I'm aware that my voice is hushed and self-important. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Frayn: The day my life changed] Reference
“The Boxer” was one my self-important favorites. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Division by Zero] Reference
SERVANT He has a self-important look; is he some diviner?. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
Why don ` t they -- they ` ve just gotten so self-important. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2006] Reference
AKA, I was a self-important pretentious jerk as a kid and. From Wordnik.com. [James Murphy: The Man Behind LCD Soundsystem] Reference
It can mean that they can be sort of pompous and self-important. From Wordnik.com. [Rethinking The Media Rules] Reference
Print media operates under a self-important sense of credibility. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
And Dudley's self-important voice cut through my thoughts like a knife. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
One may be aware even of one's importance, without being "self-important.". From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
It also wants to curtail directors 'self-important "film by" movie credits. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Storm] Reference
Miffed at being ignored, he comes to a self-important stop in beside Charles. From Wordnik.com. [Best Left Unsaid: ch.02-03] Reference
Will his edgy, irreverent style play with the self-important Hollywood crowd?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2006] Reference
I nod, but can't decide if Aaron's self-important or just not sure of himself. From Wordnik.com. [Stars] Reference
Their modest delivery makes self-important pronouncements seem non-threatening. From Wordnik.com. [There Will Be Blood and O.J.] Reference
"Certainly, sir, there will be one," said the citizen, with a self-important air. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
Davos - World Ec. Forum meets in N.Y. Now everyone knows how self-important it is. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
"Indeed?" smiled Ralph, amused at the off-hand, yet self-important manner of his companion. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference
But he was extraordinarily modest — he didn't have that pushy, self-important thing going. From Wordnik.com. [Sydney Pollack, 73, Filmmaker, Actor] Reference
A diminutive and hugely self-important young urchin, whom Ann learned later to know as Billy. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
He said you can take yourself seriously, but if you become self-important, you become boring. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007] Reference
A bustling, self-important major of United States volunteers was at one time there, in charge. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Why does the L.A. Times find Klinghoffer's self-important pronouncements worthy of publication?. From Wordnik.com. [David Klinghoffer Saves Civilization] Reference
He said he really didn't like it when he saw people rise to high station and become self-important. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007] Reference
No one seemed in a hurry except one or two self-important officials and their white-jacketed retinue. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
But it's not a real party until self-important unions get involved and start talking about the pilots '. From Wordnik.com. [Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide] Reference
I afterward learned, by questioning the self-important foreman, that the first verdict had been an open one. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
These are not the vapid mannequins on "The Hills," who are pretty and self-important but totally nonthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [MTV Delivers Journalism 101] Reference
To those who went for it, this was Important filmmaking; to those of us who didn't, it was merely self-important. From Wordnik.com. [Movies: The Good, the Bad, The Hilariously Gross] Reference
There are many fault-lines running through the very self-important and hermetically sealed bubble that is Formula One. From Wordnik.com. [Formula One, Integrity Nil: Ferrari and the worst brand of cheating] Reference
"Once a sensible, if self-important and sycophantic, CNN anchor, he has suddenly become a table thumping protectionist.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2004] Reference
A self-important bully in Venezuela threatens to cut off oil shipments to or country at a time of skyrocketing gas prices. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2008] Reference
Constitution he said, "The major part of them will, it is to be feared, be governed by sinister and self-important motives.". From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
Cæsar's army supported him as a whole, but there was one self-important man among the leaders of it who proved an exception. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
What's up there on screen, however, is a lumbering, self-important three-hour melodrama that defies credibility at every turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Executioner's Song] Reference
The sophomores themselves were full of secrets, whispering around in groups, their faces grave with self-important expressions. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
Memoirs are bad enough, with their cringe-making confessions, their sordid tale-telling, and their self-important self-examination. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and Prayer] Reference
But neither "Antz," the self-important "Prince of Egypt" nor the lambasted "Road to El Dorado" made a serious dent in Disney's armor. From Wordnik.com. [The Shrek Effect] Reference
Kaddoumi is a self-important old-style bureaucrat, the sort of man reformers see as capable only of preserving the slow-moving status quo. From Wordnik.com. [Arafat Talks: Marriage, Peace And The Plane Crash] Reference
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