Translation for "whose vanity" to german
Translation examples
My fault was to ally with Buckingham, whose vain ambition and ungodly lust for power brought down the rain on us, and with the Queen Elizabeth, whose vanity and desire were unsightly in the eyes of God.
Mein Fehler war, mich mit Buckingham zu verbünden, dessen eitler Ehrgeiz und dessen gottlose Gier nach Macht den Regen auf uns niederbeschworen haben. Und mit Königin Elizabeth, deren Eitelkeit und Wünsche in den Augen Gottes gräulich waren.
and of idle, anthropomorphic deities with nothing better to do than keep a telepathic watch on the conscience of millions of fragile primates – primates who learned to think just in time to discover that they had been abandoned to their lot in a remote corner of the universe and whose vanity, or despair, made them slavishly believe that heaven and hell were eager to know about their paltry little sins.
entdecken, dass sie in einem verlorenen Winkel des Universums ihrem Schicksal überlassen waren, und deren Eitelkeit - oder Verzweiflung - sie glauben ließ, dass Himmel und Hölle sich tatsächlich um ihre schäbigen kleinen Sünden scherten.
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