Sentences with phrase «as a vanity with»

Dressers, sideboards and even buffets can work great as a vanity with just few easy steps.

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It would be easy to dismiss these places as monuments to corporate vanity but, as with Disney, there is often real brilliance in it for those companies that can afford the ante.

Similarly, few novelists have tapped into this era's motivations, anxieties and cultural eccentricities as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities did in the eighties or Jonathan Franzen managed a decade later with The Corrections.

Downloads are what many refer to as a «vanity measurement,» along with registered users and screen views.

To think that Earth is the only planet with life and that some deity made just one world in the universe for us as well as making us in his image is just the depths of vanity.

It looks like America is in end times prophecy after all: Isa 5:18 ¶ Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: i.e. g ^ y pride parade.

That scholars have equated this divine permission and commandment with Epicureanism is incomprehensible, for in his second chapter the Preacher rejects all crude and refined forms of Epicureanism as vanity.

If you really enquire about God, not with mere curiosity, not, as it were, like a spiritual stamp - collector, but as an anxious seeker, distressed in heart, anguished by the possibility that God might not exist and hence all life be vanity and one great madness — if you ask in such a mood as the man who asks the doctor, «Tell me, will my wife live or will she die?»

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

Maybe that's «kinda» what He was doing, as «the Peace that one needs» is needed AFTER one has retired... I think of «Ecclesiastes» (written by King Solomon AFTER he had conquered all he was gonna conquer, when he realized it was all «the vanity of vanities»), which he ended with the conclusion that you do ALL your life's works for God (his glory, his will).

Whereas the «seven days» of creation communicates to us a particular truth about correct religious observance, rather as the Greek myth of Narcissus warns against the vice of vanity, Genesis 1 - 3 does deal with actual, primordial events.

Teresa's struggles with everything from vanity and superficiality to status - seeking and people - pleasing spoke directly to my situation as a status - conscious 21 - year - old college senior.

Thompson announced that as of January 2018, 71 % of Co-op's packaging is easy to recycle, but there is still more work to be done, with CPET, flexibles and vanity black plastics being cited as the top three challenges.

Cuomo also used a mash - up of one of New York's «Empire State» license plates, with «Strikes Back» as the content of a vanity plate.

Many people agree with some of their aims, but the fact is, UKIP as a party is amatuerish and has displayed electoral vanity and ineptitude, damaging the very cause they purport to support.

However, it was one of the areas Pickles singled out for the chop after coming to office, with sources close to him reportedly condemning his department's # 120,000 bill as a «grotesque vanity exercise».

Speaking at the NASUWT annual conference in Cardiff Bay, Huw Lewis said «ideology has been put before standards» with millions wasted on «vanity projects such as free schools».

I have repurchased the Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in one of my favorite shade Cruella many times which I have both in my bag and on my vanity, as I am a fan of the formula, never dries out my lips and color payoff is good, along with staying time.

Designed by us and available only at One Kings Lane: Pretty as a picture and perfect for the vanity or situated in front of your favorite chair, this square pillow - top ottoman is fully upholstered in midnight - blue velvet with self - welting and buttons.

Alas, I currently live in a walk - up with three other people and a hand - me - down end table that doubles as my vanity.

The material composition and color (vanity = black) are exactly the same as the ones I have, but the length is awesome for shorter legs with a 26.5 ″ inseam.

This set comes with contour, detailer, buffing, and foundation brushes, as well as a cup to hold your brushes on your vanity or bathroom counter.

Illuminate your space with lit mirrors that add a touch of glamour and can be used as vanities so you can get ready in style in the morning.

Clad in pink polka dot wallpaper, this white girl's bathroom boasts a Wisteria Moorish Bone Mirror flanked by polished nickel sconces mounted above a white washstand fitted with polished nickel hardware and a white marble vanity top with an oval sink paired with a polished nickel faucet kit as polished nickel towel bars hold white and pink monogrammed towels on facing walls.

Gray bathroom features a gray dual vanity fitted with his and hers clear glass towel holders in front of his and hers sinks as well as Greek bust necklace holders placed under a gray framed mirror illuminated by a nickel sphere pendant.

A beveled full length mirror is hung from a blue wall lit by a Robert Abbey The Muses 3 Light Sconce, as a brown shaker bath vanity dons polished nickel knobs and a white quartz countertop finished with a polished nickel faucet.

So she paired classics like the espresso - hued vanity, slate gray floor tiles, and bleach - white tub tiles with playful accents — a nautically striped West Elm shower curtain and wrapping paper framed as artwork above the towel bar.

When asked how this squared with the environmentalist message of the Vivienne Westwood label, he suggested that people should only buy the things they really want, waiting a day between the initial impulse and the actual purchase (This made sense as it isn't vanity per se that is the root of fashion's environmental problem, but overconsumption.)

