| 单词 | vanity |
| 例句 | I nodded, seeing her turn without a word and go toward a vanity with a large oval mirror, taking up an ivory telephone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z To hell with my vanity, my spirit, my old age. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They were at the vanity, trying on the lipsticks and perfumes, which I’ve done in my own mami’s bedroom countless times. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Most of the stores carrying things for men are still open; it’s just the ones dealing in w'hat they call vanities that have been shut down. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Yellow fever had certainly done away with vanity. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria had grown up Calvinist, a form of Protestant Christianity with a deep distrust of frivolity and vanity. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He said he was abject, and told me his stomach was taken sick with the very thought of his vanity, and praised and thanked me profusely for my candor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I lead her to my vanity and force her into the seat. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He marveled at his hair, so much of it then, and such vanity. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I go to the vanity in my room and look in the mirror there. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Because a person should never show vanity in the presence of death, Lefty stopped shaving and by the day of the funeral had grown nearly a full beard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "Wait in your room, and at least dress for bed. Also, there's a post-balloon hooked to your vanity." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I arranged these items on my vanity and sat down. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She sat down at her vanity and began to examine her face. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z They felt this subcutaneous aching to let everyone know they were a spook, they couldn’t help it, it was like some charge or vanity of the culture, a la James Bond and Maxwell Smart. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of every body’s feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange every body’s destiny. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I had one of the small green grasshoppers in a jar on my vanity, and I stared at it for inspiration. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Sandi leaned her elbows on the vanity and watched her mother comb her dark hair in the mirror. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And having done so, might she obscure the fact by concocting a slight, barely clever fiction and satisfy her vanity by sending it off to a magazine? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I feel in my soul only a weariness at the continual braying of their vanity, their outrage at small sufferings when greater are to hand. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I prayed that we wouldn’t meet anyone I knew and then felt guilty for drawing God’s attention away from serious matters to what was, after all, only an item of vanity. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Celia said from in front of the dresser/vanity where she’d just finished slathering foundation all over her face and neck with a sponge. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The rose corsage her boyfriend, Brian, had given her at homecoming, hung to dry on her vanity, the petals darkened from ruby to dried-blood red. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I was so weak, I had to rest my upper body on the vanity. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A vanity table held a washbasin, and a fireplace always roared with light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I sneak a look at my reflection when she isn’t paying attention—not for the sake of vanity, but out of curiosity. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z With her second slipper secured, she removes her foot from the edge of the vanity and crosses her legs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It had been to bring back the Old Way more than for the empty vanity of a crown that Lord Balon had staged his great rebellion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He walks to the vanity and swings his jacket as though he’s going to place it over the back of the chair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z And yet Bono was kind to me in my minority—and yet even his kindness was vanity—and yet he had none of my advantages—and yet—and yet... The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z On the beams of his library he had painted sixty or so quotations from the classics, all emphasizing the vanity of human life and of human aspirations to knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Tio made the vanity &r Tia sewed the skirt for it. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s sitting in a chair in front of her vanity, dressed in a midnight blue negligee and smoking a cigarette. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The vanity held a collection of hair relaxers, skin bright- eners, oils, and flattening irons. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z When he gets in, he hovers over the warm radiator a minute and then looks at me and smiles and sits down on my vanity bench. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He seemed to understand that it was his hair which lent him his attractiveness and authority, and so it became, strangely enough, the one and only vanity of his life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Adams joked about these stories: “They ought to gratify your vanity,” he wrote Abigail, “enough to cure you and bring you here.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Everything—our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles—is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed, and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She reached over and put the silver-handled brush back on my vanity. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “Do you think you can beguile this conclave with your baubles and vanity? We are not so base as to be dazzled by shiny things.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Even in the dark, I can see the rows of star-shaped stickers Haley has stuck to the vanity’s cabinet door. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z She leaned over to check herself in the vanity mirror. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She digs into her vanity, throwing creams and puffs and tonics and perfume vials. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The way African American women wear their hair has often been about much more than vanity. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The Merritts gave me a silver vanity set complete with brush, comb, and rotating mirror, which was the sort of elegant gift I preferred over toys. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The trunk is in a tent, surrounded by rack after rack of vibrant costumes, props, and vanities with mirrors. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She spoke of him at the table as an exceptional being who had renounced all forms of vanity and was on his way to becoming a saint. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “This unassuming style promotes study, that’s why we adopt it,” returned Laurie, who certainly could not be accused of vanity, having voluntarily sacrificed a handsome curly crop to the demand for quarter-inch-long stubble. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She drummed her pink nails on the top of the vanity in concentration. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Celaena opened and closed the doors of her armoire, dresser, and vanity. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was a way to start over, to renounce vanity, to spite love. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My mother is at her vanity when my father enters the bedroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “The vanity of human accomplishment,” the doctor said sadly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z My poetry was all vanity, the gathering around me of the accoutrements of an inner life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “You’re going to look awful tomorrow,” I warned, hoping to appeal to her vanity. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is the cleanliness of your immortal soul that should concern you now, not such vanities of the flesh.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I set her mortuary tablets on my vanity. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Fluted glasses appear from somewhere behind him and are set up on Marlena’s vanity. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The men go into Lucinda’s room without knocking, opening up the jalousies, lifting the bedskirt and matching skirt on her vanity, plunging their bayonets underneath. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I stick it inside the soft belly of a cake of blush-crème on her vanity. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I push the porridge aside and open my vanity mirror. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She returned to our room, stopping at the vanity to pluck at her tendrils and smooth her French roll. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I play on his vanity, and so, perhaps, become his creature like all the others. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A pitcher of steaming water sits beside the porcelain basin on my new vanity. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Whenever we stayed with Grandma Smith, she brought me into her bedroom and sat me down at the vanity table, which was covered with little pastel-colored bottles of perfumes and powders. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He walks back to the vanity and rests the cane against it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I will never smoke one myself—they are closely tied to vanity—but a crowd of Candor smokes them in front of the building when we get off the bus. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The song ended and Lily flopped down on her little bench in front of her vanity and began to scrutinize her highlights. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Something always stopped him: bad luck, a racial barrier, a law, his own vanity or arrogance or fear of losing face. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is not just vanity, Commander. The closer the match, the less interference from the actual eye.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She probably wears the glasses out of vanity rather than necessity, because she thinks they make her look smarter—my father said so. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Not out of vanity, for she had little of that, but because she wanted to test an idea she had. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They would publish short notices of the news, but nothing “to feed their vanity.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She runs her hands over the furniture, then leans on the vanity, staring in the mirror. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The effect of such an education was that he had grown up without any of the useful accomplishments for living—without malice, vanity, suspicion, cruelty, and the commoner forms of selfishness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I shove him backward, but he grabs my lapels and so we crash into the vanity together. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Park opened his eyes and sat in front of Eleanor on the vanity. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Even if she had been concerned, there were reverberations of Calvinism strong within her, which would have protested vigorously against the vanity of regret for a passing beauty. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I say this to you because you know it and will not charge me with vanity. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Her next trial she brought upon herself through her curiosity and, still more, her vanity. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A massive vanity is carried into the center of the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I walked straight past the tub to the vanity sink and grabbed the bottle of shampoo and held it out to her. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he first got the job with Kate, Joe looked for the weaknesses on which he lived—vanity, voluptuousness, anxiety or conscience, greed, hysteria. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There, among the pink vanities with baskets of little towels and talcum powder and brushes, we come up with our plot. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Marlena is flushed, digging through one of the drawers of her vanity. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Then I sat at my vanity and glumly counted one hundred strokes of the hairbrush. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Let me tell you, apprehending a fairy is no easy task. Slippery critters. The trick usually involves appealing to their vanity. Even then, takes quite a bit of know-how.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The motif had been a popular one in earlier Dutch genre scenes, where bubbles symbolized life’s brevity and, hence, the vanity of all earthly things. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulls the third drawer of her vanity open and digs through it, tossing aside gauzy bits of costume. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She sits in front of her vanity with one foot up on its edge, wrapping the long pink ribbon from one of her slippers around her ankle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z All the words, all the confidence, all the vanity had been shaken out of her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall; but the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Marlena sits at her vanity, her arms folded and legs crossed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z If anything, the ggeh was his one enduring vanity, a system paternal, how in the beginning people would come right to the house and ask for some money and his blessing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Wives uncoddled their husbands; there seemed no further need to reinforce their vanity. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” Nicole said as she ran into the house, where she found her mother sitting at her vanity, putting more and more powder on her face. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Ellis sits on my bed, and I sit on my vanity bench, where Frank just was. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z And I could already hear the sneers at my poor scrapings, the scorn at my childish vanity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Lucinda puts her hairbrush down on her vanity and makes a sign for me to follow her to the patio out back. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z She took out her vanity case and began powdering her nose. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She had a special way of angling the mirror on the medicine cabinet door toward the mirror over the vanity so she could check herself from all angles. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She was well above vanity now that no male principle threatened her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Back in Iowa, my smooth hands and face had been my one vanity. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Would you let the fate of your soul hang upon pride and vanity?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In place of vanity she now felt a self-esteem that was quite new. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The cabins there, paneled in exotic woods, were spacious, with built-in vanities, plush upholstered furniture, Persian rugs, bedside telephones, and private bathrooms with hot and cold freshwater showers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He said later, “The success of this my first literary child always tickles my vanity more than that of any of my other books.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like a room in Sleeping Beauty’s castle, with cobwebbed candles mounted in wall sconces, a mirrored vanity table topped with crystal bottles, and a giant oak bed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Adams’s ever-vibrating vanities were now, true enough, under some measure of control. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z ‘My - my lord -’ ‘You neglected your duties. You succumbed to flattery and vanity. You encouraged your descendant Octavian to follow his dangerous path, and you prematurely revealed a prophecy that may yet destroy us all.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z So the women, to justify their own judgment, cherished their men more, soothed the pride and vanity Sula had bruised. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Then came that terrible Christmas with its awful presents when our father, with the vanity I was to find typical, sent his photograph. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If not for his vanity and meticulousness, he would've been immortal like me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Renouncing all vanity, they gave up their stylish dresses and wore rough wool robes made by Labadist weavers. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For some it is a form of vanity: “Learn from me and be awed because I am so wise.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Indeed I had. What will you think of my vanity? I believed you to be wishing, expecting my addresses.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Then Joe Starks realized all the meanings and his vanity bled like a flood. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I grabbed the comb off my white vanity, noticing a fresh coloring book and pencils sitting on my chair. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A couple of times, I’ve dug it up, not on account of vanity, but to make sure I am still here, I haven’t disappeared. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, she was right there before me, that busy, priggish, conceited little girl, and she was not dead either, for when people tittered appreciatively at “evanesce” my feeble heart—ridiculous vanity!—made a little leap. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She had always been his ultimate confidante, the person he could trust with his self-doubts, vanities, and overflowing opinions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She prodded me to attention when the preacher railed against pride and vanity. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Someone must have gone to a good deal of effort to empty all the guest rooms of their wardrobes and beds and vanity tables and to bolt bars across the window shutters. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In this school Alba learned to eat boiled vegetables and burnt rice, to withstand the freezing courtyard, sing hymns, and give up worldly vanities except those in the realm of sports. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I fuel the fire of your most secret vanity. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But it may only be vanity that prompts me to think so. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked to the skies, feeling a bit abashed, and said, “I know it’s the vanity of vanities, as you said, my Lord. But an old king sometimes has to take some pride in himself.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Ruby Lewis adjusted her costume in front of a vanity mirror. 'Dear John Hughes': Songs of 'Ferris Bueller,' 'Sixteen Candles' live 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z There's a vanity and a regality, but there's also something completely grotesque. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Akhtar’s portrait of the artist as a young Muslim exposes both his vanity and his capacity for obsequiousness, particularly around wealthy people. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Consider the gaiety added to various nations by the vanity quests of Simon Cowell, whose reliance on Botox dates back almost to the start of botulism. Why Victoria Beckham's quest for eternal youth pales beside the stars who are after your blood 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Yes, Hollywood is a swamp of vanity, myopia and bad taste. Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott on the Oscars 2012-02-18T02:03:03Z The film’s minutes-long shots, the nimble blocking of the actors, the swooping, sure-footed camerawork and the story line itself — an actor’s ego-driven quest for professional redemption — all play perfectly into the industry’s vanities. Oscar Ballots in, Best Picture Seems to Narrow to ‘Boyhood’ vs. ‘Birdman’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Presenting an ethically challenged vanity show and then trying to fix its mistakes with a deceptive sign, as the Smithsonian has done, is infuriating. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, his battles, mainly with the temperamental star, resulted in a defeat, as the film turned out to be a vanity project, though Streisand was impressive belting out the tunes. Frank Pierson obituary 2012-07-26T15:28:43Z Despite her vanity, Betty has “fought for a lot,” as she tells Sally. 'Mad Men' Recap: The Long and Winding Con 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z There's nothing so unattractive as vanity… particularly male vanity. Rafe Spall: from fat to fit 2013-01-19T09:00:00Z I sensed it intimately, without the least vanity. Emmanuelle Riva of ‘Amour,’ From New Wave to New Stardom 2013-01-02T00:21:01Z Her electric keyboard sits beside a makeshift vanity table and laptop computer. Child star of Oscar-winning film faces deportation 2011-03-04T15:02:16Z The key to his persona, I think, can be found in the joke he tells about the always-be-selling vanity of his generation, presenting himself as its avatar. John Early Brings a Deliriously Over-the-Top Sensibility to Stand-Up 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z “That was sanity, not vanity,” said the London private dealer Ivor Braka, who said the price was based on the quality of the painting, not financial speculation. Christie’s and Phillips Have Auctions With Differing Results 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Fey, like Ms. Ephron, is at her most hilariously self-deprecating when it comes to her attractiveness and vanity. Books of The Times: Tina Fey Is Greek and Also Teutonic, but She Isn?t a Troll 2011-04-03T21:52:49Z Jim said it was vanity, that he wanted to show it could be done, because he was a young writer and hungry. Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Richard T Kelly's novel is an old-fashioned moral treatise on vanity. The Possessions of Doctor Forrest by Richard T Kelly ? review 2011-07-15T21:15:01Z Bossiness came naturally to him; reading his autobiography, his vanity astounds you. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z There are also less tangible objects of derision: vanity, stupidity, venality, snobbism, dishonesty, criminality and other probably universal human foibles. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z Romeo is a decent man, but his belief in his own decency is a toxic kind of vanity. Review: ‘Graduation’ and the Anguish of Living Vicariously 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Only her intelligence – a novelist's intelligence, with a shrewd eye for vanity, and an understanding that everything is informed by compromise – keeps her tale from losing its grounding in reality. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-29T07:00:03Z “It was a vanity video because Michael wanted to be a monster. And everything that came, evolved from that, was spectacularly successful and I was totally surprised.” 'Thriller' was made because Michael Jackson wanted to be a monster 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z He attributes Gehrig’s famous consecutive game streak to “a monumental vanity,” and speculates that the daughter adopted by Ruth and his first wife was probably Babe’s child by another woman. Review: Books About Babe Ruth 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s a clever frill — I have a few somewhere in a box I will probably never be able to find — and a steady reminder that even in the most athletic environment, vanity matters. Where the Clothes Do Most of the Work 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z There were also two large mirrors framed in black tile, one above the toilet and another above the vanity where bath amenities were arrayed beside a fragrance diffuser. High Design in the Design District 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of all. 50 years after Robert Kennedy’s assassination: Don’t get caught up in conspiracy theories 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z But it is also conveys a uniquely Irish aversion to preening or vanity. Who’s Irish Now? 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z It used to be easy to spot a vanity project. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s really about the habits, foibles and vanities of collectors. Why 'unpacking' is a perfect — and perfectly overused — metaphor for our cultural moment 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The apparent element of vanity actually plays exactly in the opposite direction—what Moore’s doing here, deftly, is endowing Hillary with longstanding progressive bona-fides, bringing her alongside him to share in his fan base. What Michael Moore Understands About Hillary Clinton 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But I think it’s also, to be honest, vanity. Matthew Broderick on Dirty Weekend and Ferris Bueller at 30 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Yes, Emma Stone, Ms. Miller’s immediate predecessor in the role, was sensational, an immolating fireball of neurosis and vanity. ‘Cabaret’ and ‘Hedwig’ Get Tougher Onstage 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z A: I mean, it’s really kind of fascinating to me to think — well, to be honest, it was something other than some sort of vanity project pressure release. Q&A with Dave Grohl: On why he began writing after Nirvana, admiring Stewart Copeland and who played that solo on ‘Medicine at Midnight’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The movie doesn’t really judge any of its characters, but Lee interrogates the vanities, hypocrisies, desires and misplaced passions of young, black masculinity. She’s Gotta Have It: why Spike Lee's sex-positive debut is a coming-of-age classic 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z I first of all think there is a great deal of vanity in the very notion of a memoir. