10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VAINGLORIOUSLY»
Discover the use of
vaingloriously in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
vaingloriously and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Perhaps it was their impatience with this kind of hypocrisy that made men like
Nanga successful politicians while starry-eyed idealists strove vaingloriously to
bring into politics niceties and delicate refinements that belonged elsewhere. (p.
Catherine Lynette Innes, 1992
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The structure of English: studies in form and function for ...
I even got to "setting" her and letting the wheel go entirely while I vaingloriously
turned my back and inspected the stern marks and hummed a tune, a sort of easy
indifference which I had prodigiously admired in Bixby and other pilots.
Jeanette S. DeCarrico, 2000
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The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History
They do the laundry in the river, in water up to the waist, saying vaingloriously
that she who is not soaked cannot wash well. They make ponchos [hand-woven
capes], rugs, sashes, and sundries, and especially decorated leather cases
which ...
Richard Bulliet, Pamela Crossley, Daniel Headrick, 2014
Mr. Welwyn (who, in after years, hadahabit of vaingloriously describing his
marriage as "a lovematch on both sides") was really fond of his wife in his own
frivolous, feeble way,and suffered as acutelyassuch aman could suffer, during the
latter ...
Complementing the talent are beautiful, historic theaters so vaingloriously gilded
that they make every performance an event. Most theaters are within the city's
Northside, not far off the river. There are also numerous theater festivals, ranging
...
Christi Daugherty, Jack Jewers, 2012
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The British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers
Soon the camp burgeons into a boom-town of tents and huts, vaingloriously
named Eureka or Eldorado City, largely composed of saloons and gambling-
booths where little sacks of gold-dust pass as currency. Now speculators in
claims begin ...
(The vaingloriously self-serving but elegant volumes he wrote on the war led the
Nobel Committee, unable in all conscience to give him an award for peace, to
give him, astonishingly enough, the Nobel Prize for Literature-—an unwitting
tribute ...
... caste into which all the fordmakers are born. Devananda's husband is depicted
as somewhat vaingloriously rejoicing in the fact that his son. after being born. will
master the Veda. a type of learning which Jainism rejected as being worthless.
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Transatlantic Literary Exchanges, 1790–1870: Gender, Race, ...
Some did so a little vaingloriously: 'Englishmen are in general ready enough to
do justice to merit, when they are once convinced of its existence, whatever
nation it may belong to'. Others did so apologetically: 'They are, besides, almost
the ...
Dr Kevin Hutchings, Dr Julia M Wright, 2013
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Familiar Studies of Men and Books
It would be easy, of course, to make fun of the whole affair, to picture him strutting
vaingloriously among these inferior creatures, or compare a religious friendship
in the sixteenth century with what was called, I think, a literary friendship in the ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VAINGLORIOUSLY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
vaingloriously is used in the context of the following news items.
The Trump Surge and the American Psyche
... people whose closely guarded belief system he vaingloriously displays. Donald Trump is the crass and ungentlemanly Don Quixote of American plutocracy. «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
Official Cash Rate Belies National's Soothing Words
While National vaingloriously talks up the economy, ill local and international economic winds have forced the Reserve Bank into an official interest rate cutting ... «Scoop.co.nz, Jul 15»
Sketch: The roar of the SNP - or was it a whimper?
His big moment came after Labour's Angela Eagle, the Shadow Commons Leader, sought to goad the Nationalist lion, telling MPs: "The vaingloriously ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
Can Football Recover From Sepp Blatter?
... the Department of Justice had arrested 14 FIFA officials or associates at a swanky Zurich hotel, he vaingloriously declared, “I am the president of everybody! «Newsweek, Jun 15»
You Are Your Own Detractor, Mr. Afoko
Instead, we heard Mr. Afoko on Kasapa-Fm Radio station on the eve of Mr. Mahama's burial rather vaingloriously promising to put his and Mr. Agyepong's ... «GhanaWeb, May 15»
Hillary Clinton; drawing by John Springs
... recounts her four years at the State Department as what she accurately enough but a tad vaingloriously calls “the chief diplomat of the most powerful nation on ... «The New York Review of Books, Sep 14»
Rupert Murdoch runs News Corp along 'feudal' lines, Kim Williams …
News Corp Australia is a company run along feudal lines which is “vaingloriously ignoring the facts” about the digital future of news, says the man who used to ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
The Right's Wrong Reaction to the Missouri Shooting
Like clockwork, the professional grievance industry has announced its intention to descend vaingloriously upon the scene. And, in some quarters of the media, ... «National Review Online, Aug 14»
Drama And Heroics At Wiffle Ball All-Star Game
... most accomplished Wifflers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and their counterparts from New York and Philadelphia, dubbed, vaingloriously, the World ... «WBUR, Jul 14»
Swans' New Double-Album Will Feature St. Vincent
... process of this album were generously and perhaps vaingloriously funded by Swans supporters through our auspices atyounggodrecords.com via the release ... «SPIN, Mar 14»
