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"vainglorious" Definitions
  1. too proud of your own abilities or achievementsTopics Successc2, Personal qualitiesc2

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" He was soon silently berating himself as a "vainglorious twat.
It eschewed the vainglorious interruptions and profane interjections so familiar today.
And it's particularly easy for a vainglorious billionaire to do so.
In The Game, he comes off as plaintive, vainglorious, abusive, and immature.
Getting rid of the vainglorious Trump administration is only a partial solution.
The vainglorious Trump felt he was the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
This is a strategy that must supersede any individual's vainglorious pursuit of the presidency.
Wounding the vainglorious is a pleasing pastime in itself and contributes to their demoralization.
Who would want anything more to do with this vainglorious braggart than is necessary?
Yet there's more to Afweyne's misstep into a honeypot than a stupid, vainglorious fuck up.
Mr Tokayev immediately ordered Astana, the vainglorious capital Mr Nazarbayev founded, rechristened "Nursultan" in his honour.
Marshaling all the matter-of-fact bossiness of an Italian mama, she disarmed the vainglorious Mustafà.
He sees Beverley's efforts as some vainglorious swipe at success or wealth or some horse shit.
Franny, is a vainglorious manipulator of other people accustomed to getting his way, often by playing God.
And the vainglorious Palestinians would anyway be unlikely to recalibrate their demands in response to American rudeness.
Verkaik points out, however, that the military ideology bred in the public schools is mostly vainglorious myth.
Nobody is going to feel sorry for these abusive, controlling, vainglorious monsters if they lose their cut.
These Elizabethans were such vainglorious strutters and self-preeners, with their picardels and their swelling cod-pieces!
In this one, though, these vainglorious eternals somehow shamble on atop the culture even in their curdling dotage.
At his worst, he was a vainglorious hustler, not a violent criminal who needed to be behind bars.
It's a bizarre and vainglorious vision, but one perfectly aligned with the attitude commonly on display in Silicon Valley.
Conversely, some of the most disappointing wines of the world lack modesty and come off as pompous and vainglorious.
This cat — a vainglorious, labile, impulsively abusive bigot, in whom Bajram's judgment and Bekim's own worst fears combine — captivates Bekim.
But petrodollars, vast arsenals and Mr Trump's blessing risk turning their descendants into vainglorious autocrats with talents for inflaming, not compromising.
A film that deliberately amplifies Bundy's vainglorious courtroom showboating and manipulative sexual appeal is exactly what he would have wished for.
A film which deliberately amplifies Bundy's vainglorious courtroom showboating and manipulative sexual appeal is exactly what he would have wished for.
Trump's vainglorious, vandalistic and vulgar presidency makes some people pine for the unity, continuity and dignity of a royal family. Don't.
Pei's vainglorious king (Zheng Kai) seems to have achieved an admirable goal: His policies have kept his territory out of war.
Others view him as a vainglorious grandstander whose carefully crafted image as "the last honest man in Washington" is a sham.
Presidents are entitled to be vainglorious narcissists incapable of distinguishing personal insult from public office—there's even a historical precedent for this.
The greedy, vainglorious Scott Pruitt, who did his best to decimate the Environmental Protection Agency, fit the bill, but he's long gone.
Perhaps it was because of the religiosity of the Byzantines, who fought for the glory of God rather than any vainglorious conceits.
"I think Comey is a preening popinjay utterly consumed with his own vainglorious pomposity," Podhoretz wrote, among many other pointed remarks on Twitter.
King Henry was a Trumpian figure — imperious, vainglorious, explosive, a handsome charmer in his youth who became an embittered and slothful 400-pounder.
One commonality through all of these e-commerce sites is that they sold to women: What does Silicon Valley's vainglorious venture capital system lack?
Apparently, in the whimsical imagination of Ms. Markey, who wrote, created and stars in the show as that vainglorious girl, Reagan, all things are possible.
Eating at a Manhattan destination restaurant is an increasingly vainglorious experience; no wonder the food often disappoints and the "fun" has become difficult to locate.
Pick any of Bemis's records and he toggles between brutal self-evisceration and vainglorious boasting, gooey love songs and naming names when airing out past exes.
It's the theater for vainglorious, vindictive, impulsive Trump, and it was the realm in which he made the wild accusations that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
The wave of terrorist violence it unleashed—in collusion with the state security apparatuses—would dwarf the most heinous excesses of Escobar's vainglorious "war" against the government.
The character of Jimmy—a preening, vainglorious novelist who had a critically lauded debut—is familiar to anyone who has met a self-important, minorly successful writer.
Other recent selections, following primaries and caucuses: "rabble-rouser" ("Our users love agent nouns like this," Otto said), "rodomontade" ("vainglorious boasting or bragging"), and "skulduggery" ("dishonorable proceedings").
That reckless brio flourishes in the absence of the maids' mistress, whose vainglorious appearance midway through locks Claire and Solange once more into the silence that accompanies servitude.
"Little" is about what happens when an adult woman (Regina Hall) is punished for her bullying, vainglorious ways by turning into her 13-year-old self (Marsai Martin).
And you can't do it as Jeb Bush did, where you assume for too long that people will see Trump as a vainglorious vulgarian without you pointing it out.
Colonel Qaddafi, who was born in a tent 10 miles south of the town, devised a series of vainglorious schemes intended to catapult the obscure city to global prominence.
" He was happy to describe his own output as "tall tales, fibs, lies, whoppers" — a penchant that explains his attraction to the vainglorious, less than truthful hero of "Falstaff.
David Davis, the Brexit secretary, is a vainglorious contrarian who has spent much of his career on the backbenches and who habitually underestimates the damage a bad Brexit might cause.
This isn't a bad thing; it's always better to earn more money and then be taxed on it rather than earn less money in a vainglorious attempt to avoid taxes.
This demi-paradise is invaded by a more advanced people, brought there by a lust for metal ore, and led—or bossed around—by the vainglorious Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston).
While these revelations are supremely disappointing, it is his current vainglorious effort to "set the record straight" amid the hugely consequential Russia probe that seems so reckless, foolhardy and self-serving.
