How To Use Self-aggrandisement In A Sentence
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Lord Myners attacks bankers 'greed and finds God minister appointed to clean up the City, is so disenchanted by bankers' greed and self-aggrandisement that he is planning to become a theology student.
WN.com - Business News
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With little to occupy their inner lives, they settle on sophomoric backbiting and relentless self-aggrandisement as the closest achievable thing to an actually mature expression of emotion or contact between two human beings.
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For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career.
Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
How Not to be a Writer
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For the furtherance of his own career and self-aggrandisement, Hain knowingly accepted the work load of two departments.
Archive 2008-01-01
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He was a humble, self-effacing man, not given to self-aggrandisement of any sort.
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For the furtherance of his own career and self-aggrandisement, Hain knowingly accepted the work load of two departments.
Archive 2008-01-01
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The fact that you know someone in the security services indicates nothing other than your appetite for self-aggrandisement.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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He never sought managerial power for self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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That he served with Kennedy's example in mind indicates he was actuated more by self-aggrandisement than altruism.
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This isn't busy-bodiness for its own sake or self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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In both financial Ponzi schemes and religious manipulation, the frequent appeal is to self-aggrandisement and selfishness.
Brad Reid: Five Questions For Avoiding Religious Follies
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It is an open secret that most police officers dedicated to duty are living miserable lives, unlike some of their colleagues who have taken to crime and are in the service solely for self-aggrandisement.
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He hijacked a noble cause as a means of self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such humility jars, coming from a manager renowned for self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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While his highs and lows - veering between internal self-aggrandisement and lack of self-esteem - ring true, he is the novel's least engaging and convincing character.
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This abuse of the language of terror for political and commercial self-aggrandisement is disgraceful.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Because writing down everything is a fairly clear attempt at self-aggrandisement, isn't it?
Times, Sunday Times
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He was diffident about his achievements, in contrast to the self-aggrandisement common to autobiographers.
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The Newsnight programme was shocking both for its self-aggrandisement and its celebration of unfair bias.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
How Not to be a Writer
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Our tendency towards simultaneous self-pity and self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career.
Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
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A sub section of self-aggrandisement is self-pity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Never mind, rather like buses, if you miss one chance to comment on the tabloids insensitivity, self-aggrandisement, condescension and general loathsomeness there bound to be another chance coming along shortly.
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Yet in this small act of bullying self-aggrandisement, we get the measure of the man.
Times, Sunday Times
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What follows is a sort of addled odyssey fuelled by comic self-aggrandisement and rage against the various machines of money-making.
Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre
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The Newsnight programme was shocking both for its self-aggrandisement and its celebration of unfair bias.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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Even the book is a means to an end, not the customary exercise in self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
Archive 2009-01-01
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With little to occupy their inner lives, they settle on sophomoric backbiting and relentless self-aggrandisement as the closest achievable thing to an actually mature expression of emotion or contact between two human beings.
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I suppose we could be accused of self-aggrandisement by pointing out that this is more cash per head of population than almost any other country on earth, but it is nevertheless heartening.
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Some of chemistry's popular tales are probably outright fabrication, the product of wishful thinking, over-embellished recollection, wilful self-aggrandisement or a skewed historical agenda.
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The presentation was seasoned throughout by an uncomfortable mix of brittle humour and shameless self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
