vainglorious in a sentence

1. this vainglorious boast of personal infallibility

2. For Allah loves not the arrogant, the vainglorious." 4:36

3. Or you can go the old way, the vainglorious way—your life for mine.”

4. He'll lie, whine and be vainglorious; all in all, he'll give you a hard time.

5. Fools make up all sorts of vainglorious self-serving plep – but me, I tell the truth.

6. That has always been the case, despite florid, vainglorious rhetoric about American probity.

7. Because when we see what we are now seeing, vainglorious Monte Albán, we futilely seek continuity.

8. It’s not vainglorious to say that Britain is the most tolerant country in Europe, perhaps the world.

9. your spunk, your enterprising spirit, well, it reminds me a great deal of myself, if… i may be so vainglorious.

10. As the app site vaingloriously states, there are two epochs in the history of endurance sports: before segments and after segments.

11. Had he forgotten how, even before the admiring shouts had died away, vengeance, swift and terrible, had befallen the vainglorious king?

12. That could be considered “vainglorious,” which describes an entity that is so vain about being glorious that it warrants having the two conjoined.

13. I personally think that bin Laden, the vainglorious leader of al-Qaida, merely gave himself credit for the most notorious act of terrorism in history.

14. The moment has perhaps come in human history when, for very survival, those realities must be given pride of place over the vainglorious adventures that lead to war.

15. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

16. Why did we spend, after the 1967 war, six long years on victory festivals, vainglorious speeches and putting up settlements, instead of seizing a unique opportunity for making peace?

17. Even though “regime change” in Iraq and Afghanistan did not work out very well, Bush saw himself as a triumphant war leader with his vainglorious “Mission Accomplished,” and he later dubbed himself the “decider.”

18. Some people are envious of the high standard of living experienced by people living in rich nations, but the poverty of India is much more congenial to the good life than the luxurious and vainglorious life of the west.

19. 68:2.11 (766.1) Vanity contributed mightily to the birth of society; but at the time of these revelations the devious strivings of a vainglorious generation threaten to swamp and submerge the whole complicated structure of a highly specialized civilization.