His actions brought discredit on the FBI and despite his after-the-fact attempts to reconcile this via his vainglorious book tour, the damage he caused to the institution is incalculable.
The lifelong Democrat has suddenly morphed, in the eyes of his new detractors, into a vainglorious upstart, entitled rich guy, and potential spoiler who could hand the election to Donald Trump.
Not so much for Miss Kitty, however—when Bennett hands me her leash to show me his Catwoman tattoos, she literally starts clawing the church walls in a vainglorious bid for freedom.
Once again, we find the bookish Belle (Emma Watson) living in a village, worshipped by her father, Maurice (Kevin Kline), and wooed without cease—or success—by the vainglorious Gaston (Luke Evans).
And if he really wanted to salute America, he'd spend some of this money on the infrastructure, health care and educational needs of our citizens ... not on some vainglorious display of military might.
He thinks nothing of saying the most hurtful thing about someone else, but when he hears a whisper that runs counter to his own vainglorious self-image, he coils like a caged ferret.
But I am disgusted to see those efforts turned into a vainglorious photo op for a ruthless tyrant who enslaves, imprisons and slaughters his own people, shown shaking the hand of his — American!
On the American side, pop-star wannabes write narcocorridos, songs that celebrate the murderous exploits of vainglorious cartel killers, who, in turn, pay quite handsomely to have their deeds chronicled to musical accompaniment.
Directly behind Donald Trump in the Oval Office as he inks his bundle of biases into edicts is the newly installed portrait of the seventh president, Andrew Jackson, a shock-haired, vainglorious slave driver.
Chased from the Senate and his home, Neruda flees with his artist-wife, Delia (Mercedes Moran), the two slipping underground while chased by a vainglorious cop (played by Gael García Bernal, the star of "No").
Last fall, Mr. Branagh directed (with Rob Ashford) himself in a one-act Terence Rattigan caprice called "Harlequinade," in which the multiple Oscar nominee played a vainglorious actor and had a field day doing so.
"I don't think there's anybody writing for musical theater right now that's vastly better than I am at writing songs," Mr. Earle said, with such un-self-conscious forthrightness that he somehow didn't sound vainglorious.
Not at all ambiguous is Ben Mendelsohn's Orson Krennic, a marvel of sneering, vainglorious villainy in an impeccable white uniform, complete with a cape that billows behind him when he strides down a starship catwalk.
Materialism and profiteering had eaten away any nobility the N.F.L. game once possessed, leaving in its place a violent, vainglorious, $203-billion-a-year entertainment spectacle staged by helmeted mercenaries for the enrichment of grasping billionaires.
Trump did his Mussolini-lite thing — the vainglorious tilt of the chin, the boasts and lies that follow his Red State One plane from bubble to bubble, the authoritarian swipes at an independent press and judiciary.
I drew a blank, though, when I reached 63A; "Andromeda" rang a bell but didn't fit, and I needed a bunch of crosses to jog my memory and find her mother, CASSIOPEIA, the vainglorious queen of ETHIOPIA.
The cathedral's location in central Bucharest — next to the Palace of the Parliament, a vainglorious commission by the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and a reminder of some of the grimmer days of Communist rule — has also raised eyebrows.
I'm happy to admit that it is, at least in theory, possible that a vainglorious, dishonest, ignorant, and corrupt president who is already lying about his own diplomatic initiatives will shock the world by delivering something fantastic.
And since he's stubborn and vainglorious, he continues to insist that the moral of this whole story is that the experts were wrong and he was right so we should bank on further travel restrictions to save us.
In a season of deep national soul-searching concerning our moral character, the capacity to acknowledge past wrongs is a hopeful sign, especially when viewed against the backdrop of vainglorious posturing on the part of those in power.
His myriad voice work, from Batman properties to the highly satirical Animaniacs to his own hilarious self-portrayal in Family Guy, pulled off the rare feat of employing self-referentiality as comedy without lapsing into cloying or vainglorious territory.
That passive image was far removed from the exuberant, talkative, vainglorious 22-year-old who bounded out of Louisville, Ky., and onto the world stage in 1964 with an upset victory over Sonny Liston to become the world champion.
Bayless passes out to a rolling Joel, streaking toward the hoop, Drummond makes an insanely ineffectual, vainglorious swipe at Joel, and lifts it just in time to avoid the foul and, ultimately, direct blame for his colossal fuck-up.
The Chuck of the episode's title, played by Higgins, is a vainglorious news anchor who doesn't want to admit he's aging and finds in Carol a willing conspirator when he has to take a day off to get cataract surgery.
Meanwhile, Avery Bradley, who is pretty good at defense, sees this malfeasance unspooling in front of his eyes, and charges toward the rim in, I suppose, a vainglorious stab at doing something to mend this disastrous defensive possession for the Pistons.
I kept thinking of The Crown's portrayal of Churchill as a vainglorious old man whose feelings had to be propped up at all times in order for Queen Elizabeth II to navigate the complicated world she found herself thrust into.
It's the kind of vainglorious revenge we're not allowed to admit (unless you're a Kardashian of course); the kind in which we invoke the spirit of Beyoncé to appear flawlessly in front of an ex, reminding them of what they missed out on.
For 17 months, ever since she lost her Conservative Party its majority in an unnecessary, vainglorious election, the news media has been speculating daily on how long this private, dutiful, diffident leader can last and when the bid to topple her will begin.
The self-made son of a Cuban immigrant, he came to national attention in 20153 when he tried to shut down the federal government in a vainglorious bid to defund Barack Obama's health-care reform, an effort he compared to the resistance against Adolf Hitler.
When the ambitious serf's son Lopakhin announced that he had bought the aristocrat Lyubov Ranevskaya's estate out from under her, the director, Lev Dodin, had him croon "My Way," a startling anachronism that perfectly transformed the boorishly triumphant upstart into a vainglorious karaoke hero.
