vainglory

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That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023

During his year “in-country,” he witnessed truly surreal incompetence, obtuseness, irrationality, waste and lethal vainglory.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2021

Tseng told them it would look as if it were billowing in the wind, but the flag just looks abused, and the men in front of it appear puffed with vainglory.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2019

“I only know that it is mixed, that you cannot separate good from bad, that wisdom, courage and benevolence exist alongside knavery, greed and stupidity; heroism and fortitude alongside vainglory, cruelty and corruption.”

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2018

“Vanity, vainglory, dissatisfaction with my work,” he told the court, “and love of an easy life led me to the criminal path.”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin