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So it seems that the only trait that survives decapitation is vanity.
The description perfectly captured Edwards' personal vanity.
But now, the enemies of democracy are using this very method to sell us fear and hate and vanity.
As we explained earlier, fascism exploits our vanity.
I don't carry grudges, ambition, vanity, none of the deadly sins that are not even worth the trouble.
He who seeks beauty shall find vanity.
Vainglory carries a mirror, and Lorenzetti warns us against narcissistic leaders who are guided by their own ego and vanity.
We're not trying to find vanity and beauty.
He would live self-sufficiently, close to nature, without materialism, vanity, or conformity.
An obvious vanity press for Julie in her first movie with Blake.
This film was a vanity project for Joseph P. Kennedy in which his mistress starred and money flowed to make her an even bigger star.
But I have to imagine this has to be a vanity project for whoever's serving as executive producer...
I am guessing a vanity production, since there is no other reason on god's green earth to cast as talent-free and not particularly attractive non-singer/actress as Isabel Gold in the leading lady role--vied for yet by the likes of "lookers" like Cameron Bancroft and Andrew McCarthy--except that she also helped write this bizarre little movie.
This was a vanity piece for Eddie and I think he spreads himself a little too thin here trying to be the whole show here.
...not to waste your time watching this vanity project.
A vanity project gone south, "Hell Ride" allows usually good actors to chew the scenery... at least when the camera isn't centered on Bishop's feeble attempts to steal every scene he's in.
I love the actor's lack of vanity.
John Huston was seriously ill when he made his final achievement,and it's thoroughly his testament:uncompromising,difficult ,a thousand miles away from crazes and fashions,it will stand as the best "last film" you can ever dream of.A very austere screenplay,no action,no real hero,but a group of people coping with the vanity of life,the fleeting years and death.The party doesn't delude people for long.Admittedly,warmth and affection emanate from the songs and the meal,complete with turkey and pudding.But the passage of time has partly ruined Julia's voice,first crack in the mirror.Then the camera leaves the room where the guests are gathered and searches the old lady's bedroom.For sure,hers seems to have been a happy life,but it's a life inexorably coming to an end-A shot shows towards the end of the movie Julia on her future deathbed-.Maybe an unfulfilled life,because she remained a spinster,with no children to carry on .Only some poor things,yellowish photographs,bibelots and trinklets....
Malkovich has the opportunity to indulge all the creepiness he could wish in the paranoid character he portrays, and he captures the man's central vanity to perfection.
My beef with the film is rather that I don't see this hours-long record of empty vanity and petty treachery as being justified or excused by any GENERALLY relevant message at all.
I do not know whether this was the purpose of the director, but Hopkins' Ciano reeked nothing but vanity, fear and lack of self-esteem.
She epitomises everything that is most revolting about female vanity and dim-witted inanity.
A BDSM "sub-culture" of Los Angeles serves as backdrop for this low budget and shabbily constructed mess, plainly a vanity piece for its top-billed player, Celia Xavier, who also produces and scripts while performing a dual role as twin sisters Vanessa and Celia.
Stewart Kane (Gabriel Byrne, VANITY FAIR) heads out with his local Jindabyne, Australia fishing buddies for a weekend of rest, recreation, and relaxation.
Why waste money on a feature film which is nothing but a vanity project of idle and meandering vacuity?
This is a Michael Caine vanity piece, but let's face it, Caine is no Olivier.
I had the distinct misfortune of catching up on two of 2004's worst films back to back this morning: first, the incoherent CGI-driven emptiness of The Chronicles of Riddick, and then, the embarrassing vanity project known as Greendale.
Above and beyond anything else, this is strictly a vanity project for its star so she is ultimately accountable for it.
Why I searched endlessly for a small vanity project that Chuck Barris that was made during the last waning years of the TV show, I haven't a clue.
An apparent vanity project for Karin Mani (who?), as a hottie Charles Bronson going around wiping up the 'scum' that mugged her parents, or grandparents or something, and impressing young hunks with her karate skills.
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