self-congratulation that utterly fails at detoxifying the original object.
This does not imply that he was without an acute sense of selfhood, personal vanity, or justified pride in his achievement.
These strategies appeal to and then exacerbate greed and vanity to enhance the sense of self-importance.
It was vanity and a perverted sense of self-importance that were the source of his evil deed.
A heart full of false pride, vanity and arrogance has no room for wisdom, so it will remain lost in the darkness.
She had realized the silliness of her love for Mr. Knightley, and Mr. Martin's continued love had tickled her vanity.
Possibly it was sheer vanity and love of easily-won applause that drove him to act out the role of mendicant campus guru.
It was an odd assortment of stuff, from a tire iron and vanity mirror to fan and seat belts.
Generally, the toothbrush, toothpaste and tooth mug are separately placed on a vanity cabinet in the bathroom.
She reeks of having too much money and too little taste, and the photograph is an indictment of her shallowness and vanity.
Furious now, his mother stormed across the room and yanked open his vanity drawer, rummaging around until she found a pair of shears.
Features in the bathroom include a corner bath with an overhead shower, a bidet and a vanity dressing table.
A curious mixture of vanity and insecurity, she is keen to play down her on-screen image.
Its white suite includes a bath with overhead electric shower and a wash hand basin with vanity unit.
He cried, and the next instant could have bitten his tongue off for the childish vanity of the speech.
The second bedroom is a single with a built-in vanity unit and both of these rooms have en suite shower rooms.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Yet this vanity may be a mean, perhaps, to overthrow me with this sagacious lady.
It all came of the dress coat, and of his childish vanity in his white wristbands.
His vanity, coxcombry and folly, displeased the King, and alarmed the Queen.
From vanity he spoke of himself in the highest terms and from cynicism in the lowest.
It was said that he was spoiled by Pitt, and was consumed by vanity, and was broken by Tory calumniation.
They bawled after him curses, and also outbursts of self-congratulation and vanity.
I constantly act as phlebotomist to the vanity of the young and to the anecdotage of the senile and senescent.
When the balance hangs in doubt between the adventurousness of vanity and the frigidity of fear, ever incline to the latter side.
Her woman's vanity blossomed deliciously in the atmosphere of a man's love.
This is a bit of coxcombry which has no match in the simple, unaffected vanity of the Portuguese.
The baby blue eyes have a look of admiration that is extremely gratifying to the young man's vanity.
In the vanity typical of the insecure, they abnegate all foreign knowledge.
Photography does not merely pander to the gratification of earthly vanity, but is an alleviator of human misery.
The infirmities due to idleness, enflamed vanity and luxury offered a new field, though to him a less attractive one.
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