| 单词 | vainglorious |
| 例句 | And was this imprisonment God’s way of curbing his pride, tempering his vainglorious dreams? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Make no vainglorious boasts, I beg you. Pride is a grievous sin. The stone men were proud as well, and the Shrouded Lord was proudest of them all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don’t share his vainglorious self-opinion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of this sly, brutal movie he will keep on staggering and falling, overcome by the harsh weather, the unforgiving land, his difficult venture and, most crucially, his vainglorious ego. ‘Godland’ Review: Another of God’s Lonely Men Goes Amok (Spiritually) 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The medics in Planet are more misguided than vainglorious, but even in that film, we're rooting for the apes. Monkey business: primates on film 2011-08-03T20:00:00Z But on this album, the music often tells a different story: less vainglorious, more ambivalent. Music Review: Jay-Z Frets on ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ 2013-07-04T22:31:32Z Or vainglorious poses: “There are people who ask, ‘How could you have done that? Review | At 87, William Shatner has advice on how to live well. Should we listen? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Along the way Drake came to embody a streak of Englishness — bumptious, tenacious, patriotic, crafty, vainglorious and defiantly exceptionalist — that is back with a vengeance. How Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth I Made England a Global Power 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z The church in the 1930s is bluntly portrayed as a vainglorious institution that colludes with the state to maintain a stranglehold on the common people. Review: ‘Jimmy’s Hall’ Pits the Church Against a Populist Gathering Place 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z He was happy to describe his own output as “tall tales, fibs, lies, whoppers” — a penchant that explains his attraction to the vainglorious, less than truthful hero of “Falstaff.” Robert Nye, Novelist Who Imagined Falstaff’s Memoirs, Dies at 77 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Clegg should have demanded significant ministerial posts for himself and his lieutenants, but settled for the vainglorious title of deputy prime minister instead. 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond by Andrew Adonis – review 2013-05-13T07:00:03Z Who would want anything more to do with this vainglorious braggart than is necessary? A London Musical With Energy to Burn, and Two Without It 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Giordano is magnetic and wickedly funny, particularly as the bumbling, vainglorious king. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z And in all these pieces, she is more than a literary spectator, she is a sensitive but not in the least vainglorious participant. The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore – review 2012-07-07T23:05:07Z His dramatic physicality — his body fluctuates between the skeletal and the pumping-iron robust — read as more vainglorious than strictly necessary. ‘Morbius’ Review: The Other Bat, Man 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Shakespeare's Caesar is pompous and vainglorious, never more so than here, addressing his wife as if she were a public meeting. Political comparisons of Shakespeare are odorous 2013-04-19T20:00:21Z She herself was made to suffer by Shelley; one might say she struck back by concocting fictional versions of him – one such the vainglorious Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z Furthermore Owens was wildly spendthrift and vaingloriously indiscreet. Double Agent Snow by James Hayward – review 2013-01-04T22:55:13Z You can tell when writers are reinventing their experience vaingloriously. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z Apparently, in the whimsical imagination of Ms. Markey, who wrote, created and stars in the show as that vainglorious girl, Reagan, all things are possible. Review: ‘A Ride on the Irish Cream,’ Erin Markey’s Tale of an Odd Affair 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Perhaps no more directorially vainglorious moment of religious pomp has ever been put on film. Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge”: Religious Pomp Laced with Pornographic Violence 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Here's a question: if this was set in America, would she get away with it being quite this vainglorious? K19: The Widowmaker - live! 2010-10-06T10:48:00Z His chief tempter is the vainglorious Parolles, whom Jonathan Slinger plays brilliantly as a closeted gay man hiding behind a fake Sandhurst accent. All's Well That Ends Well – review 2013-07-26T16:24:00Z Franny, is a vainglorious manipulator of other people accustomed to getting his way, often by playing God. Review: Richard Gere, ‘The Benefactor’ Who Pulls the Strings 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Or what he vaingloriously interprets as his comeuppance, whereas in reality he was never a significant consideration at all in Fiachra’s decision. This Week in Fiction: Colin Barrett on Anhedonia and Writing Poetry 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The Kid's giving the rapper-designer a run for the vainglorious money. The truth behind Jaden Smith's Batman costume (the one he wore to prom) 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Wordsworth is against expectation invoked here, too, though there’s scant poetry in the behavior of a citizenry collectively revealed — derided, even — as so many fantasists, the vainglorious Khlestakov chief among them. Theater: Onstage, British Bile and Russian Satire 2011-06-14T11:30:06Z Matheson’s judgment, support and maturity in guiding her nervy, vainglorious husband were crucial to his canny ascent. ‘The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir,’ by David Hare 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Hastings lumps them, with most top media people, as “egotistical, vainglorious, pompous, insecure, corrupt.” ‘The Last Magazine,’ Michael Hastings’s Posthumous Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Lives weren’t on the line in the making of the film, and nothing in it suggests any sort of immodest or vainglorious comparison of a film crew to heroic and epochal activists. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Snyder begins by mocking a scene from my conclusion where, he claims, I reveal myself as a vainglorious Quixote — the first person to take on “the ‘science’ of how stories work.” Letters to the Editor From Steven Pinker, Jonathan Gottschall, and Others 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Nobody is going to feel sorry for these abusive, controlling, vainglorious monsters if they lose their cut. ‘The Deuce’ Season 1, Episode 6: ‘Housecleaning’ 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Or is it a deadpan satire of his own vainglorious ambitions and that of filmmakers in general? | 'Road to Nowhere': Trouble Ahead: Director Falls for Leading Lady 2011-06-09T22:50:55Z But in more vainglorious moments, the fantasy might become literal. Can a live "30 Rock" succeed? 2010-10-14T16:40:00Z In Volume 3, however, Twain is at full cry in pillorying two of the most widely admired 20th-century Americans: the eternally adolescent Teddy Roosevelt and the vainglorious Andrew Carnegie. Final volume shows why Twain wanted ‘Autobiography’ kept under wraps 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Danieley, a dashing stage presence with a formidable tenor, didn’t need a stage production to create hilarious vainglorious three-dimensional caricatures. Music Review: ‘W. S. Gilbert and Broadway He Inspired’ at 92nd Street Y 2013-01-13T21:05:53Z In keeping with much recent scholarship, Hett presents Chamberlain as a complex figure, intelligent and composed but also vainglorious and gullible. How Hitler Took the World Into War 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z But few viewers at the time were aware that the show, which lampooned German soldiers and SS officers as bumbling, vainglorious buffoons, starred several actors of Jewish heritage who had experienced Nazism firsthand. Robert Clary, Who Took a Tragic Journey to ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ Dies at 96 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The new “Thor” is partly concerned with expanding the Marvel empire to include Russell Crowe as the vainglorious Greek god Zeus and Christian Bale as the nefarious Gorr the God Butcher. What Makes Taika Waititi Run and Run and Run? 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z As Gorra writes, “Few historians and fewer novelists of his day saw the hobbling vainglorious past so clearly, and few of them made slavery so central to their accounts of the war.” The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The vainglorious rapper said Leibovitz bailed because she was "scared of the idea of celebrity," which is surprising, as the acclaimed photographer has a massive portfolio of famous faces. Kanye West slams Annie Leibovitz over Kim Kardashian wedding pic 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z "I'm a very vainglorious person," he says, which may be why he won't be photographed for this article. Carl Andre: 'I'm a hopeless drawer – and a terrible painter' 2013-01-23T19:00:01Z In Williams’s case, it did, painting the likable anchorman as a “vainglorious” and fudging self-promoter, he said. Is the Stephanopoulos controversy like Bill O’Reilly’s or Brian Williams’s? 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The first is General Douglas MacArthur’s vainglorious dash across the 38th Parallel to the Yalu river in 1950, which brought China into the Korean war with calamitous results. Their own worst enemy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Mitchell commands a singularly thunderous baritone whose size matches the egos of vainglorious stage characters like Don Quixote from “Man of La Mancha” and Lancelot from “Camelot.” Music Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-08T22:44:54Z All you’re doing is following orders from vainglorious leaders thousands of miles away who will abandon you unless you bring them good news. | 'Centurion': Two Vastly Different Enemies Share a Common Thirst for Blood 2010-08-27T00:01:00Z He was vainglorious, unctuous, gullible, humorless, vulnerable, fascistic. ‘The Bassoon King’ review: There’s more to Rainn Wilson than Dwight Schrute 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z It is meant to express aspirations toward permanence, sometimes vainglorious and sometimes noble. The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The tragedy is that reality does not care one iota for our vainglorious beliefs. Republican Presidential Candidates Vow to Fiddle as the Earth Burns 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z The vainglorious financiers will soon have company—namely, deep-sea mining companies seeking to capitalize on society's surging demand for electric vehicles and other ostensibly “green” technologies. Today’s Deep-Sea Explorers Are Mineral Miners and Ultrawealthy Hobbyists 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Our third former home secretary told me "it was vainglorious" to try to cap numbers at 100,000, a figure that now seems totally and utterly out of reach. 