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  • His reliance on making everying "historical"; his need to have a stage and camera while his tongue lashes on; his superficiality, his vainity; his grandiosity – all the while showing cracks in his administration – terrorism is all over the place.

    What's ahead for Obama? 2010

  • This woman has turned the most sacred gift given to man, that of bearing life, and perverted it to serve here own vainity.

    Texas Faith: What does your faith tradition say about the Suleman Octuplets? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Her vainity seems to far exceed my quality of life.

    They are coming to take me away….. Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Forever imprisioned by love but those times are gone forever, the untrained hearts cry in vainity.

    nisayon Diary Entry nisayon 2002

  • Truth always prevails and tears can be in vainity.

    nisayon Diary Entry nisayon 2002

  • "A present enstance o 'the vainity o' human endeevour!" said Donal.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • Kenneth Branagh (Valkyrie) played Lockhart to a tee and was just the right amount of vainity that i expected him to be like.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • Kenneth Branagh (Valkyrie) played Lockhart to a tee and was just the right amount of vainity that i expected him to be like.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • That last paragraph you quoted touches on the essence of my wariness, there can be an element of vainity in that it can turn the 'privileged' into powerful Lord and Lady Bountifuls, here to relieve the benighted … etc

    Big Fat Blog - The fat acceptance weblog. 2009

  • I would stare at myself, not through vainity or any self indulgence, just to get out of my unfastidious mindset and come to realise who I am not the endless crap that shits in my thought patterns. last - next

    delicategirl Diary Entry delicategirl 2005

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