Janet is unapologetically better than the humans and demons around her—she knows more, she sometimes has command over time and space, she is apparently better in a bar fight—and no one, not even Kristen Bell's spiteful Eleanor or vainglorious Tahani, is threatened by it.
Awards pundits say there's little doubt about "Veep" winning a second comedy series Emmy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus taking home a fifth Emmy in a row for her turn as the vainglorious Selina Meyer, who, like Underwood, was grasping for re-election in the latest season.
I had heard it was a show in which cowboys rape prostitutes, in which McShane played yet another vainglorious anti-hero whose use of the word "fuck" every 20 seconds was an edgy tic, in which gratuitous murders made up a large portion of the action.
After Trump chickened out of the debate because a journalist he referred to as a "bimbo" had been "unfair" to him, most of the media were all too eager to become accomplices by covering Trump's supposed "alternate event" and giving him the vainglorious attention he desired.
Ken Watanabe is holding forth as an unusually playful King of Siam in "The King and I" at the London Palladium, and Rhys Ifans, as the vainglorious despot in a rare local sighting of Eugène Ionesco's "Exit the King," at times suggests a Lear-in-waiting.
If Shannon and company are having a tough time of it in a Mexican backwater, so, in his own fluttery way, is Garry Essendine, the vainglorious actor at the epicenter of "Present Laughter," the Noël Coward play newly revived at the Old Vic through Aug. 10.
Weinstein seems to view himself in loftier terms, as a holy warrior sent to save the innocent, not only from the scourge of H.I.V. but also from those he views as the virus's human collaborators: a satanic trifecta of greedy executives, vainglorious activists and incompetent bureaucrats.
Adapted by Jane Anderson from Meg Wolitzer's 2003 best-selling novel, and directed by Bjorn Runge, "The Wife" untangles Joan's complicity in the success of Joe (Jonathan Pryce), from their blossoming lust at Smith College in the late 1950s — she, a promising writer; he, her married professor — through the vainglorious rush of his Nobel anointing in 1992.
Yet, objectively speaking, the hazards of being gay for Greenwell's characters make their plot at least as dramatic as (say) that of Knausgaard's socially awkward teenager trying to sneak alcohol into a party in Book 1 of "My Struggle," or Lerner's expatriate poet adrift on a haze of hash in "Leaving the Atocha Station" — or either of these writer-protagonists' vainglorious preoccupations with their literary reputations.
Moser explores Sontag's childhood with a vainglorious single mother, her early marriage and motherhood; her famous affairs, with Robert Kennedy, the artist Jasper Johns, the playwright María Irene Fornés and the choreographer Lucinda Childs; as well as her struggles to maintain connection to those she truly loved, such as her son, David Rieff, and the photographer Annie Leibovitz, with whom she had a long-term relationship that she often publicly denied.
Moser explores Sontag's childhood with a vainglorious single mother, her early marriage and motherhood; her famous affairs, with Robert Kennedy, the artist Jasper Johns, the playwright María Irene Fornés and the choreographer Lucinda Childs; as well as her struggles to maintain connection to those she truly loved, such as her son, David Rieff, and the photographer Annie Leibovitz, with whom she had a long-term relationship that she often publicly denied.
A ticking time bomb of a movie that starts out simmering and ends with gory, tense (and literal) explosions, The Invitation was an undoubted comeback for Kusama—and she's capitalized on it since with My Only Living Son, her excellent contribution to this year's otherwise so-so horror anthology XX. At the very least, her just-short-of-satirical depictions of selfish, vainglorious West Coasters might make you think twice before hopping on that JetBlue to LAX.
Miles Gloriosus is a comedic play written by Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.). The title can be translated as "The Swaggering Soldier" or "Vainglorious Soldier". His source for Miles Gloriosus was a Greek play, now lost, called Alazon or The Braggart.
Bingo Crosbyana was one of two Warner Bros. cartoons (along with Let It Be Me) which Bing Crosby initiated lawsuits to suppress because they portrayed him in what Crosby considered a defamatory light. In this case, he objected to his portrayal as a vainglorious coward and to the imitation of his voice.Cohen (2004), p.
Deepa Karmalkar from Screen characterised her as "gloriously bitchy", while Avijit Ghosh of The Times of India believed that Kapadia had delivered "one of her most nuanced performances" in a character he found to be "a rare kind of Hindi film mother", who is "hawk-eyed, tough as nails but vainglorious, and in a strange way, vulnerable as well".
Near the beginning of the path stands an imagined Tower of Babel, recalling the vainglorious attempt of humans to build a tower to the heavens. Close to the end, a Tower of Thanks expresses Brother Joseph's gratitude for the support he received throughout the years building his sculptures.Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman, Alabama - SouthernLiving.com Blog - Tales from the Road.
Helen discovers Nicky's drug habit and pleads with him to give it up. Nicky struggles with the simmering resentment he feels for his vainglorious and promiscuous mother, his own weakness for cocaine, and, in the view of some commentators, his repressed homosexuality.Sinfield, pp. 37–38 Bunty breaks off her engagement with Nicky and seeks Tom's comfort.
Azhrarn overthrows a vainglorious king. Zorayas, one of the king's daughters, survives but is horribly disfigured by injuries. After suffering humiliation and rape and learning her parentage, she ruthlessly regains her father's kingdom. To avenge herself on Azhrarn, she tricks him into remaining above ground after sunrise in a dome simulating the night sky, but releases him when he makes her peerlessly beautiful.
Kraven is portrayed by actor Shane Brolly. The name "Kraven" is a derivation of the English word "craven", meaning "coward", a reference to Kraven's spineless nature. Kraven has a vainglorious personality and a highly inflated- but-extremely-fragile narcissistic ego: Kraven is a long-time suitor of Selene, a Death Dealer. Kraven fancies himself in a relationship with Selene, even though she spurns him at every turn.
She has gone through life on luck and intuition alone, so she carries with her a deep faith in luck, as well as a (perhaps groundless) self-confidence and innocence. : ; : Candidate for next term's Student Council Secretary. She may be small in stature, but she is a domineering, brazen, vainglorious mad scientist. Because of this fact, she is frequently seen wearing a white lab coat.