'We can't be honest,' former home secretaries tell Kuenssberg on immigration 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z His vainglorious manner and “stubborn defiance of all difficulties” grated on the crew, most notably gunner John Bulkeley. ‘The Wager’ recounts harrowing tale of shipwreck, mutiny on a British warship 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Republicans always fall in line with Trump, so coming around, however reluctantly, to his vainglorious view of the insurrection was inevitable. Everyone knows Tucker Carlson lies about Jan. 6 — what matters is the GOP now blesses his narrative 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z “There doesn’t seem to be any vanity there at all. She doesn’t seem to be singing for any of the vainglorious reasons.” Perspective | Strings attached: A new Eva Cassidy album features an orchestra 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z It died as it lived: confusingly, underwhelmingly, and at the vainglorious whims of the man who dreamt it. Column: The promise of free speech on Elon Musk's Twitter is officially dead 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z By the time the pandemic rolled around, Republicans were so caught up in their Trump-era self-image as vainglorious evildoers that they didn't even hesitate to reject masks, vaccines, or any measures to save human lives. Why do so many Republicans now dress like cartoon supervillains? 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z In 1970, it was decided — “by vainglorious minds, smaller than mine,” Tim wrote — to reopen a long abandoned Marine firebase in the heart of the A Shau Valley, near the border with Laos. Perspective | Sometimes, familiar faces show up in some unfamiliar places 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z They were not in service to just the vainglorious megalomaniac who happened to be president. N.J. Republicans bum-rush the state house, endangering cops, state workers 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Chinese police have arrested commentators who questioned the film’s vainglorious portrayal of a military campaign in which, by official counts, nearly 200,000 Chinese died, including 4,000 who froze to death at Lake Changjin. Americans vanquished, China triumphant: 2021’s hit war epic doesn’t fit Hollywood script 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Players Association for violating practice protocols, a vainglorious comeback attempt by Tim Tebow and a public denial that he is interested in the University of Southern California coaching vacancy. N.F.L. Rookie Quarterbacks Have Been Bad. Can That Change? 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z “I long for excitement! And glamour!” the vainglorious Judith Bliss proclaimed to her eye-rolling children. Theater returns to a town called Volcano after a siege of COVID and fire 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z What does such excess and vainglorious behavior reveal about the country, especially given how the super-rich and the mega-corporations largely do not pay taxes? Our massively unfair tax system: How do the ultra-rich get away with it? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z To me, is seems even more existential: It’s about adapting, as a vainglorious species, to catastrophic change. 8 years ago I began walking the Earth—and stumbled into an era spinning with change 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Besides, "establishment" Republicans don't have to go out to dinner with Trump anymore and listen to his vainglorious monologues. Republicans aren't scared of the Trump & Rudy show — they love this stuff 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z “I do not think it vainglorious or implausible to say that a new golden age for this United Kingdom is within reach,” he announced in December: history is upon us. Coronavirus is here to stay. The sooner we accept that, the better | Samuel Earle 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z I hate to be vainglorious, but that’s the one where Logan gets his rocks off. 'Succession' cast dishes on key moments and, true to the show, one another 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Trump then had a truly vainglorious Independence Day rally and other events. Dr. John Gartner: "Donald Trump is the most successful bio-terrorist in human history" 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z But those who bungled the response were all men, and mostly a particular type: authoritarian, vainglorious and blustering. Opinion | What the Pandemic Reveals About the Male Ego 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z But it was George Washington whom we expect to be the model for his successors not a pair of vainglorious New Yorkers. Senate Intel chief out after feds raid home 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The “US regime’s bullying, threatening & vainglorious blathering isn’t just an addiction: it kills people,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter, After Trump suspends payments to WHO, other countries rally behind the agency 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Their chronological account of his first term in office is an insider’s view of what they describe as his “vainglorious pursuit of power.” ‘A Very Stable Genius’ steps inside the Oval Office of the chaotic Trump administration 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z It’s the vainglorious food bloggers, those grim napkin sniffers, awarding every dish a score out of 20 so that all you can hear throughout the meal is the scratch of pencil on notepad. Mindful eating gurus call for silence at the table. Where’s the fun in that? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z She’s still just as vainglorious and headstrong and morally compromised as any other version. That damned woman: why my Faustus is female 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Based on his earlier cameo appearances, you might have thought that Trump’s ambassador to the European Union was a shallow, vainglorious sycophant who was desperately solicitous to cozy up to his shallow, vainglorious boss. Sleazy Sondland overcomes his amnesia and dishes the dirt on Trump | Richard Wolffe 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The vainglorious Trump felt he was the second coming of Ronald Reagan. Opinion | Republicans, the Real Chickens of Kiev 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z The government-ordered, closed-door operation Thursday satisfies a long-standing demand of his many victims’ relatives and others who suffered under his regime and were offended at the vainglorious burial place he constructed. Spain begins exhuming late dictator Gen. Franco’s remains 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s a discrete site compared to the Valley of the Fallen, a vainglorious mausoleum and basilica that Franco built and where he was buried in 1975. Spanish village gears up for dictator Franco’s remains 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z He vaingloriously declared that those convicted of violent crimes are “not going to get out early under my administration.” Louisiana editorial roundup 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z It is a process acknowledged now at the most vainglorious of awards dos. Lionel Messi’s enduring luminous talent marks him out as The Best 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Every time I see a useless, vainglorious sign at the border of a state heralding the benevolent leadership of its governor I feel my hackles rise. Presenting your 2020 Democratic Power Ranking 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Instead, Trump participated in ghoulish, vainglorious photo-ops at hospitals where the dying and injured were cared for after these incidents. Psychoanalyst Justin Frank on why Trump "hates reality" and must be "quarantined" 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Phil must be an orchestra inevitably putting vainglorious quantity over quality. How the L.A. Phil centennial season delivered on the promise of unprecedented goods 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Quick-witted, impatient, vainglorious, indomitable, handsome, edgy — at 78, O’Neal still has all the movie star attributes you might remember. In one corner, Ryan O’Neal. In another, his sportscaster son. The outcome may surprise you 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The madmen colonels and vainglorious generals have him trapped in a crazy, confusing labyrinth. Why Joseph Heller's ‘Catch-22’ is a relevant antiwar satire in the age of Trump 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z For catastrophically vainglorious leadership, there’s Tony Blair’s neo-imperial intervention in Iraq. Paths from the past: historians make sense of Brexit and our current political turmoil 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s painful to watch an American president in this stumbling, vainglorious retreat. Opinion | Trump is stumbling his way to a vainglorious Middle East retreat 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Moreover, not only is Trump’s vainglorious border wall a dumb idea, there is no way that it will only cost five billion dollars. A Shutdown Looms. Can the G.O.P. Get Lawmakers to Show Up to Vote? 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Trump insisting on “a near-complete victory” in the hours after the polls had closed when the Republicans had lost control of the House of Representatives was vainglorious overclaiming, but it was not wholly stupid. The message from the midterms: a new, progressive US is slowly taking shape | Will Hutton 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Fully embracing his Sputnik nickname, Monroe, of Dodge City, Kansas, cultivated a reputation as a vainglorious wrestling villain. Sputnik Monroe was body-slamming civil rights pioneer 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Was he trying to appeal to every demographic, transcend every identity category in a vainglorious effort to reach greater commercial heights than Thriller? Black and White: how Dangerous kicked off Michael Jackson's race paradox 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The medal count is a vainglorious sickening display that any decent human who understands the concept of sportsmanship would raise their voice on high to see abolished immediately. As Medals Pile Up, Norway Worries: Are We Winning Too Much? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Evidently seized by a vainglorious notion of its mission, ICE too often discounts basic decency as a guiding tenet. Opinion | Unshackled by the Trump administration, deportation agents discount basic decency 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z There are many instances, but some of Trump’s more ignominious “achievements” include an empathy-free and vainglorious visit to Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Under the child-king Trump, America is a runaway train and derailment is imminent 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z In a new biography, “Freud: The Making of an Illusion,” Frederick Crews depicts his subject as cruel, incurious, deceptive, and both fragile and vainglorious. Young Freud, cruel, incurious, deceptive, and in search of fame 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z And this is just four days’ worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious. Opinion | You can’t govern by id 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z In a standoff between two unpredictable and vainglorious nuclear-armed leaders who are obsessed with pop culture and conspiracies, the only sane course of action is clear: focus on your chocolate cake. Donald Trump's North Korea 'armada' gaffe was dangerous buffoonery | Richard Wolffe 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z He is vainglorious, easily manipulated, hyperemotional, mercurial, petty, an “unconstrained, unbridled present hedonist” and a person who seems detached from reality. Donald Trump’s flagrant hypocrisy: Suddenly the mean-spirited clown-king cares about Syrian children? