What's the difference between vainglory and ventosity?

Vainglory


Definition:

  • (n.) Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is an excruciating fly-on-the-wall witness to Allison's vainglory, Swales's self-regard for his own leadership qualities and the poor young players' overpromoted helplessness.
  • (2) Abbott’s few remaining apologists in the domestic media have vaingloriously announced today that our prime minister is putting the mighty US “on notice” about tax evasion.
  • (3) Alas for them, the gadget doesn’t let them know that all of their vainglorious conversations are already being recorded by said Old Bill.
  • (4) Ferguson strove to unsettle City beforehand with a calculated outburst over the allegedly vainglorious streak in the people who run City but earlier still in the week he had suggested circumspectly that these opponents are bound to win a trophy in due course.
  • (5) The issue is the new Scottish Labour leader, Jim Murphy, and his vainglorious boast that he is going to use mansion tax money from London and the south -east to pay for 1,000 new nurses in Scotland .
  • (6) The Tennyson line chosen for the heart of the Olympic Village – "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield" – is, in the context of his poem Ulysses, hardly a feelgood slogan: it's the empty boast of a vainglorious old fart raging against senility.
  • (7) The medics in Planet are more misguided than vainglorious, but even in that film, we're rooting for the apes.
  • (8) The project had been conceived long before the crash, and in more prosperous times, might have stood as a monument to vainglorious individuality.
  • (9) Even defectors describe him as a skilful politician with the foresight to understand that nuclear diplomacy is a marathon, not a sprint.But the rapid rise of his youngest son, about whom the world knew practically nothing until his first official appearance with his father in 2010, has produced a vainglorious leader who, says Kim Kwang-jin, is "running too fast and doesn't know how to slow down".
  • (10) We all think our kids are wonderful, obviously, and the occasional thrill of vainglorious pride we feel at their achievements spills out in a humblebrag or a boastful status update to our bored acquaintances.
  • (11) "What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word.
  • (12) It wasn’t lost because of a vainglorious Edstone [a reference to Miliband’s 8ft 6in stone on which were carved Labour’s six pledges] or a bacon sandwich.
  • (13) But now Saddam's vainglorious stronghold is to be turned over to a different use.
  • (14) Earlier in the 1960s, he had played a part in the civil war in North Yemen, the cockpit of Gamal Abdul Nasser's vainglorious attempt to impose Egyptian hegemony over the Arabian peninsula.
  • (15) I fired off a tweet, saying he was "despotic and deluded", something borne out by such a vainglorious statement.
  • (16) His “Kimpire”, as he once vaingloriously called it, has been rebuilt through targeting the failures of the police, prosecutors and spies who so willingly helped the FBI.
  • (17) There was no rebuttal from Labour pointing out the decent levels of growth being recorded before George Osborne choked off the recovery through his vainglorious emergency budget in June 2010 .
  • (18) This quixotic goal had been set a decade earlier at a United Nations general assembly special session when, under the vainglorious slogan “We can do it”, the supranational body pledged that, by 2008, the world would be “drug free”.
  • (19) What vainglorious egotism, this willingness to kill a party for the thing he loves.
  • (20) The nation's modest bank manager doesn't do the hubris, hyperbole and vainglory of his predecessor, but he allowed himself a quiet preen.

Ventosity


Definition:

  • (n.) Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride.

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