It promises that you too can grow to be a puffed-up celebrity. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Disappearing Babies, All-Too-Visible Narcissists] Reference
He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his big feet. From Wordnik.com. [Acres of Diamonds] Reference
Minutes later, out comes a puffed-up bubble of hot crust filled with air. From Wordnik.com. [Soul Food] Reference
And you have no doubt seen that there some areas where the air bags are puffed-up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2004] Reference
"My idea is unique, and my work ethic unmatched," crows the puffed-up entrepreneur. From Wordnik.com. [Why Growing Companies Stumble] Reference
Pillsbury Doughboys: Sports wearing brand-new, puffed-up, down-filled hunting suits. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzwords] Reference
What is despicable is a self-deluded, puffed-up ego masquerading as 'honest broker'. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I now prefer this free-form, squiffy-square shape with its irregular puffed-up edges. From Wordnik.com. ['Roast Chicken and Other Stories'] Reference
And we have confirmed positively that, in fact, those puffed-up areas are, in fact, air bags. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2004] Reference
The Three Heads of State they were called behind their backs — pretentious, puffed-up boys. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
You know what a puffed-up man he is, and how easily you can cause his vanity to take the alarm. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
It's a mental health break from CNN infomercials and the puffed-up posturing of politicos on C-Span. From Wordnik.com. [Stan Goff: A Note from Lydia] Reference
My Mama seemed shorter to me, and frailer, and James H Johnstone was a puffed-up nothing of a poltroon. From Wordnik.com. [A Place so Foreign] Reference
With an inflated sense of “me,” we may feel puffed-up pride that we are part of the “in-crowd.”. From Wordnik.com. [Avoiding Mixing Ego with Dharma Practice] Reference
I suspect that the rulers of Mexico, a vicious, puffed-up, arrogant elite, may well have to count those votes. From Wordnik.com. [Why Democrats Don't Count; Lessons from the Un-Gore of Mexico] Reference
She was the worthy but puffed-up Miss Perfect, all poodle skirts and multicolored binders clutched to her chest. From Wordnik.com. [Potomac High] Reference
Arrogance (nga-rgyal) is a puffed-up mind that feels I am better than someone inferior to myself in some quality. From Wordnik.com. [Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness] Reference
It's another effort to "create a narrative" (today's euphemism of choice) of Obama as puffed-up and presumptuous. From Wordnik.com. [New McCain Ad Attacks Obama As A "Celebrity"] Reference
What struck me in particular was the extraordinary puffed-up self regard that they have paid the Times to display. From Wordnik.com. [Who cares?] Reference
The puffed-up potentate who fiddled while New Orleans drowned will lose his grip on power -- and so will his party. From Wordnik.com. [Van Jones: Now Let's Rescue America: Nine Key Steps] Reference
Collagen is just as bad: if a face has puffed-up, immobile lips, its capacity for basic expression is largely gone. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: Botox is Destroying Hollywood Acting] Reference
VINCENT & THEO,1990: A penetrating study of the brothers van Gogh and an alternative to puffed-up Hollywood biopics. From Wordnik.com. [The Player Returns] Reference
If anyone else had said it, I would have been offended, but coming from this puffed-up pigeon, it didn't sting much. From Wordnik.com. [A Place so Foreign] Reference
If he delays much further, McCain's puffed-up fake populism and pretense of being a reformer might stick with voters. From Wordnik.com. [Celeste Whiting: McCain Repackages Himself, And May Fool Some Voters] Reference
And women are turning themselves into these extreme, kind of puffed-up, plastic breasts, everything a man would desire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2005] Reference
Why do you think that Hillary Clinton never mentions any senatorial achievements except in vague puffed-up generalities?. From Wordnik.com. [More Calls For Hillary To Drop Out, But Some Congressional Backers Stand Firm] Reference
You agree to meet complete strangers based on blurry headshots, puffed-up self-descriptions and furtive e-mail exchanges. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela Newton: Is Internet Dating the Death of Romance?] Reference
He searched for the Skyhook to take his mind off his throat and the raw puffed-up feel in his mouth but he could not see it. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
That it's every bit as desirable as ridiculously puffed-up collagen lips or that scary, wide-eyed, frownless brow that Botox provides. From Wordnik.com. [Forget those fashionistas – let's make cellulite the must-have look] Reference
In short, he wants the Democratic Party to fight totalitarianism, and liberals should be unapologetic about such puffed-up belligerence. From Wordnik.com. [John Seery: Where's the Beef?] Reference
The McCain campaign has launched their big push to define Obama -- they're hoping to define him in the public mind as a puffed-up dandy. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Camp's Comparison Of Obama To Britney: Defining Him As Puffed-Up Dandy] Reference
The lawyers -- beneath the puffed-up egos and starched shirts -- are capable of doing their jobs even if they don't all like one another. From Wordnik.com. [Not Exactly Happy Campers] Reference
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