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z When my producer approached him, she appealed to his ego and his vanity. Alison Klayman: ‘Bannon’s into the Great Man theory of history and he’s certain he’s one of those great men’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z But I have a penchant for vanity and a need for validation from men around me. The lasting trauma of rape 2013-02-18T01:00:00Z The image-repertory is elaborate, as are the effects of lighting, but their intricacy offers no complexity; the movie reflects an empty virtuosity and a resonant vanity. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z As she chatted in her dressing room at Lincoln Center, Ms. Bernstine was subdued, polite and remarkably lacking in vanity. Mastering the Monologue and the Mammoth Part 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z “For my family, it’s rather insulting,” he wrote, adding that the “sculpture is an especially egregious example of the woke machine’s callousness and vanity” that to him seemed like an especially expensive but empty gesture. Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity" is lyrically rendered as "Perfectly pointless, says the Teacher. Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible 2012-05-19T20:30:01Z “As soon as an actor starts directing, it looks like some kind of vanity project, doesn’t it?” Hugh Laurie Directs an Episode of ?House? 2010-04-11T22:24:00Z "Your vanity knows no bounds!" he bellows when she accuses him of being jealous of Mitch. "The Morning Show" finally finds its raison d'etre as a satire about workplace toxicity 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Fey and Poehler have no vanity, which is just one of the reasons to love them. Review: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Are Closer Than Siblings in Sisters 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z He has this totally unique brand of masculinity mixed with charming vanity.” His Own Best Character 2011-05-18T20:55:46Z The fluted columns in the octagonal powder room were the impetus for the mahogany walls of the bar and the elaborate mirrored-glass vanity in the client’s bath. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z His expressions and tempered body language convey Man 1's determination, and it is easy to see why the part appealed to him; this is not a vanity project. Zac Efron is worth his weight in "Gold," a harrowing thriller about greed and survival 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The beginning represents "despising of all vanities in the world." Dudamel and the L.A. Philharmonic deliver a riotous 'Spring' 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The first half is dominated by sharp, silly satires of the moment, like a visually precise and hilarious song about social media vanity, “White Woman’s Instagram,” and a commercial for a woke brand consultant. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Bishop also suggests brass accents, such as on the legs of a vanity. 9 expert-approved paint colors for a powder room makeover 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Unlike the documentary pretense of “The Office,” which is being shot by outsiders and intended for broadcast, Zach’s cameras are purely for his own vanity. Television Review: ‘Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous,’ With Bo Burnham on MTV 2013-05-01T22:08:15Z But some of his acts had a deeply moral edge, such as the rebuilding of a cathedral because he thought money shouldn't be spent on vanity projects while people on Earth were starving. My Mad Fat Diary: Rae Earl describes her childhood mental health issues 2013-01-21T08:00:02Z And J. K. Simmons, who makes any TV show better, was marvelous as Brenda’s boss and former lover Will Pope, expressing subtle degrees of vanity, insecurity, calculation and affection with each sigh and grimace. A Series Romance Comes Full Circle 2012-08-10T17:09:14Z Trump grinned and grimaced while “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, rapper Snoop Dogg, and others made fun of his hair, his multiple marriages and his vanity. ‘Game to do it all’: From TV to WWE, Trump the showman set the stage for Trump the candidate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z “He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.” Perspective | What Biden — and a lot of other people — get wrong about journalists 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Long scenes are built on one-barrel gags, like an extended “Entourage” takeoff in Episode 7 or the closeted Tobias’s vanity plate — an alternate spelling of “a new start” — in Episode 5. Watch List: ‘Arrested Development’ on Netflix.com 2013-05-26T21:43:38Z The sad conclusion to be reached from this account’s existence isn’t that it came from a place of vanity but that it came from a place of perceived powerlessness. Perspective | The woeful defeatism of Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z This is moral vanity, Edelman admits: a professional charmer’s eagerness to flatter other people’s self-regard as a way of buttressing his own. Review: A Jew and 16 ‘Nerf Nazis’ Meet Cute in ‘Just for Us’ 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z We are often told: Be yourself, express your desires, avoid vanity—all psychobabble truisms. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Even Pope Francis has acknowledged that despite all the ways that social media has been used to spread hate and encourage vanity, it can also be used to evangelize. Living the #ConventLife 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z And Ms. Treadway plays her astronaut with a dogged enthusiasm and an utter lack of vanity. Review: In ‘Spaceman,’ Floating in a Most Peculiar Way 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Presidential libraries, in their youth — which can mean during the lifetimes of extended first families — may be like vanity museums created by monarchs to reflect their own glory. Critic’s Notebook: At the LBJ Presidential Library, Giving Nuance to History 2014-04-08T22:44:54Z The answer is Ark Music Factory, a vanity music label which charges undisclosed sums to American parents in exchange for making their teenage daughter's pop princess dreams a reality. Internet picks of the week 2011-03-26T00:07:03Z "I guess I was one of their vanity artists or something." From Yoko Ono to Lady Gaga: how pop embraced performance art 2011-07-07T21:00:03Z The scholar at Regensburg’s Institute of Romance Philology combines the demeanor of an absent-minded professor with the vanity of a Real Housewife. The return of McCall Smith’s impressively obtuse professor 2013-01-09T23:53:43Z “Dreamland” might look from its credits like a vanity project, but it certainly doesn’t play like one. Review: A Pianist Adrift Encounters a Cougar in ‘Dreamland’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z This, of course — the issue of meaning in the face of human vanity — has long been at the center of Kundera's work. Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Sitting before a mirrored vanity like a Broadway actress, she sipped green juice from the gym’s cafe and prepared her workout music. Peloton Instructors Ride for Fitness and Fame 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z “I had no fear whatsoever, no vanity for the laugh. To me, it was the answer to my prayers.” Rich in love: Candice Bergen’s sumptuous life 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z My disc jockeying isn't some vanity project to get muggins here back on the idiot box. One last thing... Alan Partridge 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z Indeed, the 61-year-old actor is no newbie on the music scene, and the album is no vanity project. Jeff Bridges revives music career with new album 2011-06-29T07:39:56Z “It is a superficial routine. Behind this is personal vanity, because hair is one thing we can really put off.” When every day is a bad hair day: Getting to the roots of our new reality 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z His mixture of decency and vanity that I thought was human and real.” Ralph Fiennes: Loosey Goosey? ‘I like that!’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z "The vanity — you pointed out her madness or sickness." "Corsage" star Vicky Krieps says Austria's Empress Elisabeth had a "darkness that attracted me" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z A red sports car with the vanity plate “FASTER” roared up. Our Favorite Arts Photos of 2021 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The point is that prizes and all that they symbolize in terms of our taste, our judgment, our vanity and our prejudices are ephemeral. Essay by Viet Thanh Nguyen: On uselessness 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z For the women, weight gain wins them plaudits, as it shows a lack of vanity, and weight loss is seen as covetable, so interviews focus on how they got there for dieting readers's reference. How losing weight 'empowers' film stars – and brides 2013-03-10T06:29:01Z Imposture is the ethical key to Nazi-mocking, a way of revealing the vanity and stupidity of people who insist above all on their own deadly seriousness. When We Laugh at Nazis, Maybe the Joke’s on Us 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Making music, he says, "would smack of some kind of middle-aged vanity and desperation, and I'm keen to avoid that scenario". From Ai Weiwei to Anish Kapoor: the art world's love affair with pop 2012-11-14T18:23:09Z Nor is it terribly intriguing when the Spittituccis prey on the vanity of the messenger, rendered with preening arrogance by Doug Wilder, to lure him into their show as Mephistopheles. The new farce ‘The Good Devil’ presents a banana peel of a plot 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “We should make sequels to more of our movies,” says Seth Rogen in the dismal vanity project “This Is the End.” ‘This Is the End’: Celebrity party goes down in flames 2013-06-11T16:52:35Z In “Mother!,” the Creator goes back on this promise, abusing humanity, sapping it of its love and strength, and demanding worship to satisfy its fathomless vanity. The Mythic Maximalism of Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Such women – cleverer, tougher and funnier than the men who underestimate them – perfectly suit an acting style rooted in directness and lack of vanity. Frances McDormand: two defining roles, two decades apart 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z An ambitious and uncompromising director, he always insisted that he was more journeyman than auteur, never claiming the “a film by” credit so attractive to filmmakers of greater vanity and lesser talent. Critic’s Notebook: Soderbergh Explores a New Medium 2013-05-01T21:34:35Z What observations do you have about her vanity and the importance of look or image and the "duty to represent"? How did you create the regality of the character? "Corsage" star Vicky Krieps says Austria's Empress Elisabeth had a "darkness that attracted me" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z But others see the complex of six buildings in Galicia as a monument to the vanity of the region's former rightwing premier, Manuel Fraga, and an anachronism at a time of austerity. Spain's extravagant City of Culture opens amid criticism 2011-01-11T19:53:11Z She will eventually become a terrific character in “Savages,” where Mr. Winslow makes her the butt of endless jokes about Southern California vanity. Books of The Times: ‘The Kings of Cool’ by Don Winslow 2012-06-17T19:58:19Z “Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.” Review: ‘The Narrow Road in the Deep North,’ by Richard Flanagan Joyce did not judge them, but was utterly alert to their weaknesses and their failures and was concerned to do them justice, whatever vanity or vain hope impelled them. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z The recent onscreen presence of the Lavazza logo, with its advertorial texture, suits the series’ vibe as a celebrity vanity project. “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” and Jerry Seinfeld’s Identical Layers 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The snippet we see of their idiotic vanity project, “The Striking Viking,” aims so low it undershoots satire by a mile. Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z They could not have known how they were playing into my father’s vanity. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z The similarities are striking, with lavish gold trim, large vanity mirrors and a bed surrounded by an ornate balustrade. Looking for French connections in Upstate New York 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z There are more elaborate vanities and accessories on view, remnants of a time when the very act of getting dressed was perhaps the main event of a woman’s day. "Metropolitan Vanities" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Architectural Digest 2013-12-20T05:00:00Z The scent, which contains notes of rose, mint, and vetiver, is one of hundreds that she keeps on her vanity. The Grande Dame of the Perfume Industry Turns Ninety-Five 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z These days, apparently nothing less than a big-screen vanity project will do for Junior. Movie Review: ‘After Earth,’ Starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith 2013-05-30T21:48:08Z His prizewinning men’s wear designs are based not only on male vanity, but also on the fragility that is at its core. In London, Cheetos Tans and a Codpiece Are in Fashion 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Yet however much the disciplined monarch in public, in private the undoubted queen has an unexpected streak of vanity. Queen Elizabeth II Sets a Style Standard 2012-06-01T16:59:27Z This world is vanity, but he plays all the same. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Is it simply based on good old-fashioned vanity? Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z It’s become entirely unfashionable to say this, but cities don’t succeed without the occasional display of architectural idiosyncrasy or even vanity. Philip Johnson's AT&T Building has always been vain, idiosyncratic and flawed. Let's keep it that way 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Robert Burke, the founder of a namesake luxury consulting firm, said Bleecker Street was “a vanity location — meaning it’s more about the image than about retail sales or foot traffic.” Bleecker Street’s Swerve From Luxe Shops to Vacant Stores 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Trauma has cleaved him from whatever vanity or self-consciousness he may possess; his only concern, his only aim, is to communicate something terrible and true to another human being. Boston bombing: We would have been standing right there 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z Between chapters, McDowell provides potted explanations of Embassy Row, Washington Life Magazine, Cafe Milano — everything you need to follow along this new-old vanity fair. Review | Christina McDowell’s satire ‘The Cave Dwellers’ belongs among the essential books about Washington 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The Telegraph labeled it “The Duchess of Sussex’s semi-literate vanity project” while the Evening Standard called her writing “soothing, loving, although a little schmaltzy in places.” Duchess of Sussex’s ‘The Bench’ celebrates fathers and sons 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z But Jerome also inspired artists to depict landscapes, usually some characteristically leafy European fantasy of the “barren desert” where he supposedly spent years beating his chest with a rock and pondering the vanity of life. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z There is one aspect of Mr. Trump’s character that Mr. Baldwin, a fellow showbiz personality, captures intuitively: his vanity, as expressed by Mr. Trump’s history of presenting curiously hyperbolic medical reports. A Man You Can Bait with a Skit 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z You have a great deal of yourself on the line, now, writing – your vanity is at stake. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z Hickey, her brother on “The Big C,” knew her at Juilliard, and remembers her as a tomboy, “not immediately glamorous,” whose only discernible vanity was her alabaster skin, which she carefully protected from the sun. The Age of Laura Linney 2010-07-28T20:52:00Z The course of a European designer known for his body-hugging cuts and the empire of American vanity sizing did not run entirely smooth. Is Roland Mouret More Than a One-Hit Wonder? 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z It was a dazzling display of misguided entitlement and self-righteous vanity, the hipster journalist equivalent of Douglas MacArthur’s Farewell Address. Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness? 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z I was a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick’s movie “The Shining,” and all I wanted in life was to own vanity plates that said ‘Redrum’. Win, Lose or Draw: First jobs of animation sensations 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z “Oftentimes you do see dynamic acting — there are a lot of really dynamic actors — but there is a sense of vanity,” says Davis. Viola Davis on ‘Widows,’ MeToo and expressing her femininity 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Docile and self-conscious, he’s not motivated by vanity or fame. Bunkmates Turned Scam Artists Take Silicon Valley for a Ride 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Baker was as drolly enjoyable as ever, and it was entertaining to see Sweeney’s vanity exposed and undercut as he listened to the barrage of testimony against him. 'The Good Wife' Recap: I Was Bad Today 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Gates recommends a custom vanity, if the budget allows. 5 bathroom updates that will never go out of style 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Seen doing her makeup in front of a vanity, she says, "You start learning kind of the pressure that woman are under all of the time about their appearance." Caitlyn Jenner's new reality show is called 'I Am Cait' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik was more blunt earlier this month: “The competition to be the first billionaire in space should mark a milestone in the towering vanity of the wealthy,” he wrote. Billionaires in space: The launch of a dream or just out-of-this-world ego? 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Their artistic dreams fuse with vanity, their romantic desires are inseparable from egotism, yet their complexities aren’t psychological but, rather, existential. The Hong Sang-soo Retrospective Is a Must-See 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z To put moral qualms over duty is vanity, and it leaves one unmoored. ‘The Americans,’ at Last, Lets Us Exhale 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Even for a person like me, I'm pretty much a lifelong feminist, I'm not immune to a certain amount of guilt if I don't indulge male desires or vanity. From mansplainers to sexual assaulters, Kate Manne explains how society empowers men to harm women 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Conroy wrote “The Boo” while teaching English at Beaufort High School and paid a vanity publisher to print 500 copies, borrowing the money from a bank. Pat Conroy, Author of ‘The Prince of Tides’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 70 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Bringing it home is Sudeikis' manner as he shares Ted's folksy anecdote: it contains not a whit of vanity or gloating at his adversary's downfall. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Eric Fertman’s sculptures are just as enticing: hanging over a vanity table in the corner is a red bulb supported by a puppet cross. Dance Review: Through a Portal, to a World Where Listless Blue Creatures Await 2011-07-24T21:41:17Z Your vanity card read like you were concerned viewers might be disappointed. 'Two and a Half Men' Producer Explains That Weird Final Episode 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Is the beloved show turning into a vanity project? Ted Lasso: great coach, bad ex-husband 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The photos reveal a stunning lack of vanity on Carolee’s part: the colors are washed out, greenish and bluish; the camera P.O.V. is extremely close to Carolee’s face, which at times seems to bear contusions. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z That personality — a volatile compound of vanity, ruthlessness, hedonism and charm — is the movie’s central puzzle. ‘Loro’ Review: A Corrupt Leader, and the People Who Love Him 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z I had a bonfire of the vanities at the end of the movie where I took all the fake stuff, made a pile and set it on fire. Anjelica Huston: how we made The Addams Family 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z “An unabashed vanity project that struggles to turn its own beautiful virtue into a virtue,” judged Variety. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Outside, raising their hands to the sun; inside with their vanity, vulnerability and tenderness. Falling in Love 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z That world and all its excesses and gluttony and self-focus and vanity. Jim Carrey, Unmasked 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z An extended riff on Phil’s big business meeting offers Handler a chance to satirize the annoyance of travel, the incompetence of Phil’s secretary, the vanity of his very rich boss. From the ‘Lemony ’ author, an adult novel of upper-middle-class despair 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z L.A. culture has a lot more vanity to it than New York does. How Hailey Baldwin Gets Her ‘Glowy’ Look 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z And I think if you look at my career, I avoid vanity.” Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z “Every chef has the dream to do a vanity project: 30 tables, just them in the kitchen,” Mr. Talbot said. A Chef Is Cooking 2011-03-10T00:22:56Z But if you see one of these ghosts in the mirror, they’re more likely to make a sarcastic comment about your vanity than to harm you — it’s a sassy group of disturbed spirits. What’s on TV This Week: A Rita Moreno Documentary and ‘Ghosts’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z I bought the desk, which was originally a 1930s vanity, at an antiques shop in North London. | The Narrative of Home 2014-05-06T15:28:42Z As its name indicates, the company clearly banks on Mr. Acosta’s fame, but it’s not your usual vanity project. To Be a Star Carlos Acosta Had to Leave Cuba. Maybe His Dancers Won’t Have To. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The NMAA, having decided a year ago not to shutter what is billed as "a major part of the museum's 50th anniversary," should craft a firm, formal policy against vanity shows — sooner rather than later. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z "Our self," Montaigne writes in an essay on vanity, "is an object full of dissatisfaction, we can see there nothing but wretchedness and vanity." All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z "She put in a fearless performance. There's not a lot of vanity. She'd say: 'It's a Saturday morning, I wouldn't be wearing make-up, I don't want to wear it.'" Linklater's epic journey into Boyhood 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Not just because the museum foolishly decided to present a vanity show, which is bad enough. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Green’s perfume vanity, where she keeps a hundred or so scents in regular rotation. The Grande Dame of the Perfume Industry Turns Ninety-Five 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z James Cameron upstages the ocean in “Deepsea Challenge 3D,” a shallow vanity project that invites us to join him in marveling at his own daring. James Cameron Takes Viewers on ‘Deepsea Challenge 3D’ 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z I usually play monsters whose foibles -- vanity and pretension -- are their own fault. Golden Globes 2015: Ricky Gervais isn't ruling out more 'Derek' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In the book’s one day, he manipulates the schoolgirls just enough to tailor each questioning session to his subject’s vanity while avoiding any hint of impropriety. Tana French's 'The Secret Place' Involves a Girls' School 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z And no one dispensed sarcastic throwaways, or embarked on egotistical flights of vanity, with such force and energy. John Wood obituary 2011-08-10T14:21:55Z He's uncertain how to deal with his anti-capitalist daughter, has a healthy amount of vanity and seeks reassurance from his wife: "I'm cool, right?" These MVPs of television delivered greatness in a year that almost broke us 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z But, of course, I had huge reservations too, For a start, there was vanity. Jamie's Dream School 2011-03-01T19:59:01Z It is a bit of a vanity project: but the sight of these two guys and their great big swan is surreal and funny. Swandown – review 2012-07-19T20:30:00Z He thinks he's rational and meticulous, but he is actually driven by pettiness, greed, anger, class resentment and intellectual vanity. "Breaking Bad" 4x6, "Cornered" 2011-08-22T09:23:00Z “I definitely struggled with my vanity on her behalf,” Hjort Sorensen said. A Darker ‘Borgen’ Returns, and Heads to Greenland 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z As a boy, he would have seen this act as a triumph of unvarnished reality over vanity. Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z You see the lure of fleshly vanity, stardust and sensuality, yet, as in those 17th-century vanitas paintings, you also see the skeletal reality. Museum Review: The Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2013-02-02T01:43:04Z Almost every chapter emphasizes that people are driven by vanity and self-interest, flaws that Carnegie’s savvy students can use to their own advantage. ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’: Why the granddaddy of self-help endures 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Other clips show him mocking his father's vanity when describing how he met his wife in Pakistan, and joking with a devout friend whom he calls "Taliban". Diary of a Badman: 'I'm not a model Muslim, but I make people think' 2012-06-10T19:00:02Z Think white paint, tile, countertops, vanities and textiles. 5 bathroom updates that will never go out of style 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z “It’s fascinating. The whole of humanity is here; it’s vanity fair,” he quipped, making a reference to the 19th-century novel by British author William Makepeace Thackeray, which satirizes rampant ego, class and consumerism. Is Hugh Grant rude or just British? Oscars interview may be lost in translation. 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z They were tortured and humiliated, accused of treachery and vanity and dispatched to work in the farms and factories of the hinterlands. Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z For critics, the money poured into private vanity projects is unforgivable when there is so much to be done right here on Earth. Billionaires in space: The launch of a dream or just out-of-this-world ego? 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z “There’s no fear or vanity; it doesn’t matter what you throw at her.” Florence Pugh’s True Hollywood Fairy Tale 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z In other words, H&M is “vanity sizing” to its male customers, leading them to believe they’re bigger than the listed size. Is Abercrombie & Fitch the enemy? Or is it us? 2013-05-30T15:28:00Z From chariots of the gods to profane vehicles of male vanity and ecological destruction. Art Review: Richard Prince at Gagosian and Salon 94 Bowery 2010-05-27T21:22:00Z The most folks do is hang a graduation tassel in the rearview mirror, or have vanity plates, but people don't tend to customize cars. Art cars drive Fremont Fair fun 2011-06-16T19:00:10Z The degree to which Fox News hosts were on the defensive during Bush’s second term made it the perfect moment to satirize their vanities and excesses. Why Stephen Colbert Is Signing Off at the Perfect Time 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Lined with cool gray tile, the angular, contempo-chic bathroom provided aloe and green tea toiletries by Eco Boutique, a dental kit, a shaving kit and a vanity kit — as well as a toilet-side telephone. Hotel Review: Noon Hotel Apartments in Dubai 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z This minimalist vanity looks okay, but when I turn on the faucet, half the water spills over the side. Style Invitational: Here’s what these objects REALLY are 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z What he lost in vanity he gained in sinister mystery. Syphilis, sex and fear 2013-05-17T15:59:01Z Both played on the desperation and vanity of stars in a world where pecking order is paramount and the best table at the Ivy is everything. Laugh Lines: from Bob Martin to Extras 2010-04-22T16:29:00Z Park didn’t notice she was bleeding until midway through the act, when she sat at the vanity to powder her face. Which actress is Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'? (And yes, that's a trick question) 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The ABC anchor is very much aware of Trump’s vanity, stroking his ego just enough to keep him playing along and secure his attention. ABC's "30 Hours" Donald Trump special was a ratings bust — but in history's long view, it will count 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Under Mr. Ovitz’s unchallenged early leadership, they agree on the importance of projecting confidence — in the form of matching Jaguars with “C.A.A.” vanity plates — while living on shoestring budgets. Review: ‘Powerhouse’ Recalls a Heyday of Matched Jaguars and Packaged Films 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z I also didn’t want to come in and feel like it was some kind of vanity thing. ArtsBeat: Welcome to a New Kind of Tension: Billie Joe Armstrong on His 'American Idiot' Role 2011-01-09T23:31:43Z As ever in these situations, the test is of an actor's intelligence more than her vanity. David Thomson on Sandra Bullock 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z “Woefully inadequate” becomes “rejected by a vanity publisher.” Gene Weingarten has the trite stuff 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z In a hall of vanity mirrors, she delivers a diva turn playing fading screen icon Norma Desmond, originated by fading screen icon Gloria Swanson in Billy Wilder’s 1950 film. A divine showing of divas put the ‘broad’ in Broadway 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z She added that Mr. Pitt has always been firm that “it not be a vanity deal.” The Oscars: Brad Pitt Discusses ?Moneyball? and ?Tree of Life? 2011-12-30T18:44:10Z But that pervading creepiness is belied by Mr. Monaghan’s exuberant brush strokes, alluring pastels and illustrative imagery, which would seem more appropriate to a lighthearted commentary on love, lust and human vanity. Up Close: Tale of a Fateful Trip 2011-04-13T20:14:54Z Some of it was vanity: labels paid a premium to keep a big-name artist rather than risk a few wisecracks in the press for letting a star go to a rival. Megadeal for Michael Jackson?s Estate 2010-03-22T04:40:00Z To opt out of attending awards ceremonies or upper-crust events is actually just another form of vanity rather than genuine detachment. Han Han: I had to break my Twitter obsession 2012-10-07T21:30:00Z It’s vanity that draws my attention back to that corner of my screen, but it’s also curiosity. Therapy under lockdown: 'I’m just as terrified as my patients are' 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Entertain many options, too, not just the ones that suit your own world view or vanity. Husband supported her pregnancy; now she should support his bar-exam anxiety 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “The 14th Factory” is a herculean vanity project in which everything fairly shouts “Art!” 'The 14th Factory' art exhibition, despite all the hype, is an $18 ticket to spectacle 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Persuasive to the alienated Trump voters who seem content to roll the dice on an untested, incurious, and megalomaniacal vanity candidate? Samantha Bee, America’s New Comedian-in-Chief 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z And though Arquette began and ended the 12-year-process a beautiful movie star, she allowed some of her transformations—weight gain and loss, the inevitable wrinkles that come with age—to be filmed without vanity. These 8 Actresses Proved Women Can Carry A Summer Blockbuster 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The painter John Singer Sargent has sometimes been dismissed as an artist of flattery and frivolity — a portraitist-for-hire who catered to the vanities of his elite subjects, whether they were British aristocrats or Boston Brahmins. John Singer Sargent, À La Mode 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z While conveying Eden's petulance and vanity, Anthony Andrews also suggests something tragic about a man who entered politics to work for peace ending up as a symbol of war. A Marvellous Year for Plums ? review 2012-05-18T11:16:42Z Wander along the vanity aisle of any drugstore and Ms. Blodgett’s influence is apparent, as giants like Revlon and L’Oréal have been compelled to come out with their own mineral lines. Move Over, Est?e Lauder 2011-06-10T20:07:05Z Ms. Oates, who had two pet cats with Mr. Smith, shows her own sharp claws when alluding to Ms. Didion’s book as an exercise in narcissism and vanity. Books Of the Times: The Shock Of Losing A Spouse 2011-02-14T05:27:15Z These things are funded by a little bit of private vanity, a bit of corporate dosh, some state help. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z He is, instead, an emblem of loneliness and failure, whose cocoon of self-delusion and misplaced vanity is carefully dismantled by the sharp, remorseless tweezers of Solondz's sensibility. Don't underestimate this 'Dark Horse' 2012-08-02T20:12:04Z She points to vanity plates as proof of her theory — the vowels are always missing, but the meaning is still clear. When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z “The name doesn’t matter,” says Maalouf, whose parents never bothered to change the title so as to “leave vanity out” of the equation. 10 top places to eat in Cleveland, for convention-goers and the rest of us 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z At first, this seemingly simple story concentrates on Mija’s daily habits, her visits to her doctor, her relations with her grandson, her poignant vanity. Film: At Cannes, Films Echoing World Events 2010-05-20T22:16:00Z Pack an extension cord — because there are never enough power outlets — a vanity mirror with a light and your preferred soaps and shampoos. Perspective | Travelers have plenty of reservations about hotels 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Mike scooted me into the company van adorned with vanity plates: “The Inn.” Behind the scenes at a B&B: The joys — and challenges — of being an innkeeper 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But the image that captured political vanity at its most pathetically corrupting was when Byers's fake interviewer expressed her excitement at his connections. Delicious Dahl 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Brand-financed magazines — not glorified catalogs or vanity glossies but serious niche publications with top-notch editors and contributors — became something of a fad during the last decade. Fashion Brands Say Publications Are a Good Investment 2012-02-21T18:23:49Z Pope Francis, who of course belongs to the post-Vatican II generation, sometimes uses that interest in vestments to critique priestly vanity or traditionalism. A Trinity of Opinions on the Met’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z "I thought that the days of my vanity were past," Ridgeon says. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z He was assertive, and often granite stubborn, but completely devoid of vanity. The Michael Foot I knew, by Neil Kinnock 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z This architecture is useful only for illustrating the sheer vanity of building anything on a site that always was, and is now more than ever, charged with aggressive and eruptive power. Art Review: Manuel Acevedo Shows His Visions at Bronx River Center 2010-08-18T22:35:00Z The statue had very orderly hair, and as they headed into the gallery, ringed with neon sculptures by Charlie Hewitt, Ms. Ruehl allowed herself a little vanity as she put a hand to her hair. Mercedes Ruehl Takes Weekly Strolls With Her Acting Students 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z For every Bruce Springsteen who writes thoughtfully and perceptively about his life, there are a dozen more erstwhile rockers whose books are cheap cash-ins or vanity projects. Johnny Marr recalls the Smiths’ early days 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most impressive features are the bathrooms, with their alluring white tubs, modern vanities and screens, dotted with gentle light. Serenity in Midtown, Starting at $3,200 a Night? Aman Is Betting on It. 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z “I myself am a product junkie but find unique ways to contain clutter with small trays around the tub or the vanity,” Cavin-Winfrey says. 6 do’s and don’ts for decorating a bathroom that won’t embarrass you in front of guests 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z It stops the book being what it really is, which is a bit of a vanity project. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z His tantrums when he gets things wrong, his willingness to break rules and even laws, his vanity and occasional tactlessness are all part of what makes him lovable. Perspective | New versions of Hercule Poirot keep coming, and that’s a good thing 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z With most big stars, the vanity and the power and the money take over. Bowie and me 2013-02-23T08:00:24Z That's why the practices of vanity sizing and gamed Snackwell portion sizes exist: to sell a nice mental boost to the consumer. Why can't Kirstie Alley be honest about her size? 2011-04-22T18:56:00Z For as repugnant as that may sound, it follows a certain kind of baby-boomer logic: Pitzer’s unauthorized sequel isn’t so much a vanity project as it is a full-blown midlife crisis caught on film. No rights allowed: the strange world of unofficial movie sequels 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Dr. Read said he sees the role played by his own vanity in all this. Losing the Fight Against ‘Dad Bod’ 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z To stock your own vanity, Ms. Bicaj suggests looking for balancing products. 3 Top Facialists and What They’re Recommending for Summer Skin 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Under the unctuous tutelage of local merchant Monsieur Lhereux, Emma, who has a weakness for personal vanity, discovers the joys of conspicuous consumption. 'Madame Bovary' lovely but as constrained as Flaubert's heroine 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z His haircut is a curtained pageboy that states his freedom from vanity. “Kidding,” Reviewed: Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry Reunite to Conjure Whimsy, Dread, and Puppets 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z They're also past caring about such vanities as clothing changes or partial nudity. Between "Ghosts" to "Not Dead Yet," it's starting to look like TV is having a season full of spirits 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z In a statement issued through his publisher, he said the book was "not a vanity for me," but an "essential rite of passage." The Who's Pete Townshend writing memoir 2011-05-18T01:16:06Z Such a narcissist That in prison he’ll only Print vanity plates. Style Invitational Week 1405: Okay, once more around the track 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z It is he who, for all his patrician bonhomie and very false modesty, harbors the most vanity and ambition in this story. Books of The Times: ?Watergate,? a Novel by Thomas Mallon 2012-02-15T20:34:23Z The biggest fault for any actor is vanity, and I’ve never fallen prey to that. Kirsten Dunst: ‘The movie industry is in a weird place – creatives blossom on TV’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z “Walking With Ghosts” has the texture of a vanity project. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Some adventurous shows dug a little deeper, such as The Larry Sanders Show, which constructed its fictitious late-night talk show as a temple to its host’s preening vanity. Office lol-itics: the evolution of the workplace sitcom 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z We got on so well and I suddenly felt at home, as though that lack of belonging was all in my imagination, all in my vanity.” Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z But a bit of self-reflection and a little less naivete might lead the art world away from the moral vanity of righteous gestures and toward the fight for actual solutions. Perspective | Can artists right the ills of an unjust world by staging museum protests? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “I don’t like to emphasize my age,” he told the Times, “not out of vanity, but I don’t like to reinforce the cliche that opera is for old people.” Peter Allen, stalwart host of the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts, dies at 96 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z There was a moment, at the beginning of the shoot, when she had tried to present herself to him in the best possible light, when she tried to hold onto some vanity. In ‘Dangerous Liaisons,’ Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton Play the Game 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z In the book's first half, the reader comes to know Lotto's vanity and his confidence in the world as he has narrated it. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “There was never any vanity to what he was doing,” Mr. St. James said. Desi Santiago Is an Artist in the Moment 2012-03-28T21:01:45Z Just how spectacularly bad this idea is — how packed with vanity, magical thinking and plain, stupid meanness — emerges over the course of a few days, but the warning signs are there from the start. | 'Young Adult': Charlize Theron in ?Young Adult? - Review 2011-12-08T13:00:01Z Why, when she's apparently quite a flexible person who finds it easy to put her vanity aside, doesn't she have more friends? TV review: Trollied; Rick Stein's Spain 2011-08-04T21:00:11Z In one of the world’s most jealously protected shrines to vintage fashion, vanity and vexation of the spirit, Rita Watnick governs a collection of dresses that even an Oscar nominee could love. 2010-01-12T23:15:00Z Also, in my decade as a self-publisher, no one wields the term “vanity press” so indiscriminately as those loyal to traditional publishing. Letting go of my Kindle guilt 2012-11-18T14:00:00Z I trust that they dismissed your words for what they were: the sad, outdated vanity of a woman struggling with the cage she imprisoned herself in long ago. A letter to… my thoughtless mother 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Frances McDormand is a quintessential triple-crowner — lacking physical vanity, trained as a classic theater actor and versatile over a long period of time. The triple crown of acting: Only 22 people have ever accomplished this feat 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Anyway, I was going to write about that, all of that: the audacity, the Americana, the vanity and consumer excess descending into schadenfreude. Perspective | Let’s have a gender-reveal party that reveals gender is a construct 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Today, 13 of Marriott International’s 30 brands offer everything from mattresses to vanity mirrors for sale on their websites. Love Your Hotel Room? Take a Piece of It Home 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Richard Schiff, of The West Wing fame, makes the composer a figure of wondrously acerbic vanity who prefaces every remark by reminding everyone of his 28 Broadway scores. Smash! ? review 2011-04-01T20:30:00Z Writers with 18 books to their credit have surely earned the right to step out of their comfort zone, Buckley’s being satirical novels that skewer the vanities and hypocrisies of American commerce and politics. Finding the Funny in 17th-Century History 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “I got us a couple of days off as a cast, other than that it was a vanity title,” he admits. ‘I didn’t go looking for someone younger’: Dennis Quaid on his new love and new roles 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z However, the messages of vanity, social comparison, and articulating one's self-concept through material goods are also embedded in the story. Are children's books too materialistic? 2013-04-22T13:01:10Z I like the fact he remains relatively unambitious, relatively without vanity. Kenneth Branagh: wallowing in Wallander 2012-06-17T17:00:01Z Yet Oppenheimer’s genius, his credentials, international reputation and wartime service to the United States government cannot save him from political gamesmanship, the vanity of petty men and the naked antisemitism of the Red scare. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z And at age 93, after a distinguished but relatively anonymous life, he published a slim pamphlet that even he expected would be little more than a vanity project. Hessel, France's surprise elder icon, dies at 95 2013-02-27T13:26:10Z The reason, beauty analysts say, is a changing attitude among men, who now associate healthy-looking skin less with vanity than with professionalism. Skin Deep: Men, Once Again, Invest in Skin Care ? Skin Deep 2011-12-20T17:06:18Z He communicated beauty, vanity and pleasure in his photographs of fashionably dressed women, which began with his first assignment in St. Paul at Frank Murphy's Women's Clothing Store. Lens Blog: A Look at Gordon Parks's Fashion Photography 2012-11-30T10:00:13Z For one, athletes sacrifice their physical and emotional wellbeing for this vanity. Ai Weiwei: China excluded its people from the Olympics. London is different 2012-07-25T16:47:53Z First seen shadow-boxing in his dressing gown, he captures perfectly the sleek vanity of this septuagenarian overlord. The Syndicate ? review 2011-08-02T23:06:19Z But she clearly never listened, because in 2006 she made this entirely generic vanity project of a music biopic with her new husband, Marc Anthony. The best and the worst Jennifer Lopez films – ranked 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z There is an art to writing about unlikable people while still engaging the reader to invest in their indulgence, vanity and, yes, happiness. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “Perhaps it might be better to resist the call and to stay humble. … Humility is, after all, my favorite form of vanity.” Review | Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s son recalls the death of a literary giant 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Some people are skeptical, says Sajet, and see the entire enterprise as a vanity project. How the National Portrait Gallery’s gala tapped A-list celebrities to become a hot ticket 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The Tower of Babel, for example, is viewed today as the embodiment of vanity and arrogance. Building societies 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z We got used to size zero–and thanks to vanity sizing more of us are probably wearing a size zero. J. Crew Introduces a Size Smaller Than XXS 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z He showed photos of a birthday cake decorated with "Late Night" logo from Letterman's era and his "L8 NITE" vanity license plate. Conan O'Brien and other late-night hosts pay tribute to David Letterman 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Of course, vanity is an equal-opportunity predator; more and more men are turning to cosmetic surgery. Mirror: The Case for Laugh Lines 2011-05-26T22:16:54Z He displays the vanities and uncertainties, the kindnesses and the missteps that evoke the sense of full and complex lives. What’s Missing from the Brilliant “Marriage Story” 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “A vanity project that’s difficult to love, but alluring to unpack,” said, er, the Guardian. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z What she came up with centered on a struggling, self-involved actress, Kate, putting on an autobiographical solo show, a vanity project. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z "This wasn't a vanity project, and this was something that really spoke to Chad on a deep level, which made it a lot easier to greenlight the book," Christy said. Actor Chad Michael Murray turns to graphic novels 2011-11-17T14:19:15Z Walt's desire to get caught is a matter of vanity, so that the world will know how special he is. "Breaking Bad," 4x7: "Problem Dog" 2011-08-29T14:30:00Z They’re the next-door versions of those cosmetically perfect pop and movie stars whose public vanities and follies we savor with such glee. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z You don’t need to haul in the whole vanity to discuss options for replacing the top. What to do with old (but stylish) eyeglasses 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z A cynic might put the Academy’s makeover down to concern over its own image – Hollywood is no stranger to vanity, after all. The new Oscars diversity rules show Hollywood is inching in the right direction | Steve Rose 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z “Her vanity was in her work,” Ms. Wilson told the fashion critic Cathy Horyn in a recent interview in The New York Times, and Stanwyck was a workhorse throughout her career. Last Chance: Barbara Stanwyck Festival at Film Forum 2013-12-26T21:36:07Z To play Wallace, he said he worked to strip away any vanity or hint of pretense or self-satisfaction, and strived, moment by moment, to be as honest and empathetic as he could be. Jason Segel Makes a Career U-Turn as David Foster Wallace in ‘The End of the Tour’ 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s very dark, about accepting the vanity of the world and the sadness of being alone. 10 Hours Gives Us (Almost) All of Schumann’s Songs 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z A photo taken in the bathroom of Stettheimer’s midtown studio in the 1940s shows the drawing resting on the edge of a vanity table. Why Were So Many Stettheimer Art Works Up for Sale? Not All Were Real 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z The Golden Globes weren’t much fun, but they were a tableau of Hollywood in cockeyed balance: self-importance earned and leavened by self-deprecation, a puncturing of pride to pave the way for an indulgence of vanity. At Golden Globes, Comedy, Charlie Hebdo and Cosby 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z “I was focused on primarily the vanity muscles,” he said, laughing. Some people are getting hotter during the pandemic. How dare they. 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Lionel goes into battle without the armor of cynicism that most movie private eyes before him have worn; instead, he is clad in a righteousness that is ultimately hard to distinguish from vanity. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z There’s a cynical way to look at the use of photography at the march: that attending, for some people, was an act of vanity. Lemme Take a Selfie: The art and vanity of protest photography 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z When Jacques Chirac used vast state funds to build a lavish museum to all the gifts given to him as French president, his political opponents feared a vanity project. Chirac's collection of kitsch gifts wrecks region's economy 2010-12-31T16:21:24Z What’s more, the editing is choppy, and the lighting is often garish — a tabloid-style production for an artist who merits vanity treatment. In a New Documentary, Janet Jackson Is Hiding in Plain Sight 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Clearly, this is a world the author knows all too well, whose vanities she despises. So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The moment is staged to full effect, with the girl singing intently into a vanity mirror, her face amplified on a big screen above the stage. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z "The problem for a democracy is how to get rid of the pitiful vanities of partisan talk and voting and the corruption of party machines without silencing opposition criticism," he muses. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z "His vanity, though child-like, was monstrous," wrote his biographer, Philip Ziegler, "his ambition unbridled." Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z These are stuffed with books of philosophy, musical instruments, skulls, prints and pictures, all of which illustrate the vanity of living and learning. Mr Collier's Letter Racks by Dror Wahrman - review 2012-12-21T22:55:01Z Everything is nice and clean, but bathroom vanities are topped with painted ceramic tiles rather than marble, and floors are of Saltillo tiles, rather than reclaimed wood. ‘The Ranch’: In Mexico, a spa’s luxury inspires a cultish devotion 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z If this was a vanity production made for the Prince of Lies, can't he afford an editor? "The Last Exorcism": Satan makes a fake documentary 2010-08-27T00:30:00Z The fight over the founding of the institution is entertaining enough, with leading players such as Reynolds and Chambers professing grand ideals while driven by vanity and pique. The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z From her prime seat, Cosby’s wife heard her husband’s lawyer blame his legal woes on the supposed lies, greed and vanity of his accusers. Jurors in sexual-assault trial of Bill Cosby begin deliberations 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z More than anything, the film plays like a vanity project for Filipino entertainer Anne Curtis, making her American movie debut. 'Blood Ransom' vampire tale is a bit anemic 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z "There's a big slice of vanity in this profession that some people buy into," he said. For Russell Crowe, directing 'Water Diviner' is risky; reward is 'freedom' 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z If Madonna is … well, if Madonna is in it at all, it’s probably a vanity project. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Tidy up underneath the kitchen sink or bathroom vanity. Take tiny steps toward decluttering your house 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Yes, you can call it a vanity project and yes, it does throw the kitchen sink at the plot then hurl the whole bath in afterwards – but it is also prepared to take risks. Naysayers be damned! Tom Hardy's Taboo is a work of Wicker Man genius 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z A few months ago, we put a new Glacier Bay vanity in our bathroom. What to do with old (but stylish) eyeglasses 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vanity is no vice. "Metropolitan Vanities" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Architectural Digest 2013-12-20T05:00:00Z Dandini rejoins the Prince and describes the sisters' vanity and insolence. Glyndebourne 2012 - La Cenerentola synopsis 2012-06-18T13:49:33Z The Midwestern brigade questioned my vanity for putting out more splashy confessional books. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z “All my girls in West Palm Beach wear her,” said one acquaintance, citing the “vintage vibe,” minus funky smells, plus generous vanity sizing. Critical Shopper: Milly in Manhattan Takes Contemporary to Extremes 2012-02-29T21:18:18Z The writer wants the novel to express his own “boredom, vanity, monotony” — not usually a promising idea for a book. Experimental Literature That Tests Family Bonds and Routines 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z There's a vanity about that kind of work, a self-preening quality. A life in theatre: Michael Boyd 2012-11-16T12:43:29Z Stretching mightily for kindness, a reporter who once profiled me said my hair belonged to someone “with a complete lack of vanity.” Dear Wikipedia: Please change my photo! 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z He is not evil: he is more of a mirror reflecting back the vanity and insecurities of four decades of politicians. Rupert Murdoch and phone hacking: an insiders' story 2011-07-27T18:24:35Z The Modern style is best featured in the show in an exceptional selection of precious objects like cigarette cases and vanity accessories. A Rare Gathering of Cartier's Best 2012-12-06T16:30:20Z His public-spirited desire to have his collection end up in the public realm was "completely free of vanity", said Penny. Old master paintings worth £100m given to Britain – with strings attached 2013-02-19T15:59:55Z Although Smith never plays Aimee’s naive endeavor for laughs, the resulting project is a classic case of misguided altruism engorged on vanity. ‘Swing Time’: Zadie Smith’s sweeping novel about friendship, race and class 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z There is no vanity in it and nowhere to hide. ‘Two Days, One Night’: Dardenne brothers take a star turn, enlisting Marion Cotillard 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Fear and vanity held me back, as I imagined sitting amongst 500 congregants, worrying: How pale do I look? Feeling naked and exposed on Yom Kippur 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z “We felt that the book should not be a vanity project,” she said. A garden the ‘Downton Abbey’ crowd would drool over 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z But when the wealthy use their position to satisfy their own vanity, they don't seem so big and scary. Celebrity divas: the foolish, fabulous, not-so-fearsome rich 2012-11-15T16:25:36Z But vanity need not make an endeavour worthless. You're so vain! The phenomenon of the self-loving actor-director 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z As opposed, he says, to “the vanity that errs on the side of violence against oneself, physical violence. It’s crazy.” Sean Penn: ‘Some of my best laughs have come out of the worst reviews’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z But, most of us thought, well, in a household of such overwhelming, superficial femininity, who wouldn’t indulge in some basic vanity? Bruce Jenner and the Modern American Family 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z It is not clear to what extent these new roles are vanity titles. When Did Every Celebrity Become a Creative Director? 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Long scorned as the “vanity press,” self-publishing now draws hundreds of thousands of hopeful authors. Romance finally breaks The Post’s ‘No Self-Published Books’ rule 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z You can hear in these lines Pound’s relitigation of the past, clearing himself of “vanity” and “error”: that rash young man who ate the tulips has taken his valiant older self as passionate defender. When Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats Ate a Peacock 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But Mr. Hanks, who was also fantastic in this spring’s barely seen “A Hologram for the King,” has no obvious use for vanity. The Best Performances of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z “Ego and vanity and paranoia — that’s part of what it’s like being creative,” he said. Nicolas Winding Refn Dissects His Bloody Confection 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Robert Kennedy once called this the “vanity of our false distinctions among men.” Motherlode Blog: Are Poor Parents Poorer at Parenting? 2011-09-20T16:36:51Z Parker’s great, and seemingly unconscious, vanity in the making of “The Birth of a Nation” is to render Nat Turner a supreme victim rather than a supreme witness. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Okay, it’s partially about vanity, but it’s also about maintaining an image. When every day is a bad hair day: Getting to the roots of our new reality 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z He designed furniture for his parents’ bedroom area, including the bed and nightstand, as well as a sterling silver vanity collection. Eero Saarinen’s Michigan 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The sleek vanity combined a stainless-steel top with a shallow, rectangular white sink. Check In/Check Out : Hotel Review: The Redbury in Los Angeles 2011-06-10T19:15:32Z And then, running late to meet friends, and sweating beneath my winter coat in the cold, I felt ashamed of my vanity and need for positive male attention. My ironic sorority disaster 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z I didn’t want it to seem like my vanity or self-indulgence was subtracting from the emotion of the story. Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen on Playing Ancestral Homies 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Designers often distance themselves from the industry of “fashion,” dancing around the suggestions of trendiness and vanity. Tyler, the Creator’s Fashion Statement 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z "Part of Me" is her victory lap, a vanity movie that's not especially good, but it doesn't matter. Katy Perry's 'Part of Me' less than the sum 2012-07-03T23:09:04Z To an American audience swamped with images of cosmetic body modification, their lack of vanity may seem almost radical. | '3': Tom Tyker?s ?3,? a Comedy of Adultery - Review 2011-09-15T22:32:35Z She began incorporating the color into her wardrobe and even has plans to paint her bathroom vanity in cobalt blue. Cobalt Blue Is Color Rushing Our Summer 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Because our earnestness and our vanity beg for nothing less; only comedy can dissolve them. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The creator of Family Guy went on to create a million shows that are exactly like Family Guy and the world's worst tedious swing album vanity project. The Simpsons is debasing itself with a Family Guy crossover episode 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z The mosque — built of creamy Italian marble and English stained glass — and its golden cupolas were, for Burgess, symbols of royal vanity. 2010-01-07T14:25:00Z It was awful both because it was ugly and because it reeked of desperation and unseemly vanity. Perspective | How should we talk about Stephen Miller’s hair? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The division of the vanity area and the toilet-and-shower bathroom meant little since I was traveling alone, though in general, I approve of such arrangements. Hyatt House, a different kind of home away from home There was no time to waste on artistic vanity. Watching Canada’s Biggest Rock Band Say a Dramatic Goodbye 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z As an aging queen-bee club owner, and loving but negligent parent to Helen, he channels Liza Minnelli and Joan Crawford, and milks every shred of vanity and near-hysteria with astute comic flair and timing. Dan Savage's campy 'Miracle!': a delight to some, drag for others 2012-07-19T03:56:53Z Beyond that is a kind of mirrored vanity area for freshening up after a treatment, with organic face wipes and a jade roller and lockers to ensure you’re not tempted to check your phone. Acupuncture for All 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Healy notes she’s asking a lot of questions; she enlists him by appealing to his vanity, making him editor in chief. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: It's Valentine's Day at the Litch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s an amusing scene, this image of an older man’s vanity, yet it’s also significant because it’s a moment of narcissistic reflection with far-reaching implications. | 'A Screaming Man': A Pool Man in Chad, at the Intersection of the Personal and the Political 2011-04-12T22:43:09Z Now I was shooting in America … It was much bigger than "Slumdog" - vanity vans and cars and the whole paraphernalia. Indian "24" will work like slow poison: Anil Kapoor 2013-04-18T17:18:19Z His vanity allows deWitt to paint a hilarious picture of him getting acquainted with the dramatic implications of holding a pipe. A dark fable of love, adventure and redemption 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z In other words, Mr. Wilson’s Krapp wears his rue — and his vanity — with a difference, and there’s something affecting in this softening of the physical dimensions of memory. Review: ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Potter, beautiful in her own right — and fetchingly and appropriately dressed by designer Frank Labovitz — eschews some of the vanity that overtakes other portrayals of the character. A “Menagerie” of real feeling 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z While most of us don’t have Mr. Page at our vanities, you can nonetheless be your own chemist. Runway Hair and Makeup to Try at Home 2012-02-15T20:20:08Z You might end up mourning the little boy who was raised to be not a man but rather an unfinished, unfinishable vanity project. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Today, scholars relish the anti-Whig references in “Gulliver’s Travels,” but the rest of us can still enjoy its wicked critique of hubris, vanity and illogic. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Then again, perhaps the notion that a lack of conscience and an excess of vanity really do pay is simply too close to the bone in America in 2017. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Eerily well-behaved and compulsively dainty, she practices her saccharine smile in her vanity mirror and delivers malicious glares with vigor. Rob Lowe’s Directorial Début Adds a Theme of Home-Wrecker Horror to “The Bad Seed” 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z A teacher of mathematics at Olympic College in Bremerton and Shelton, Mason County, writes "a secular, satirical thrill ride, in which all humanity's glories and vanities can be seen in one lyrical, hypocritical microcosm." Washington state's Gov. Booth Gardner is subject of new biography 2010-06-28T23:20:00Z However, I feel the drama is most rewarding when Mo is at her best: witty and brazen with a lack of vanity. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z This may sound like artistic vanity, but it’s actually a kind of humility. Review: In ‘Taxi,’ a Filmmaker Pushes Against Iranian Censorship From Behind the Wheel 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z There’s a bracing lack of vanity in how she conveys this long-lost world and not an iota of misplaced nostalgia. Review: ‘Vazante’ Revisits Brazil’s History in Black and White 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z A separate beige-tiled room contained a toilet and low bathtub with a showerhead; a single vanity and mirror were relegated to the room’s entryway. Hotel Review: The Brice in Savannah 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The lamps near the vanity collection emit light toward the ceiling, avoiding direct exposure to the face. Eero Saarinen’s Michigan 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z “Tonight we trade our vanity for insanity,” he bellowed. Critic?s Notebook: Belligerent and Boozy, and That?s Just the Audience 2011-04-03T20:27:46Z When the series instead settled into a meticulous and purposefully created portraiture of vulnerable egos, vanity and marginalization, it reneged on its initial tease of an easy good time. “Feud: Bette and Joan” fades out: Old Hollywood may have been no match for the modern woman 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Was it difficult to let go of that vanity? Emmys 2014: Kate Mulgrew loses vanity, wins an Emmy nom for 'Orange' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z I feel like the vanity attached to that was just uncomfortable for me. Katherine Heigl unfiltered: "I know my value. Beauty ... is the least interesting thing about me" 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Where Carell's "The Office" character, Michael Scott, combines outrageously bad judgment with vanity and self-delusion, Barry Speck is enough rungs down the IQ ladder that laughing at him is nearly unpleasant. Cast rises above indignities of "Dinner" 2010-07-16T21:38:00Z “What a frantically dull spectacle this vanity project is.” Here Are the Worst Things Critics Had to Say About Mortdecai 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z I asked designers and researchers at some of the world’s leading hotel brands to talk showers, vanities and everything in between. The Getaway: Inside the Evolving Hotel Bathroom 2013-12-10T19:36:36Z “Nip/Tuck” follows two plastic surgeons dealing with their clients’ obsessive vanity and their own compulsions; it was a critical hit in the materialistic mid-Bush years. What to stream on Netflix during the long weekend 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z It would be easy to dub the documentary "Weaving the Past: Journey of Discovery" a kind of ultimate vanity project. 'Weaving the Past' an exhaustive tribute to a beloved grandfather 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Bruce Wagner writes really wonderfully about that whole milieu and its gothic vanity. Emma Cline on the Movie Business 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z “There was no vanity to my wife’s approach,” Pitt said on the Today show. Brad Pitt Says Angelina Jolie Got Double Mastectomy 'for the Kids' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Normally these collections of journalists' cuttings are not much of an advance on vanity publishing. Robert Hughes 2012-08-07T01:48:31Z But I let go of my vanity and let it be what it was. ‘Myths and Hymns,’ a Theater Cult Favorite, Changes Shape Again 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Then the vanity, being the only truly replicable trait, becomes the thing to emulate. Me! Me! Me! Are we living through a narcissism epidemic? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z It's amiable, but the more miles it clocks up, the more this film looks like a vanity vehicle for its co-director, writer and star, Dax Shepard. Hit and Run – review 2012-10-11T21:00:01Z As the money flows in, so do the guns, and the old codes of honor and reciprocity are corroded by acquisitiveness and vanity. ‘Birds of Passage’ Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z At their worst, biopics indulge the vanity of an actor with an eye on an Oscar nomination. film: Anti-Biopics Series at Anthology Film Archives 2010-07-09T07:25:00Z It’s breezy, sets a boundary, delivers a compliment, appeals to her vanity and speaks only for you. Carolyn Hax: What’s in a name? None of your business. 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z He’s always on the hustle, and part of the hustle is the lie—the lie of strategy, the lie of vanity, the lie of consolation, the lie of self-defense. Adam Sandler’s Misused Comedic Art 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z She considers voting to be another vanity, but it’s one she gladly indulges in; despite obvious ideological differences, she will be casting her ballot for Hillary Clinton in November. Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z If there is a certain vanity to his photographic self-portraits, Munch never spared himself when it came to painting. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 2 – Edvard Munch at Tate Modern 2012-12-20T13:38:40Z “I’ve retired a bit physically,” he says, his shoes peeking out from under the curtain, citing “vanity” as the reason. Lars von Trier Had the Key to the End of ‘The Kingdom’ All Along 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z I don't think he's done with sex, or vanity, or Catholicism. Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more' 2013-04-21T07:30:01Z He digs deep, without any noticeable vanity, as someone plagued with embarrassing desperation, pathetically tugging on the jackets of those he wants to be around. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 9 – Uncut Gems 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Solanas accuses men of projecting their own hated traits onto women — insecurity, vanity, passivity — while appropriating women’s decisiveness and swagger for themselves. Feminism Means a Lot of Things, and This Book Contains Them All 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Separated from the sleeping area by the TV and the fireplace, there was a marble vanity with a deep square sink, bronze faucet and lighting from two hanging Edison bulbs that flanked an oval mirror. In Mexico, a Former Factory Is an Artful Hotel 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Among the campers Amber is the resident pretty girl — overweight by her own standard, but small enough in comparison to everyone else that her effort is taken as an act of vanity. | 'Huge': Lessons From a Weight-Loss Camp, on ABC Family 2010-06-27T22:51:00Z And their affairs seem to be less about love than vanity. Newly Released Books 2011-02-16T22:45:21Z Lost between innocence and cynicism, Ruth is exasperating in her vanity but endearing in her pain. In Kate Zambreno’s ‘Green Girl,’ a young American wanders through London But Ford's borrowings are both canny and canned: There's an aggressive artificiality about them that makes them feel smug and arty -- they exist for their own vanity, not to serve the story. 2009-12-10T01:10:00Z “I was struck at the time by the practicality of her remark, no vanity of any kind.” Ann Romney Is Writing Her Own Dress Code 2012-06-13T21:02:43Z A Brooklyn furniture maker was baffled by her request to build a sink vanity without a sink. Elizabeth Jaeger, Former Model, Reshaping Her Career 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z They are ordinary modern guys, unheroic even if their vanity might tempt them to think otherwise. Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ the Manly Games Played on the Aegean 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z He has mistaken his own artistic vanity for moral commitment. Movie Review: ‘Twice Born’ Stars Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch 2013-12-05T22:27:14Z I am terrified of giving the appearance of vanity. Perspective | Hey, President Trump, is there room on your staff for a spellchecker? 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Surely Bongwan, with his potentially toxic blend of vanity, self-pity, passivity and guile, fits the profile of a recognizable and infamous type of lousy media man. Review: ‘The Day After’ and the Awkwardness of Lunch With the Boss 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps it inspires the same love-hate relationship that many women already have with high heels, which seem up there with elective surgery when it comes to pitting vanity against pain thresholds. A Feast of ‘Killer Shoes’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z I spent time working at the vanity desk, the mirror lined with warm Edison-style bulbs, and it was the first time I’ve ever felt like a movie star while typing. Hotel Review: White City House, London 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Bonnett is here to tell us that it's more often shaped by greed, vanity, folly and what often looks like madness. 'Unruly Places' is a guide to weird, ruined and wonderful spots 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z But the buoyancy of the production and the overall intrigue of hearing him struggle with his idle hands prevent the album from getting mired down in too much vanity. Tyler, the Creator is His Own Worst Enemy on Wolf 2013-04-03T11:00:02Z The students’ innocuous vanity serves as a foil to Kominsky’s metastatic form of it as he moves into the terra incognita of post-late-middle-age. Is Theater Ridiculous? Movies, TV and Books Seem to Think So 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s not about vanity; it’s about looking fit and energetic. Can we talk about the senior citizens running for president and how they try to look younger? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Again and again, we’re shown how expressing interest in other people and appealing to their vanity has — “presto!” — reshaped nations, harmonized factories and increased sales. ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’: Why the granddaddy of self-help endures 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Although I happen to believe that vanity can be pretty healthy. Leanne Shapton: 'The idea for my new novel came from my raging jealousy' 2013-04-28T09:30:01Z There is a tendency now to think the only valid form of architecture is to help earthquake victims, or do something to solve the Palestinian problem, a tendency that has its own pomposity and vanity. Brilliant biennale 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Her one concession to vanity is her “writing jacket,” a green, military-style moleskin coat that she wears as a kind of armor when she sits down to work by candlelight. How Jacqueline Durran, the “Little Women” Costume Designer, Remixes Styles and Eras 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z In the movie “Brazil,” the main character’s mother purchases repeated plastic surgery until she becomes something grotesque, a symbol of our vanity gone monstrous and absurd. Not Quite “Brazil”: Meg Ryan, plastic surgery and my mother’s augmentation 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z The vanity project is alive and well, but like a publicity-shy celebrity on a trip to the corner shop, it has learned to disguise itself. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z There aren’t as many vulnerabilities in one’s vanity at that point. After 25 Years, How Well Has Madonna’s ‘Truth or Dare’ Aged? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Proudly middle-aged and exhibiting not a trace of vanity, Ms. Bening is one of the great reactive actors of our time. Motivators of 2010: Technology and Greed 2010-12-17T19:43:28Z Her acting worked so well because she was truthful with herself, and with us -- a real, honest citizen who cheerfully bore the punishments of her life while showing no bitterness and protecting no vanity. Elizabeth Taylor: Weapon of mass obsession 2011-03-23T22:16:00Z But it wasn’t the vanity that bothered me. I’m Getting Married, Mom. Please Cry. