vaingloriousness

In court papers and interviews, the two lawyers have further accused each other of vaingloriousness.

But his vaingloriousness got him in the end.

Even Victor's name describes the kind of vaingloriousness that Satan revels in...

I record this speech from memory in order to give an idea of the vaingloriousness of certain of our commanders in the early days of the fighting.

Biographer Shelden Grebstein says that O'Hara in these columns was "simultaneously embarrassing and infuriating in his vaingloriousness, vindictiveness, and general bellicosity."

If Teeka had not been so absorbed in her own vaingloriousness she might have noted the rustling of leaves in the tree above her--a rustling which was not caused by any movement of the wind, since there was no wind.

The memoir as a negative examination of the self, a form in which to showcase our reasons to be, in John Calvin's words, "displeased with ourselves," indelibly marked the Anglophone autobiographical tradition thereafter-as did a resultant vaingloriousness about the extent of one's waywardness.

An alternative view, according to Foster, sees the Titanic as somewhere between a Greek and an Elizabethan tragedy; the theme of hubris, in the form of wealth and vaingloriousness, meeting an indifferent Fate in a final catastrophe is very much one that is drawn from classical Greek tragedies.