The franc-archers was a stock figure of fun in literary satire as early as the late 15th century. In these satires the franc-archer is portrayed as vainglorious, cowardly and militarily useless. François Rabelais mocked the francs-archers as cowards in his 1542 edition of Pantagruel. The francs-archers were nicknamed francs-taupins, meaning either "free-moles" William Duane (1810): A Military Dictionary or "free-beetles".
The vainglorious troll named Orm realizes the lies he has been building will backfire eventually. However a perilous adventure is awaiting the characters as they journey to the Valley of the Trolls. Development began in 2014, as the studio focused on improving the animation quality of the film from its predecessor. The movie became the first Russian film to top weekend box office in a European country.
There were also aesthetic objections to the design. A critic from the Boston Herald described the monument as "vainglorious, demanding of attention and full of trite imagery." The Philadelphia Inquirer argued that "this pompous style was also favored by Hitler and Mussolini" (see Nazi architecture). The Washington Post described it as "overbearing", "bombastic", and a "hodgepodge of cliche and Soviet-style pomposity" with "the emotional impact of a slab of granite".
Maya Kumari, Ashok Banjara's wife, can be correlated to Jaya Bhaduri, a popular Bollywood actress of yesteryears and Amitabh Bachchan's wife. In the novel, Maya is the archetypal dutiful wife and daughter-in-law of Hindi films. Mehnaz Elahi, Ashok Banjara's mistress can be correlated to Parveen Babi and Rekha, both very popular Bollywood actresses whom Amitabh Bachchan was rumoured to have had affairs with. In the novel Mehnaz Elahi is characterised as a vainglorious and self-absorbed mistress.
At the Munich Conference, he interpreted between Hitler and Neville Chamberlain and Édouard Daladier. Benito Mussolini was fluent in French but spoke a somewhat fractured, mangled German. Although Mussolini was not as good at German as he pretended to be, he always refused the use of a translator at his meetings with Hitler because of his vainglorious pride. During the war years, he served as Hitler's interpreter during his meetings with Marshal Philippe Pétain and General Francisco Franco.
In 356 BC, the temple was destroyed in a vainglorious act of arson by a man, Herostratus, who set fire to the wooden roof-beams, seeking fame at any cost; thus the term herostratic fame.Valerius Maximus, Memorable deeds and sayings, 8. 14. 5: "A man was found to plan the burning of the temple of Ephesian Diana so that through the destruction of this most beautiful building his name might be spread through the whole world."Valerius Maximus, VIII.14.ext.
In certain instances, the values of 17th-century nobility played a major part in the literature of the era. Most notable of these values are the aristocratic obsession with glory (la gloire) and majesty (la grandeur). The spectacle of power, prestige and luxury found in 17th-century literature may be distasteful or even offensive. Corneille's heroes, for example, have been labeled by modern critics as vainglorious, extravagant and prideful; however, contemporary aristocratic readers would see these characters (and their actions) as representative of nobility.
The Moon and her Mother Perry 469. The Bull deceived by the Lion Perry 470. The Cicadas Perry 471. The Lice and the Farmer Perry 472. The Vainglorious Jackdaw and the Peacock Perry 473. The Sparrow gives Advice to the Hare Perry 474. The Wolf and the Fox before Judge Ape Perry 475. From Cobbler to Physician Perry 476. What the Ass said to the Old Shepherd Perry 477. Sheep, Stag, and Wolf Perry 478. Sheep, Dog, and Wolf Perry 479. Woman in Childbirth Perry 480.
The play is set two years after the death of Edward II, when the young king Edward III begins to suspect the relationship between Mortimer and his mother. Over the course of the play, he learns the truth about what happened to his father and plans his revenge on Mortimer. The "argument" states: Mortimer is identified as a vainglorious figure whose pride is the cause of his actions. Mortimer's "Senecan pride and ambition" is expressed in his soliloquy in which he glories in his new power.
The Vainglorious are the professional name of two Mumbai-based Bollywood stylists, Priyanka Shahani and Kazim Delhiwala. The duo have worked as stylists to several Indian actors, including Ranbir Kapoor, Sushant Singh Rajput, Aditya Roy Kapur, Imran Khan, Emraan Hashmi, Tiger Shroff, and most recently Varun Dhawan and the recent upcoming superstar Karthik Aryan. Shahani's educational background is in psychology and Delhiwala is a trained pilot. They have been working in fashion since 2014, when they were employed by Emraan Hashmi for the promotions of Ungli.
Next we have the longest and most moving episode called 'Sankamma kathe'. This episode dramatises the suffering of a proud woman called 'Sankamma,' and the ordeals that she successfully undergoes in order to retain her dignity as a virtuous wife. The fifth episode, slightly comic in tone, depicts the rise and fall of a vainglorious and miserly woman, called 'Bevinatti Kalamma.' The last but one episode narrates how Mahadeshwara gets two simple and god-fearing people, Moogayya and his wife, as his devotee religion family.
They concluded that the album "is too inconsistent and eccentric to keep the attention of the casual listener, but remains an interesting listen for anyone who appreciates Jim Steinman's one-of-a-kind style of epic-size rock and roll". Rolling Stone criticized the "Wagnerian excess, feral "rock" playing and vile choristering," suggesting that "Todd Rundgren should have his wrists slapped for choking the upper end of his guitar's neck in a vainglorious approximation of epiphany". Sounds magazine offers a positive review, saying that it is the album "you have been waiting four years for".
Claire Marrable, the vainglorious ageing widow of a prominent businessman, is distraught upon discovering that her husband's estate has been stripped of all assets, leaving her in debt and with nowhere to live. His only personal effects include a briefcase, a butterfly collection, and a stamp collection. Claire relocates to Tucson, Arizona to be close to her nephew, George, and his wife Julia. Late one evening, Claire lures her live-in housekeeper, Rose Hull, outside to plant a pine tree, and clobbers her to death with a rock before burying her in a shallow grave.
