What is a vanity-as-sensual-person metaphor?

What is a vanity-as-sensual-person metaphor?

Definition
	A conventional metaphor in which vanity is represented as a person dominated by his senses, such that the vanity can be soothed, fed, etc., as a person can be.

Examples
	Here are some examples in English:
	What you said wounded his vanity. Her praises soothed his vanity. It only fed her vanity. His vanity was offended by your critical comments.

Generic
	A vanity-as-sensual-person metaphor is a kind of
	What is a metaphor for vanity?

Source
	Kovecses 1986

Context for this page:

Concept module: vanity-as-sensual-person metaphor
In modular book: Metaphors in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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