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Walker claims the cost in American lives of that battle would have been far lower if US forces had been not been led by an inept, vainglorious general. Death and glory: the first world war US general whose ambition did for his men 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z In the next four to eight years, American children will be born in a country led by a vainglorious man who wishes to fit facts—and their future—into the convenient shape of his ego. Donald Trump Through a Loudspeaker, Darkly 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z On the positive side, China’s dominance raises the prospect of MLS eschewing vainglorious signings in favor of homegrown players. MLS can't compete with China's millions – so it should focus on youth 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z But it’s hard to see how America’s new leader will recoup from a performance so shallow, irreverent, and vainglorious. Trump’s Vainglorious Affront to the C.I.A. 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z It is a similar issue with the Turks, who are setting themselves up for disappointment that Cavusoglu’s vainglorious attendance at the inauguration was an attempt to hide. Middle East derangement syndrome: Egypt, Turkey and Israel have all fallen prey to delusions about Trump 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z As they did in 25 cities across the United States, anti-Trump protestors took to the streets in Chicago as thousands of people converged on Trump Tower Chicago a monstrous, vainglorious, 98-story monument to greed. Anger, grief and breaking and entering into Trump Tower: Scenes from the Chicago anti-Trump march 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The Trump he observed was vulgar and vainglorious, a narcissistic liar with a short attention span, no appetite for reading books and an “extremely mixed” business record. Donald Trump's ghostwriter on being the 'Dr Frankenstein' who made a monster 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z His vainglorious performance has many partisan Republicans aghast. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s a bizarre and vainglorious vision, but one perfectly aligned with the attitude commonly on display in Silicon Valley. Ditch TaskRabbit and do your own laundry 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In his own limited and vainglorious fashion, Trump understands that: “I am your voice,” he told the GOP gathering in Cleveland. Trading places: If the Democrats are now a coastal elite party and the GOP are the populists, Trump is only the beginning 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Trump has occasionally expressed qualified admiration for vainglorious, even despotic rulers of the past. Is Donald Trump a textbook narcissist? 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Colonel Qaddafi, who was born in a tent 10 miles south of the town, devised a series of vainglorious schemes intended to catapult the obscure city to global prominence. A Slow, Steady Siege on an ISIS Stronghold in Libya 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Materialism and profiteering had eaten away any nobility the N.F.L. game once possessed, leaving in its place a violent, vainglorious, $13-billion-a-year entertainment spectacle staged by helmeted mercenaries for the enrichment of grasping billionaires. One Man’s Quest to Get Americans to Care About Rugby 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Arthur Daley of the New York Times predicted, “The loud mouth from Louisville is likely to have a lot of vainglorious boasts jammed down his throat by a ham-like fist. . .” When Ali was still Clay, the old white sportswriters didn’t know what to think 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z For a vainglorious mogul who lives to plaster his name across the New York skyline — and whose most consequential decision is whether to use travertine or Carrara marble — these are useful traits. Trump’s bizarre, dangerous neediness 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Cruz seems consumed by a vainglorious conviction of his own destiny, tied to an apocalyptic view of history. Camille Paglia: This is why Trump’s winning, and why I won’t vote for Hillary 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z In temperament, he was “bombastic, inconsistent, shallow and vainglorious.” The Return of the 1930s 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Julian Assange is not a political dissident and it’s hard to recall a campaign more laden with vainglorious euphemism than his bid for freedom. Notable & Quotable: On Julian Assange 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z During his twilight years, Otis thought he had devised a master solution to global warfare, and printed his goofy and vainglorious “World-Embracing Plan to End Wars” in his newspaper. This is the battle that made Los Angeles — and a great newspaper war 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z This thin-skinned, vainglorious man has a propensity to eject journalists and protesters who offend him from his events and viciously lash out at anyone who criticizes him. They really are a bunch of a fascists: The one thing all Trump supporters seem to have in common 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The new funding system also burdens us with interminable campaigns for the vainglorious because unlimited sums can be garnered from the wealthy and corporations and presidential candidates can go on long past their sell-by date. The Astounding Ascent of Donald Trump 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z But it feels more like vainglorious mythologising, playing up to received ideas about him as a monster prowling the streets for easy prey. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness first listen review: '65 minutes of bleak, brooding beauty' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z These titans of tech aren’t being ridiculous, or even vainglorious; their quests are based on real, emerging science that could fundamentally change what we know about life and about death. Silicon Valley Is Trying to Make Humans Immortal—and Finding Some Success 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Several soldiers who served with Dr. Herbert portrayed him as a vainglorious self-promoter who had subjected prisoners to the same harsh treatment for which he had condemned others. Anthony B. Herbert, key figure in Vietnam war-crimes controversy, dies 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z After all, the point of Blairism, "New Labour" - or "The Project" as it was known back in the day - wasn't about foreign adventurism, vainglorious jet-setting or fratricide. Will Scotland get reheated Blairism? 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z In all their vainglorious rules and affirmations, videogames are proof that one thing is right and everything else is not. Gamergate And The Unbearable Maleness Of Computers 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z News Corp Australia is a company run along feudal lines which is “vaingloriously ignoring the facts” about the digital future of news, says the man who used to run the company, Kim Williams. Rupert Murdoch runs News Corp along ‘feudal' lines, Kim Williams says 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z If it all seems specious and vainglorious, so be it. At the ESPYs red carpet, it's a mix of bling, sweat and cheers 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Yet it remains one of the defining images of his vainglorious and ultimately unsuccessful tenure. Ed’s toast 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z One senior Labour figure described Nick Clegg to me as "a showboating, vainglorious lunatic", and went on to say "a lot of their critique on free schools is correct, but, hey, they voted for it". Free schools and dark whispers 2014-05-12T17:35:32Z "He had seen far too many vainglorious and ridiculously elaborate monuments erected in London and elsewhere and I daresay he felt money could be better spent. "Portsmouth should not go against his express wishes. Why was Dickens' dying wish ignored? 2014-02-07T03:58:07Z News Corp is “almost vaingloriously ignoring the facts of what is happening around the world”, Williams said, becoming increasingly exasperated by the accusations he abandoned print in favour of digital. Rupert Murdoch runs News Corp along ‘feudal' lines, Kim Williams says 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Her $1.1 billion deal to buy blogging site Tumblr on Monday goes a long way to restoring the faded and vainglorious exclamation point to the company’s name. DealBook: Putting the Exclamation Point Back in Yahoo 2013-05-20T20:27:53Z "Of the 1,426 billionaires on our list, not one – not even the vainglorious Donald Trump – goes to greater measure to try to affect his or her ranking," she wrote. It's shameful the way Britain kowtows to the super-rich 2013-03-09T08:30:00Z In a scathing character assassination, the writer describes the prince as a vainglorious businessman in the "absurdly opulent" surroundings of his marble-clad palaces filled with portraits of himself. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal insulted at only being No 26 on Forbes rich list 2013-03-05T19:37:16Z This is not to blame Wenger, a good man working in an industry full of vainglorious wronguns; it's just the way things are. The Fiver 2013-01-30T16:53:39Z They are writ large across the 20th century, with its rogues’ gallery of vainglorious, murderous dictators. Clearing the Fog Around Personality Disorders 2012-11-26T23:17:17Z This is an aerial shoot-out, hundreds of feet above the densely crowded streets, a breathtaking action set-piece, befitting the most vainglorious Hollywood blockbuster. Grand Theft Auto V preview: the inside story 2012-11-12T11:02:17Z The lines by rapper and music mogul , who topped the bill at the 's Hackney Weekend festival on Saturday, are no vainglorious boast. Jay-Z at Hackney Weekend: but does hip-hop degrade or enhance? 2012-06-24T13:08:38Z Of the 1,426 billionaires on our list, not one – not even the vainglorious Donald Trump – goes to greater measure to try to affect his or her ranking. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal insulted at only being No 26 on Forbes rich list 2013-03-05T19:37:16Z This week marks the USGA's revenge, its vainglorious run at reclaiming its marketing slogan 'golf's toughest test'. Woods hangs in on course of pain 2012-06-16T08:50:37Z I'm not suggesting you need a thorough knowledge of the depths of vainglorious human depravity to succeed as England manager. Roy Hodgson liking John Updike will take some getting used to 2012-05-18T14:10:51Z You never did hear me boast of it; but I have heard you very vainglorious about your easy temper and your facile nature, which were simply indolence. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z He reached the little town near where she lived, and even from the depot the splendid home in which they lived could be seen reposing vaingloriously upon a hillside. The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; selfÐpraising. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z It was his vainglorious way of showing his contempt for the opinion of the world. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z The Upper Retennu denoted Palestine, the Lower Retennu Northern Syria, and though the boast was doubtless a vainglorious one, it must have had some foundation in truth. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z He has ample stabling, and is vainglorious about his beans. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z “The person never lived that could silence me,” she said vaingloriously. The Twins in the South 2012-02-13T03:00:16.113Z The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z But somehow each thing strikes you as a little vainglorious—too sensible of its own importance. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z He must have been vainglorious above all other kings of Egypt, filled with the pride of his own power and the determination that his name should never be forgotten upon the earth. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Indeed, I went further, and became even vaingloriously anxious that I might chance upon her in order to put those powers to the test. