They introduce rules of engagement and silly words to enhance a sense of self-importance among the initiated. |
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One criticism that I levy at this set is the sense of self-importance the reporters sometimes have. |
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I had parents who never let me get carried away with my own sense of self-importance, and that was particularly the case with being asthmatic. |
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These strategies appeal to and then exacerbate greed and vanity to enhance the sense of self-importance. |
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Although she had the self-awareness to keep a diary, she seems to have had no inflated sense of self-importance. |
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There was a palpable sense of self-importance in much of the media's response. |
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He tends to devalue others in order to maintain his own exaggerated sense of self-importance. |
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Administrators tend to multiply and become inflated with their sense of self-importance. |
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Without any exaggerated sense of self-importance, the 86-year-old surgeon sat in his spartan office room. |
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They had money, status and liberal political ideas, and a vulgarity to match their sense of self-importance. |
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His was not a pampered upbringing, but he did grow up with a sense of entitlement and self-importance because of his family background. |
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He says he no longer has any real constituency or constituents and that this latest endeavour is all about his sense of self-importance. |
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The journalistic sense of self-importance that flowed from the myth has become a dynamo of destruction. |
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It was vanity and a perverted sense of self-importance that were the source of his evil deed. |
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Having too many choices not only defeats the objective of providing each of us with a neater fit but it inflates our sense of self-importance. |
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He was always moderate and balanced, totally free from arrogance and self-importance as well. |
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The problem wasn't with their radicalness but their absurd level of self-importance. |
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People have been duped for long enough by a pompous officialdom and an over reverent Press full of its own conceit and self-importance. |
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This is her favourite pastime as it escalates her already lofty notions of self-importance. |
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But in the end the film feels closer to a rambled lecture by a schoolmaster punch-drunk on self-importance. |
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Even in this day and age, presumption and self-importance have their limits! |
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I'm not flattering myself with some deluded belief of self-importance, if things get out of hand I'll be the one getting really upset. |
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Being Julia is a light and frothy period stage drama, which brings out the self-importance of luvvies, but in a likeable, endearing way. |
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But I find it hard to deny that egregious self-importance in individuals is one of the defining characteristics of our society. |
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For years I have been using the verb bloviate in reference to speaking in an overblown self-importance. |
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To me, that smacks of an oversized sense of self-importance. |
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We assume that our existence is nothing but our personality and we become self-centred and full of self-importance. |
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Secrets relating to weaponry and general information have more to do with self-importance than they do with strategy. |
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However, craving and an inflated sense of self-importance are each a source of torment. |
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He sings the Schutzmannlied, a tune that makes fun of the self-importance of the Berlin police and its folly. |
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The thing we have to solve is how to make care and compassion more valuable than self-importance and impermanent things. |
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Additionally, the kit itself cultivated a sense of gravity and self-importance for the storytellers. |
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The humorlessness, self-importance, and complete lack of depth were horrifying but entertaining. |
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But if your tolerance for self-importance is dipping low, look elsewhere for edification. |
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Gilmore's sense of self-importance showed itself in other ways. |
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She rarely strays down the path of ponderous self-importance that often blights this genre. |
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Nevertheless, although the movie's self-importance causes the project to take on water, it fails to sink it. |
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The show lacks spontaneity and has become unfunny, over-blown and full of its own self-importance. |
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His bluntness is softened by a naturally upbeat demeanour and a notable lack of self-importance. |
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The real problem with referees is the epic self-importance of a fairly large minority of them, their strutting officiousness. |
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Although he was an academic, he did not appear to have the arrogance and overweening sense of self-importance that some of his kind possess. |
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The obsession with American voters was a pathetic act of collective media hubris and vain self-importance. |
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It's just too bad that he can't resist the temptation of inflating a compelling story with too much self-importance. |
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We know where such self-appointed self-importance ultimately leads. |
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He may lack patience, and he may have an exaggerated sense of self-importance and a hint of narcissism typical of professors today, and he may carry a great deal of resentment. |
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We are getting too self-righteous and smug in our self-importance. |
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You can't afford to have too great a sense of self-importance and you need to have pretty thick skin. |
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Dishonesty is at the root of asserted self-importance. |
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The treasured ideas of self-importance and self-opinion, of ideal birth and quality, had become more precious to him, because he could only enjoy them in secret. |
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The great criminal and the humorist compel our interest by the narcissistic self-importance with which they manage to keep at arm's length everything which would diminish the importance of their ego. |
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In order to achieve this in practice is probably the hardest part of the task, since the feeling of self-importance and our ego work in the opposite direction. |
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As a rough rule of thumb, marble and fountains set within a soaring atrium are suggestive of self-importance and vainglory. |
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Is it our very being or rather an inflated sense of self-importance? |
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There's a certain lack of self-importance. |
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Like Bush, he is widely regarded as a philistine and intellectually limited man, whose pomposity and sense of self-importance are exceeded only by his provincialism. |
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Their symptoms include an exaggerated sense of self-importance, a decreased need to sleep, compulsive non-stop talking and incoherent thoughts. |
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Nameless authors of editorials may find the pronoun we handy for representing the voice of collective wisdom, but their word choice opens them up to charges of gutlessness and self-importance. |
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For example, your decision may change the apparent status of workers, and it is astonishing how infallibly a man will be annoyed and deeply pained by any seeming wrong done to his feeling of self-importance. |
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For all his posturing and self-importance, Scott is capable of deliberate self-parody, generosity of spirit and some perspicacity, for instance, about the talents of Jane Austen. |
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Its flaws — its portentousness, its flashbacks, the sunshiny self-importance of anything that happens in California — are far outweighed by its brilliant pleasures. |
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All the self-importance, bureaucratic inefficiency and laughable circuitousness of Whitehall is summed up in one balletic extension of his slender leg. |
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When we are tempted to magnify our self-importance, if we stop to contemplate the infinity of the greatness and grandeur of our Makers, our own self-glorification becomes sublimely ridiculous, even verging on the humorous. |
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The potential difficulties encountered in energy work are endless, ranging from physical to emotional and mental ones such as pride, inflated ego or intensified self-importance. |
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Nothing, other than a misguided sense of self-importance, compelled Ed Miliband to seek leadership of the Labour Party and, through that, Prime Ministership. |
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