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z The result is a 103-minute vanity project I found utterly exhausting. ‘Ninja Badass’ Review: Kill Bad Guys, Save Hot Babes, Look Silly 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z What emerges is a remarkable portrait of the vanity, vulnerability, and personal cost of being an ambitious old lady in celebrity culture. Movie Review: Taking Joan Rivers Seriously 2010-05-13T15:28:00Z Still, Jackson asks, “Why torment yourself and perhaps write against the grain?”.Better to acknowledge, with Marcus Aurelius, that the quest for fame is “wholly vanity.” The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z In a grand act of vanity publishing, everybody should post their nudes. The key to avoiding sexual shame online: reveal it all first 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z The women at the center of his best-known shows, “Hello, Dolly!” and “Mame,” are pathologically positive, speaking directly to our vanities and vulnerabilities — and are celebrated for it. Review: In ‘Dear World,’ Donna Murphy Leads a Righteous March 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z But Mr. Lahr devotes more space to Williams’s creative push and pull with Kazan and Wood, and the fateful breaks with each, which he attributes to Williams’s “artistic vanity” and rising paranoia. John Lahr’s Biography of Tennessee Williams 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z It's more like a self-congratulatory vanity project, a masturbatory moment in which a rich and privileged superstar reveals how distant he is from the mythological ordinary people he claims to love. "Grown Ups": It's time to kill the midlife dude flick 2010-06-25T00:23:00Z The story unfolds seven years after Piero de' Medici's exile from Florence and five years after the Dominican friar Savonarola instigated a "bonfire of the vanities", in which luxury items, including artworks, were publicly destroyed. David by Mary Hoffman ? review 2011-07-29T21:55:01Z Settling on some lacy underwear in fuchsia, she checks the smartphone on her vanity table and takes note of a calendar reminder that says, “Lunch with Dan.” Plus-Size Wars 2010-07-29T15:41:00Z Even more amazingly, that vanity project became one of the funniest shows of this decade. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Does the blend of self-pity, vanity, petulance and bombast that Depp displayed on the stand represent how we want to see ourselves or our sons? The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z He and Garner said they wouldn’t conduct vanity searches — mostly. Toronto Film Festival: Adam Sandler on living in a technological age 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The diaries humanized a writer who, off the page and sometimes on it, could seem stuffy and pompous, driven by protocol and vanity. Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z To Albert, ambition is a quality that arises organically from both vanity and a genuine wish to do good work; it’s also something she regards as alien and horrific. The Infantilizing Ways We Talk About Women’s Ambition 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z He also produced several well-received compilations of song-poems, the strange vanity records on which amateur lyricists, for a fee, have their words set to music and recorded by professionals. Tom Ardolino, 56, Longtime Drummer for NRBQ, Dies 2012-01-15T06:43:10Z These affairs and dalliances must have stirred his vanity, but one result was that his wife, Jane, drank heavily. Civilised and civilising 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “One is where important health benefits are seen and the other is about vanity — wanting to look good in a bathing suit.” Losing those last five pounds Upstairs, guest rooms feature vintage details like distressed hardwood floors, old-fashioned luggage turned into dressers and showgirl-style lighting around vanity mirrors. A Las Vegas Boutique Hotel With Star Power 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z "It's partly vanity and also it's the male gaze." Keira Knightley says that she'll no longer do sex scenes in films directed by men 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z I need a comeback to squelch the vanity of men like the captain. Social Q’s: When a Diner Whines to the Waiter 2012-08-23T20:25:11Z I was also a bit flummoxed that although there was a wastebasket under the vanity counter, there was none in the bathroom. Hyatt House, a different kind of home away from home Photograph: Leon Csernohlavek There's a longstanding tradition that an artist who starts their own record company will use it to sign artists in their own image: they don't call them vanity labels for nothing. Nero: Welcome Reality - review 2011-08-04T14:30:01Z What interested me in telling her story, to talk about today, is the social vanity that we are all tapping into now with Instagram and having this over-awareness of our image. "Corsage" star Vicky Krieps says Austria's Empress Elisabeth had a "darkness that attracted me" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Settling on a strict definition of a vanity project is a tricky business in an industry where vanity is practically part of the job description. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z As it stands, “No End” is easy fodder for those who would accuse Mr. Jarrett of vanity or self-absorption; it’s partly dedicated “to my friends and to my enemies.” Critic’s Notebook: Keith Jarrett and His Trio Will Play at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-10T22:18:15Z It’s quite a feat that Seinfeld has combined three of his passions into one vanity project. The sneaky power of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”: How Jerry Seinfeld cracks celebrities open 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z A neo-Renaissance-style sandstone structure, it sprawls and swirls across an entire city block, offering a first hint of Hamburg’s longstanding vanity and ambition. 36 Hours: Hamburg, Germany 2012-01-19T16:06:15Z They find themselves competing for McBurney’s favor as he sets about manipulating their vanities and insecurities, smiling like a tomcat who has stumbled into a cage full of canaries. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Now André wants Arnold to ponder this injustice while “the many slights to his vanity” fester. 'Turn: Washington's Spies' recap: Abe resumes his covert work 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z And his vanity isn’t piqued by the transformation. Matthew McConaughey: ‘My agent said no to romcoms. And then there was nothing’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z He is, instead, an emblem of loneliness and failure, whose cocoon of self-delusion and misplaced vanity is carefully dismantled by the sharp, remorseless tweezers of Mr. Solondz’s sensibility. Movie Review: Todd Solondz’s ‘Dark Horse’ Stars Jordan Gelber 2012-06-07T21:43:01Z This has been compounded by an apparent rise in general masculine vanity. ‘I wanted a truncheon in my pants’: the rise of the penis extension 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z In this way, vanity sizing reinforces persistent size prejudice, not to mention the sexist double-standard associating slenderness with femininity, and brawny mass with masculinity. Is Abercrombie & Fitch the enemy? Or is it us? 2013-05-30T15:28:00Z Founded nine years ago by Nancy Laurie, heiress to the Walmart fortune, some cynics initially assumed they were merely a vanity project – one of many in the history of dance. Cedar Lake ballet's great leap forward 2012-10-09T16:04:05Z It now begins not with its stars at separate vanity tables, contemplating their visages, but with a chorus of smartly dressed women heeding the call of a bodiless voice to beautify themselves. Review: In ‘War Paint,’ Sing a Song of Face Creams 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The Home Depot listing says this vanity is made of particleboard with a front of natural wood, but there aren’t any details about what kind of paint and primer the manufacturer used. Why does the paint keep peeling on my bathroom vanity? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Their impulses, vanities, and shortcomings place them far outside Judeo-Christian tradition. Holy joke: how God became an unlikely TV comedy staple 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Stewart may have been this year’s most magnetic mountainside celebrity, but “Rosewater,” his debut feature, is the opposite of a vanity project. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z In short, it’s time to demand an end to vanity sizing. Is Abercrombie & Fitch the enemy? Or is it us? 2013-05-30T15:28:00Z Nonetheless, the movie pivots on two varieties of tragedy, and both emerge from the misdeeds of the upper crust: the predatory desire of the powerful and the vanity of the smart set. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “It’s far from a vanity project for us.” Desi Hits! Universal, New Label for Indian Music 2010-07-18T21:28:00Z Mild mannered and deferential almost to the point of shyness, he shows no trace of the vanity that often comes with being an actor, nor of the destructive personalities he has played so well. Paul Sparks Hones Tragic Persona in ?Dusk Rings a Bell? 2010-06-19T06:39:00Z The sole purpose of this vanity project is to give Adam, who drops onto the lawn in his private helicopter, the chance to play Don Alfonso. Movie Review: ‘1st Night,’ Directed by Christopher Menaul 2013-05-02T22:20:16Z It’s vanity, but a specific Washington kind of vanity. Washington’s secret to staying relevant: a little Botox here, a tuck there GT Still, the book has a very cool design, this fluorescent ring binder encased in cardboard, and feels like a proper art book, rather than another designer vanity publication. Guido Palau’s Good Hair Days 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z It is a slightly surprising, comical flash of vanity – not least because Hollander has never been leading man material. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z Are they serving private interests, big government, their own vanity, or what? Movie Review: Robert Downey Jr. in ?The Avengers,? Directed by Joss Whedon 2012-05-04T13:44:22Z Yet there are some who may dismiss his first international album Wonder - released on 21 March - as an expensive vanity project. Connected 2011-03-01T08:48:12Z Marielle Heller, who directed that film, described an actor with an almost worrying lack of vanity and a talent for probing a character’s dark places. In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Plays Defense 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s difficult to see any of these “musical” endeavors as anything but vanity projects that wouldn’t have attracted a smidgen of attention without the celebrity factor. John C. Reilly's love of roots music is no act 2013-06-20T19:47:00Z It's strangely selfless, even though it's filled with the vanity and all the other things. 'Mad Men's' Matthew Weiner greets the end with exhilaration, woe 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It looks like it is probably a vanity project by a dangerously out-of-touch rich lady. 'Spoons are so brutal!' Paris Hilton's cooking show is a rare work of comic genius 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z When the new Alnwick gardens opened, another aristocratic gardener, Lady Mary Keen, whose father is an earl, accused the duchess of “vanity gardening” and called Alnwick vulgar. At Alnwick Castle, (don’t) pick your poison in this deadly garden 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He does not take her seriously as an adult human being, ever, yet he seems totally unaware of his own fragile vanity. Arian Moayed Plays Creepy Men for Thoughtful Reasons 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The story of a writer seeking "story worthy" wisdom and insight from self-destruction isn't just narcissistic, it's exhibitionism stacked on top of puerile vanity. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z In an age when many of his peers are still more interested in vanity, Dilla was more interested in exploration through music. J Dilla: the Mozart of hip-hop 2011-01-27T22:15:00Z We had been young and beautiful once, but now we were addicted to all manner of quick fixes – consumption, carbohydrates, drugs, vanity, violence. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Rafe Spall: 'There's nothing so unattractive as vanity… particularly male vanity. Rafe Spall: from fat to fit 2013-01-19T09:00:00Z She also seems to have little vanity about how she is perceived. Olivia Colman: Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crowns 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z He looked up the author, who has claimed to have published other books under other names, and the publisher, Cow Eye Press, and realized it was a vanity press incorporated in Wyoming. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z There’s something charmingly alien about GOOP’s attitude towards everyday life, which is perhaps why it’s developed a kind of mocking anti-fandom rather than just sinking without trace like most celebrity vanity projects. The pleasures of hate-reading GOOP 2013-04-27T17:00:00Z “If there’s no vanity, that’s the end of show business,” he says. Viral YouTube clips help America’s TV comedy stars find new audiences 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Satire, in contrast, is uniquely suited to cover the Trump team because it is designed to go after BS, faulty logic, abuses of power, larger-than-life personalities, corruption, vanity and outright lying. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z This segment was harsher, with the duo sending up Mr. Trump’s insults of women, his ideological inconsistency and his vanity. Review: Hillary Clinton on ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Straight ahead was the bathroom, where that same brownish-red Lepanto marble graced the double vanity and the I-could-get-lost-in-here shower. Fashion designers are extending their talents (and brands) to hotels 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Private museums have been criticized as vanity projects where wealthy people take great art out of circulation and avoid taxes by keeping their collections in outbuildings and only occasionally making the art accessible to visitors. Glenstone, a Private Art Xanadu, Invests $200 Million in a Public Vision 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to remark that sex and class and vanity and disappointment are Ms. O’Brien’s central themes, but that’s a hollow statement — those are all of our themes, mine at least, and probably yours, too. Review: ‘The Love Object’ by Edna O’Brien 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “Looking for Billy Haines” is a bit of a vanity production too. Theater Review | 'Looking for Billy Haines': Choosing Gay Identity in Old Hollywood 2010-04-05T22:15:00Z A lot of people just expected some sort of vanity project. Gerard Way on ‘The Umbrella Academy,’ My Chemical Romance … and Liza Minnelli 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z This blurred mixture of autobiography and fiction is a wickedly observant study of male insecurity, jealousy and vanity. Critic?s Notebook: Film Festival Gains Life From Reality 2010-09-28T23:03:00Z He promoted bonfires of vanities on which repentant citizens were invited to pile cosmetics, mirrors and other sinful luxuries. Special Report: The New Art Season: The Renaissance Flowers Again 2011-09-07T10:30:06Z The movie is vulnerable to accusations that it may be the most expensive vanity project ever made. 'Man on a Mission': Tourist boldly goes into space 2012-02-16T21:35:09Z It has been suggested that Nelson wore a uniform with shining gilt decorations and brass buttons on the day of the battle out of vanity or bravado. Nelson engages the French again as uniform goes on show in Paris 2013-03-27T16:43:00Z Others will dismiss it as the Hollywood vanity project to end all Hollywood vanity projects. Louise Linton Has Made a Movie 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z I was a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick’s movie “The Shining,” and all I wanted in life was to own vanity plates that said ‘Redrum’. Win, Lose or Draw: First jobs of animation sensations 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z And it should tax the rich — who suffer from “indolence and vanity” — to help the poor. ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’ 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z One scene features him shaving his chest, signifying his vanity, not his virility. In the haunting "Silent Land," a couple's seaside stay in Italy plunges toward a moral implosion 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The gentleladies were not merely leaning into vanity, that often misunderstood commitment to caring about how one moves through this world. Perspective | Nancy Pelosi’s pin at the impeachment debate was a declaration: The republic will survive this 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The series was a broad satire of celebrity vanity and the Hollywood pecking order "I am proud to announce the Entourage movie is officially a GO!," he wrote. Entourage movie gets the go-ahead 2013-10-29T13:13:00Z His fortune insulated him in his peculiarities: he spent grand sums publishing vanity editions of his work and was able to keep to a monastic routine, free from interruption. How Raymond Roussel Put the Impossible on the Page 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z For all her superficiality, Bergman’s Charlotte came across as a woman whose preening vanity was just one of many notes in her character; Ms. Buckley’s cool, crisp Charlotte never acquires any tempering emotional depths. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z His performances were remarkable for their corrosive energy and lack of vanity, and they brought a vital charge of vicarious embarrassment to those productions. Review: In ‘Happy Talk,’ Susan Sarandon Escapes Into Amateur Acting 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z For some, a “Ring” is a vanity project. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Morris sees truth as maddeningly difficult to find or to recognize, and believes that human stupidity and vanity and self-deception often prevent us from seeing it. "Tabloid": The beauty queen who "raped" a Mormon 2011-07-15T00:30:00Z For once, the play itself really is the thing, and nothing is allowed to block its view, even actorly vanity. | 'Cymbeline': Simply Shakespeare, No Tangled Web 2011-01-17T22:15:53Z Each was trailed by a valet carrying - naturellement - Louis Vuitton hat boxes, vanity cases, and petite valises in crocodile and embroidered sequins. Big-budget 'au revoir' ends Paris fashion week 2012-03-07T21:31:10Z That level of success must be pretty startling for you, especially for a series you conceived as a “vanity project.” ArtsBeat: A Conversation With Steven Moffat, a ‘Sherlock’ Co-Creator 2014-01-17T18:12:54Z He possessed a bag of equipment for trimming his beard, a vanity he tended daily. Young Democrats in love 2012-11-02T23:30:00Z "It may be vanity on my part ... but I have a fairly high opinion of the two pieces that I sent in," he said. A 68-year-old aspiring writer accuses the Iowa Writers' Workshop of age discrimination 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The director relishes this achievement not out of vanity but out of his deep appreciation for theater as a collaborative art. Meet Ivo van Hove, the most provocatively illuminating theater director right now 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z But the Master is also a charlatan and a tyrant, driven by vanity and paranoia as much as by any rational ambition. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z Elisabeth is whisper thin, but something other than vanity and social mores is eating away at her — boredom, despair, a sense of purposelessness — sending uneasy ripples through her life. ‘Corsage’ Review: A Queen in Quiet Rebellion 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Still, having been put in that position, he realizes that there are reasons beyond vanity to reach for your phone at life’s key moments. A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It? 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The cameos allowed Trump to poke fun at his reputation for cartoonish vanity while advertising his brand, at no cost, to millions of Americans. ‘Game to do it all’: From TV to WWE, Trump the showman set the stage for Trump the candidate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z His refusal to appear may also be a matter of personal vanity. Why Donald Trump Is Skipping the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z "Gazing up into the darkness," he tells us: "I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." Darkness in literature: James Joyce's Araby 2012-12-20T10:35:35Z “One element of the character is her vanity,” Ms. Keaton said. Diane Keaton, Hiding in Plain Sight 2010-11-15T19:16:00Z Clark thinks his cover may be blown, but he soon realizes that Martha attributes the hairpiece to vanity and hair loss, not a faux identity. What’s real and fake in ‘The Americans,’ according to real-life spies 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Still, the man who outlined the laws of natural selection well understood the evolutionary purpose of displays that, in humans, are often dismissed as mere vanity. The Peacocks Return 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z An overhead shot displays the two men as a yin and yang arrangement – affirmative to negative, big to small, strong to weak – something a guy with a vanity license plate reading "NAMAST3" may have appreciated. "Better Call Saul" goes deeper into the grey as it accelerates toward the end 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z As it stands, the Ashley Bouder Project doesn’t feel like a vanity project, but it has a lot of growing up to do. Review: Diane Coburn Bruning and Ashley Bouder Stretch the Rules of Classicism at the Joyce 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z “The vanity mogul always catches the rake in the face,” said Jack Shafer, a City Paper editor in the 1980s and ’90s, now a media critic for Politico. Why does conservative Armstrong Williams want to buy the liberal Washington City Paper? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s not that she doesn’t suffer from second-guessing, insecurities, bouts of vanity, impatience or mindless cellphone scrolling. Lorde’s Work Here Is Done. Now, She Vibes. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z It absorbs the withering stares of El Greco’s “St. Jerome” and Holbein’s “Sir Thomas More,” across the room, and deflects the seductive vanity and materialism of the Titians on either side. Overlooked Works That Deserve Another Glance 2010-12-30T23:21:19Z So it's not surprising that series executive producer Chuck Lorre used one of his highly noticed end-of-show vanity cards to pay tribute to the actor, who died last Friday at age 83. 'The Big Bang Theory's' Leonard Nimoy tribute was in the cards 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Is it anything more than a vanity project? Maladies – first look review 2013-02-11T16:26:56Z There’s also the thinly veiled issue of male vanity. What’s the Deal With That Guy’s Fluffy Hair? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z “There are tasty hints of feminine vanity in him and masculine belligerence in her that make them seem all the better matched,” Times theater critic Ben Brantley wrote. Alan Rickman, actor who brought dynamic menace to ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Harry Potter,’ dies at 69 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z All the better: grandma probably identified Heathcliff with Cliff Richard, who commissioned a musical based on the book – "Withering Rather than Wuthering," sneered one reviewer – as a vanity project in the 1990s. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z On set, he found her to be a free spirit with little vanity but always a cigarette around. Hirokazu Kore-eda and Catherine Deneuve look for ‘The Truth’ 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Like Faust, he’s incessantly creative and ambitious; like Mephistopheles, he has in a sardonic eye for human vanity and striving. A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Bundy does so in the third person, in order to make it seem hypothetical, an outcome of Michaud’s strategic appeal to his intellectual vanity when he refused to take responsibility for the murders. Ted Bundy, "I Am the Night" and our secret obsession with psychos 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Despite the priest’s piety, black vestments and narrative prominence, he is no more a Hollywood hero than most of Mr. Scorsese’s falling and fallen men, with their arrogance and vanity. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The game offers a chance to punish human vanity—to punch up from a knee-height vantage. The Joy of Being a Horrible Goose in a Time of Moral Crisis 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z I’m glad he did so, because the idea hints at vistas far wider than merely the apparent vanity of claiming to be a “better” or “truer” fan. Last Film, Best Film? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Clooney's gotten better and braver as he's aged, and no longer seems the least concerned with nurturing his personal vanity or protecting his star image. "The Descendants": Clooney's Oscar-worthy role as a Hawaiian dad 2011-09-14T00:30:00Z This may seem like a case of vanity run amok. Our pandemic eyebrows are driving us crazy. Can we learn to love them? 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z But let’s face it: There’s an evolutionary advantage to vanity. Cancer, animal cruelty, feminism: So why can’t I quit using makeup? 2014-01-04T23:00:00Z An advisor attempts to soften what he presumes will be a blow to her majesty’s vanity, the sight of herself as middle-aged monarch next to the stamp featuring the monarch in her youth. "The Crown" and Her Majesty’s midlife crisis 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z He can't find the words, but "silly vanity project" would probably cover it. Mike Skinner and Rob Harvey: halves of the Dot 2013-05-15T17:30:01Z There may be some idleness in the cutting room as well, but vanity is perhaps more of a problem. Is The Hobbit simply too long? 2012-12-12T16:15:00Z Jack Daw, in the silliness of his vanity, takes the comparison as an insult. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z “They keep everything from creeping all over my vanity,” she says. How beauty pros (and their organizers) corral all those products 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z They have the same level of vanity as women, and they'll take boosts of confidence wherever they can get it. Men's underwear getting a little extra attention 2012-02-03T21:46:04Z In this view, the so-called “Generation Me” suffers from an excess of vanity, entitlement, and ill-gotten self-esteem. Lay off Kim and Kanye! Why millennials actually aren’t “Generation Me” 2014-04-06T15:00:00Z McEntee describes Ark Music as a "vanity label" and defends the company against critics. Rebecca Black looks to move beyond "Friday" 2011-03-25T18:30:21Z But the truth is, it's a vanity thing because they always upstage you! A Minute With: "Beginners" star Ewan McGregor 2011-06-01T10:21:49Z Behind her, a crystal vase of pink peonies sat atop a mirrored vanity table. The Shock of Chopping Up a Chanel Bag 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The liver of the animal was found in a makeup case on the bathroom's vanity. Barack Obama, Lady Gaga ... who won't Fox News blame for deaths? 2011-04-15T18:52:00Z It is unlikely he will ever topple the windmills of vanity, mendacity and gullibility that power today’s art world. Art in Review: ?POWHIDA? 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z It's enough of a vanity project as it is. ArtsBeat: Apocalypse Soon: Tom Hanks Discusses His Web Series 'Electric City' 2012-07-16T12:00:46Z For the past few weeks, while seated at my vanity mirror, waving my magic mascara wand, I’ve heard my rabbi’s voice urging me to up the ante. Feeling naked and exposed on Yom Kippur 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s a vanity project that requires Mr. Bentley to abandon his vanity. Music Review: Dierks Bentley at Highline, Raking Through Bluegrass 2010-05-06T21:18:00Z In the context of vanity, in the context of delusion, in the context of pressures related to baldness and masculinity. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes’s weird, possibly fake baritone is actually her least baffling quality 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z There was a vanity to him, I suppose, as there is with many politicians, left and right. 'Hope has started to grow': Maxine Peake on Corbyn, people power and Peterloo’s radical legacy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z I mean, I don’t want to look horrible, either, but it’s not about total vanity. Mick Jagger explains his Instagram obsession and how he wound up at the Thirsty Beaver Saloon 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Brown is fundamentally covering herself, setting a bonfire of her own vanities. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Flashes of blonde hair and blue eyes connect the works to both artist and mother and the vanity of maintaining physical beauty in face of aging and illness. In Her Last Works, Kaari Upson Explores Vanity and Decay 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z When you open the box, it’s the first thing you see, a gesture of warmth, a soothing capitalist hug, an acknowledgment of vanity. Critical Shopper: Mr Porter Online Shop: Critical Shopper 2012-09-06T02:54:26Z It was propped up on my vanity table, and I could fill in every absent detail from memory. Everything I Learned from Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z That show ostensibly rewards talented amateur dancers, but it is fashioned to feed the vanity of Ms. Abdul. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: Life After Simon for 'Idol' 2011-01-20T12:26:17Z It was an ugly battle for succession in which Clark, all vanity spent, played no part. Civilised and civilising 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Photograph: LMK His modesty is a kind of tough-guy act, a lack of vanity so aggressive it makes him almost wholly resistant to criticism. Christopher Walken: ‘I don’t need to be made to look evil’ 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z The use of gold satirizes not just American values but references a long discourse about the vanity of wealth, the belief of rich people that everything they do is transmogrified by money. Perspective | An art critic explains what the Guggenheim was really saying when it offered Trump a golden toilet 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Here’s hoping that this primal scream of a movie is sufficiently well-positioned to show a whole new audience what Elizabeth Taylor was capable of when stripped of her vanity. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in May 2019, from "Snowpiercer" to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z What emerges is a telling exposé of human vanity that reminds us that while our close genetic relatives are as intelligent as they come, we can be the biggest chumps. Project Nim: we are the real chumps in this chimp's story 2011-01-21T11:00:10Z Another underrated movie from Frears, this satire canters enjoyably through the world of English middle-class hypocrisy and vanity. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z He writes as someone who knows that it’s in such moments of turbulence, with so much to gain and so much to lose, that humankind’s darker instincts emerge — its vanity and greed. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z But — whether by dint of plague, unsympathetic bishop, flood or vanity’s insistent whisper — the world just keeps happening to them. Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z On its foldout spread, the lifestyle heroine sits at an antique vanity, three little girls admiring a fourth who powders the icon’s nose. Posh taste, poor timing: Does Victoria Beckham’s Target fashion democratize luxury or glorify gratuitous wealth? 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z This is not a proposal that one should feel sorry for Madonna or tut-tut at her devotion to vanity which, again, has always been the case. The unreasonable, degrading expectations imposed on stars' bodies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z We weren't terribly excited about Tom Cruise's vanity action flick Jack Reacher. Populist: Items of interest this week 2012-07-13T23:10:30Z The decision not to have the nose straightened seems to offer more reliable testimony of a character indifferent to vanity. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z We talk about my gold trainers instead, about sourcing cool secondhand jeans – just as vain, really, but the stuff of vanity that suits my self-image. ‘I’d rather spend £300 on fillers than face cream’: the rise of tweakment face 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The massive bathroom had a soaking tub, a shower that comfortably fit two — or even three — and a vanity that comfortably allowed two guests to get ready side by side. Piles of churros and carnitas costra de queso: What a travel writer eats in Mexico City 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z “Likability is a jail,” Mulaney says at one point in “Baby J,” and his self-deprecating punch lines about his own vanity could be viewed as a prison break. John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z In a stinging commentary in Slate, the online magazine, Jack Shafer branded Mr. Harman a “vanity mogul” with a “wife problem” that poses a journalistic conflict. At 92, Still Grabbing the Brass Ring 2010-08-13T21:53:00Z James Franco has put the vanity in vanity project. It’s time to bring James Franco's reign of half-assed artistry to an end 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z The full awfulness of human beings and their circumstances is on vivid display: venality, vanity, deception and outright cruelty. It’s Bong Joon Ho’s Dystopia. We Just Live in It. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Our chaperone in this weird world is Ruth, a struggling actor played with a shaggy perm and impressive lack of vanity by Community’s Alison Brie. Stop! You're hurting me! Why GLOW's wrestling women aren't just an offence to fashion 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Wilson's also a pleasure to watch, molding Bonnie into a reluctant accessory to Ike's vanity and deceit as she chafes against his self-serving actions. "The Shrink Next Door" is a compelling stranger-than-fiction anchored by Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z “Money has often gone to the wrong place, I think, vanity projects for one person or another,” she said. Dia 2.0: Facing the Future 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z The sense of vanity so characteristic of many online profiles was absent from hers. ‘One woman told me sex with a black man was on her bucket list’ 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z "The two things that will destroy an actor is to play likability and to play vanity. Those are Kryptonite," Davis asserts. 'Murder's' Annalise and other TV women leap darkly into antihero scene 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z She seems so unremarkable, this woman with her white hats, tidily arranged scarves and vanity. | 'Poetry': Consider an Apple, Consider the World 2011-02-10T22:31:06Z Indeed, a 2011 study published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology found that vanity sizing improved people’s body image. Is Abercrombie & Fitch the enemy? Or is it us? 2013-05-30T15:28:00Z More frequently compromised by vanity and ego, it’s the conduit for a certain kind of self-actualization, and its practitioners are dangerously lacking in self-awareness. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Though it is a celebration of modesty, there is also quite a lot of vanity in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” Movie Review: ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Stars Ben Stiller 2013-12-24T18:27:55Z Bjork said she was honored to receive the prize and that it "tickled" her vanity to be mentioned together with previous laureates such as rock band Pink Floyd and singer Joni Mitchell. Bjork, Morricone accept 2010 Polar Music Prize 2010-08-30T15:51:00Z Does his assiduous attendance at more than 70 award and honorary doctorate ceremonies not imply a certain vanity? Interventions: : A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan – review 2012-11-15T08:00:04Z Here, standing amid a scattered wreckage of books and loose papers, he is both an affecting emblem of bewilderment and a tower of preening vanity. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z But there is vanity at stake here too, as was clear when 6ix9ine took on his next antagonist, Billboard, accusing the trade publication of chicanery in tabulating its charts. 6ix9ine, the Chaos Agent 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z There’s typically not a lot of storage space in bathrooms, but people still try to cram a ton of beauty products, medicine, first-aid supplies and toiletries into tiny vanities. Perspective | The top clutter culprits in every room — and how to deal with them 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z But that vanity isn’t itself devoid of substance; rather, it’s a transparent and self-revealing package for the director’s own artistic delights and emotional inclinations. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z A large mirrored vanity with a shallow porcelain sink is a prominent feature, but there isn’t much counter space; a wood tray and shelf are situated underneath for towels and toiletries. Hotel Review: London Edition in London 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The other side of dancerly vanity is getting carried away in dance. Dance Review: Twyla Tharp?s ?The Princess and the Goblin? 2012-02-13T00:28:50Z He said, ‘Oh I absolutely want to do this, out of a sense of sheer vanity. I’m so flattered.’ An Anthony Bourdain Auction Will Include His Treasured Knife 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The couple’s dining room table and bathroom vanities are from Old Wood, a Harbeson, Del., store that turns reclaimed wood into floors, cabinets and furniture. Home & Design: A Japanese-style house with pagoda roof in a traditional beach town He's the TV dad whose vanity is unsurpassed. Emmys chat: Join in with 'Jane the Virgin's' Jaime Camil on Monday 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z There is no facial characteristic that communicates, however misleadingly, fearlessness and lack of vanity in women. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z What is a person of principle to do when the ruler he serves is consumed with reckless vanity? Review: No Battle of Wits in This Mild ‘Man for All Seasons’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Maybe it's about art, maybe it's about monetising the brand, maybe it's about vanity. Kanye West's sitcom? Don't give up your day job 2013-07-16T14:56:50Z But nothing in these images of nymphs in grottos or so-called vanity mirrors was weighed down by history. Fashion Review: Cabinet of Curiosities 2013-07-04T16:56:14Z Given the success of “Cloud Gate” — the city of Chicago claims it is the most popular tourist site in the Midwest — it can’t easily be recast as an oppressive urban vanity project. Perspective | One of the world’s greatest sculptors warns America about the NRA 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The book moves along quickly and Mr. Freedland, a former Washington correspondent who covered the Clinton White House and the 2016 election, has a visceral feel for the vanity, codes and preoccupations of the capital. Is Trump Imitating Fiction? Or Is Fiction Imitating Trump? 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Martin often spikes his work with an impish, self-deprecating humour, revealing the absurdity of our aspirations to longevity, even as he falls foul of those vanities himself. Artist of the week 105: Kris Martin 2010-09-16T11:03:00Z His vanity would not get in the way of making it work. 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond by Andrew Adonis – review 2013-05-13T07:00:03Z We see her on an old-fashioned television set lurking under the vanity and on a large screen. Review: Up All Night, With Rebecca Hall as Muse, in ‘Soundstage’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The Martian” has sweep but not the vanity that creeps into many large productions, turning them into bloated vehicles for directorial self-aggrandizement. Review: In ‘The Martian,’ Marooned but Not Alone 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “Stripes,” the closest thing on the album to a breakout single, depicts a wronged woman’s thirst for vengeance, held in check only by her vanity. Brandy Clark Takes the Spotlight at the Highline Ballroom 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Envy is also related to vanity, another deadly sin. Envy is actually a very helpful emotion 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Without wanting to do anything to promote the vanity of the Vatican, this is a chance to hear a minor miracle from one of the world's most famous composers. Listen to Arvo P?rt's new piece written in honour of the pope 2011-07-07T14:11:00Z “One of the things about playing Prospero is that one must be entirely without vanity. It’s relaxing, in a way.” Gender-Bending Shakespeare and Rough Magic in “The Tempest” 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z There’s panache but not much vanity in Bilal’s singing on “In Another Life.” Review: Bilal Brings Far-Out Viewpoint to This Life and His Show 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z We hold up our novels like vanity mirrors, hoping to reflect our own dreams, conceits, and liberal aspirations. Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions 2012-11-23T11:25:25Z Braff makes it fairly clear in his videos that funding the film is a vanity project. Stop blaming Zach Braff for 'ruining' Kickstarter and indie art 2013-05-09T16:30:00Z They would seem precious, more appropriate for fops like Frasier and Niles from the old sitcom “Frasier,” whose connoisseurship was used to connote fastidious vanity. Red Wine Is the Drink of Choice on ‘Scandal’ and ‘The Good Wife’ 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Her refreshing lack of vanity can be captured in one telling movie anecdote. Helen Mirren: on stage or on screen, long may she reign over us 2013-03-10T00:06:15Z “It’s about vanity and ego,” Mr. Stiller said of the original idea of the movie. ‘Zoolander 2’ Creates a Model-Slash-Juggernaut 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Last month, The Guardian ran a similarly themed story with an eye toward 68 year-old blonde Hillary Clinton, declaring, “Grey is great: why hair is the last bastion of vanity.” It’s OK to care about your looks: Women shouldn’t be embarrassed by — or shamed into — decisions of personal style 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z This surrealist play on the falsehoods of monetarism is remembered now as an eerie forecast on the vanity and greed of bankers. Celebrating George Wyllie: a sculptor and surrealist who still ruffles feathers 2012-08-24T08:50:37Z And Ms. Carey praised her star for choosing funny over vanity. Aubrey Plaza Is Dangerously Funny 2013-07-11T17:02:12Z PG: Your expression “wear the mask” reminds me of a killer scene in your show when your character sits at her vanity, wiping off her makeup like war paint. Viola Davis and Edie Falco Talk Race, Sex and Life Before Stardom 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The real problem with vanity is being caught in the act. The hidden costs of vanity 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z I didn’t want this to be a vanity piece. ArtsBeat: Tribeca First-Timers: Chris Messina 2014-04-21T18:54:28Z “Because I was a beauty,” she said simply, and if there was vanity in that, there was truth as well. Socially Distant, Except for the Dogs, Sheep and Chickens 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z “Tammy” was a vanity project for this star, who acted in the movie, produced it and co-wrote the script with her husband, Ben Falcone, who also made his directing debut with the film. Few Fireworks for ‘Tammy’ and Weekend Box Office 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z But Wagner later wrote that, despite Spontini’s vanity, the meeting only raised his “high esteem for the master.” Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Lanley is one of the show’s great one-off characters, a charmer who knows how to pander to Lisa’s vanity, Homer’s laziness and, unsuccessfully, Marge’s community spirit. The Simpsons Thanksgiving marathon: the 25 best episodes to gorge on 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Somewhere in there White suggests all knowledge is vanity. A Word With: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and Cormac Mccarthy: ?Tis Nobler to Dive in Front of a Train? Discuss 2011-02-10T20:11:24Z Cécile chooses as her tools her father’s childishness, Anne’s intransigence, Elsa’s vanity, and Cyril’s responsible nature, and with them she forges a plot in which each of the four is utterly at her mercy. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Some reflect the bludgeoning, dulling force of directorial will to bravura exertions that seemingly declare, with the pompous vanity of each image, that they are important, that they are artists. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z "There are things that are more serious than our little spats, our pride and our vanities." Ivorian reggae singers bury rivalry for "peace" tour 2012-11-06T16:18:30Z Later in the novel she punctures whatever is left of Russ’s vanity. Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z I'm not interested in the vanity of a character or my own vanity as an actor. Benedict Cumberbatch: fanboy, photobomber, award-circuit rider 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z “Ode to My Suit”: “Every morning, suit, you are waiting on a chair to be filled by my vanity, my love, my hope, my body.” In Chile, Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The vanity — you pointed out her madness or sickness. "Corsage" star Vicky Krieps says Austria's Empress Elisabeth had a "darkness that attracted me" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z But the international outrage expressed is at Macron’s vanity. The hidden costs of vanity 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z I talk about vanity and success and money and sex and love and competition and people who are boring and technology. Shirley MacLaine on life, showbiz and finding contentment 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z The consumer, meanwhile, is presented with the opportunity to gander at the handsome, stylish Idris Elba in a gorgeous, insubstantial vanity project. What Netflix wants you to want: Breezy "Turn Up Charlie" is in, "One Day at a Time" is out 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Indeed this seems like a very northern European show at the start – all those gothic memento mori and protestant warnings against vanity and vice. Death: A Self-Portrait – review 2012-11-11T00:05:30Z A wrecked jalopy sports a vanity plate of a Confederate flag. What You Didn’t Know About Barkley L. Hendricks 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z But I find gym culture, which is very much L.A. culture, so steeped in vanity. Jameela Jamil Does Her Own Makeup — Sometimes in a Car 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z American middle education is pilloried in Jacob Presson’s “Very Bad Words,” a bristling portrait of vanity, ambition and prejudice at an upper-middle-class Massachusetts high school. ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘Very Bad Words’ 2013-08-23T20:00:49Z So it was not vanity that made Elizabeth insist on beautiful portrayals of her such as George Gower's that was painted to celebrate the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Fading queen 2013-02-13T15:46:04Z An earnest primer on values that takes the whimsical form of a letter from an imaginary medieval knight to his children, it falls somewhere between celebrity vanity project and quirky philosophical commonplace book. Ethan Hawke: Actor, novelist — spiritual guide? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Yes, Plácido Domingo's Simon Boccanegra sounds like a vanity project, and surely of today's opera stars only Domingo could make such a project happen. Simon Boccanegra 2010-06-30T11:54:00Z The opening story, “Late in the Day,” follows the failed career of a once-promising indie filmmaker who now makes vanity projects for rich Californian Asians. Don Lee’s Long War on Asian American Stereotypes 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In her bedroom, she sat in front of a vanity and continued the process—rouge, then contouring, then a few coats of lipstick. The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Self-promotion and vanity have led to a pool of quote-happy journalists, eager to see their name on the side of a bus. How my negative review of Legend was spun into movie marketing gold 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z But Powell also likes it as an unexpected place to store and display jewelry on a dresser or vanity. Shopping with the pros: A designer shares her favorite quarantine-friendly items from CB2 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Nearby, beaded mirrors and crisscross wall lights hang above each vanity. 2010 Louisiana Idea House 2010-07-14T17:11:00Z "It's about moving the world away from a place of vanity and ego." Lady Gaga's latest frock has her airborne as 'ARTPOP' launches 2013-11-11T04:25:39Z There is vanity in this view of isolated self-determination—an intransigence that is a hallmark of our polarized political climate. A History of the Influencer, from Shakespeare to Instagram 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. DeVito’s lack of vanity reached a high point in the Christmas episode of “Sunny” in 2010, when his character hid inside a leather couch to overhear others talking about him. Danny DeVito Follows His Comedy Bliss to London 2012-07-23T14:54:11Z With basic survival on the line, “vanities” like lactose intolerance, allergies, and A.D.H.D. simply cease to exist. Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z And vanity too; they think they're going to come out well. TV review: The Model Agency 2011-02-24T08:00:02Z “It was a vanity video because Michael wanted to be a monster. And everything that came, evolved from that, was spectacularly successful and I was totally surprised.” 'Thriller' was made because Michael Jackson wanted to be a monster 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z On a recent Sunday afternoon, sitting in a modernist chair in his office, his knee pressed against a Giacometti table, Mr. Perelman said Revlon “was never a vanity play.” The Debt King 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z There was vanity, of course; and then there was curiosity, the demon that killed the cat. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Songwriting is not a vanity thing or passing fancy for me. Meet Mary Steenburgen, Songwriter 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z It's a self-referential turn, deeply felt, empathetic and completely absent of vanity. Santa Barbara Film Festival to honor Michael Keaton 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z If the vanity of writers is originality, the vice of critics is classification. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z A hot-blooded, Irish nationalist and proto-feminist during her youth, she raged that women were forced into lives of “vacuity, inanity, vanity, absurdity and idleness.” ‘Wilde’s Women’: the surprising force behind Oscar’s fame and success 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The viselike setting is spatially difficult, yet culturally rich in opportunities to comment on the treasure house — with its power, prestige, human vanity and folly — just beyond. Rocks Not So Solid on the Met’s Face 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z So definitely not a vanity project, but we might call it a “modesty project”. