How To Use Self-aggrandising In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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Ornate vaults, Gothic masterpieces of self-aggrandising fantasy, house the families of the haute bourgeoisie.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Really, anyone who chooses a fictional self-aggrandising cubicle dweeb as his screen name gets all the abuse he deserves.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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The latter two are deviously funny as perverts, self-aggrandising but insecure bounty hunters, game-show-host-styled hangmen, and lords and ladies of the depraved aristocracy.
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The effect of seeing individuals separated from the crowd, alone in the dock, seemed to demand a less self-aggrandising kind of human judgment, though.
England riots: justice grinds on as courts sit through the night
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This archbishop has, in my opinion, been a vain and self-aggrandising man throughout.
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Some critics have derided his work as dumbed-down and self-aggrandising.
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Thrusting unsought, self-aggrandising information down the throats of people who haven't asked is simply showing off.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet this is an intimate, interior story of a man who merges truth and self-aggrandising fictions.
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I predict that within a short period of time Bercow's or his wife's ego, avarice and self-aggrandising habits - with a little help from a few resentful MPs no doubt - will combine and he will let himself down and resign.
The Speaker: Bercow's boundaries | Editorial