which must once have been fine and was stillfinely kept, the fingernail at the end of the knuckly finger filed to a gentlecurving point
Could it be that her vanity, which she puts so much attention to, is mocking her because even with all this luxury, she fails to feel satisfied in her marriage with the Commander (in relation to the Handmaid's with their lack of vanity, but who have their fertility?
Number of Books Read has nothing to do with substance learned; enlightenment gained. It is a vanity metric.
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation.
Richard E. Grant as Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall in Persuasion (2022).
The indie web is a new type of link between people, it's a free and open space of shared knowledge where vanity has no place.
While this indie web manifesto rails against vanity, it would seem that so much of social media is about exactly vanity and creating some sort of mythical online identity for others.
Learned vanity
I'm assuming this is referring to having vanity about how educated you are and what you "know."
great many Vanities might be spar'd if we consullcd only our own convenicncy and not other peoples Eyes und Sentiments
great line and still very relevant today
Jane Austen uses they in the singular 75 times in Pride and Prejudice (1813) and as Rosalind muses in 1848’s Vanity Fair: “A person can’t help their birth.”
Jane Austen use of they; also Thackeray
a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity-is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them
Good point. On the other hand, this "drive for truth" could arise from an innate need to see beyond the constructs of the ego.