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‘It is inconceivable that Spenser, the 'poet loved of the poets', and the pattern of princely gentlemen, advanced this suggestion from personal vaingloriousness.’
‘Joseph was inexpressibly shocked to observe his son's enthusiasm as he beheld these exhibitions of heathen vaingloriousness.’
‘I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vaingloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man's faith.’
‘Although they realized his vaingloriousness after the war, it came too late in the day to save the president's skin.’
‘One may detect a tone of self-righteous bigotry and decry it, as one may regret some of Paul's vaingloriousness.’
‘It was an unspoken protest against vaingloriousness.’
‘If I may say so, lording your success over me by boasting that you told me so is truly the height of vaingloriousness, considering that when we last spoke I remember offering only encouragement.’
‘There's a vague radical unease about the vaingloriousness and opulence of it all.’
‘I was studying the books of eloquence; for in eloquence it was my ambition to shine, all from a damnable vaingloriousness and for the satisfaction of human vanity.’
‘In court papers and interviews, the two lawyers have further accused each other of vaingloriousness.’