The pomps and vanities are conspicuous chiefly by their absence.
Clarice, he is fastidious, critical, and intense; made a part of the things he despises, the torturing contact with pomps and vanities would soon strike his knell.
Hardly as evenly inspired as "Imperial Purple," "The Pomps of Satan" is more dashing and more varied.
Since then the Lord hath chosen to enter into his glory by the way of suffering and reproach, why shouldst thou labor to make thy way to hell, through the pomps and vanities of the world?
By this Scripture we are taught, that no man can taste the inward sweetness of heavenly joy and comfort hidden in the Word, who does not first vanquish his own flesh and the world, with all the pomps and lusts thereof, and the devil himself.
For the instructions of the Gospel they substituted pomps and shows.
Without any pretence of extraordinary devotion, she knew how to join to her worldly pomps the exercise of charity, and all the other practices of an elegant piety.
His aunt, after the first greetings, introduced her nephew into the salon, where were displayed all the pomps of the trousseau.
The trappings and pomps of imperial state became indifferent to him, since they were external, and were of small moment compared with that high spiritual life which he desired to lead.
The temples of Rome were not destroyed, as in Syria and Egypt; but as all their revenues were confiscated, public worship declined before the superior pomps of a sensuous and even idolatrous Christianity.
Disgusted, however, with the pomps and vanities around him, he sought peace in the consolations of Christianity.
The external pomps and trappings of life, titles, stately houses and far-spreading parks, all those gauds and vanities with which sumptuous wealth surrounds itself, had throughout his life a singular fascination for him.
The portrait she painted of herself shows her in no sense averse to pomps and vanities of attire.
Was it the unhappy disciplinary years of her married life that turned her so decisively from the pomps and pleasures apparently awaiting one so young and beautiful and rich?
It is something to find a man who is brought up to the Church, honestly devoting himself to his sacred calling; scorning the pomps and allurements of the world; in season and out of season a faithful minister of Christ.
What this artist seems to have aimed at, was to create for the soul, amid the pomps and passions of this world, a resting-place of contemplation tenanted by saintly and seraphic beings.
She gazes on a crucifix, for she too had renounced the pomps and vanities of the world.
Filled with awe and astonishment, he renounced the pomps and vanities of the world, turned hermit in that very forest of Ardennes, was ordained, and became Bishop of Liege.
To the famous bonfire, into which the people cast their pomps and vanities, our painter brought all the studies and drawings which he had made from the nude.
The shade Where, all unseen, the cushat's nest is made, Less lone to you than pompswhich but bestow The tinkling cymbal and the painted show.
What's that Wolsey says about the pomps and vanities of this world?
Vain pomps and vanities of this world,'" the Chancery Barrister begins, and we know we are in for a quotation.
A gloomy monarch, three thousand miles distant, and rolling in all the pomps and pleasures of three millions of dollars per annum, could hardly be supposed to know what was passing in the American wilds; but Washington had known.
The curé did not preach any sermon; he only made an exhortation against the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and told us that we had better be prepared for death, as it might come at any moment.
In Heaven she had always trusted; nor was she so wedded to the pomps and glories of the world, that she could not now willingly resign them.
Some of these followers seem not to have been quite so content as their master with their secluded way of life, and to have cast many a longing look to the pomps and vanities of the world they had left behind them.
Yet Granvelle was not averse to the good things of the world, nor altogether insensible to its pomps and vanities.
These and many other contemporary artists had on their lips but one song, a paean in praise of life, the pomps and glories of this goodly world and the delights and beauties of the body.
To all, the exile in the far country, the riotous living with harlots and the feeding on husks with swine, meant the life of this world with its pomps and vanities, its lusts and sinful desires that become as mast to the soul.
He is, let him live where else he like, in what pompsand prosperities he like, no literary man.
Let him live in what pomps and prosperities he like, he is no literary man.
What, indeed, could sublunary pomps and glories be to him in any case; but emphatically what, when his object was to redeem the people from darkness and destruction?
As faith in the gods declined, ceremonies and pomps were multiplied, and the ice of ritualism accumulated on the banks of piety.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pomps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