Craven and Jedburgh escape Northmoor but both are dying from radiation poisoning. Jedburgh makes for the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland, which is hosting a NATO conference on directed energy weapons. Also present at the conference is Grogan who announces that the British government has approved the purchase of IIF and speaks with cold passion of harnessing the power of the atom to conquer the galaxy. The audience of military and civilian officials applauds but Jedburgh in U.S. uniform takes the dais to denounce nuclear proliferation and a vainglorious crusade amongst the stars.
Ali was an influential figure in the world of hip hop music. As a "rhyming trickster", he was noted for his "funky delivery", "boasts", "comical trash- talk", and "endless quotables." According to Rolling Stone, his "freestyle skills" and his "rhymes, flow, and braggadocio" would "one day become typical of old school MCs" like Run–D.M.C. and LL Cool J, and his "outsized ego foreshadowed the vainglorious excesses of Kanye West, while his Afrocentric consciousness and cutting honesty pointed forward to modern bards like Rakim, Nas, Jay-Z, and Kendrick Lamar." “I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale.
The action shifts to the library of Lewis Theobald, which is "A Gothic Vatican! of Greece and Rome/ Well-purg'd, and worthy Withers, Quarles, and Blome" (I 125-126) (a Vatican Library for Northern European authors, and especially notable for vainglorious and contentious writing and criticism). Theobald is despairing of succeeding in writing dull poetry and plays, and he is debating whether to return to being a lawyer (for that had been Theobald's first trade) or to become a political hack. He decides to give up poetry and become an entirely hired pen for Nathaniel Mist and his Mist's Journal.
There, Becky meets the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne (Amelia's betrothed) and Amelia's brother Joseph ("Jos") Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious but rich civil servant home from the East India Company. Hoping to marry Sedley, the richest young man she has met, Becky entices him, but she fails. George Osborne's friend Captain William Dobbin loves Amelia, but only wishes her happiness, which is centred on George. Becky Sharp says farewell to the Sedley family and enters the service of the crude and profligate baronet Sir Pitt Crawley, who has engaged her as a governess to his daughters.
For example, Pierre Corneille's noble heroes have been criticised by modern readers who have seen their actions as vainglorious, criminal, or hubristic; aristocratic spectators of the period would have seen many of these same actions as representative of their noble station. The château of Versailles, court ballets, noble portraits, and triumphal arches were all representations of glory and prestige. The notion of glory (military, artistic, etc.) was seen in the context of the Roman Imperial model; it was not seen as vain or boastful, but as a moral imperative to the aristocratic classes. Nobles were required to be "generous" and "magnanimous", to perform great deeds disinterestedly (i.e.
King Bruno the Questionable and his aide, Passelewe are aged rulers in a castle that is falling apart. Darkness, dust, cobwebs and fallen plaster lie everywhere. It is so dark and decrepit that the town outside is refreshing in comparison. So entrenched are these two in their misrule that the only way the King can find an answer to the Jabberwock is to emulate the deeds of his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather (Max the Vainglorious) and hold a tournament to select a champion; a decision which works because Dennis manages to accompany the champion (Dennis chances to slay the Jabberwock after the champion is killed by the Black Knight).
McDonald was almost universally considered vain and self-important. Many union leaders felt he drank too much and was far too flamboyant. :He often appeared vainglorious and deceitful, masking his lack of contact with rank-and-file workers and his shaky grasp of conditions in the mills with boastful orations and alcohol-enhanced bonhomie.... he bullied or cajoled wildcat strikers, sweet-talked government officials and corporate executives, and appeared endlessly at rallies, bond drives, broadcasts, and press conferences....Zieger, The CIO, 1935–1955, 1995, p. 188. He enjoyed classical music, purchased high-end electronic stereo equipment, patronized jazz clubs, and was a member of Pittsburgh's expensive and fashionable Duquesne Club.
The historical character of this account is not beyond doubt, and it is especially surprising that Josephus knows nothing of Abba as leader of the Zealots. The fact that Josephus does not mention him, can not, however, be accepted as a sufficient proof against the Talmudic account, for he ignores also Johanan ben Zakkai, one of the most important and influential men at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple. Purely personal motives may have actuated the vainglorious historian to ignore both uncle and nephew. There exists, however, a Midrash which tends to show that there is at least a grain of truth in his account.
The show has been described as > a musical anchored inside the memory of a Michigan backyard on the bank of > the Kawkawlin River. A live band and original score become the space for the > thrills and terrors of a relationship between Reagan (Markey), a > vainglorious self-made girl, and Irish Cream (Becca Blackwell), her family's > pontoon boat/horse. They are in love, but when their relationship is tested > by dust ruffles, sex for money, severe T-storms, and a secret cellar, the > only way to stay together is to remember all the parts of themselves their > bodies tried to forget. Markey has stated that they consider alt-cabaret performer Bridget Everett a "possible career model" for her.
Though the cell is made up of African Americans, the leader is Salmon Brown, the surviving son of John Brown, who is consumed with guilt at having backed out of his family's raid on Harpers Ferry and determined to redeem himself. Brown is unsettled, though, by the addition of an octoroon woman named Verita to the cell, while the group's plans are jeopardized by a vainglorious member code- named Crispus Attucks who writes compromising letters to the authorities in Washington taunting them about the cell's upcoming actions. Not wanting to jeopardize relations with the Confederacy, President McClellan orders General John Rawlins to investigate the letters. Former President Lincoln, still regarded as a hero by many, also sponsors Rawlins' mission.
He believed that Dewey had seriously misrepresented his father, unreasonably portrayed the character of the ICS itself, and misled the Brayne family, whose collection of private papers he used. In his rejoinders, Dewey pointed out that when he asked for permission to use Brayne's papers, he believed that Brayne's Gurgaon Experiment had been a success, because he only had Brayne's vainglorious accounts of his own achievements to go on; and he only lost confidence in Brayne's form of "rural reconstruction" after the overwhelming mass of evidence showed how dismally it had failed. It was impossible, he maintained, to take Brayne at his own valuation. Brayne boasted that he could 'do anything with propaganda' – and propaganda is what his work remained.
