The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition.

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This is undoubtedly vainglorious, but not in the way that many of his detractors allege.

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The projects that private marketers don't touch are almost always by definition vainglorious undertakings that do nothing to enhance economic growth.

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Vainglorious attempts by politicians to impose a minimum wage from outside would at best have had no effect or, at worst, caused unemployment and ruined lives.

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To Bagehot's untutored ears, this sounds woolly and vainglorious: aircraft carriers are hugely expensive, hugely vulnerable, and far too precious to put in harm's way unless an overwhelming national interest is at stake.

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Tenet has largely been the invisible man during his tenure at the CIA -- overshadowed by his vainglorious former boss, Director John Deutch, and made largely irrelevant by the responsibility Deutch reposed in his controversial and autocratic Executive Director, Nora Slatkin, to perform virtually all day-to-day management functions.

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