self-importance

How To Use self-importance In A Sentence

• But I find it hard to deny that egregious self-importance in individuals is one of the defining characteristics of our society.
• These intellectuals then get an overvalued sense of self-importance and don't understand why because their views are so often reflected back to themselves that they believe they must be right.
• Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action. March « 2009 « Sentence first
• In America, politicians are the modern day protagonist, and most of them commit acts of sexual folly due to an overinflated sense self-importance. Jennifer Ketcham: The Business of Politics, Sex and Sexual Politics: Goodbye Anthony Weiner
• Interviewing film stars can be a laborious, arid affair: frail egos and zeppelin-like self-importance easily pricked.
• But if your tolerance for self-importance is dipping low, look elsewhere for edification.
• Charles Dickens, the 19th- century author of David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, displayed his self-importance with his large signature underlined with a flourish.
• Imbalances at this level can result in low self-esteem, inferiority complexes, an inflated sense of self-importance or snobbishness.
• His bluntness is softened by a naturally upbeat demeanour and a notable lack of self-importance.
• He wrote in an often opaque and always toplofty style and with a specialized vocabulary derived from the social sciences, his sentences gravid with learning and self-importance.