Resign here thy anger and sense of self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
He has a grandiose sense of his own self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2009] Reference
And visions of self-importance danced in his head. From Wordnik.com. [Season's Gratings] Reference
She has a grandiose sense of her own self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2007] Reference
He was a fat, rosy man, with an air of self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
The judge's sense of self-importance is partly justified. From Wordnik.com. [Judging The President] Reference
Or someone with a kind of inflated sense of self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2005] Reference
And they ` ve been poisoned by this dangerous level of self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2009] Reference
Two Papuan constables were patrolling around with comical self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
The petty gossip, the solemnities of self-importance, and the Phariseeism of. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
She has an inflated sense of self-importance and doesn't know what she is doing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2007] Reference
His portrait of Napoleon shows us a strutting fool puffed up with self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in Translations] Reference
Peter Eyre is a meticuous Colonel Pickering, lacing his affability with self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie] Reference
We get access to Ahmadinejad — and the feeling of self-importance that goes with that. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast With Ahmadinejad] Reference
They have a grandiose sense of self-importance and entitlement, crave admiration and attention. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Orloff MD: How to Deal With a Narcissist (VIDEO)] Reference
Interestingly enough, by definition, ego is a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [Gail Lynne Goodwin: Love Your Ego: Thinking About Ego in a Different Way] Reference
Never was blustering demagogue led by a distempered sense of self-importance into a more fatal error. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
And they love to be attacked, because it validates their rather inflated sense of political self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [Will Marshall: On Gibbs v. the "Professional Left"] Reference
I want to read to you something else she said because talk about the height of arrogance and self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2007] Reference
They are so full of their own self-importance that they expect all true Republicans to simply follow their lead. From Wordnik.com. [Fault Lines Form as Republicans Battle] Reference
They are so full of their own self-importance that they expect all "true" Republicans to simply follow their lead. From Wordnik.com. [Turkey and the EU] Reference
He demanded at first to be treated as befitted his rank; but none of his self-importance went with his black captors. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
Attempts at self-justification by aides, not to mention exercises in self-importance, fall into this category as well. From Wordnik.com. ['Only Kidding'] Reference
The problem with tying our sense of self-importance to such theories is that we feel diminished when they turn out to be wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Can They Feel Your Pain?] Reference
ROBERTS: Well, having little kids is also a pretty good way to deflate any self-importance you might have accidentally taken on. From Wordnik.com. [A Freshman's Early Maneuvers On Capitol Hill] Reference
There, a profound habitual reverence of mind suddenly encounters with a ludicrous perception of his own momentary self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
"Who asked Christine to call me Lal?" inquired the Lion, as he lifted his head up with an intensely comical air of self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
The self-importance, too, of the honest Cambrian is not ill portrayed; who is chiefly introduced to settle the chronology of the story. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
By practising benevolence one should keep off all ideas of self-importance, and drive off all sorts of craving by adopting contentment. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
In Roger's own eyes there was the glint of his old humorous twinkle, and I knew that the young man's bustling self-importance amused him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
And casting aside idleness and all sense of self-importance, the princess addressed herself with right good will to wait upon the Brahmana. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
He said he was laughed at by colleagues when he hypothesized that the regime was an extension of Stalin's paranoia and grandiose sense of self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [Robert C. Tucker, 92, dies; scholar of Soviet-era politics and history] Reference
There is no suggestion by Guelfi or anyone else that Samaranch himself was on the take, but his self-importance is right out front, waiting to be exploited. From Wordnik.com. [Five-Ring Scandal] Reference
The line dominated the news that day and opened Hoekstra up to unflattering attacks of faux self-importance and a glib understanding of the situation overseas. From Wordnik.com. [@Foot in Mouth] Reference
For a significant number, being in a CLC brings a degree of self-importance — typically with a uniform and weapon to go with it — along with power and money. From Wordnik.com. [Targets of Terror] Reference
The exaggerated sense of self-importance instilled by vast salaries and a retinue of sycophants can distort values and behaviour in ways that are hard to eradicate. From Wordnik.com. [The heart sinks as Fabio Capello misses chance to make a fresh start] Reference
Whether it's unfair to Wallace (as the veteran journalist claims) we may never know for sure, but Plummer wittily captures the man's florid style and aura of self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Gets In Your Eyes] Reference
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