| Again, people say they are lame or opportunistic for aggrandizing themselves by trying to rally a world-wide coalition in opposition to us. |
| If you spend too much time aggrandizing yourself, your audience will quickly get tired of it and will perceive you as inconsiderate and insecure. |
| Instead of aggrandizing itself by making war, it has done so by striving for peace. |
| It misleads us in several respects simultaneously: minimizing differences between cultures, exaggerating our fears, aggrandizing our ambitions, inflating a sense of moral obligations and power and confusing our goals. |
| Written for a popular audience, the smoothly flowing narrative does not document sources and sometimes lapses into romantic and aggrandizing prose. |
| Bourgeois has described the fantasy underlying the piece: At the dinner table, my father would go on and on, showing off, aggrandizing himself. |
