vainglory

Suspicion and vainglory, as Ronald Grigor Suny shows, were present from the start in Stalin’s approach to politics.

It seems like teenage vainglory: I can hear the Megadeth tape blasting in his yellow 1979 Le Mans from a block away.

Vainglory is not nearly so bad in a private person or even in an official as it is in a minister.

To desire vainglory is to desire lies, because when one person praises another he tells lies.

France, by vainglory and the old literary pretensions of Anjou, had also a balancing claim upon Italy.

A contemptuous designation, expressive of the combination of folly and vainglory.

I wish you well, for a pride founded on self-respect is pleasing in mine eyes; but take heed lest pride degenerate into vainglory.