The policy led to open opposition to France and the French party in Italy. The Neapolitan fleet, which when Acton entered the service of Naples had been practically non-existent, he had built up by 1798 to 120 ships with 1,200 cannon, while the land forces had increased fourfold from 15 to 60 thousand. Unfortunately in no degree were the interests of Naples promoted by the vainglorious policy thus inaugurated, which speedily resulted in disaster. Although Acton had aimed to extend the commerce of the country by increasing the facilities of internal communication and restoring some of the principal ports, the increased taxation required to support the army and navy more than counter-balanced these efforts and caused acute distress and general discontent.
Plucky Duck (voiced by Joe Alaskey at his "normal" age and Nathan Ruegger as a baby) is a young, green male duck in a white tank top. Plucky is based on Daffy Duck's later incarnations (often seen in Chuck Jones' post-1948 shorts), which depict him as a greedier, more selfish, vainglorious coward and foil to Bugs Bunny's later incarnation (which is cooler, calmer, and more collected), compared to the earlier versions where Daffy was just a wacky, troublemaking duck. However, Plucky does have moments of heroism and goodwill and is more often than not shown to care about his friends and value their feelings. Plucky is friends with Hamton J. Pig and Buster Bunny (although he frequently annoys Buster, again much like Daffy does with Bugs).
The Vanryn, in their spacefaring days, valued only their own species, set up colonies on other worlds, and thereby prevented evolution from taking its natural course. To show what they mean about evolutionary diversity, the Llorn lift the veil of shadow that surrounds them, revealing their physical forms — they are two-legged, two-armed humanlike beings, but their bodies differ in several visible ways from those of Earth people — for instance, they don't have necks. They tell Fairlie that they have decided not to go to war with Earth, even though Earth people have begun to fly to other stars. They simply want to warn Earth people not to repeat the vainglorious and ultimately self-defeating behaviour of their Vanryn ancestors.
The Greek historian Aristotle Kallis wrote Mussolini in October 1940 "was overpowered by hubris", a supremely overconfident man whose vainglorious pursuit of power led him to believe that under his leadership Italy was about to win as he put it "the glory she has sought in vain for three centuries". The staging of incidents at the border to provide a suitable pretext (analogous to the Gleiwitz incident) was agreed for 24 October. Mussolini suggested that the expected advance of the 10th Army (Marshal Rodolfo Graziani) on Mersa Matruh, in Egypt, be brought forward to prevent the British from aiding Greece. Over the next couple of days Badoglio failed to elicit objections to the attack from the other service chiefs or to achieve its cancellation on technical grounds.
There follows a shouting match between Cleon and the sausage seller with vulgar boasts and vainglorious threats on both sides as each man strives to demonstrate that he is a more shameless and unscrupulous orator than the other. The knights proclaim the sausage-seller the winner of the argument and Cleon then rushes off to the Boule to denounce them all on a trumped-up charge of treason. The sausage seller sets off in pursuit and the action pauses for a parabasis, during which the Chorus steps forward to address the audience on behalf of the author. The Chorus informs us that Aristophanes has been very methodical and cautious in the way he has approached his career as a comic poet and we are invited to applaud him.
The events during and after the battle increased Khurasani disaffection with the Umayyad regime and its representatives, as exemplified by the words of the Azdi standard-bearer to Junayd. Al-Tabari also reports the words—albeit possibly a later addition—of another Khurasani to Junayd before the battle: "It used to be said that certain of the troops of Khurasan would perish at the hands of a luxury-loving man from the Qays. We now fear that you may be he". According to Blankinship, these passages, as well as poems disparaging Junayd's leadership, are an eloquent testimony to the Khurasanis' frustration at being "forced to fight continuous, unrewarding campaigns for the benefit of vainglorious generals on one of the caliphate's worst fronts, by a central government whose special Syrian army had not hitherto, in the Khurasanis' opinion, faced similar hardships".
His living isolated from the people with a bodyguard of mercenaries hired from his mainland possessions and his manoeuvring to acquire family control of the top of the church made him all-powerful. When he asked the Venetians to help him to defend his personal interests in the Ferrara area, the rebellion broke out.Norwich, J., J., A History of Venice, pp. 41-42. Staley Edgcumbe wrote that the rebellion was due to the fact that both the doge and his wife were disliked and too powerful. They were seen as being haughty and living in “proud and contentious isolation.” Waldrada was seen as being petulant and the fact that she was accompanied by Florentine guards was disliked. Pietro was seen as being vainglorious and treated the nobles and officials with “coldness and disdain”. He had a retinue of Tuscans and Greeks and Germans.
From the few contemporary critics, Canon Károly Somogyi took exception not to the book itself but the ideas of the religious sects presented in it. In 1842 the advocate István Éllássy attacked the author, asking "how far will the nation be dragged by the venom of reformism if the followers of the vainglorious North American traveler are permitted to impact the essence of the country's laws?"Maller 1984: p. 83. The travel of Bölöni Farkas ‑ together with the travel of Miklós Wesselényi to England in 1822 ‑ encouraged several young reformers to travel and to write about their experiences abroad Ferenc Pulszky (Uti vázolatok, 1836), Ágoston Trefort (Utazási töredékek, 1836), László Szalay (Uti naplómból, 1839), Pál Hunfalvy (Drezdai levelek, 1839), Bertalan Szemere (Utazás külföldön, 1840), István Gorove (Nyugat, 1844), Lőrinc Tóth (Uti tárcza, 1844), József Irinyi (Német-, francia- és angolországi úti jegyzetek, 1846).
Herculeu Castanhoso, assistant security officer at the Terran spaceport of Novorecife, looks on disapprovingly as his detested boss, security chief Afanasi Gorchakov, fraternizes in the spaceport bar with three new arrivals to the backward planet Krishna: the vainglorious amateur poet Brian Kirwan, psychologist Gottfried Barr, and missionary Althea Merrick. Althea has been left stranded and without resources because the unreliable Bishop Harichand Raman, her superior in the Ecumenical Monotheist Church, has failed to meet and provide her with her first assignment. Kirwan, bound with Barr for a utopian Terran colony on the island of Zesh, is trying to persuade her to join them, while Gorchakov is pressuring her to marry him. Trying to prevent a fight between the two, Althea is caught between them and knocked out, whereupon the security chief fells Kirwan and peremptorily orders Castanhoso to get the other men out of the bar.
