How To Use Self-important In A Sentence
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Self-important, condescending, Casaubon hopes that Dorothea will carry on his work after his death, “the lonely labor, the ambition breathing hardly under the pressure of self-distrust,” even though it would entomb her.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Because, of course, the self-important ninnies who compile such things, complacent in their arrogance that their opinions matter, really haven't a clue what they're talking about in most cases.
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What in the hell is the self-important blithesome texter rocking as a hairstyle?
Smoked Salmon: Lock Your Bike, Don't Lox It
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As it is, Martin is a dreadful bore - arrogant, self-important and so egocentric it's a wonder he had time to obsess about anyone other than himself.
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The blogger, surely, must be far too self-important to think anyone cares what she consumed each day.
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But this self-important pooh-bah is more than an ominous senior legal and political figure.
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How glorious to puncture the pomposity of the self-important.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those inept, self-important idiots ran that place into the ground, creating unnecessary crises through decades of obstinate mismanagement.
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We already have one self-important narcissist who makes political alliances (and betrayals) based on personal pique.
How the worm has turned in Virginia. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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It was funny that two former fashion victims now find their former world overbearing and self-important.
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The eldest daughter of an alcoholic, self-important Lancashire bootmaker marries his boot-hand and sets up a rival business.
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The storytelling is almost as humourless and self-important as the central characters, but decidedly less explosive.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Atlantic frets that the Murdoch model will sacrifice "responsible, serious journalism" and damage public life in the process. Mr Murdoch's defenders regard this as self-important tosh.
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Just as they propped David up against the side of the display counter, the manager strode self-importantly along the aisle.
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The eldest daughter of an alcoholic, self-important Lancashire bootmaker marries his boot-hand and sets up a rival business.
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The self-important cant of musicologists on record jackets often suggests that true appreciation of the music is an arcane process(that) closed to the uninitiated listener, however enthusiastic.
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Many politicians and bankers appear to be arrogant, self-important snobs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just as they propped David up against the side of the display counter, the manager strode self-importantly along the aisle.
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Certainly, this dry and rather self-important film does little to conjure up the thrilling exchange of ideas and the bitter rivalries.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the public prints, I have been called a "pipsqueak," and a "self-important pipsqueak" at that.
Undefined
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They deliver nonsensical presentations to self-important dim-witted businessmen to hilarious results.
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Of course, in practice, I think that the majority of weblogs I come across are awful - derivative, puerile, self-important, blockheaded, dull.
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They're ingrateful, self-deluded, self-important imperlialists just like the GOP.
Mitchell in Israel; Netanyahu says 'no freeze' on construction
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Memoirs are bad enough, with their cringe-making confessions, their sordid tale-telling, and their self-important self-examination.
Youth and Prayer
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How glorious to puncture the pomposity of the self-important.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did I tell you I hated the hypocritical, snidey, underhanded, self-important tosspots at the FA?
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The bountiful extras include a great booklet, alternate edits, audio commentaries, a trifle of an animated homage by Michel Gondry and especially a TV chat about Vigo between Francois Truffaut and a pompously self-important Eric Rohmer.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: What's The Best Sitcom On Thursday Nights?
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Yesterday when I said: "I defy you to find a more atrocious, self-indulgent, self-important piece-of-crap tune," I knew someone would find something uniquely interesting.
I Stand Corrected
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The self-important cant of musicologists on record jackets often suggests that true appreciation of the music is an arcane process(that) closed to the uninitiated listener, however enthusiastic.
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I love the fact that the self-important pooh-bahs at 43rd Street now have to worry that they'll be corrected on a daily basis by a bunch of former nobodies.
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He is Patrick Bateman, a smirking, self-important young man working for a Wall Street merchant bank in the 1980s.
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There were witless, self-important demi-mondaines and courtesans lauded in the popular press.
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They might think it sounds horribly self-important, turgid, avant-garde and inaccessible.
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Much of the opera world is self-important and self-satisfied, but Glyndebourne is a great leveler," he says.
Glyndebourne: The Great Leveler
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Dobbs comes across as a self-important, pompous, bloviator with extreme opinions delivered with absolute certainty.
John King to replace Lou Dobbs
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If people grow presuming and self-important over such matters as a dukedom or the Holy See, they will scarcely support the dizziest elevation in life without some suspicion of a strut; and the dizziest elevation is to love and be loved in return.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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But, you should know that, like me, Jefferson was only against the "corruptions" of Christianity, and against the religious bigotry and hypocrisy of arrogant, self-important and self-righteous people who claimed to be Christian authorities.
Most of the Founding Fathers and Early Presidents Were Deists and Freemasons, Not Christians
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Three things: 1) Treaadwell was an annoying, self-important, mentally unstable person who had no business holding a camera, much less "communing" with nature the way he did. 2) Who was he protecting the bears from?
A Grizzly Death: I review the documentary film "Grizzly Man"
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It is not clear what the nature of this self-importantly capitalized "Modernism" might be at this point in Picasso's work.
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Look for not a whiff of irony in these mutterings of the self-important!
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
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The diarist is a self-important person, talking to himself and to the future, and conscious of his effect upon both.
