What is "vainglorious"

Usage examples of "vainglorious".

Do not blame the masses because their vainglorious rulers refuse to relinquish their power.

In 1682 La Salle followed it to where it meets the great gulf, possessing with emblems of empire and his indomitable spirit the lower reaches of the stream whose upper waters had first been touched by the gentle Marquette and the practical Joliet and the vainglorious Hennepin.

Vkandis frowned on spending money putting up vainglorious statues when the same money could be given to the temple, and at any rate, exalting yourself or your ancestors in such a fashion was an indulgence in the sin of pride.

His vainglorious words may well prove in their environment the prelude of a compulsory confession of failure, which is likely to come at a far briefer interval than the eighteen months which separate the imaginary hope of Paris from the slender substance of Nish.

This is paradise, to read a newspaper containing matters of no consequence written by vainglorious prose stylists.

Where is the fame Which the vainglorious mighty of the earth Seek to eternize?

What a contrast these vainglorious men were to the people of the land they conquered who barely had enough to fill their stomachs, shabbily dressed and exhausted.

And, since there was much clearing to do --much heavy warfare with cogan grass and vainglorious weeds--Diego worked on that job, too, in every moment he could spare.

I would have been stupid to have done anything as vainglorious as to actively engage in the fighting.

Love, for her, is above all things, and by its very nature, a vainglorious, brazen-fronted, ostentatious, thriftless charlatan.

Maxime, a spoiled child, delicate, overparticular, who in ordinary times took care of himself like a fine lady, found an unexpected flavour in the privations and trials of his new life, and wondering at himself he boasted of it in his charming, vainglorious letters which delighted the hearts of his parents.

Instead, former worm technocrats, now vainglorious public speakers, who in calm or windy weather sound off about German Ability.

I know the lad well from much consorting, and I am sure he is not boastful or vainglorious.

The very grounds on which Bray had Certified his Candidacy, I maintained, were in fact the flunking of him: it was not any hidden urge to persecute studentdom's persecutors that he must atone for, but his pride in suffering -- a scapegoatery as misconceived as Enos Enoch's, to my mind, and vainglorious as well.

We are a vainglorious species, and if we were able to cop to the fact that even the most sauvage of what the French call la grande passion commands only twelve true minutes of intense pain before it begins to mellow, we would all dash to the cliffs and do a lemming.