Watt, D.C How War Came, London: Parthenon, 1989 page 400. Hudson, an ambitious civil servant and former Conservative MP who was addicted to intrigue, acted on his own in the hope of scoring a great success to help his otherwise-stalled career. In a somewhat-vainglorious account of his meeting at the German embassy, Hudson spoke of about having Danzig rejoin Germany if the latter promised to leave Poland alone. According to Hudson's notes, in exchange for a German promise not to invade Poland and for ending the Anglo-German arms race, a plan would have the industrialists who ran the heavy industry of Germany, Britain and the United States work together in the economic development of China, Eastern Europe and Africa; a loan in sum of hundreds of millions for Germany to be floated in the City and on Wall Street and some sort of plan for the "international governance" of Africa.
Sean McKnight, the Deputy Head of War Studies at Sandhurst, called him "just about the most dramatically ambitious senior officer I think I've ever come across. He's never content, he's always looking for the second or third job down the line, and one of the most irritating facets of him is, even when he's got something he should be very happy with, he's not content". Townshend's endlessly ambitious streak, together with his tendency to view whatever position he held as insufficient for him, and a penchant for writing letters attacking whoever was his commanding officer as incompetent to their commanding officer, made him very unpopular with other officers, who viewed him variously as a treacherous intriguer forever scheming for promotion, a pathetic whiner who was never happy with what he had, and a dangerous megalomaniac whose vainglorious quest for yet another promotion led him to take gratuitous risks.Perry, James Arrogant Armies, Edison: Castle Books, 2005 page 246.
Darwin's neighbour Lubbock had been elected Member of Parliament for Maidstone in February 1870 and Darwin lobbied him to get a question added to the census to find if married cousins had as many surviving children as unrelated parents, but when it came up in July, Lubbock's amendment caused furious debate and was heavily defeated. As the Franco-Prussian war got under way, Darwin pressed on to finish the manuscript while worrying about how it would affect his German allies. When the French surrendered at Sedan in November he wrote that "I have not met a soul in England who does not rejoice in the splendid triumph of Germany over France... It is a most just retribution against that vainglorious, war-liking nation." An "ailing and grumbling" Darwin worked on with his corrections, and the proofs were sent off on 15 January 1871 with him doubting that the book was "worth publishing".
Media response to Alas, I Cannot Swim was favourable; aggregating website Metacritic reports a normalised rating of 73% based on 7 critical reviews. The Guardians Caroline Sullivan called the album "unnervingly grown-up" and wrote: "Simplicity is the key: playing acoustic guitar and singing in a gentle verge- of-womanhood voice, she keeps things homespun and rootsy." Kev Kharas of Drowned in Sound noted "Marling's skill at making one word bleed with more meaning than half a dozen or so vainglorious chorus lines", while Allmusic's Stewart Mason commented on the "old-school '70s singer/songwriter vibe" of the album, focusing in particular on her "alluringly husky voice and graceful acoustic guitar". Due to the timing of the album coinciding with Feist's commercially successful third studio album The Reminder, Mason said that "there's every chance that [she] will get lost in the shuffle as the unexpected commercial success [...] leads major labels to unleash hordes of similarly talented female singer/songwriters".
This same year the migration route was first detailed in a paper by Charles C. Adams. Adams used dates of records of this bird in different states to show it migrated according to a very tight schedule, but used quite a broad route north spanning from the Mississippi River to South Carolina. He thought this might indicate that there were more breeding grounds to the west and east than those in Michigan which Woods had publicised. The records Adams was using are from the 1880s and 1890s and birds were shot as far west as Missouri and Minnesota, areas where the species has not been seen since. In the 1920s the recognised expert on this species was a Chicago teenager named Nathan F. Leopold -an exceptionally intelligent and extremely wealthy young man who soon became more infamous as a child-murderer with a vainglorious belief in his status as Übermensch in the vein of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Dame Edna Everage is one of the most enduring Australian comic characters of all time, and one of the longest-lived comedic characterisations. Originally conceived in 1956, Edna has long since transcended her modest origins as a satire of Australian suburbia to become one of the most successful, best-known and best-loved comedy characters of all time. She has grown over the years to become, in the words of journalist Caroline Overington: > ... a perfect parody of a modern, vainglorious celebrity with a rampant ego > and a strong aversion to the audience (whom celebrities pretend to love but > actually, as Edna so boldly makes transparent, they actually loathe for > their cheap shoes and suburban values) – The Sydney Morning Herald. Like her ever-present bunches of gladioli, one of the most popular and distinctive features of Edna's stage and TV appearances has been her extravagant wardrobe, with gaudy, custom-made gowns that satirically outdo the most outrageous creations of Hollywood showbiz designers such as Bob Mackie.
The erection of the statue was met with both praise and criticism. The Guardian reported that, during its short time on the plinth, the statue was mostly popular with passersby in Bristol. A group was reported gathering in objection to the statue, while others took photos, or took the knee. Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo described it as “demonstrable commitment to the cause of Black Lives Matter in that it shows active allyship” and addressed the lack of public statues of black women in the UK. In his Daily Telegraph review, art critic Alastair Sooke interpreted the erection of the sculpture as "a vainglorious stunt". The sculptor Thomas J. Price described the work as a “PR stunt and con”, suggesting that it was about Quinn profiting himself. Price said: “a genuine example of allyship could have been to give the financial support and production facilities required for a young, local, Black artist to make the temporary replacement.