The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers
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Officious, adj: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, busy, busybodied] posted by redbarren at 4: 40 PM
Archive 2005-12-01
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He had no patience for those he called 'self-important corporation types cut out of the same cookie cutter' who tended to stick to what was safe.
April Rudin: Why Parents Must Be On Top of Their Kids' Online Escapades
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The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings.
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They stray too far from their area of expertise and engage in pretentiously written, self-important speculation.
New & Noteworthy
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If all this sounds a bit too self-important and ornate, trust me, it isn't.
What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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Sadly, the four-by-four has became an acceptable alternative to Mercedes or BMW for the pompous, self-important driver," Mr. King told the London Daily Mail in 2004.
Charles Spencer King, British engineer who helped create Range Rover, dies at 85
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He was a wonderful family man, and he was also a self-important, self-preoccupied boor.
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
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There is, of course, a joyless, self-important statement.
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Smart sketches from a trio with a nice line in mocking the pretentious and self-important.
Times, Sunday Times
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A brown-suited instructor with ramrod posture and an air of self-important officialdom points at a blackboard covered with indecipherable scrawls.
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Dear Jack, I'd say that each segment of this finanical meltdown has been dealt a plan leading them out of the morass they created because of their unique forms of greed, narrowmindness, arrogance, self-importantness and self-made superiorty.
Cafferty File
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Performance artists are always so goddamn self-important and intellectualizing everything they do.
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Her style was schlumpy, yet self-important.
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As if concerned that his rants may appear too smug or self-important, he tempers them with spoonfuls of self-loathing.
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That type would be: self-important, dweebish, earnest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Budget restrictions will mean the ‘Late Late Show’ producers can now only afford a vapid, self-important and uncharismatic host.
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I'm getting tired of these self-important money grubbers I associate with all the time now.
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Where there is tufting and texture, furry sleeves and self-important lapels, outsize proportions cannot be far behind.
Times, Sunday Times
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But for the most part, the beauty is lost in the sonic flatulence of self-important experimentation.
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He's only 15, but thinks like his dad, a pompous self-important academic.
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He was the secretly self-important moaner in all of us.
Book club, week three: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
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She starts off, by design, as an unsympathetic character (hence the titled comeuppance), who, like any newcomer in a Hollywood flick, not only learns to cope well enough (despite the natives) to stay in Japan and grow, but also to recommend to everyone (in a self-important interview in the back of the book) to try living overseas (I agree, of course, but one year abroad hardly makes one an authority on world travel).
Debito.org
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Her "Potemkin villages" had deceived the self-important pundit into endorsing absolutism, just as Jean-Paul Sartre would prove vain enough to applaud Stalin.
Why They All Came to Versailles
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People don't get turned on when businesses convey self-important messages.
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Little self-important copperplate fountain-penned comments such ‘Easily distracted’ start to creep into the elaboration box.
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There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it.
Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
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In the final section of today's masterpiece on 'dirty shipping industry', he lays out approvingly what the dictatorial, self-important, unrepresentative 'greenie' lobby groups demand of shipping; Harrabin says that shipping industry is unreasonably doing what the greenies and and 'scientists' don't want, QED, shipping industry is bad.
OPEN THREAD
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The coach looked up self-importantly from his clipboard, a frown creasing his face before he realized who we were.
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As if concerned that his rants may appear too smug or self-important, he tempers them with spoonfuls of self-loathing.
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The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings.
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The New York Times describes it as ‘a clunky and precious literary exercise… self-important and ham-handed.’
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If we can't laugh at a caricature of ourselves, then maybe we have a lot more in common with these self-important buffoons than we think.
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They were at an opposite pole from the self-important, vacuous management.
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Some might say that it's because the actors are silly, strident, vacuous, and self-important.
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Many politicians and bankers appear to be arrogant, self-important snobs.
Times, Sunday Times
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We meet a serving and a patient endurance which, without any self-important airs, is reflected within these people, which lives with them even if otherwise in their ostentatious deeds and ways they seem filled with egoism and brutality.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1985 - Press Release
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Just as they propped David up against the side of the display counter, the manager strode self-importantly along the aisle.
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You also said that your Dad always taught you that being pompous and self-important was just about the greatest sin of all.
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His sense of humour, always in evidence, made it impossible for him to seem pompous or self-important, and he never attempted to disguise his own fallibility as a human being.
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He is self-important, quick-tempered, duplicitous and vicious.
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bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself
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It ends up being more a plea for tolerance than a scathing indictment of self-important religious rightness.
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As fashion designers grow ever more self-important and artists continue to desert clay and easel in favour of 'craftier' media, it was inevitable that the two worlds should collide.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Weil's piece, though, has recently been dented, which is consistent with a general revisionism regarding this — it must be acknowledged — difficult, self-centered, and somewhat self-important saint.
The Lost Crusade
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His supervisor is a self-important floorwalker with a pince-nez and a morning suit.
Archive 2008-01-01
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They will also be confounded by the extent to which the Lizard King comes off as an addlebrained, self-important bore away from the studio or stage.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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The chief inspector suddenly understood that the historian's self-important but indomitable spirit was housed in a broken body.
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Their coverage was dominated by the self-important vapourings of a stream of politicians.
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Self-important rock journalists like to wax poetic about the magnitude of grunge as a musical and cultural turning point.