It is not being respectful to be vainglorious after winning a game. From LearnThat.org.
And although he adored Germany, he was not "vainglorious" about it. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
This is precisely the kind of vainglorious grand gesture in which he specialises. From Wordnik.com. [Cayman Net News Daily Headlines] Reference
Thou art vainglorious and suspicious of everything. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
But today their antireligious claims seem vainglorious. From Wordnik.com. [Living-Room Crusaders] Reference
While man quarries marble to serve his vainglorious purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
This time our naturalist made no vainglorious display of his power as. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference
Already vainglorious boasts were made that Germany was the successor to. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Mr. Karzai may be unusually brazen and vainglorious in his self-regard. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan and the Decline of American Power] Reference
Of all vainglorious philosophies, that of predestination is the vainest. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
And Candle had been alone, poor thing — alone but for that vainglorious Goose. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
I had rather thou shouldest inquire of others! then to seem myself a vainglorious man. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Francis Drake Revived] Reference
Did you notice him remain behind to have a chat to the fellow played the vainglorious soldier?. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
From another man it might have sounded vainglorious; Scaurus would have whooped with laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
At dawn we convene, an adiaphorous wind caresses us with listless fingers, vainglorious and animal. From Wordnik.com. [THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems] Reference
Nor is this confidence a mere sentiment, born of the imagination, and nurtured by vainglorious hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He concludes that Chateaubriand was one of the most vainglorious, selfish and malignant of his tribe. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
Do you think Melville is consoled in death of his miserable life by the vainglorious praises of the living?. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
Not to mention, once repairs were completed, having to begin this probably vainglorious quest all over again. From Wordnik.com. [Running from the Deity]
And let no Englishman ever despise the French as an enemy, as 'tis the fashion with some vainglorious folk to do. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
He was no longer harshly self-assertive, vainglorious, or brutally frank concerning the passion that consumed him. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
But then they are two empty, vainglorious fellows with no thought beyond seeing their silly names in the newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [The Horror of the Heights]
To you, oh Cynic, this message have I also: ` Your eyes see but through a veil of dulled and vainglorious senses. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
Those are vanities, which make men puffed up and vainglorious; and they are unsavory in the nostrils of the Big Man. From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
For you to presume you have a divine right to act as self-imposed moderator of this newsgroup is vainglorious insolence. From Wordnik.com. [burnkryten Diary Entry] Reference
However futile and vainglorious his scheme and methods may appear, we must not deny to him a distinction, rare indeed among. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference
But Claire, even as a child, had felt an invincible repugnance for the former peasant's hardness of heart and vainglorious selfishness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Many concert goers continued to cheer loudly for the formulaic, vainglorious, and inevitable encore long after she should have returned. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jim Taylor: Natalie Merchant a Disappointment in Concert] Reference
Sedley, who was as vainglorious as a Comanche, capered about on his short legs, and boasted of imaginary exploits with trap and dead-fall. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
American Valley, and I returned therefrom humbled to the very dust when thinking of my former vainglorious boast of having "seen the elephant.". From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Of course, he's helped by a tremendous performance by Mason, who neatly goes from bottled-up quiescence to vainglorious preening to scary megalomania. From Wordnik.com. ['Bigger Than Life': A Subversive Suburban Surprise] Reference
That dovetailed with their take on Denham: a born adventurer, just like the guy in the 1933 film, but far more vainglorious and even a bit of a con man. From Wordnik.com. [Capturing Kong] Reference
He appreciates his own power, but there is no undue display of that appreciation, no vainglorious boasting over achievements which read like a fairy-tale. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
As he sat down to pen a vainglorious dispatch to the Emperor, he received the news that Napoleon was a fugitive and the Imperial Army defeated and scattered. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference
Feeling vainglorious at my victory, I pursued him further, "I also observed that your womenfolk wear face coverings in public, which is most certainly a thing of the past.". From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
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