| How could he be humble to that uppish, vainglorious tune, that toreador pomposity? |
| His vainglorious speech at the Oscar ceremony claimed a new dawn for British cinema. |
| His promise to the commissioner of more to come is not just a journalist's vainglorious bluster. |
| He dishes out obloquy to former tutors and students and treats the reader to vainglorious self-congratulation. |
| There is nothing too extravagant or too vainglorious for me to say of myself. |
| Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer. |