Associated with Chicago anarchists Albert Parsons and August Spies in the mid-1880s, prior to their executions during the Haymarket affair, proponents of the Chicago idea believed in militant, revolutionary unionism in which the labor union would bring about wholesale social revolution rather than piecemeal reforms, replacing capitalism with a worker-run cooperative commonwealth and economy. Instead of simply a tool for class struggle, the Chicago idea of unions was to prefigure and incubate future society as an autonomous commune, such that the union would prepare the new social order after the fall of capitalism. This ideology put all power in the union members (through direct action) and came with an expectation of distrust towards vainglorious leaders and centralized decision-making. The Chicago idea featured prominently in the 1883 Pittsburgh Congress of the International Working People's Association, where the role of revolutionary trade unionism was endorsed but not ultimately reflected in its Pittsburgh Manifesto.
The film uses the concept of three female singers who, "as they sing their way through life's ups and downs, they build a friendship strong enough to last a lifetime." In an attempt to salvage their group's music career, Reggie Mendoza (Regine Velasquez), a self-confessed lola's girl, and Mikki Tolentino (Mikee Cojuangco), a man-hating tomboy and breadwinner of her family, discover Donnette Legaspi (Donna Cruz), a vainglorious, and spoiled rich girl, to be part of their musical trio, DoReMi. Despite their drastic differences in both their personalities and principles, their shared love for music allowed them to consider pursuing a music career in Japan, only to figure out in an interrogation at the local airport that a fly-by-night recruitment agency had falsified their documents and faked their passports. Due to this mishap, the girls travel to an unknown rural province, putting themselves in a self-imposed exile after the embarrassment they faced after chasing their dreams.
Yet he remained a realist critic of recent U.S. presidents, urging the U.S. government to "withdraw from its public advocacy of democracy and human rights", saying that the "tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable".In an interview with the New York Review of Books in 1999 These ideas were particularly applicable to U.S. relations with China and Russia. Kennan opposed the Clinton administration's war in Kosovo and its expansion of NATO (the establishment of which he had also opposed half a century earlier), expressing fears that both policies would worsen relations with Russia.. He described NATO enlargement as a "strategic blunder of potentially epic proportions".. Kennan remained vigorous and alert during the last years of his life, although arthritis had him using a wheelchair. During his later years, Kennan concluded that "the general effect of Cold War extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union".
Tris McCall of The Star-Ledger describes "The Fox" as "a parody of the excesses and absurdities of contemporary club music": the brothers "take turns singing preposterous lyrics about animal noises" over "typically vainglorious synthpop", with the proposed fox sounds "mimic[king] the car-alarm synthesizers of contemporary dubstep". He compares it to Ylvis' "Someone Like Me" which mocked the insertion of dubstep breaks into pop songs. Danielle Seamon of The Lantern acknowledges that while some may be "extremely perplexed by the attention stupidity and bizarreness collects in 2013" displayed by the song, it is in fact "meant to be a funny and almost satirical to pop music", and Ylvis has "pushed everybody's buttons by breaking and manipulating every rule of a Top 40 pop song". Evan Sawdey of PopMatters, who names "The Fox" one of the best songs of the year, calls it "a concept that's so stupid it's smart" by bending "the very fabric of pop culture in such a memorable, ridiculous way" with simple lines of "utter comic brilliance".
The play raises the question whether a person raised badly, but who sincerely wants to redeem him or herself, should be held to the same standards as those who had every advantage. This was a favourite theme of Gilbert's,For example, the story "The Wicked World" in Gilbert, W.S. Foggerty's Fairy and Other Tales, page 295: "Believe me, fairies, we are too vainglorious, too proud of our excellence, too unmindful of the fact that we are good because we had no temptation to do wrong. We despised the world because it was wicked, forgetting that the wickedness of the world is born of the temptations to which only the inhabitants of the world are exposed" (and the equivalent scenes in the play (The Wicked World) and opera (Fallen Fairies) based on it); the song "Fold your flapping wings" cut from Iolanthe (reprinted in Bradley, Ian, The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan), etc. which is illustrated in the scene quoted in the sidebox above and also in this scene from Act I: > RUTH: No, I never had no father—my mother was such as me.
Antiochus IV ruled the Jews from 175 to 164 BC. He is remembered as a major villain and persecutor in the Jewish traditions associated with Hanukkah, including the books of Maccabees and the "Scroll of Antiochus".Vedibarta Bam — And You Shall Speak of Them: Megilat Antiochus The Scroll of the Hasmoneans Rabbinical sources refer to him as הרשע harasha ("the wicked"); the Jewish Encyclopedia concluded that "[s]ince Jewish and heathen sources agree in their characterization of him, their portrayal is evidently correct", summarizing this portrayal as one of a cruel and vainglorious ruler who tried to force on all the peoples of his realm a Hellenic culture, "the true essence of which he can scarcely be said to have appreciated". Whether Antiochus' policy was directed at extermination of Judaism as a culture and a religion, though, is debatable on the grounds that his persecution was limited to Judea and Samaria (Jews in the diaspora were exempt), and that Antiochus was hardly an ideologically motivated Hellenizer. Erich S. Gruen suggests that, instead, he was driven more by pragmatics such as the need to gather income from Judea.
Known for its Afrocentrism and militant activism as member of the Blackwatch movement, X Clan soon gained fame for the controversy its music aroused, though commercial success was sporadic. X Clan's debut was To the East, Blackwards (1990), followed by Xodus (1992) and a temporary break-up. Both albums peaked at #11 on Billboard's Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States. Other artists who were affiliated with X Clan and Blackwatch include Isis, Queen Mother Rage, and YZ. X Clan's affiliates released a string of titles throughout the early 1990s: Professor X released a solo album titled Years of the 9, on the Blackhand Side in 1991 and a second solo album titled Puss N' Boots: The Struggle Continues in 1993; Queen Mother Rage released Vanglorious Law in 1991 (vanglorious is a word that the group made up—not to be confused with “vainglorious”); Isis released Rebel Soul in 1990; and YZ released his debut Sons of The Father (noted for the song "Thinking of a Master Plan"), in 1989, followed by The Ghetto's Been Good to Me (which included his modest hit "Return of the Holy One") in 1993.

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