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How to use the word vanity in a Sentence?

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A person’s appearance reflects their inner spirit. We must never forget this is not vanity. It is part of the human condition, these individuals have suffered devastating injuries and we have to help them deal psychologically with what we can change and what we cannot.

– Peter Adamson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

added by Normando
2 years ago

The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society.

– John Adams

added by Normando
2 years ago

What is shameful is that Nick Langworthy, who has never held a job that wasn’t paid for by his millionaire donors or the taxpayers, is using his position as state party chair to benefit his failing vanity project of running for Congress.

– Vish Burra

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That's missing the whole idea here, the whole idea is to get people accustomed to space, like going to the Riviera. It's not a vanity. It's a business.

– William Shatner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Vanity, oh hey. Hello! Camera on a phone that's a snatch in the day long been stolen in a cliche' 100 in a 120 moment of Bipolarity; have enough confidence to not only be Intelligent, Vintea's tea cups never looked so _________. Who laughed at everything and mainly has 2 looks. -this was not photographed and documented today- #2022 #runningformisspetiteUSA #crownup #dewup #glitter-jey #winxandeverythangfabulous #areyourhandscleanvictoria #wheresyoupearlsatheidi #heyshelbywheresyourgoldenhairat

– Talesa Marie Chartrand

added by lilbabyteaze
2 years ago

Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth;

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
2 years ago

**(C)(P)-RAS CARDO SPEAKS:- MY LEGACIES HAVE BEEN SHARED WITH THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD OVER THE YEARS OF MY LIFE. THOSE WHO THINK THEY CAN STEAL IT ARE LIKE FOOLISH DOGS BARKING AT FLYING BIRDS, OR THOSE THINKING THEY CAN HOLD SMOKE IN THEIR HANDS, THE TRUTH IS-IT LIVES WITHIN THEM. IT IS MORE ABOUT MEMORIES THAN IT IS WITH MONEY OR MATERIAL WEALTH AND VANITY. I WILL LIVE ON FOREVER. THIS IS IMMORTALITY!

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
3 years ago

We've used the tagline,' I'll wear one for you, if you'll wear one for me' because truly it is a new form of citizenship that you would consider others and the needs of others above your own comfort, whether that's vanity of not wearing a mask or even just the discomfort of having your nose and mouth covered, i think the people in Amarillo know that stopping the spread of this disease most depends on the choices we make as individuals.

– Mayor Ginger Nelson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Every father wants to be loving to their children and thats whatI see with him. i like to feel that I still impress my kids all the time... Weve always said that this is not a vanity project for us.This is a legacy.

– David Beckham

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

– Florence Nightingale

added by regnumveritatis
5 years ago

I'm in this to win it. It's not a vanity play. I'm not sticking around for ego, i don't think you should be in this primary, at least this is my values, my lens, I'm not going to be in this primary unless I have a viable path to victory. We have that right now. But in the fourth quarter we're going to need help and I'm hoping people will help.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That vanity number isn't a representation of how powerful someone can be, likes are a very casual form of engagement. A lot of people like stuff without even really looking at it or they're so used to tapping the like button.

– Joe Gagliese

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The time for these vanity projects is long gone. Some of these folks, including Beto, have got to face reality, realize they're not going to be president of the United States and look at alternatives.

– James Manley

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society.

– John Adams

added by Normando
5 years ago

There's an old-school business saying. Revenue is for vanity and profit is for sanity.

– Jessica Rovello

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Minister’s drive to achieve another vanity trophy paid for by the regular people who work in Canada’s auto sector is amazing to watch and I congratulate him on this ignominious achievement.

– Flavio Volpe

added by anonymous
6 years ago

I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated that there’s no truth to it. I don’t think that’s a question you would ask many other daughters, i believe my father, I know my father. Soon after, Handler took to Twitter to share an image from a 1996 photo shoot for Vanity Fair that shows her sitting on her father’s lap, caressing his face and staring at him at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

– Ivanka Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated that there’s no truth to it. I don’t think that’s a question you would ask many other daughters, i believe my father, I know my father. Soon after, Handler took to Twitter to share an image from a 1996 photo shoot for Vanity Fair that shows her sitting on her father’s lap, caressing his face and staring at him at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Ivanka Trump at the 2018 Winter Olympics. ( Reuters).

– Chelsea Handler

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I believe my father, I know my father. Soon after, Handler took to Twitter to share an image from a 1996 photo shoot for Vanity Fair that shows her sitting on her father’s lap, caressing his face and staring at him at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Ivanka Trump at the 2018 Winter Olympics. ( Reuters).

– Ivanka Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

These are not just vanity projects, but they reflect his desire to look modern and upscale and counter the existing narrative, on one hand, there is the respect aspect of it.

– Jung Pak

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Once again part of the liberal media, this time Vanity Fair, has written a story riddled with unnamed sources and false assertions, as a magazine tailored to women it is shameful that they continue to write salacious and false stories meant to demean Mrs. President Trump, rather than focus on President Trump positive work as First Lady and as a supportive wife and mother.

– Stephanie Grisham

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Once again part of the liberal media, this time Vanity Fair, has written a story riddled with unnamed sources and false assertions, as a magazine tailored to women it is shameful that they continue to write salacious and false stories meant to demean Mrs. Trump, rather than focus on her positive work as First Lady and as a supportive wife and mother.

– Stephanie Grisham

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Vanity

– Ecclesiastes

added by anonymous
7 years ago

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