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Leonardo and other scholars revived this vainglorious notion during the Italian Renaissance. Did Leonardo da Vinci Copy his Famous 'Vitruvian Man'? 2012-01-31T20:15:06.737Z I think I am not vainglorious, when I say I have not a bad heart, and am ambitious of emulating a good example. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z Why spend life in vainglorious essay All Being and Not-being to survey? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z I be proud, justifiably proud, but I be vainglorious! At War Blog: In a Hymn, Words of Courage That Ring True Long After a Soldier Son Returns 2011-12-23T18:41:19Z In order to add the sting of insult to his vainglorious display of British terms he inserted parenthetical explanations at different places in his letter. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z How could he be humble to that uppish, vainglorious tune, that toreador pomposity? What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z "She would come anywhere," declared Gottschalk, not at all vaingloriously, but as one stating a simple truth. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z In saying this we may well be proud but not vainglorious. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z Instead of making a great noise by sound of trumpet and raising an ephemeral name from vainglorious motives, it is far wiser that a permanent provision should be made for the relief of suffering humanity. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Even my first word is written there, with, I know, a vainglorious pen. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Aching muscles and smarting wounds were forgotten under the influence of the wine and in the vainglorious rehearsal of the battle. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Oh, I had seen these weak and vainglorious vessels go to Life's Niagara before, thinking to fill themselves at it—and had seen the flinders into which they had been dashed. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z "And I am to help her in preparin' it," says Pullet, puffed up and vainglorious. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z I do not mention these honours vaingloriously, but only by way of showing that no one else perhaps has had quite the same opportunities. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z It seemed, indeed, the last word in wickedness—impenitent, unblushing, even vainglorious to eye and ear alike. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z The ambitions of our council is perfectly summed up in its vainglorious and absurd motto: "The heart of the country, the mind of a city." Letters: New framework will make the planning process fair and efficient 2011-08-07T20:00:03Z How tragically useless all those heroic efforts—efforts, in themselves, a travesty, an ironic satire, on much vainglorious human aspiration and endeavor! My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z It is certain they are a vainglorious people. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z The fort was large and square, and a work of such pretentions as to be regarded by some of the Pilgrims as vainglorious. The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day 2011-07-18T02:00:23.730Z The hunters, who had talked rather vaingloriously of their prowess among wild animals and Osages, one by one found obstacles to impede their going. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z But of all the braggarts in theatrical history, Bulwer’s Richelieu is the most vainglorious and the most intolerable. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The vainglorious, the self-centered, the garrulous will always talk of themselves freely. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z They were cruel and unmitigated scoundrels working for purely selfish and vainglorious ends. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z On the next day the sepoy army, though so boastful and vainglorious, dared to make their first attempt to carry the entrenchment by assault. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Everything that is done vaingloriously turns to ashes. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The King’s favourite, the self-confident and vainglorious Duke of Buckingham, took the command of the expedition, although he was totally unfit for that position. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z For several days previous to it she had been daily annoyed, not only by the question, “Why have you girls taken Mignon La Salle into your club?” but by the vainglorious boasts of Mignon herself. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z Exactly three-quarters of an hour from the time of their vainglorious departure, Mr. Lindsay walked into the Doggett kitchen and sat quietly behind the stove, afflicted of mien and crestfallen to a degree. The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields 2011-06-01T02:00:27.327Z And not for the first time his thoughts went back to the vainglorious boastings of his friend the Baron. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z She doubtless had her little vainglorious wish to have their success known. Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z While eating, one should face east, west, south, or north, according as one wishes for long life, fame, to become vainglorious, or for justice or truth. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z Weak, aged, in fear of torture, he made the melancholy confession that his "error had been one of vainglorious ambition, and pure ignorance and inadvertence." Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z He disliked to pose as a vainglorious pugilist, but there was no help for it. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z The baser work of this style, exhibited in the vainglorious churches of the Jesuits, is sometimes called the Jesuit style. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Von Kluck believed that he had pierced the feeble British lion to the heart, and then vaingloriously thrust his head between its jaws. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z Sewell responded to the vainglorious outburst by a look of admiring wonder, and the Judge smiled a gracious acceptance of the tribute. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z I suspect he thinks there is something a bit vainglorious about doing media interviews. Sir John Rose, captain of industry, bows out and gets on his motorbike 2011-02-11T06:59:01Z Wherever the triumphs are those rewarded by station, or the distinctions conferred on intellectual superiority, this vainglorious sentiment is unknown. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z He became not only vainglorious but also very cruel. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z He who calls upon God's name falsely, as do the heretics and all vainglorious saints. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z And this finds its world parallel in the progress of people whom the vainglorious Anglo-Saxon once despised: the Japanese, Chinese, and East Indians. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z "The reason is simply because I can muster a force that can outwhip any army of curs that El Capitan can muster," he replied, rather vaingloriously. Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z Such a vainglorious devil, covetous of honor and worship from the world, every proud and arrogant person, by thinking highly of himself, cherishes in his heart. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z In the Balkans and in Afghanistan they were guilty of conduct which was at once vainglorious, unsuccessful, and wrong, and neither in objects, nor methods, nor results was there anything worthy of credit. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The vainglorious man thought that I would stop and keep silent at the terror of thy name; for I do not believe that he trusted entirely to his talents and learning. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z He passed his hand wearily over his brow, and, much as I hated that insolent vainglorious book of his, the gesture with which he wiped it away went strangely to my heart. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The following year, Clinton & Co. tied Gingrich around the neck of the Republican nominee, Bob Dole, himself no fan of the vainglorious speaker. It's time for Obama to pull a Clinton 2010-10-10T15:01:00Z They were all of the vainglorious kind, and never bore reference to any man or woman's character or affairs. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 She picked up a typewritten letter and regarded it with vainglorious elation. The Trail of Conflict Alexander bade them farewell, and, turning to his nobles, whispered: “What a vainglorious people are these Celts!” Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Arma�da, the Spanish name for any large naval force; usually applied to the Spanish fleet vaingloriously designated the Invincible Armada, intended to act against England A.D. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli He would have waded knee-deep in the blood of Belgium if only he could have gained his ends and substantiated by literal fact that first vainglorious telegram to the War Lord of Potsdam. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 If the object was to prove that they were just as vainglorious as Haskell, has not this fact been fully established by their published books? Reply of the Philadelphia Brigade Association to the Foolish and Absurd Narrative of Lieutenant Frank A. Haskell Again it has to be asked whether this resembles more the vainglorious structure of a myth, or the course of a truthful history. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Once and forever dispossessed of the vainglorious desire of "making a brilliant marriage," he was convinced that no woman was better suited to him than this one. Maximina The manner in which Speidel-R�ttmann made known his son's extraordinary feat of strength shows his vainglorious, boasting disposition: he is far from being a bad man, only a swaggerer of the first class. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. Nothing is more common than for “vainglorious” men, when admitted to conversations with kings, to make the most of what they said themselves, and to report not very accurately what was said to them. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII No longer vaunting and vainglorious, he pleads nothing but his patriotism, and deprecates the fall which he apprehends awaits him. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools This takes out the vainglorious pride, and gives humility instead, and makes one give, even as he himself has been given to. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine "A vainglorious man" was bragging that his father and uncle had founded a certain hospital. The Handbook of Conundrums Among my fellow-workers in the Church, there is an incessant feverish anxiety for the souls of their mutual parishioners, inducing them to exchange religious exhortations, which appears to me a very vainglorious system. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. Henry himself was but the vainglorious figure in the international pageant; the motive power was the Cardinal. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another. The Bible Story It seemed to Jacob, when he was awakened from a sound sleep about four o’clock the next morning, that his young companion’s farewell words had been vainglorious. Jacob's Ladder During the entire period of the first temple, the priests—despite all prophetic warnings—preferred the heathen cult with its vainglorious pomp to the simple worship of the patriarchal times. Jewish Theology There is nothing too extravagant or too vainglorious for me to say of myself. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance "Better to crow than to be vainglorious and break down at last." Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series And in reality, if the boast was somewhat vainglorious, it was not without foundation; a marvellous, almost unerring, success attended him through life. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly The most difficult task of all was to endure the vainglorious boasting of the Frenchmen. Waldfried A Novel He was eager, vainglorious, in many respects brilliant. The "Genius" Now, much-respected reader, do not for a moment suppose that I have, even in my most vainglorious raptures, ever imagined that I was here in these records supplying the void I have pointed out. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance It is not only egotistical and vainglorious beyond anything, I believe, to be found in the English language, but it is at the same time defamatory. The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University “And how should I read them, dear master?” she asked demurely of her vainglorious preceptor. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time Elated they were at their unparalleled successes, but not puffed-up or vainglorious. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day He was not getting vainglorious as yet—merely sure. The "Genius" He said this so boastfully and so vaingloriously that I really felt Potts in his humility was not the smaller man of the two. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The first was Horatio Gates, a vainglorious man, given to intrigue and treachery. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools Why, sir," continued Russell, who evidently thought he was making a deep impression, and so went on all the more in his vainglorious boastings, "some of these here Continental nobility ain't worth a brass farthing. A Castle in Spain A Novel Nearer and nearer crept Chippy to the vainglorious patrol-leader who had spoken so scornfully of his ambition to become a boy scout. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts In short, as you see, I’m a trifle vainglorious. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) His painful wound was not, perhaps, necessarily mortal, but the restless and vainglorious prince would not remain quiet and allow it to heal. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 They say in terms of vainglorious eloquence that if a man diligently keep the commandments and do many good works, he shall be saved. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent The great mechanism had been standing, fronting me with an attitude vainglorious, bombastic. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Was it only a vainglorious exhibition of his own human prowess? Carmen Ariza "I hope," he wrote, "you never held me to be ambitious or vainglorious, as that I should desire to live here as Governor to predominate, or prefer mine owne particular before the generall good." Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 Nothing can be wider of the truth, pleasing as the illusion may be to the self-love of the most vainglorious people under the sun. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 There is to be found no shred of that vainglorious cloak which humans will deftly drape about their shoulders whenever they happen to be aware of the camera. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome They made the forest resound with their vainglorious boasts, and, with the most valiant gestures, declared that they would now show the English how to fight. King Philip Makers of History Indeed, as to portaging I must yield the palm to my vainglorious successor. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Thou vain vainglorious fool, go burn that book; No herald needs to blazon charity's arms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 He was no longer harshly self-assertive, vainglorious, or brutally frank concerning the passion that consumed him. Heart of the Blue Ridge Verily a true bull loves battle, but a vainglorious bull turns his back for fear of contest; if he has a heart for combat, let him speak what he pleases. Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Now I am vainglorious enough to hold that cutlets would taste good if they were cooked � la Lagardere; that coats � la Lagardere would make good wearing, and boots � la Lagardere good walking. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama He saw delectable operations ahead; he was fond of the old man, but nothing afforded him greater entertainment than the futile but vainglorious efforts of Anderson Crow to achieve renown as a detective. Anderson Crow, Detective She compared with her own wages the wages of which the other maids in the house boasted vaingloriously. Germinie Lacerteux He seems, indeed, to have been rather a poor creature of the vainglorious, bombastic type. Lord John Russell The most vainglorious of the daughters of France was destined to extinguish with the wet blanket of vile prose the brilliancy of a long and romantic career. Political Women, Vol. 2 You thought me so mean and lowly, so ignorant and so vainglorious that I could judge a girl worthy of Don's love to be unworthy of my friendship. The Orchard of Tears The Russians at Smolensk were vainglorious at having outwitted Napoleon, and longed to fight. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) But still he hoped that in his obstinacy Roddy was merely stupid; he believed that in treating him as a factor in affairs they had made him vainglorious, arrogant. The White Mice From a marble throne the proud and vainglorious monarch saw his vast army defile over the bridges, perfumed with frankincense and strewed with myrtle boughs. Ancient States and Empires He played badly but vaingloriously, crowing over his opponent when he won and losing his temper when he lost. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands I want to call on you to witness that I shall never again be guilty of that vainglorious absurdity of saying that I am ready for anything. The Chautauqua Girls At Home Culpepper on the stone swung his legs vaingloriously: 'I sold three farms to buy her a gown,' he said. Privy Seal His Last Venture Art thou the same Beowulf then, Who swam a match with Breca once upon the waters wide, When ye vainglorious searched the waves, and risked your lives for pride Upon the deep? The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography In this vainglorious craving for discomfort there is a kind of na�vet� which is not without its pathos. American Sketches 1908 The vainglorious Varro gave Hannibal the opportunity for which he had long waited. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Your eyes see but through a veil of dulled and vainglorious senses. The Mystery of a Turkish Bath Throckmorton stood vaingloriously back upon his feet and combed his great beard with his white fingers. Privy Seal His Last Venture He began to feel confidently, vaingloriously at ease. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World For he who would perform the most Will utter no vainglorious boast; But still press onward, staunch and true, With but the honest end in view. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk Where now was Ki Ki, the vainglorious hawk who had deemed that without his aid nothing could be accomplished? Wood Magic A Fable Though vainglorious and arrogant, he conducted the defence of Acre with sound judgment as well as with energy and courage. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration "That all these whom we see before us, and around us, and beneath us, are but a herd of slaves; gulled and vainglorious slaves!" The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 Therefore when thou wouldst pray, or dost thine alms, Blow not a trump before thee; hypocrites Do thus, vaingloriously; the common streets Boast of their largess, echoing their psalms. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The sight of a soldier annoyed him, for he saw a conqueror, trampling vaingloriously through the capital of his country, and the inability of his land to eject the braggart astonished and mortified him. Mary, Mary Man who tames the lion, harnesses the winds, makes a whimperer of steam and cowers the lightning—this same vainglorious, triumphant man is simply helpless in the presence of a woman's tears! The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Augereau was vainglorious and bitter, Mass�na felt that he had not received his due meed of praise for Bassano, and both had sympathizers even in the ranks. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) And this he did in no vainglorious spirit, with purpose of exalting himself above the county gentlemen, his neighbours, and showing how far better lined his pockets were than theirs. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance As he sat down to pen a vainglorious dispatch to the Emperor, he received the news that Napoleon was a fugitive and the Imperial Army defeated and scattered. Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 Then even that had ceased and I had dropped into vainglorious apathy. Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Many a morning has he seen the enemy vaingloriously tramping the field, and he has cried unto the Lord, and before nightfall there has been a perfect rout. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year So for Lilla he took on such importance that everything else in life turned insignificant: old ardors were all consumed in this new ardor at once conquering and maternal, vainglorious and passionately grateful. Sacrifice In plying him with questions as to himself and his deeds, which developed a mood ardently vainglorious, Anne skilfully led Koltsoff's trend of thought from amatory channels. Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport Long had they sung the vainglorious song,— "Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep." The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 What with the luncheon and the sticky champagne, he began to feel mighty and vainglorious, and he took the airs which he supposed to be appropriate to the situation. Despair's Last Journey I have recalled these things for no vainglorious purpose. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time He had no fears of the result; the Corsair city would fall at the mere sight of his immense flotilla; and in this vainglorious assurance he set out in October, 1541. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Upon investigation these vainglorious boastings proved to be utterly without any foundation in fact. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion In Baltimore, Henry Niles, in his paper "The Weekly Register," robbed "The London Naval Chronicle" of its vainglorious motto,— "The winds and seas are Britain's broad domain, And not a sail but by permission spreads." The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 It is to deny that the seed sprang from a root; it is to replace a grand and illimitable theism by a finite and vainglorious bathos. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Lucy blushed, and said laughingly, that she thought Mrs Foster’s idea better, whereupon the widow waxed vainglorious, and tried to suggest some improvements. The Lifeboat The mob ran swiftly, with vainglorious shouts from its leaders. The Girl in the Golden Atom Yet, for all this mendacious and vainglorious boasting, Collins was a man of unquestionable ability, and when fully aroused could write a paragraph well calculated to make the ears of his enemies to tingle. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion You must forthwith abandon forever your vainglorious and senseless scheme of universal conquest. Skylark Three To have had a pastor always might have made them vainglorious. Auld Licht Idylls While Guise is transfigured, and Monsieur remains his truculent, vainglorious self, Montsurry has suffered a strange degeneration. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois And only through the vainglorious boasting of the gang on Sunday morning would he know of the success of his string-and-can trick. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life And in his haste, in his vainglorious delight, he dragged Jansoulet away so quickly that the latter had no time to present his companion, Paul de Géry, whom he was introducing into society. The Nabob, Volume 1 The Spaniards in all ages have been of swelling and braggart spirit, soaring in thought, and valiant though vainglorious in deed. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 “I’m so glad I thought of this nice surprise,” beamed Emma, craning her neck, and pluming herself vaingloriously. Grace Harlowe's Problem Ambitious Louis and the vainglorious Kaiser were only second-rate soldiers, who would never have won their own way to the highest command. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas Knowing the swiftness of that approach and what the early light would bring, I strove for a courage which should be the steadfastness of the Christian and not the vainglorious pride of the heathen. The Literary World Seventh Reader Such vainglorious garrulity was not only intensely provoking, but involved real peril to all parties concerned. Border and Bastille At the suggestion of my friend, the Rev. Mr. Hunt, I have restored the original readings, as in truer consonancy with the vainglorious, insolent, and swaggering ballad spirit. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys He had, however, just lunched ducally; and he was in a vainglorious mood, ready to face anything female. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Hazelrig, who possessed greater authority in the parliament, was haughty, imperious, precipitate, vainglorious; without civility, without prudence; qualified only by his noisy, pertinacious obstinacy to acquire an ascendant in public assemblies. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell Nor is this confidence a mere sentiment, born of the imagination, and nurtured by vainglorious hope. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Every people can be jingo and vainglorious; it is the mark of this spirit that the instinct to be so acts before any other instinct can act, even those of surprise or anger. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Beware, O concourse of Mirrors, lest on that Day titles make you vainglorious. Selections From the Writings of the Báb This passage declares the heroic spirit of Mr Kipling's Anglo-Indian tales; and many readers will fail to understand how exactly this spirit has been found vainglorious. Rudyard Kipling She has ways of her own, the old witch, to tame the vainglorious. Days of the Discoverers He did not utter this vaingloriously, but as a man who stated simple truth. Visionaries But there is no end to this sort of vainglorious recording. My Life as an Author There is no need for that; for riches make men vainglorious, proud, and to oppress their bretheren, and are the occasion of wars. The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer "Trust old uncle wiseacre over there for that," said Hanson vaingloriously, and nodding as he spoke toward the sheriff, who leaned big and calm and watchful against the door at the back of the room. The Black Pearl I cursed myself for the vainglorious fool I was for having put myself in such a hole. The Blood Ship The other, rather flattered that Suzanne admired the child and took an interest in it, replied, somewhat vaingloriously, that she lived at Bois-le-Roy, and that her husband was a wagoner. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 In a last word, I somewhat vaingloriously claim for authorship, as thus:— The Cathedral Mind. My Life as an Author And this in no spirit of self-satisfied and vainglorious self-estimation, but in that utter unconsciousness which is characteristic of her whole being. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works And thus they themselves make every man mock them, flatter them, and deceive them—those, I say, who are of such a vainglorious mind. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens I was not in nearly such a vainglorious mood as I had been back in the Swede's barroom, with the waterfront applauding me. The Blood Ship For Allah loveth not any vainglorious boaster,- P: That ye grieve not for the sake of that which hath escaped you, nor yet exult because of that which hath been given. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Upon Mack's advance, the French general Championnet had evacuated Rome, into which the King made a vainglorious triumphal entry. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain Between the prophecy of the snag-boat captain and my vainglorious answer at the Cheyenne crossing, I learned to respect the words of the man who invented the eccentric old river. The River and I But vainglorious was he, very far above all measure. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens And he clinched his vainglorious assertion with an oath. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine One day he would strut in some vainglorious semblance of dignity; the next he would engage in drunken revels with the meanest and most dissolute of his subjects. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India The vainglorious Croesus, at the summit of his conquests and his riches, endeavors to win from his visitor Solon an opinion that he is the happiest of mankind. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Catholic writers charge Luther with having set up this teaching, partly to spite the Pope whom he hated, partly to gratify his vainglorious aspirations to become famous. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation For those who are of such vainglorious mind, be they lords or be they meaner men, can be much better contented to have their devices commended than amended. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens But how idle, even to his mind, desirous as he must have been of every species of defence, were all the vainglorious mouthings of the pettifogger! Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia I returned scornfully, for it would never do to encourage this vainglorious spirit. Uncle Max And let no Englishman ever despise the French as an enemy, as 'tis the fashion with some vainglorious folk to do. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow The youth with the most scars, we observed, gave himself the most airs, and the really vainglorious were, more or less, obscured in cotton-wool, evidently just from the hands of the surgeon. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Smith was a man of a restless and daring spirit, full of resource, impatient of contradiction, and of a somewhat vainglorious nature, with an appetite for the marvelous and a disposition to draw the longbow. Initial Studies in American Letters He stared a while at the bronze effigy surmounting that vainglorious column. Bunker Bean They all start by denouncing or deploring Germany's obvious sins: her exaltation of Might against Right, her lust of world-dominion, the ruthlessness of her foreign policy, the vainglorious boastings of her professors. Nicky-Nan, Reservist It was not the vainglorious gasconade of a swashbuckler. A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans "I have travelled, in my time," said Marc'antonio with a touch of vainglorious pride. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Among the true were some vainglorious fools Called by the fife and drum from native mire To lord and strut in shoulder-straps and buttons. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems The war had not lasted a month before this vainglorious boast was falsified, and we were compelled to recognise the Transvaal as a belligerent State. A Century of Wrong He had even a vainglorious desire to convince Lazarus of the truth of his own view and restore his soul to life, as his body had been restored. Famous Modern Ghost Stories Slanderous reproaches, and foul infamies, Leasings, backbitings, and vainglorious crakes, Bad counsels, praises, and false flatteries; All those against that fort did bend their batteries. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations When proud Tommy first put on his suit the most unexpected shyness overcame him, and having set off vaingloriously he stuck on the stair and wanted to hide. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood Veracini was conceited and vainglorious, and these traits of his character have given rise to a number of rather inconsequential stories. Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration He brandished his huge fists in the air, and paced vaingloriously backward and forward in the arena, challenging any one in the assembly to meet him. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) She indicated with her glance the vainglorious row upon the bench beside her; then looked down at the little foot in its sombre covering and sighed. Audrey Their anticipations have been uplifting as well as confident and vainglorious. The Promise of American Life It is his nature to be sanguine, and to hope loudly, vaingloriously; and he writes it honestly enough to his merchant—and draws. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Those who write their names, defacing objects of beauty with their vainglorious smudges and scribblings, are scarcely less culpable. Etiquette He had told Tullis of his vainglorious defence in the antechamber. Truxton King A Story of Graustark Eumenes had frequent interviews with this man, who was of a flighty and vainglorious character, and tried to restrain him from any act of open rebellion. Plutarch's Lives Volume III. Nay, I doubt whether he would discover any vainglorious complacence in his colors, though "Iris" herself "dipt the woof." The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 The matter pleased the King of the Frogs, and he thought that it would redound to his advantage; and he at once seated himself upon the Snake, and indulged in vainglorious airs in consequence. The Talking Beasts Is this some grand affair of state, A coronation, or display, By some vainglorious potentate,— Or can this concourse mark the day Of some victorious hero's march Homeward, through triumphal arch? Mountain idylls, and Other Poems He concludes that Chateaubriand was one of the most vainglorious, selfish and malignant of his tribe. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 The Athenians were more inclined to laugh at this boast than to believe it; for they were well acquainted with the vainglorious character of the man, and had often amused themselves at his expense. Plutarch's Lives Volume III. He was in Great Falls, but he had not ridden vaingloriously down Central Avenue surrounded by the Happy Family, and watched by the gaping populace. The Happy Family Already vainglorious boasts were made that Germany was the successor to Britain upon the seas. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index The first edition consisted of one hundred and six pages, which were as vainglorious and boastful, as crowded with laudatory adjectives, glowing periods, and bombastic prophecies, as ever one hundred and six published pages were. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 Because Englishmen may be classified as hard and conceited, Frenchmen as capricious, Austrians as dull, and the people of one other nation are sometimes thought to be vainglorious, shall these therefore be slaves? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 All my forefathers have been dragoons and died upon the field of honor except myself, and I hope my posterity may be able to say the same; however, I don't mean to be vainglorious. Tales of a Traveller It was something rather in the nature of a holiday than anything that could be even in the most vainglorious sense a heritage. The New Jerusalem Nor is the attempt vainglorious or presuming; for in respect of clear evangelical knowledge, 'The least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than all the Jewish Prophets.' Hymns and Spiritual Songs However futile and vainglorious his scheme and methods may appear, we must not deny to him a distinction, rare indeed among Irish agitators, of having steadily disclaimed violence and advocated orderly and peaceable proceedings. Great Britain and Her Queen And, to turn from Tory legislators, I am vainglorious in announcing to you that the Anti-Corn-Law League has taken up my poems on the top of its pikes as antithetic to 'War and Monopoly.