I was in desperate need of some pretty canisters for cotton balls and q - tips so I added these to my vanity along with bringing out some coral as I always do this time of year.

As of now, Google is not allowing custom or vanity URL's for their new social networking site, leaving us with a series of numbers that even most mathematician's wouldn't remember.

As in previous Coens collaborations, he is rewarded for his efforts with another self - mocking vanity tic, in this case his perpetual need to «get a run in.»

As much as all of this seems like a vanity project — which, make no mistake, it most certainly is — it's also a refreshing, unfiltered, and unusual perspective for a show that seeks to tackle issues with more gravity than Kim Kardashian's Instagram controversieAs much as all of this seems like a vanity project — which, make no mistake, it most certainly is — it's also a refreshing, unfiltered, and unusual perspective for a show that seeks to tackle issues with more gravity than Kim Kardashian's Instagram controversieas all of this seems like a vanity project — which, make no mistake, it most certainly is — it's also a refreshing, unfiltered, and unusual perspective for a show that seeks to tackle issues with more gravity than Kim Kardashian's Instagram controversies.

A ghost story as much about the vanity inherent to international stardom as it is coming to terms with grief and death, Personal Shopper receives an essential Blu - ray transfer from Criterion.

At times, though, the movie almost makes up for its status as a Tom Cruise vanity vehicle filled with mediocre actors by not taking itself too seriously.

While Shandling is unquestionably the star of the show (s), the ensemble makes the series click, especially Jeffrey Tambour's sharp - as - a-sponge sidekick Hank (perfectly played with blowhard vanity and oblivious babbling) and Rip Torn's smiling wolf of a producer Artie: loyal, fiercely protective, a veteran schmoozer quick to smile and quicker to toss off a epithet laden insult.

As a stand - up comic in the late»70s and early»80s, Garry Shandling specialized in jokes about his vanity and his luckless love life, cut with a bit — just a bit — of a self - conscious wink.

Pumping Iron in fact starts knocking preconceptions sideways in its opening moments — with a sequence showing Schwarzenegger taking ballet lessons to improve his posing style - and it goes on to demonstrate convincingly that bodybuilders are as «normal» in their vanities, foibles and rivalries as any other group of nuts.

Droll, dry and ultimately rather heartless, it's clear that Kirn («Thumbsucker») positioned his novel as a kind of «Bonfire of the Vanities» for post-millennial readers, a work that diagnoses the ills of corporate America and chimes in with a wider sense of social malaise.

Here, John Boyega — cannily cast as the son of the character Idris Elba played in Pacific Rim — proves that he can pull off the same trick, playing off straight - arrow foil Scott Eastwood or spunky kid robot - fan Cailee Spaeny with a mix of knowing cliché and inspired mock vanity.

With a fiendishly clever script from Jack Reacher writer - director Christopher McQuarrie, the finest action - sequences - as - adrenaline - soaked - therapy - sessions money can buy, and a captivating performance from newcomer Rebecca Ferguson, the fifth film in this endlessly inventive franchise hit yet another level of delicious absurdity in its exploitation of masculine vanity.

December 1, 2002 An accomplished photographer whose work has been featured in ESQUIRE, GQ, VANITY FAIR, and ROLLING STONE, Sam Jones makes his directorial debut with the raw, fantastic music documentary I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, which follows alt - country band Wilco as they complete their album «Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.»

«Although Ms. Kidman and Mr. Jackman are initially riffing on Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart's prickly courtship in «The African Queen» — later, as they heat up, they slip into a sexier Scarlett - and - Rhett dynamic — only Ms. Kidman really embraces the more comic and potentially embarrassing aspects of her role, giving herself over to Mr. Luhrmann and his occasionally cruel camera with a pronounced lack of vanity.

Each successive step toward helplessness is calibrated just as finely, and when the time comes for her to give cry with inarticulate pain while being bathed like an infant, Riva, who was 84 years old when Amour was shot, has no interest in vanity.

De Palma, producer Martin Bregman, and actors Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, and Angel Salazar all participate, as do Julie Salamon (author of The Devil's Candy, the book - length making - of devoted to De Palma's ill - fated The Bonfire of the Vanities), Ken Tucker, Keith Gordon (star of De Palma's Dressed to Kill), Antoine Fuqua, and Eli Roth, who surprises no one with his claim that he saw Scarface 56 times in seventh grade.

There are several key aspects here that are often overlooked - the point of an MVP is that you need to put it in front of users as soon as possible in order to get real «actionable» feedback that you can then feed back into your next phase of development (learn)-- thus asking the right questions — to gain «actionable metrics» — actual figures that will help you with your development is vital (rather than «vanity metrics» — numbers that sound good, but can't be used to improve the product).

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