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “It started off not liking how I looked. When I was little, it was a vanity thing. ‘Is that me? Samantha Morton: ‘Maybe I was the first person to publicly answer Weinstein’ 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Now an industry built on fear, vanity and unspoken male vulnerability is undergoing a transformation. The hair wellness industry: 'Men said they would rather have a small penis than go bald' 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z The bitterness, the vanity, the entitlement, the anger and hunger for vindication. Breaking Bad Watch: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? 2012-08-20T12:00:18Z Whether it’s because of career insecurity begat by a bad economy or simple vanity, use of hair color among boomer men is, not surprisingly, booming. Skin Deep: Graying Men Choosing the Touch-Up 2011-01-12T22:51:08Z Either way, there’s something sad about the fact that the two veeps — the current and possibly future one — must become the face of the presidency because of the actual president’s vanity about her face. ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 5: The New Face 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z My hesitancy, in 1983, now seemed like a piece of vanity. Then and now: Granta's best young British novelists 2013-04-06T07:00:20Z The bathroom area was open to the room, with a large, well-lighted mirror and a white vanity stocked with amenities, including toothbrushes and razors with single-use shaving cream packets. Hotel Review: Mitsui Garden Hotel Osaka Premier 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Was it those dreadful trailers that made it look like a sad, slightly silly Tom Cruise vanity project? Summer 2014’s mixed messages about films And that hint of physical vanity reflects the pride that lines his self-deprecating stage performance. Comedy Review: Conan O?Brien?s ?Legally Prohibited? Tour Hits New York 2010-06-02T22:16:00Z It was so devoid of vanity that for me is of great value, because sometimes this industry dictates that you pay a lot of attention to what your exterior is looking like. Sarah Paulson Has a Thing for Vulgar Performances and Good Cries 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z “She has no vanity about her,” said Victoria Robey, a member of the organization’s board. They Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But my real problem with “Winter’s Tale” is not that it feels like an overpriced vanity project in which a well-connected Hollywood insider with lots of celebrity friends seeks to soothe his private grief. “Winter’s Tale” and America’s tortured quest for the divine 2014-02-15T17:00:00Z He is the adolescent whose vanity resides in the way in which he "sees through" his parent. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z It has little to do with vanity but a lot to do with presenting one's self. How Hillary Clinton Ended the Clothing Conversation 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Fear, rooted in vanity, had me questioning whether round frames are the look for me. On the Runway: The Hunt for the Right Shades 2011-06-15T23:19:31Z The reviewer referred to 'the stench of celebrity vanity'. The Hay Q&A 2010-05-31T21:00:00Z In the series, she takes on the personae of her curiously spotted and speckled creatures with a notable absence of vanity. On the Runway Blog: From Isabella Rossellini, Creature Moms 2013-05-12T12:00:38Z The story about a white woman determined to prove how much she appreciates her black babysitter cuts into the soft underbelly of liberal vanity. Review | In ‘Friends and Strangers,’ a new mom insists the babysitter is her buddy. She’s not. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z As with Dutch memento mori, this too is vanity: After he shot his pictures, the fish were thrown away and doused with bleach to deter scavengers. Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But she likely learned early in her life that men respect power and intellect, not vanity. Moms, daughters, beauty and brains: Are we short-changing our girls by pretending that appearances don’t matter? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Like “Get Out,” “Master” finds scares — and satire — in the benevolence and moral vanity of white liberals. Worried About the Health of Cinema? Sundance Has Good News for You. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The fourth part takes place in the here and now, following Thomas Cavendish, the 60-year-old owner of a vanity publishing house, who finds himself trapped in an old people's home. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-11T13:22:00Z “The last time I checked, vanity and self-confidence were still in style.” The Man Who Made Working Out Cool 2011-04-27T23:27:25Z More likely it’s the work of filmmakers in too much haste to assemble a vanity project. Movie Review: ‘Run It’ 2013-05-30T23:12:25Z Sensitive admissions don't work in every participant's favor because in some cases, those confessions come from a place of vanity and ego as opposed to humility. "Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test": Where "Battle of the Network Stars" meets a redemption tour 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Covering the walls around the vanities and tub with interesting artwork provides a sophisticated air and expresses your style. Dream Bath Transformation 2010-09-16T18:31:00Z And, like most violists, she is also self-effacing: without vanity as a singer. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z She has left the assassination business and joined a church, where she applies her screwball energy and guileless vanity to the job of being baptized and expunging her sins. ‘Killing Eve’ Review: The End of the Road 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Two stand-alone sinks ensconced in chocolate-colored vanities sat across from each other, looking a bit scuffed. The Cheeca Lodge Is Back, Tiki Bar and All 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z As Happy, the younger son forever in pursuit of Dad’s affection, Finn Wittrock provides a funny, poignant and ripely detailed study in virile vanity as a defense system. Theater Review: ?Death of a Salesman,? With Philip Seymour Hoffman 2012-03-16T02:11:33Z But in its clamorous storytelling, the big-screen version of "PoP" peddles to children yet another vision of the world as a deafening, discontinuous hell, punctuated by vanity close-ups and homicidal small talk. "Prince of Persia" royally blows it 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z Being stripped of one’s face — a symbol of vanity, expression and identity — is a loss almost too painful to describe. Review | Playwright Sarah Ruhl lost a vital part of her self, but her story is one of acceptance and hope 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z All the vanity projects, when taken together, amount to an outdoor architecture museum, and that alone makes Qatar — despite its labor controversies — well worth visiting. What’s New in Doha? Basically Everything 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z He insists it isn't a publicity stunt or vanity campaign. Ex-2 Live Crew rapper runs for Miami-Dade mayor 2011-05-16T12:28:09Z And a soft leather vanity case inscribed LH was estimated at $200-$400. Lena Horne's NYC apartment artifacts to be sold 2011-02-23T16:25:09Z “Her greed would unburden me of my own vanity.” A Woman Sleeps a Year Away in Ottessa Moshfegh’s Darkly Comic New Novel 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z As a thespian, he is working at about the level of George Clooney in a Nespresso ad, and the qualified success of this vanity project is a function of his humility. With “Turn Up Charlie,” Idris Elba Makes a Charming Foray Into Sitcoms 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z I don’t think I have the kind of vanity that dwells on how I’d like to present myself. Need a Broad? Call Turner 2011-04-03T02:14:35Z And while critics suggest that “Narcissus Garden” is a protest against the commercialization of art and a culture of vanity, the work — like many of Ms. Kusama’s other mirror-based pieces — is also ready-made for selfies. Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Narcissus Garden’ Is Coming to the Rockaways 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The Brooklyn Daily Eagle noted that, by substituting wood framing for iron, “we are caught in our own vanity and insincerity and itching for cheap show.” | Mansard Roofs: The Heyday of Mansard Roofs 2011-03-06T05:00:07Z There’s a gentle message about judging people by appearances and being a prisoner of good looks and vanity. Theater Review: In ‘Unlock’d,’ a Land of Dueling Hairdos 2013-06-28T02:01:00Z There was, memorably, no vanity in Davis’ Rose in “Fences,” a performance that reached its aching crescendo in her shattering, snot-dripping “18 years of my life” monologue. Viola Davis on ‘Widows,’ MeToo and expressing her femininity 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z And his apparent youthfulness, at age fifty-seven, didn’t appear to be because of effortful vanity. Dancing to Prince 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Screening with "The Key," another Levy film, "Me" lends a thoroughly unflattering name to the term "vanity project." Big-name cast can't save 'Me' from vanity-project blues 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z If you have a built-in vanity, the higher flooring will cut down on the kick space unless you remove the cabinet, install the tile and reinstall the cabinet. What to do about rust stains on a tile floor 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Indeed, the novel is tightly constructed to reach its crescendo with a trip to a Navajo reservation for an act of charitable outreach that’s marbled with vanity and racism. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Jamie Foxx doesn’t need this — at this point, his music career is mainly a vanity project, a lie he’s trying to keep up, and not even an interesting one. Review: The Jamie Foxx Album ‘Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z When George Lucas finally decided to build his $1 billion museum in Los Angeles, its arrival was jeered by some critics who saw it not as a civic gift but a vanity project. The Lucas Museum Finds Your Lack of Faith Disturbing 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Nobody called Argo Ben Affleck’s vanity project, even though he distorted real-life political history to make his own character look more heroic. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Some of them are evidently serious thinkers committed to sincere ideologies, but the film perks up when Ms. Pelosi zeros in on unbridled ego or vanity. Review: ‘Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?’ Explores Campaign Contributors 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z It's fun to play vanity because vanity is insecurity. Jerry O'Connell talks murder, dog hoarding, Drake & "Real Housewives" 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The vanity inherent in such a film is self-evident, despite Mr. Patel’s self-deprecating wisecracks and frequent animated passages depicting him with warm, rounded edges. Review: In ‘Meet the Patels,’ a Son Submits to a Marriage Quest 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Klein also popularized vanity sizing — a 4 was cut large enough to fit a woman who was a 6. Can a faded fashion house reclaim its 1970s glory? Inside the effort to save Anne Klein. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The same can be said about Leduc’s relationship with her mother, played beautifully and without a trace of vanity by Catherine Hiegel. A Review of 'Violette': Why Isn't Emmanuelle Devos Better Known in the U.S.? 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Yet since her earliest work as an actress, save for a turn in the disastrous Prince vanity project “Under the Cherry Moon,” she has usually played smart-girl roles. Kristin Scott Thomas on Playing a Different Kind of Part 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Ms. Chancellor’s Tekla is a magnificent amalgam of vanity, imperiousness and just enough lingering self-doubt to be taken advantage of. | 'Creditors': Deconstructing Marriage: Strindberg at Harvey Theater 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z A half-arsed vanity project that got out of hand, or as one kind fan put it "a nice place for house and techno enthusiasts to lose an afternoon." Blog of the week: Teshno 2013-06-19T10:51:05Z “I loved finding these privately pressed vanity albums,” he recalls. What’s it like to live as one of the ‘worst’ comics in the world? Gregg Turkington is finally talking about it. 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Given our emotional attachment to vanity sizing, our critique of A&F is both ironic and ill-conceived. Is Abercrombie & Fitch the enemy? Or is it us? 2013-05-30T15:28:00Z He also praised Macfadyen’s uncanny ability to stay in the moment while performing, and to do so with an un-showy absence of vanity. Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Throughout, you see the cast offstage: their camaraderie, chess games, squabbles, vanities. As You Like It – review 2012-05-22T09:51:51Z Perhaps the strongest concession to boomer vanity is how these rich retirement residences sell a vision of wellness and renewal, and avoid any mention of aging and mortality. Growing Old in High Style 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z It makes the whole enterprise feel like a vanity product. 'The Way': Respectable drama loses its footing 2011-10-20T20:09:07Z This was never a vanity project and Stuart is no fan of social media’s narcissistic routines. Instagram's Aids memorial: ‘History does not record itself’ 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z But it’s possible that the Barneys purchase involves vanity of another kind: that Perry wants to be lionized for turning around a New York institution. Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z And in keeping with mature Chekhov, there were no true villains, only degrees of blindness, vanity and selfishness. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s an indulgence in vanity, an impractical affront to the balmy southwestern sun. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z It’s not an act of vanity or selfishness necessarily; it’s a way of giving the audience surrogates through whom to say “so long” and “all the best.” Jon Stewart Bids Farewell With a Small Treat for Himself 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z There is vital writing in this book on many subjects, from male vanity and supermarket carts to fruit labels and how we view the changing faces of loved ones over time. At the Close of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle,’ a Magician Loses His Touch 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The German photographer Ilse Bing shoots into the hinged mirrors on a vanity, giving us both profile and head-on views of her face and of the Leica that almost hides it. Women Who Shaped Modern Photography 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z Her father was very strict regarding the frivolity of vanity, forbidding his two daughters from looking into mirrors, and Dickie still finds the experience of being looked at difficult. Kate Dickie: 'I've been angst-ridden all my life' 2010-12-02T23:00:00Z "And hopefully people would see this as not something I'm doing on a whim, sort of a vanity project, like Madonna writing a picture book." A dark lyricist turns to tales for children 2011-10-13T18:19:41Z And the technical quality further repudiates, it seems to me, the hint of "vanity publishing". Vimeo: where young film-makers fly Concorde 2010-06-01T10:56:00Z A certain factor is the wickedly satirical humor she embeds in encounters between well-heeled, well-educated people who under pressure reveal the vanity, competitiveness, duplicity and pettiness bubbling right under their smooth civility. Preview: 'God of Carnage' ? at Seattle Rep ? promises top-shelf actors and Yasmina Reza's hallmark wit 2010-09-30T20:45:00Z Although Landsberg is the sole backer, the movie is no mere vanity project but the culmination of years as a successful writer and producer. Hollywood veteran launches dream with "Sex Tax" 2010-04-14T03:25:00Z When the subject reveals weakness and vanity, then the way forward is clear for Baron Cohen to agitate and produce savage satire. Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” Reviewed 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z But in Lorraine’s eyes, Ljuba’s primary function is to be her personal vanity mirror. Review: In ‘Happy Talk,’ Susan Sarandon Escapes Into Amateur Acting 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z You make clothes, but some people think it’s a vanity project, that you don’t take it seriously. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z “I don’t mind getting older, per se, for any vanity reasons — I’m just terrified of death,” Ricci said. ‘Yellowjackets’ Leans in to Savagery 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Over the first 80 pages Padnos outlines his missteps in forensic detail, mocking his vanities and ruing the many warning signals he missed. Held Hostage in Syria, a Reporter Tells What It Took to Survive 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Anything in your vanity that is significantly past its expiration date should be disposed of as well. Perspective | Want a more calm 2020? A professional organizer suggests these 20 resolutions. 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z In 1998, my brother financed the collection and publication of my grandfather’s poems by a regional vanity press. Leaving Aleppo 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Other agendas included vanity, fame, financial gain, the motivation of a physical challenge, a break from the monotony or mediocrity of life, she said. Behind the scenes of reality TV: 'You're a little bit daft to apply' 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Throughout those spirited and stately volumes, Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. ‘The Age of Caesar’: A fresh look at the key players in a time of historic unrest 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z All else is corporate fear, hype, vanity and vexation of the spirit. | Isabel Marant: At Isabel Marant, What?s in a Label? 2010-04-20T22:26:00Z The separate and spacious vanity features an impressive toiletry kit from REN skincare that goes above and beyond the basic shower gel, shampoo and conditioner to include night cream, eye gel and “balancing fluid.” Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: Upper House, in Hong Kong 2011-04-29T18:55:00Z The service these arguments have provided instead is that they’ve opened a window into the twitchiness so many have about vanity, and what is correct. The hidden costs of vanity 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z She painted uptown sophisticates and troubled artists, the very young and very old, people's vanities and vulnerabilities. The weird world of Alice Neel 2010-07-07T20:30:00Z Something tells me the miniature vanity project and Hollywood legend won't be indulging his reflection in that lift again. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z Presidential vanity is always a fair target, but too many of the digs directed at Streep’s character play into gender stereotypes. ‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: Tick, Tick, Kablooey 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z It also is a seriously damaged and inadequate movie, and its defects reveal traits of character—arrogance, vanity, and self-importance—that exert an unfortunately strong influence on Parker’s directorial choices. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Why does the paint keep peeling on my bathroom vanity? Need to remove sap from asphalt? Get out the hand sanitizer. 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z “I had all the fears you would when I met him: is this a vanity project for an actor?,” Movies: ?Coriolanus?: Ralph Fiennes Debut as Film Director 2011-11-27T04:47:17Z If you are troubled by your boyfriend’s vanity, ask: “Do you think you may be overdoing it with the selfies?” I Tried to Befriend My Husband’s Ex. So What? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z By dismissing the threat and banishing its visual cues, Trump also shields his own reputation and protects his personal vanity. The Medical Mask Becomes a Protest Symbol 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The vanity stuff may appeal to corporations but it sure isn't going to bring in sports fans. Tiger, The Tour And Inside The U.S. Open 2010-06-15T22:00:00Z The title sequence’s message is unmistakable: This is a movie about women, with no vanity lighting. Nicole Holofcener and Her Latest Film, ?Please Give? 2010-04-24T02:35:00Z She worked regularly, and enthusiastically, in countries with authoritarian governments, designing them spectacular and expensive cultural centers and other vanity projects. Architect Zaha Hadid always seemed unstoppable, but she left a mixed legacy 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “Her look is not about vanity,” said Lucie Greene, a trend forecaster and brand strategist. Billie Eilish: Gen Z’s Outrageous Fashion Role Model 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z In Fauci’s mind, he’s far more human than he’s often depicted: “I don’t take that kind of personal vanity stuff seriously. Brad Pitt played me on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ How an artist captured Fauci’s career in a genre-defying new portrait 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z But for President Trump, known for his vanity, there may be a more superficial reason for avoiding a First Canine. Why doesn’t Trump have a dog — and should he get one? Experts weigh in 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The trouble with all this vanity is that it obscures Ovitz’s real accomplishments. Reflections of a Former Hollywood Power Broker 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z I have been reading what I have recorded of my experience in the last year — a strange vanity. Exhibition Review: Diarists Share Tales ? True or Not ? of Lives Richly Lived 2011-01-21T19:10:36Z The first time I heard Ms. Notaro turn these encounters into a virtuoso 11-minute tale, her most acclaimed bit, the joke appeared to be about celebrity vanity and pop nostalgia. Critic’s Notebook: Tig Notaro Meets Taylor Dayne, Again and Again 2012-06-24T21:27:44Z “And hopefully people would see this as not something I’m doing on a whim, sort of a vanity project, like Madonna writing a picture book.” ?Wildwood,? a Book by the Decemberists? Colin Meloy 2011-10-11T17:28:57Z What followed, however, was not the typical “actor moonlighting in a rock band” vanity project. John C. Reilly’s Group in Lincoln Center Songbook Series 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Variety magazine described it as "a vanity production of the first order", adding that "the narcissism on display is astonishing to behold". Barbra Streisand to direct first film in 16 years 2012-06-22T13:37:59Z They suggest no vanity or actorly preening but a keen self-awareness—and understanding of Davis—through the lens. Kind of Clichéd: How the Miles Davis Movie Could Have Been Better 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z There was some kerfuffle last week after comments Zadie Smith made at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, about limiting her seven-year-old daughter’s mirror time, were mis-framed as a way of scoffing at women’s vanity. The hidden costs of vanity 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z “I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.” Movie Review: ‘Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel,’ a Documentary 2012-09-21T00:06:05Z I also wanted to dig into the idea that there’s a degree of vanity in that: I want people to see that we’re a happy family. Talking to Victor LaValle about 'The Changeling' and the horror of parenthood, H.P. Lovecraft and more 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z A successful politician, Mr. Doonan wrote in Slate, must appear Prada-oblivious: “Any hint of dandyism or vanity would indicate a superficial, self-indulgent character.” The Fashion Conservatives 2010-10-20T22:33:00Z Too much more, and to me the place, especially an independent one, runs the risk of seeming like a vanity project, even when it’s anything but. Branded, and over it: You don’t have to sell me on the place I chose to eat in. 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Shakespeare’s Caesar is clearly a leader and politician with power — including some vanity and propensity to flattery — but also with wide popular appeal. Julius Caesar in our times 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Still, Macy isn't the type to let vanity get in the way of a good role or a great performance. Macy is proud to be the drunken dad in 'Shameless' 2013-01-23T13:56:08Z She seemed completely devoid of all vanity and rarely talked about herself. Jean Liedloff obituary 2011-04-11T18:01:17Z “Lewis’s face is the grimacing mirror of our vanities,” said the French film critic Pierre Murat. Why France Understood Jerry Lewis as America Never Did 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z His vision of the irrepressible force of human nature reveals the vanity of the political and religious authorities that presume or pretend to control it. The Paradox at the Heart of Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Films 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z But it’s not exclusively a vanity project; Laugh Out Loud will also present shows from up-and-coming acts and a series of standup specials filmed at the Montreal Just for Laughs festival last summer. Comedy in 2017: Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and the French Seinfeld 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z But Horgan, who is 49 and has eviscerating self-awareness, also accepts that “vanity” might be a factor. Sharon Horgan: ‘I want adventures. I want to do stuff that's challenging’ 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z It could be that the vanity of American performers — or the tyranny of Hollywood standards — prevents actresses from looking the part. The TV Watch: Where Alcoholism Drinks in the Laughs 2010-12-02T23:21:00Z Killing a man, and getting away with it, too, just to feed one's own intellectual vanity, is a hideous, amoral stunt, but it's just the kind of trick that Hitchcock excels at. My Favourite Hitchcock: Rope 2012-07-27T11:23:27Z Very much a vanity project, it was widely derided as a second Swept Away, but that is not really fair: it was never going to get the big bucks. Every Angelina Jolie film performance – ranked! 