They have overlooked the principle and instead gone for a vanity project.

What an ugly, inappropriate waste of money that little vanity project is.

I don't want it to be a vanity project of my own.

I'm really struggling to see any justification for this enormous vanity project.

How about a ship called the beagle that actually does some science rather than a vanity project.

These were vanity projects and not meaningful attempts to change anything.

The perception that the music museum is a rich man's vanity project has been hard to shake.

Make the Olympics the last vanity project we waste money on.

This is a vanity project and a playground for the rich, the local community are getting crumbs.

This is just a vanity project really for someone who likes the sound of his own voice.