vainglorious

He subsequently played a villain in the “Fast & the Furious” franchise, Aramis in “The Three Musketeers,” a dragon slayer in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies, Vlad the vampire in “Dracula Untold” and the vainglorious Gaston in Disney’s live-action “Beauty and the Beast.”

As Charles Foster Kane, a sendup of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Welles embodied the image of a vainglorious Great Man.

Boyle plays Booth as both vainglorious and self-pitying.

As the team takes samples to measure water quality, they do not mince their words about the train, calling it a "pharaonic monument" which they say was erected to a vainglorious leader.

The tragedy is that reality does not care one iota for our vainglorious beliefs.