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s a funny nexus of, obviously, a certain amount of vanity because you’re acknowledging that you’re going onstage and asking people to look at you. St. Vincent, an Experimenter in Music and in Makeup 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z If “50 Years at Pace,” a multi-site extravaganza honoring a half-century in the art business, is not in the essential viewing category, it is partly because it loses points for vanity. Last Chance: The Pace Years: When One Gallery Is Not Enough 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z Though it is not from vanity or the desire to prolong a film career. Saroo Brierley, the inspiration for the film Lion: 'The tears spoke for themselves' 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “That's what I'm talking about. It's trying to shift the conversation from vanity and a preoccupation within this to actual health.” "They're not practicing what they preached": WeightWatchers is shifting into weight loss drugs 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z But one of those photos is of Harrow himself with Julia and Gillian’s grandson Tommy, whom she has come to call her own son in a typical act of vanity and deception. Boardwalk Empire Watch: The War Begins 2012-11-26T13:30:01Z This vanity dates from 1940s Hollywood stars, who wore their coats on their shoulders. | Video: Bill Cunningham | Unbuttoned 2014-02-21T22:54:32Z Mr. Williams didn’t go into any deep psychological reasons for this colossal unforced error, except to say that vanity played a part: He stated several times that his ego got the better of him. Brian Williams, in Raw Form, Delivers an Apology on ‘Today’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Marvel at beautifully crafted trunks, vanity cases and accessories from the 1930s. 10 of the best museums close to railway stations in Europe: readers’ tips 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The young artist joined in a “bonfire of the vanities” instigated by the preacher, throwing his own early drawings of nudes into the flames. Fra Bartolommeo Has His Moment 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s a little obvious to locate the underlying anxieties of “Last Resort” — fraudulence, vanity — in the well-documented and rapidly growing unwillingness of readers to ascribe credibility to the media. In ‘Last Resort,’ a Writer Turns a Friend’s Story Into a Smash Success 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z But now that I’m almost 50, I’m ashamed of my youthful vanity. TV Taught Me About AIDS. ‘It’s a Sin’ Reminded Me How Far We’ve Come. 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z “A pretentious vanity project for Brangelina,” sneered the New York Post. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z They are bait for critical vanity, handing critics toys to play with, toys that can be defended as educational while offering little substance and less thought. Review: Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a Designer Che T-shirt 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Sally Hawkins for example is happy to play a small part, she doesn't have that kind of vanity, none of them do. Richard Ayoade does The Double 2014-04-07T05:50:06Z But until then, vanity sneers in the mirror with impossible beauty standards and preservation of these perpetually depreciating assets, the transience of women's faces and figures. As a teenager, I hated Britney Spears and decades later I'm owning up to this misogyny 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Ego is a serpent, he told me twice, and vanity is simply another thing that must fall away if one is to be of any real use as an actor, or even as a person. Anthony Hopkins Makes It Look Simple. (And Maybe It Should Be.) 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z People have adopted veganism for virtuous reasons, but vanity plays an undeniable role as well. Vegans Go Glam 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z I did not feel comfortable answering him, because the truth is it was out of vanity. The age of envy: how to be happy when everyone else's life looks perfect 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Ms Tawada respects the actual behaviour of bears even as her ursine authors inspect the vanity of humankind through an outsider’s—or a migrant’s—eyes. Life as a superstar polar bear 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The love of family and other kinds of love, the love of humanity and one’s own vanity, the devotion to one’s children and other kinds of devotion, clash tragically here, too. “Interstellar” Is a Flowery Greeting Card 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Morris describes even the strangest vanities, like the costume Luce wore on the opening night of a production of “Candida” on Aug. 6, 1945 — the same date Hiroshima was bombed. ‘Price of Fame,’ a Biography of Clare Boothe Luce 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z They howl and run, just as planned, toward an innocent looking mirrored vanity. The secrets of the scare master But it also shows this is not simply a vanity project; Jolie has kept herself well in the background. In the Land of Blood and Honey ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:59Z Like Twitter, the installation makes hitherto secret vices brazenly public; vanity grates against shame. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z For the most part, the book is very much an old-fashioned moral treatise on vanity. The Possessions of Doctor Forrest by Richard T Kelly ? review 2011-07-15T21:15:01Z Succumbing to his own vanity, the criminal purrs: "Very well, Bart, I shall send you to heaven before I send you to hell" - and finishes his rendition just as the police arrive. 2010-01-14T11:04:00Z The prevalence of outrageous male vanity was the dirty little secret in the first “Zoolander” that lent the film its satirical bite. Review: In ‘Zoolander 2,’ All Is Still Vanity 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z In decades past, self-publishing meant scraping together the money to pay a vanity press. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z For him, hair has never been a matter of vanity, nor was its loss traumatic, he insists. Corey Stoll enjoys ‘The Strain’ of series stardom 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z That mind-set didn’t come from a place of vanity. Why Are We Still Obsessed With Princess Diana’s Style? 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z It’s one of those feminist arguments that routinely rolls around, centered on the question of vanity. It’s OK to care about your looks: Women shouldn’t be embarrassed by — or shamed into — decisions of personal style 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z She will abandon herself to a character without apology or vanity or self-preservation. She Won a Tony. But Deirdre O’Connell ‘Can’t Think About That.’ 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z That voice is a noose spun from pomposity and vanity. Review | ‘Riots I Have Known’ is criminally funny 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z She was very amused by the character’s vanity. Diane Keaton, Hiding in Plain Sight 2010-11-15T19:16:00Z Trump, never shy to announce his own intelligence or to pronounce upon his own accomplishments, might well have the vanity to identify with Miranda’s incandescent hero. Why Donald Trump and Jeb Bush should see “Hamilton” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z The oversize bathroom, generous closets and dressing area — complete with vanity table — are convenient for guests who spend weeks there at a time. Chasing Balzac: Uncovering the Intimate Belle Epoque Hotels of Paris 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z It takes a robust lack of vanity to include that sentence in your own autobiography. Who’s Next? Roger Daltrey 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z There’s the bitter wife who dreams of dissing her husband on a vanity license plate. Review | Hub Theatre’s ‘The Pavilion’ revisits the past 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z They also loved abusive relationships, vanity and cosmetic surgery, and rich older straights loved to be "sugar daddies". Behind the Candelabra – review 2013-06-06T14:29:02Z So she has not worked a lot, but she gave a committed performance as an unpleasant neurotic in American Beauty – impressive proof of how little vanity she has. David Thomson on Annette Bening 2010-10-27T22:40:00Z In one moment there’s a joke about vanity, and getting carded; in another, a near-death experience. Better Things gets better: Pamela Adlon triumphs without Louis CK 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Religious ritual, too, is carefully tailored to the music, underlining the predatory elders' pervy vanity and their appalling complicity. Susanna – review 2012-08-01T17:34:03Z Landau, playing Koenig, is a fine actor but his vanity is indulged. Space: 1999 – box set review 2013-04-11T14:00:02Z Pop stars, it seems, cannot be trusted to name their own records thanks to a mixture of vanity, stupidity and hubris, but it's still marginally better than pop music by committee. Can bands be trusted to name their own albums? 2013-06-19T13:50:47Z Christine’a is Ma Quest, and the two of them, without vanity or any expectation of praise or reward, serve as mentors, confidants and semi-parental figures for the people around them. Review: ‘Quest’ Is a Moving Portrait of an American Family 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Display everyday shoes on a bookcase, floating shelves or vanity. Perspective | Want to organize your shoes? Consider putting them on display. 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z If you decide to invest in a buffing machine, avoid models with 10-inch-diameter pads; those need two hands to maneuver and are oversize for use on a vanity. Restoring the gloss on cultured-marble countertops 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z She sees the same pamphlet Velvet sees: “It was sentimental and flattering to white vanity and manipulative as hell,” Ginger says. Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’: A bracing, tender take on motherhood and guilt 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z In fact, his insults turn to vanity: "It looks like they took a stone chisel to his face!" Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z With Cooper in charge behind the camera, as well as hogging the meaty scenes in front of it, this was vanity cinema at its baldest. You're so vain! The phenomenon of the self-loving actor-director 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z This unfunny comedy is a vanity project for Michael Rosenbaum, who wrote and directed it, plays the main character and appears to have the comic sensibility of an unsophisticated 11-year-old. Movie Review: ‘Back in the Day’ Involves Grown-Up Epiphanies 2014-01-17T00:15:54Z While most of her clients are motivated by vanity, some deal with deeper issues. Up Close: By Her (Couture) Hair You Shall Know Her 2012-03-19T22:45:36Z He bought Great Santini vanity plates for his car and often appeared alongside his son at book signings. Pat Conroy, Author of ‘The Prince of Tides’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 70 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z “It’s navy enough that it feels safe for people. It’s great for kitchen islands, for vanities, an entire bedroom.” Looking for a paint color that will never go out of style? Try one of these timeless shades. 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z But when Matsson mentions that he heard a rumor about her being pregnant, she concocts a version of motherhood where she is “emailing through her vanity cesarean” and her kid “will never see her.” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Kudrow, ordinarily so deft at puncturing her characters’ vanity with her own wit, does not lift this one out of the realm of spiteful caricature. | 'The Other Woman': A Home Wrecker Faces Many Challenges, Too 2011-02-03T23:33:40Z By the way, I wouldn’t want to think about having to convince another actress to not wear makeup and drop that level of vanity that seems to surround a lot of young actresses. Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Back to the Valley With ‘Licorice Pizza’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z An old-fashioned vanity sits just outside the door, adding to the sense of yesteryear allure. Check In, Check Out: Mr. C Beverly Hills in Los Angeles ? Hotel Review 2011-12-29T18:47:41Z Kerry Taylor Auctioneers says that items due to be put up for sale include a scarlet chiffon nightdress, complete with a full length cape, and a 1960s Louis Vuitton vanity case. Wallis Simpson's lingerie, handbags up for auction 2011-03-01T14:03:10Z Molly Surno’s “We of Me, 2014,” saw three young women, wrapped in plush white towels, sitting silently in front of a vanity, blank expressions on their faces. LAXArt Gala, a night of art-magic and mystery at Greystone Mansion 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Maybe that was for the best, but on the other hand, why not set him up with a ghostwriter and a vanity press and let the yarns rip? Review: ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Answers Questions You May Not Have Asked 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Concessions like that would only slow her down; there was never any room in her performances for vanity. Postscript: Sharon Jones, 1956-2016 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Wu Hung, a professor at the University of Chicago, recounts how reflective glass did more than cater to vanity over the millenniums. 4 Books That Reflect on Faces, Fragments and Torments 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Cavin-Winfrey says she is amazed at how many things people leave scattered on bathroom vanities, shelves and floors. 6 do’s and don’ts for decorating a bathroom that won’t embarrass you in front of guests 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Q: Ten years ago, a bathroom vendor installed three cultured-marble vanities in our unit but said nothing about applying a product to keep the surface looking fresh. Restoring the gloss on cultured-marble countertops 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z I never wanted this to be a vanity project. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z He rises magnificently to the challenges of act two, dancing with a virtuosity that's free of vanity and emotional bombast. Bolshoi: Serenade/Giselle 2010-07-27T20:30:00Z But the collections vary widely, with some serious endeavors and others more like vanity showcases. How a Dutch Businessman Fulfilled His Dream to Open a ‘World-Class’ Museum 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Brown’s humble background, northern grit and self-assurance put his noble clients at ease, played to their vanity and persuaded them to reach deeply into their pockets. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Any whiff of attempted suicide would inevitably have cast aspersions on Marian’s vanity in imagining that she could be a satisfying wife for a much younger man. A Literary Leap to Give Tourists Pause 2010-06-18T16:17:00Z But don’t: even if this is all about vanity – which it probably isn’t – you’ll attract the sort of parasite who feeds on people who are still emotionally fragile. Tiger selfies – and other Tinder tropes we’d like to see gone 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z An espresso machine is on the vanity in the master bathroom. Harvey and Irma Wiped Out Our Kitchens. Still, We Cook. 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z These days Mr. Boulez is reserved but approachable, forthcoming, reflective and, to a remarkable degree, without vanity. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z Her short stories are majestic presentations of human foolishness, weakness, vanity, self-importance, viciousness, yet all of them are suffused with an awareness of and reverence for human worth. By the Book: Donna Leon 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z His letters reveal a man capable of tremendous humor and self-reflection as well as stubbornness and occasional vanity. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z That’s the kernel, for Medea gives Aeson the potion by three kisses, a ritual of creation conducted for her own pleasure — occult, carnal — as much as for Jason’s vanity. Review: Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘The Cure’ and ‘The Corridor,’ Myths With a Twist 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z What remains to be seen is whether involving the crowd — or, more cynically, exploiting its vanities — can lift ticket sales and outcompete Netflix-connected screens. Admit One: ‘Here Lies Love’ and the Era of Audience Participation 2013-07-11T21:22:46Z It’s a perfectly chosen comic X-rated detail to elaborate on the original novel’s exploration of his vanity. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Self-confidence is a good thing, and vanity is basically a visa you need to enter showbiz. Review: ‘Sincerely, Oscar’ Is Some Embarrassing Evening 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Most immediately, Mr. Fields has to decide how to help support a movie that has his name on it without making it feel like a vanity project. Danny Fields Loved Punk Rock. It Loved Him Back. 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z I could see our reflection in the vanity mirror. Protect the sacred lives of women: To be pro-life, you must change your life 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Sounds a bit like Big Brother, Oasis' vanity label, doesn't it? New band of the day ? No 880: Brother 2010-10-05T15:41:00Z There’s the falling away of vanity that some women report, that biting girdle we’ve been encouraged to wear and, too, the falling away of anxiety around ambitions unmet. It’s time to talk about the menopause… and freedom at last | Eva Wiseman 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Virginia Congressman Arthur Lee wrote in despair in 1783 that formerly serious, Quaker Philadelphia was too interested in “affecting the vanity, & nonsense of French parade.” Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The acting is very good, though, intense and free of vanity, and it underscores Mr. Bartlett’s fierce notion that human solipsism withstands even cosmic catastrophe. London Theater Journal: Apocalypse at the National 2010-08-06T16:25:00Z But I'm afraid he's also preaching an inescapable historical gospel on how the vanity and corruption of powerful empires lead them to learn the same painful lessons, over and over again. "Centurion": Trapped in the Roman Empire's Vietnam 2010-08-26T01:30:00Z The movie, directed by Patrick Hoelck and starring Scott Caan, who wrote the screenplay and served as one of its producers, may be something of a vanity project. | 'Mercy': Scott Caan, Star and Writer of Tough-Guy Romance 2010-04-30T00:17:00Z Five nights and three afternoons a week, Rocky, a little French bulldog, naps under the vanity table of Russell Tovey’s tiny and bright Broadway dressing room. A Night in the Broadway Life of Russell Tovey and His Bulldog 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z A stricken-looking Ms. Mazzie sang as she wandered the rehearsal room, seemingly lost in an almost impossible set of emotions, before choosing to sit at Carrie’s bedroom vanity and embracing its tabletop. Arts & Leisure: ?Carrie,? a Huge Stage Flop, Is Reinvented by MCC Theater 2012-02-02T13:00:00Z He was, for instance, the first Brutus I'd ever seen to suggest that behind the character's surface nobility lay a self-regarding vanity. John Wood: an actor who made us see things anew 2011-08-11T12:32:33Z Hart is no great social critic, but he does have a gift for needling celebrity fragility and black male vanity. “Irresponsible,” Reviewed: Kevin Hart’s Family Values 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Several small gilded vanity boxes in the exhibition masterfully depict, in miniature, epic vignettes: a tightrope walker performing in a theater, a ship navigating wild waves near a rocky coast, and a battle scene. In Miniature 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z But her museum donation doesn’t seem at all like vanity. Oprah Earned This Museum Show. And It’s a Potent Spectacle. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z These companies want commercials made about them — maybe for vanity, maybe because business is down — and they don’t have the means or connections to pull it off themselves. Television Review: Finding the Offbeat Off the Beaten Path 2011-06-23T22:31:27Z A man in a short black robe and a wig cap sits at a makeshift vanity. Review: Up All Night, With Rebecca Hall as Muse, in ‘Soundstage’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Its trial is a drama of people, won and lost by their ingenuity, vanity and hubris. Two Astonishing Views of O.J. Simpson and His Trial 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z After all, a mild sense of the absurd, intellectual vanity and insatiable curiosity are not notably gendered characteristics. The bolshie, brilliant history of the women of Doctor Who 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Jagger shows a refreshing lack of conventional vanity by allowing both Bang and Debicki to tower over him. ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’ Review: Modern Art, Misogyny and Murder 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z He gets the idea, held by some, that each of these is a kind of vanity project, a means of extending the renown that had started to wane by the mid-2000s. Moby goes where Brian Eno, and his ancestor Herman Melville, went before 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z She is one of the few women in US television to clown and belch and discard all vanity in the name of laughs. The disgraceful genius of Julia Louis-Dreyfus 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The other notable thing about that period in British television, going by the various contributors who knew Allen, is that it produced a generation untouched by dental vanity. Rewind TV: Vicious; The Job Lot; Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian; The Repo Man – review 2013-05-04T09:45:01Z I'd say up until I started getting Fiona Staples' artwork, I felt that "Saga" was going to be a vanity project that I'm going to love deeply, but will inevitably get canceled after six issues. Comics author Brian K. Vaughan on his global hit "Saga" and making art in troubled times 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Rippe encourages people to clearly differentiate between weight loss goals for health reasons and those that revolve around vanity. Losing those last five pounds Understand it as a metaphor for our own vanity and mortality? Perspective | How should we talk about Stephen Miller’s hair? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z In keeping with the hotel’s cheerful attitude, the vanity mirror features a big red lipstick imprint that is actually a working night light. Check In: Hotel Review: Acme Hotel Company in Chicago 2013-06-19T16:01:00Z And if detractors want to dismiss his latest passion as a vanity project, Mr. Seinfeld says he happily embraces that label. Jerry Seinfeld, Online Force 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z His sly performance is so convincingly full of humor, warmth and vanity that it renders moot just about every other posthumous representation of the patriarch of psychoanalysis. | 'A Dangerous Method': ?A Dangerous Method,? by David Cronenberg - Review 2011-11-22T18:02:01Z Graae plays Roger De Bris, the disastrous director who gets pressed into the Hitler musical’s lead at the last moment, and his bubbly Judy Garland vanity sweeps you into helpless laughter. Hitler musical caper rides again in ‘The Producers’ at Olney 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z This is Kylián at his finest, interrogating notions of vanity, sex and death with a very cold eye indeed. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z I don't just mean the pleasure the reader gets from reading about Wagner's vanity; I also mean Conrad's relish in describing it, and then contrasting it with Verdi's almost saintly modesty. Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad – review 2013-02-19T12:10:12Z A few girls toward the front have outfitted their phones with cases that glow around the entire frame, like a camera-equipped vanity mirror. Justin Bieber, Young Thug, and Guarding the New Guard 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “Yes, Hollywood is a swamp of vanity, myopia and bad taste,” writes A.O. The Carpetbagger: What the Oscars Get Right 2012-02-20T15:00:38Z The 6-year-old rescue from a Los Angeles County shelter is known for her collection of fashionable sunglasses, a stylish accessory born of necessity, not vanity. Meet Sunglass Cat, an Instagram star with an eye-opening message of acceptance 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Seated on opposite sides of the stage at vanity tables are two middle-aged women in peignoirs appraising themselves in the mirror and applying the ritualistic goo of the show’s title — that is, their makeup. Review: ‘War Paint’ Recalls Two Cosmetics Titans 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Not really, he says – apart from the vanity. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z And I’m not exposing myself to danger, and by extension exposing others to danger, because of the folly of vanity! Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Forget the Beatles. I’ve got a real moptop. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z And in person, during an interview in the mezzanine bar of the Paramount Hotel near Times Square, she came across as warm, matter-of-fact and seemingly without vanity, her conversation punctuated by big, generous laughs. A Tough Mama Tries to Find Her Inner Diva 2011-06-23T23:07:53Z Their strongest vectors are sex, money, and vanity—but especially sex. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z To the swelling taxonomy of jukebox musicals, we must now add a new genus: the high-tech nitwit vanity bio-revue. Review: ‘Sincerely, Oscar’ Is Some Embarrassing Evening 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z |
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