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• With a wry self-deprecating humour that stops her from coming across as self-aggrandising, GIlbert roots the trope of the tortured artist in this, asks if maybe this is a cause for all those suicides and self-destructions. Genius in a Bottle
• They can be slightly po-faced affairs and often there will be slightly mental or self-obsessed people in the audience who ask strange or self-aggrandising questions.
• It was so shocking, so absurd in its self-aggrandising amorality, that it has automatically filed itself in the "satire" section of my memory bank. The psychology of Paul McMullan and his phone-hacking justifications | Deborah Orr
• Ornate vaults, Gothic masterpieces of self-aggrandising fantasy, house the families of the haute bourgeoisie. LOVE YOU MADLY
• Really, anyone who chooses a fictional self-aggrandising cubicle dweeb as his screen name gets all the abuse he deserves. Think Progress » Obama on Tea Partiers: “You would think they would be saying, ‘Thank you’” for my tax cuts.
• The chief enemy of excellence in morality (and also in art) is personal fantasy, the tissue of self-aggrandising and consoling wishes and dreams which prevents one from seeing what there is outside one .... A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty
• Isolation did not suit Gaddafi's his self-aggrandising, showman side, nor were his banknote-scattering, one-man African tours sufficient to feed his ego. Gaddafi: a vicious, sinister despot driven out on tidal wave of hatred
• If it wasn't for his self-aggrandising tendencies (and his unpleasant, reductive stereotypes) he would probably just be accepted as a bracing broad-brush satirist, a set-piece artist with a terrific ear.
• Sounds like I'm being self-aggrandising, and that's not my intention: I just think it's important to note that news-stand titles still have a place and can deliver a valuable (if differently paced) service. Starlog To Cease Magazine Publication
• No self-indulgent twaddle, no luvvy duvvy waffle, no tedious explaining what we're looking at, no extraneous family members self-aggrandising and hogging the airtime with totally irrelevant bullshit. Update