Vanity

*VANITY

The naming of a mirrored table as a vanity suggests that any effort to disquise our lack of beauty with cosmetics is an exercise in futility. It is a cover-up of the real - an illusion designed to camouflage the truth. (Vanity, p13)

Vanity of vanities; all things are vanity. (Ecclesiastes 1:2)

My people are vain. There is no humility or self denial. (IAM, p93)