What is the point of your existence other than sheer vanity?

Hundreds of new cards flood the market each week as businesses and individuals design their own for advertising purposes or for sheer vanity.

It's partly sheer vanity, and partly because in my job a good memory for faces is a mighty fine asset.

Out of sheer vanity she decided to sign up.

Namely, how can we consider ourselves a civilized society while we torture and kill millions of innocent animals every year for no reason other than sheer vanity?

Qwilleran went to the desk to write a check, automatically reaching for his glasses, then changing his mind out of sheer vanity.

Far better to believe in the power of brotherliness, dedication and forbearance than in the ability of sheer vanity and arrogance to conquer all.

'That's sheer vanity, Simon.'

I did not want to give them grounds for thinking I had permitted myself to be cast out of sheer vanity by coming off as the bumbling amateur.

"It's sheer vanity that would keep you from showing yourself in a wheelchair," Mr. Huston snorts.