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) I cannot tell you how vaingloriously I walked the streets; my head was in the clouds. Tales of a Traveller The impressive ceremonial would have gratified vainglorious Mr. Blandy had circumstances permitted his presence. Trial of Mary Blandy The Red Admiral flirted his fine coat vaingloriously. The Purple Heights It is true that we cannot turn the cheek to the smiter; it is true that we cannot give our cloak to the robber; civilisation is too complicated, too vainglorious, too emotional. Twelve Types "He ain't forgot the licking I gave him," thought Billy vaingloriously, and hid a smile in the delectable softness of a wedge of cake with some kind of creamy filling. The Long Shadow Even the vainglorious Plante, who piqued himself on his equestrian skill, was once or twice nearly unhorsed, from having chosen his road badly. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest Bill was; and he was coming largely, emphatically, and vaingloriously. The Gringos So he wasn't made vainglorious by his mother's praise. The Purple Heights They made no vainglorious claims to the original authorship of ideas. The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights But for my vainglorious ambition Beauty would doubtless be alive and resplendent; his consort, modest hued and devoted, at his side, and my bank account would have a better showing. Adopting an Abandoned Farm He saw that she thought so, and perhaps it made him hobble slightly more, not vaingloriously, but because he was such an artist. Tommy and Grizel When we reached London we found no idle boasting, no vainglorious jingoism. With the Allies While operations in Virginia, conducted by a vacillating and vainglorious engineer officer, gave little encouragement, something was being done to advance the cause of the Union in the West. Abraham Lincoln Of all vainglorious philosophies, that of predestination is the vainest. Calvert of Strathore He would condescend to that for the sake, on a near day, of publicly humiliating a certain vainglorious jewellery dealer. The Wrong Twin Not with vainglorious pride, but with reverent gratitude to God, I acknowledge this advantage, giving thanks for the signal mercy which has upborne me to the long-continued effort. The Grammar of English Grammars The ancient humility seemed suddenly to disappear; and in its place a vainglorious estimate of themselves and of their prowess arose among the people. The Crater They merely "pick out the thorns" and "lay bare the bones" of previous systems, using newfangled terms and misty arguments with a "vainglorious parade". Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers This cursed, imprudent, vainglorious mandate of Brunswick's has set the whole country by the ears, for all Paris and the army believes, aye, knows, that the King had cognizance of it before it was issued. Calvert of Strathore "The malign eye was worn so proudly that the wearer bubbled vaingloriously of how he had achieved the stigma." The Wrong Twin It seemed like a vainglorious display of his uniform in order to let us take full cognizance of his eminence. In the Claws of the German Eagle He never kept a job more than a month, and his own account of his leave-taking was always as vainglorious as it was dramatic. Cheerful—By Request At any rate, I have said nothing of my vainglorious impulse for nearly forty years. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are Nor was this a vainglorious boast, for it commanded at a perspective of two feet, a brown wall with a black cistern on the top. Martin Chuzzlewit This, however, is considered as a rather dubious and vainglorious boast of the landlord. Little Britain Of the pursuit he has given us a somewhat vainglorious description. The Life of Francis Marion All free nations are vainglorious, but national pride is not displayed by all in the same manner. Democracy in America — Volume 2 Then he was a good-tempered little man, and merry as a monkey, whilst his pompous, vainglorious talk was a source of infinite amusement to us; and what is more, he never bore malice. Allan Quatermain Germany was not vengeful or vainglorious, only patient and merciful. Mr. Standfast Stately and aloof among vainglorious tiring-maids, a queen in robes that murmured on the marble floor, she trod the gallery of a crumbling palace. Main Street But they have been a thousand times disgraced by imbecile and vainglorious pretenders. The Life of Francis Marion But then they are two empty, vainglorious fellows with no thought beyond seeing their silly names in the newspaper. Tales of Terror and Mystery Does that sound vainglorious, and do you resent it? Rezanov The party stood for a moment exchanging vainglorious remarks with Devil's Row. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde In short, as you see, I'm a trifle vainglorious. Vailima Letters Soft and warm and windless, lit by a vainglorious moon and every star that ever shone, the beauty of this world caressed and heartened its beholder like a gallant music. The Certain Hour They never boasted of Robert Acton, nor indulged in vainglorious reference to him; they never quoted the clever things he had said, nor mentioned the generous things he had done. The Europeans From the prisoner's point of view this enterprise of Ashbow's was reckless and vainglorious. The Last Trail I need not tell thee, they are poor and proud: Vaunters, vainglorious, tyrants, truce-breakers: Envious, ireful, and ambitious. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 She was sensible and intelligent, polite, agreeable, and of unbounded charity; but Miss Burney, who knew her, depicts her as ostentatious in her exertions, and somewhat self-righteous and vainglorious. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire The time was afternoon, the season September, and the west was vaingloriously justifying the younger man's analogy of a gigantic Spanish omelette. The Certain Hour But perhaps the amazing and pathetic servility of the Life is to be explained by fear of the vainglorious despot, whose hand was heavy on all intellectual work. Josephus "It is only rented," I submitted: "yet, after all, to boast vaingloriously of their possessions is pardonable in those who have risen in the world, and aren't quite accustomed to it…." The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Feeling vainglorious at my victory, I pursued him further, “I also observed that your womenfolk wear face coverings in public, which is most certainly a thing of the past.” The Revolutions of Time These he would conduct to the scenes of his deadly encounters, point out the very spot where each fatal lunge had been given, and dwell vaingloriously on every particular. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies Even in the exercise of any one of these five senses it is certain that we are excelled by what we vaingloriously call the lower forms of life. The Certain Hour The Flavian house soon showed the same characteristics of a vainglorious despotism as the line of Caesars which it had supplanted. Josephus Calling their attention to Thor, the Prodigious Prodigy, and asking them to remember his playing against Latham that day, the sunny Senior strutted before them vaingloriously. T. Haviland Hicks Senior Do you think Melville is consoled in death of his miserable life by the vainglorious praises of the living? The Revolutions of Time Be this as it may, M. Rajon was far from being vainglorious; he knew his value as an artist, frankly and openly enjoyed his success, but remained simple, urbane, and courteous. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 He looked all vanity, self-satisfaction and vainglorious self-sufficiency. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire His face was burning with excitement, and, entering the town, he fancied everybody was looking at him, with a full knowledge of his vainglorious errand. The Life of John Clare Paul points to his own example, and that in no vainglorious spirit, but to stimulate and also to show how watchfulness is to be carried out. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Your arrival changes things, it marks the beginning of our dominance,” he told me vaingloriously. The Revolutions of Time He saw a pair of twinkling legs, a huge drum, belly-borne, and two drum-sticks, brandished vaingloriously, driving a rout of men before them. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea To me it seems too prodigal for the profusion of any or all of such spendthrifts: it appears to me more like the self-indulgence of the vainglorious master of the world. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire In their vainglorious attempt to pose as accurate and, thus, "respectable", scientists, economists refused to admit that capitalism is not merely a compendium of algorithms and formulas - but mainly a state of mind. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism It could do nothing to the Apostle but cause his chains to drop from his wrists, nor anything to the vainglorious king but bring loathsome death. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts The young things came to little in themselves, but some of them had vainglorious mothers and ambitious, pomp-loving fathers, and who could tell in what richly promising crevice their light-minded chatter might lodge and sprout? Under the Skylights At dinner Uncle Ezra placidly made remarks about the Domenico Tintoretto, almost vaingloriously, I thought. Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories That a silly and vainglorious overgrown child should shoot him full of arrows till he bled to death! Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire However extravagant and fabulous it may seem, it is authenticated by certain traditional usages, and shows the vainglorious daring that prevailed between the youthful warriors of both nations, in that romantic war. The Crayon Papers Why should we assume their hard hearted pride and relentless cruelty, to which murder is not only a sport, but a subject of vainglorious triumph? The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day And although he adored Germany, he was not "vainglorious" about it. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Let him bring forth to the world what he was in labour of; let him disgorge what had long been lying heavy on his stomach, and bring his vainglorious menaces at length to an end. Life of Luther We can't stand on a matter of vainglorious pride, and let big issues of humanity go to pot. The Call of the Cumberlands It annoyed me somewhat to see him stalking along in that vainglorious fashion while I carried the load. Wanderers Old man," said Catharine, "if thou be indeed so near the day of thy deserved doom, other thoughts were far wholesomer than the vainglorious ravings of a vain philosophy. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day He thought, with Herder, that "among all vainglorious men, he who is vainglorious of his nationality is the completest fool," and, with Schiller, that "it is a poor ideal only to write for one nation." Jean-Christophe, Volume I Satan is a weed, vainglorious and vile, with poison for blood. The Little Daisy Girl and Other Poems So he swaggered, heeding not the reproving spear; he fumed; he mocked; for no warrior affected to notice his vainglorious absurdities. Tropic Days From house to house, then, we went, at first vaingloriously, in the spaces about the Minster, and then meekly into any side street, wherever the legend of Apartments showed itself in a transom. Seven English Cities One day a gondolier vaingloriously rowed us to the water-gate of the edifice through a very narrow, damp, and uncleanly canal, pretending that there was a beautiful staircase in its court. Venetian Life Napoleon's anger fell heavily on Murat, whom he accused, not without reason, of vainglorious levity. World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France For this the wealthy and vainglorious made great sport of him, but the rest of us, who valued excellence above debauchery, approved his course. Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster Conduct so absurd, coupled with some personal defects, and a character so petulantly vainglorious, exposed the "Resolute" to the bitter sarcasm of contemporary writers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 A vainglorious knight, over-Englishing his travels, and wholly consecrated to singularity; the very Jacob's staff of compliment; a sir that hath lived to see the revolution of time in most of his apparel. Character Writings of the 17th Century Adj. vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases He worked on a vainglorious, excitable, and proud people, at the height of their imperial power. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10 European Leaders A vain imagination, says the poet:— "Blind error of vainglorious men To dream that we should seek to flee After those weary leagues of sea Crossed, but to hunt them in their den!" The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 "Oh well," I thought, with vainglorious superiority, "he doesn't know," So I said: "What would you have me be—a millionnaire?" Adventures in Contentment He accounts it an idle, vainglorious, and suspected bounty to be full of good words; his rewarding, therefore, of the deserver arrives so timely, that his liberality can never be said to be gouty-handed. Character Writings of the 17th Century Through the clear morning air I could hear the roosters crowing vaingloriously from the barnyard, and the robins were singing, and occasionally from the distant road I heard the rumble of a wagon. Adventures in Friendship The Britons," cried he, "are known to all as a vainglorious people. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut I had suffered so much that my power of quick decision, on which I'd so often prided myself vaingloriously, seemed gone. The Powers and Maxine The colonel made a book of his Stapyltonian researches which he vaingloriously proclaimed to be the stupidest reading within the ample field of uninteresting printed English. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations He was not a "Monster"! that was the first realization—no pirate, nor lurid Anti-Christ, nor vainglorious Caesar! The Lord of the Sea He appreciates his own power, but there is no undue display of that appreciation, no vainglorious boasting over achievements which read like a fairy-tale. History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition For we recognize those vainglorious words, which if we would wish to criticize, there would be no want of language. Apology of the Augsburg Confession She bore it to the kitchen, read it all, and returned to crow vaingloriously. Cap'n Dan's Daughter When a vainglorious, supersensitive man finds himself under a cloud, it is pretty nice to know that there is somebody whose faith is unshakable; somebody who needs no legal proof that he's—Proof! Flowing Gold Like all brave men, he never spoke vaingloriously of his exploit; but always professed great gratitude for his reward, which seemed to him considerably higher than his deserts. The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism When Captain Trigger announced his resolve to stay on board, where he belonged, these vainglorious old seadogs elected to remain with him to the end. West Wind Drift If fortune had followed worth," he said, "the Castle of Martindale, and the name of Peveril, had afforded no room for their enemy's vainglorious boast. Peveril of the Peak He chuckled and laughed and crowed vaingloriously over his success in keeping the secret ever since noon. Cap'n Dan's Daughter But the Scotsman, unseen by the vainglorious half-caste, shook his head fiercely. Tales of Chinatown He was grinding his teeth because the fellow had worsted him in the rather vainglorious encounter on the porch, and was doing all in his power to catch him and make things even. Castle Craneycrow With much vainglorious boasting from the men, they all rested there before the homeward swim. Harriet and the Piper "Milo!" she broke in, after several vain attempts to still his vainglorious recital. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story It is to be fought between a prosperous, almighty, vainglorious, narcissistic, self-righteous, contemptuous and increasingly disintegrating USA and an equally disintegrating China on the economic ascendant. After the Rain : how the West lost the East The Chitan spirit did not flourish quite so vaingloriously at the council that night, and there was no more talk about the sky falling upon dauntless Chitan heads. The Story of Sonny Sahib Colonel Coffee paid very little respect to his vainglorious report. David Crockett His Life and Adventures We had performed a great and generous exploit, and it did not become us to lessen its merit by betraying a vainglorious self-esteem. The Monikins "You see," he expounded. smiling vaingloriously down at her. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Some will have it that he went only two voyages, and say he was a braggart and a vainglorious fool if he said he went more. This Country of Ours So far, and a little vaingloriously, the general. Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. An', jest as I argues, Destiny accepts the challenge of this vainglorious sharp; acccepts it with a grin. Wolfville Days For, be it known, of all men none are so proud or vainglorious over the minor trappings of materialism as those who have but newly achieved them. The Titan Vain were the dignified remonstrances of the grave Basilius, futile was the persuasive rhetoric of the astute Johannes, addressed to the slaughtering and vainglorious Goth! Antonina A desperate gleam, baleful and vainglorious, flashed over his face. The Man of the Forest It was a subtle distinction, but with some women subtle distinctions are chasms which men must not try to overleap too vaingloriously, lest disaster overtake them. A Rebellious Heroine A vainglorious confidence prevailed about this time among the Spanish cavaliers; they overrated their own prowess, or rather they undervalued and despised their enemy. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Lute crowed vaingloriously over his own good judgment in leaving for home early. The Rise of Roscoe Paine "She has a strength of mind suited for any position," replied Mrs. Grantly, vaingloriously. Framley Parsonage I had rather thou shouldest inquire of others! then to seem myself a vainglorious man. Sir Francis Drake Revived Knowing the swiftness of that approach, and what the early light would bring, I strove for a courage which should be the steadfastness of the Christian, and not the vainglorious pride of the heathen. To Have and to Hold Muza made no empty bravado nor haughty threat; he was more terrible in deeds than in words, and executed daring exploits beyond even the vaunt of the vainglorious. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada But pride and lust of gold had seized upon the heart of one of their vainglorious chieftains; and he said, "Do not let us go yet—let us win a thousand florins more!" The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh He was a vainglorious, ignorant man, whose life had been spent in common work done under the supervision of those who knew what he did not know. T. Tembarom A proclamation on this subject had been drawn up in terms which might have wounded the pride of a sovereign less sensitive and vainglorious than Lewis. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 The patience of the sensitive and vainglorious hero was worn out. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Nor was the vainglorious Frenchman content with the reality of power. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 "The corner was never yet so tight that Casey Ryan couldn't find a crack somewhere to crawl through," he told himself vaingloriously. The Trail of the White Mule Amy shook her head at his vainglorious boast, and was more than ever in doubt of the soundness of the good man's intellect. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American He was no vainglorious boaster, and they knew of what a force as a swordsman he was generally accounted. Scaramouche He set himself to make these improvements with vainglorious activity. The Village Rector "I guess I can tie knots so they stay, by cripes!" he shouted vaingloriously. The Flying U's Last Stand They hung, delighted, upon his vainglorious boasting, the spicy strangeness of his lingo, his contemptuous familiarity with life, the world, and remote places, and the extravagant frankness with which he conveyed his sentiments. Roads of Destiny Again and again in the very act to steal he will declare vaingloriously that Captain Smith's stories are 'barefaced inventions.' A Book of Scoundrels In his Epistle to Titus the Apostle states that a vainglorious man should not be ordained as a minister, for pride, as St. Augustine points out, is the mother of all heresies. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians "This is a regular Noah's ark," exulted the vainglorious patriarch. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse "I can do up a cowpenful of you slow hayseeds," he proclaimed, vaingloriously. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million 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. Great Expectations They came in vaunting and vainglorious style; displaying five Cheyenne scalps, the trophies of their vengeance. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West In this verse the Apostle continues his attack upon the vainglorious sectarians. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians There now remained very little of the heavy and imposing glitter, of the mute and vainglorious haughtiness which had made his relatives-in-law weep with admiration. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The superiority assumed by these vainglorious swaggerers was, in general, tacitly admitted. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains In the matter of the two goats," replied the aged hag, "there is no better, both being equally stubborn and perverse, though one may be finer-looking and more vainglorious than the other. Kai Lung's Golden Hours Consequently he had appeared to believe all that the vainglorious Musketeer had told him, convinced that no friendship will hold out against a surprised secret. The Three Musketeers Where formerly they were vainglorious, spiteful and envious, they now become humble, gentle and patient. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians Even her sister was obliged to live in apparent calmness with the vainglorious Karl, quite capable of disloyalty not because of any special lust, but just to imitate the doings of his superiors. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Thus all paraded about, in vainglorious style, more delighted with the feathers in their hats than with the money in their pockets; and considering themselves fully equal to the boastful "men of the north." Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains So vainglorious were they because of their own size and strength that they denied the existence of a Creator. Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister Love, for her, is above all things, and by its very nature, a vainglorious, brazen-fronted, ostentatious, thriftless charlatan. Father Goriot Pink was figurative in his speech, you will understand; and also a bit vainglorious over beating Andy Green and Big Medicine twice in succession. The Flying U Ranch |
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