would kneel in docility and thus be a fit companion in a perfect world may be among the most vainglorious of human aspirations… Attempts to translate the dream into reality encounter the problem ...

The glitzy and frightfully expensive Met Gala scheduled for the first Monday of May every year was on the receiving end of a ...

Dead civilians, poverty, and chaos take a back seat at the annual event seemingly designed to make us all loathe the rich and ...

None, however, better represent his vainglorious attitude as his repeated demand of people who get too close to him. In Black ...

With the tides of war around us, whether they be in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa, we are increasingly becoming intolerant of each other. We are exercising our hatred ...

The recommendation found "systemic incompetence" in her office and described the judge as "spiteful and vainglorious." Judge ...

On her big day, Curran swagged a dip-dyed silk georgette gown with a detachable 13-foot cape by Paul Burgo of Factory New York. Fading from onyx to alabaster, the bespoke creation was darkly dramatic.

The show also offers strong parallels, intentional or not, between Booth—violently racist, bombastic, and vainglorious while also somehow a perpetual victim—and modern-day political figures ...

The animated, Seth MacFarlane-produced return for the much-loved sitcom relies on lazy poverty porn and stereotypes, a ...

As Charles Foster Kane, a sendup of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Welles embodied the image of a vainglorious Great Man. But Welles’ success, according to Kael, meant he also needed ...

Just a generation after Soto's death, the hidalgo would be reduced to absurdity by Miguel de Cervantes, whose Don Quixote is the epitome of the impoverished, vainglorious hidalgo, a farcical ...

A deeply serious filmmaker, he also tends to undercut that with questionable choices, including a vainglorious quote from a cop who boasts: “Homicide detectives have a saying: We work for God.” ...