vainglorious

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It’s all gotten too ego-driven, too strangely dependent on the magic of personality, too vainglorious and, yes, grandiose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

On the related but perhaps irrelevant question of individual character, the evidence is clear: Wilhelm II was an unstable and vainglorious idiot who wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

As Charles Foster Kane, a sendup of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Welles embodied the image of a vainglorious Great Man.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024

As the team takes samples to measure water quality, they do not mince their words about the train, calling it a "pharaonic monument" which they say was erected to a vainglorious leader.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2023

He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don’t share his vainglorious self-opinion.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey