Sentences with phrase «who as vanity»

And no one I've met who as vanity published, young or old, has seemed to have a clue about commercial publishing, i.e. made an informed choice.

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Sometimes we refer to those root keywords as «vanity keywords,» because if you do just one search to see who seems to be winning the space, you are likely to pick the single broadest keyword and see who comes up ranked highly.

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

«And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.»

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?»

As an athiest, I am comforted that there is a leader who believes love, support and community are the reasons for church and not worship, idolatry, narcissism and vanity.

On the other hand, Updike also presents genuine wise men like George Caldwell, who accepts the seasons of life as a gift from God, who finds fame, pleasure, and even wisdom to be vanity but who recognizes that all joy belongs to God.

Think of Cristiano Ronaldo, who developed his leaping, twisting, bellowing footplant just as his vanity project biopic went into production.

The only players who function awesomely under Wenger are cerbral, i.e their games are based mostly on intellect and as an aside they actually have little time for vanities, Henry is one, Ozil is another even Viera was, apparently the Invincibles used to ALL read on the bus on their away games journey, that's what the prof loves.

He outlasted and outlived them all, and his own sense of humour and not a little vanity can be summed up in one of his occasional verses written when he was enrolled as a Knight of the Garter in June 1956: Few thought he was even a starter, There were many who thoughtthemselves smarter.But he ended PM, CH and CM, An Earl and a Knight of the Garter

As someone who is highly critical of economic inequality, political corruption, ecclesiastical vanity, he has the potential to take the teachings of Jesus Christ to the heart of public debate.

If he was a geek, as he often said of himself, he was the kind of geek who made sure that the reporters who wrote about him, and there were quite a few, noticed the GEEK vanity license plate on his black Porsche Boxster.

For John Turturro, who has a distinctive face, to star as a gigolo for wealthy women, might seem like a stretch — a vanity project, if you will.

But that theory doesn't exactly fly in this case, as Watts's career has never been one bound to vanity, nor to the types of projects that would scoff at a grand actress who's simply not 30 anymore.

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.

Part concert film, part documentary, part performance art and wholly self - indulgent — Dylan plays «Renaldo» while his wife Sara plays «Clara» — the film is the work of an artist whose ambition, hubris and vanity know no bounds, but as the singer - songwriter in question was already at that point a mythical figure a few years shy of his fortieth birthday, who's to say how much is too much?

Labour say it's not a change in policy, but it is a change of heart for the new shadow education secretary, who as the newly elected MP for Stoke - on - Trent in 2010, described free schools as a «vanity project for yummy mummies».

The vanity plate honors the late rapper as well as fellow Outlawz rapper Yaki «Prince» Kadafi who died two months after 2Pac.

They aren't as desirable to people shopping for vanity, people who would rather...

A quick search on the keyword phrase «Vanity Press» will show publishers who are paying to be listed as vanity presses.

These are far removed from the «vanity publishers» of the past, who simply took your money and treated your manuscript as a routine print job, often with dire results.

As authors moved towards circumventing traditional publishers or small presses who required that a book be accepted in order to be published in return for payment (one hopes), we saw the advent of vanity presses and assorted publishing opportunists.

For example Penguin Books started a Book Country imprint which has been criticized as a vanity press that preys on authors who want to be «affiliated» with the publishing leviathan.

At first I felt kind of self conscious using the term published author to refer to myself, since, after all, I wasn't published through one of the legacy publishers, who thought of my efforts as «vanity.»

As an author who has vanity published, and plans to self - publish, Amazon.com's contract with BookSurge doesn't sound too attractive.

As this all pertains to self - publishing, the same people who think they can buy a $ 600,000 house with $ 10,000 income and then want the government to bail them out when they can't make the payments are the ones most likely to fall for the vanity press trap.

So you know how I've been defining the difference between vanity publishers and self - publishing presses as (A) who's getting the profit and (B) who controls the ISBN?

For those writers who vanity publish, they have their own reasons as well.

It is dropped enough that the same vanity presses who are sailing freely on the Internet picking trade book writers» pockets have unfortunately, jumped on the children's book band wagon as well.

Author mills often present themselves as «traditional», because they don't require you to pay up front — but as with the vanity anthologies, their books are marketed not to the reading public but to the authors themselves (who are pressured to buy their own books for resale) and to «pocket» markets surrounding them, such as friends and family.

My beef is not so much with independent authors as much as the independent publishers who appeal to ego and vanity by spinning stories about how traditional publisher is this evil beast keeping their voices from being heard.

The writer community perpetuated and enforced the stigma of self - publishing by castigating those who self - published, branding them as «vanity» authors

A Quick run down fo some vanity press as a list: AuthorHouse, Xlibris, iUniverse, who are all under the parent compant AuthorSolutions, then there is Tafford Press, and Outskirts to name a few.

Publishing through Lulu, CreateSpace, or any other middleman service that charges a fee is also vanity publishing — yet authors who use these services routinely identify themselves as self - published or (shudder) «indie,» and no one challenges them.

Most of us know about the vanity publishers who can easily take thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars to prepare and publish your novel, whether it's well - written and marketable or not — they don't care, as long as they get your money.

The article is quite clear about who vanity publishers are — companies that represent themselves as your publisher and then take a publisher's royalty out of sales profits even though they take no risk.

The legitimate publishers who have partnered with Author Solutions make extra money on the side, while the clueless author is happy as the proverbial pig in mud — until he later realizes that the thousands of dollars he doled out to the vanity press has produced at most a handful of sales, and his dream is crushed.

It is not just vanity / subsidy presses who view self - publishers as, well, sources of additional income.

I get that vanity is supposed to be aimed at self / families / friends, but I have never in my life heard a writer who pubbed their book through a vanity publisher name it as anything but self - pubbed.

Those who purchase any edition of the game will also receive The Explorer's Pack bonus at launch, which includes the Scuttler vanity pet, four bonus treasure maps, and the ability to play as any of the nine races in any Alliance.

Frivolous and elegant, as we follow a-day-in-the-life of a pretentious poseur who scales the dizzy heights of the British elite, with vanity and la - di - da airs and graces, through scenes with his valet, gambling in the billiards rooms and of course, the naughty parties.

I'd also leave room to consider vanity and inexperience as alternatives to lack of «saintliness» for explaining presenters who present one - sided reports.

Indeed, the extended hiatus in warming, together with the unprecedented fall in solar activity, has furrowed the brows of not a few scientists, who have not as yet succumbed to the moral vanity of the global warming / climate crisis crowd.

Law firms who advertise with a vanity number such as 1 -800-LAW-3000 or 877 - VICTIMS for their mass tort campaigns undoubtedly receive more calls and more cases than those lawyers who advertise with a regular numeric phone number.

I had been inspired by a friend who had turned her dresser into a vanity, and then started to see a lot of «different» furniture pieces being used as vanities.