| The group was composed of several leaders who were very charismatic and expert public speakers, and who also had aggrandized beliefs about themselves. |
| But Kipling, who repeatedly rejected the Laureateship, was suspicious of an elitism that aggrandized overreachers. |
| Rather, this is an excerpt taken from his address to the convention in his race for governor, where 2500 supporters aggrandized him with numerous standing ovations. |
| Like many homesick people, living outside their language in an abrasive foreign culture, Qutb aggrandized his loneliness into heroic solitude. |
| Teen-age boys who play football in Steubenville — among many other places — are aggrandized and often do end up with a sense of thuggish entitlement. |
| But historical processes may have disrupted or even aggrandized an original cosmographic plan. |
