0 showing too much pride in your own abilities or achievements:
What should be concise historical arguments become sprawling historiographical narratives and vainglorious displays of learning.
That is not vainglorious boasting, it is a statement of cold, sober fact.
It is certainly not an hour in which we should indulge in any vainglorious boastings.
The common pattern has been vainglorious titles and a steady dribble of concessions to wealth.
I recommend this vainglorious, empty production to anyone who has not yet seen it.
I need hardly say that none of these people plead for publicity with any idea of selfish or vainglorious advertisement of their relations and friends.
However, we are in no position to be vainglorious.
If they do not do it, then all their speeches are so much vainglorious vote catching, and they will be denouncing themselves to their own constituents as humbugs.
