They collapse standards and offer a vainglorious travesty of a cultural experience to a paying public .
它们破坏了标准,并给付费公众带来了对文化体验的虚荣模仿。
The grand and vainglorious forces running the great american scandal machine are very big on how things seem .
使“美国巨型丑闻制造机”运转的宏大而又虚荣的力量,对事情看起来是什么情况影响很大。
I want to reassure you that this transaction is not a vainglorious adventure but rather a project that will bring smile into our face .
我想打消你这种想法,这个做法不是虚荣和冒险,而是可以给我们的脸上带来笑容。
As this year 's political season opens , and the end-game of the current parliament begins , the glory has turned out to be vainglorious and the intellectual revival seems to have been a mirage .