| 1 | As a director of the factory, he is flash. | |
| 2 | It wasn't a simple vanity, but a . . . necessary vanity. | |
| 3 | In Brazil it is becoming, as Ester put it, a "necessary vanity. | |
| 4 | Compared to some of the flashy self-promoters that grace our rich lists, Malone lives a quiet life. | |
| 5 | In a chapter he regards Edward Gibbon and Samuel Johnson' s style as pompous. |