The desire for such surgery ranges from that for the correction of obvious gross disfigurement to the merest vanity.

Even Lucifer had a new scarlet silk neck-bow, which he considered mere vanity and vexation of spirit.

In the face of this it would be hubris, mere vanity, to hold to her self-condemnation.

Van Tromp's egotism, flown with drink, struck a pitch above mere vanity.

But, later in the conversation, Martin foolishly admitted that he knew a great deal; perhaps he did this out of mere fatal vanity.

This was no mere vanity; he had been tested many times, and had studied the records of the two hundred-K-range historical auras.

Flandry didn't believe that mere wounded vanity spoke.

And this is more than a blow to mere vanity, surely, since teeth set in living gums are now people's only tools.

Is it that after an Oscar as best actor, he no longer has to bother with mere vanity?

But it wasn't mere vanity that impelled me.