Johansen is at the forefront of the self-proclaimed "Subtropicalista" movement.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Subtropical' Paradise] Reference

Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son is the self-proclaimed king of the Internet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Consensus For Change] Reference

Dictator, is the title he deserves now, or, at best, self-proclaimed president.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iron Bars and Scalding Water] Reference

Not even his own family has escaped his self-proclaimed "dontopedalogical" assaults.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals Of Diplomacy: Open Mouth, Insert Foot] Reference

Confused, I asked Hiro, a manga connoisseur and self-proclaimed otaku, what he thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAN A NERD GET THE GIRL?] Reference

A self-proclaimed rightist was arrested on the spot, although his motives seemed unclear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult's Broad Reach] Reference

But maybe Jim Morrison, the self-proclaimed Lizard King dead at the age of 27, was like that too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back From The Other Side] Reference

Prisons have long been an embarrassment for France, the self-proclaimed "homeland of human rights.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Incarceration Nation] Reference

Rick Schwartz, the self-proclaimed "Domain King," also argues that Web domains are a good investment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Internet for Sale] Reference

But Stanford's Sapolsky, a self-proclaimed atheist, was won over by the foundation's scientific standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Profile: A Millionaire's Last Vocation] Reference

L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, the nation's first black elected governor and a self-proclaimed budget cutter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream On, Democrats] Reference

Indeed, Palestine in the 1840s was viewed by some Americans as part of their self-proclaimed "manifest destiny.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Intimate Strangers] Reference

Setting aside his self-proclaimed optimism, this is the most useful book about higher education in recent times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving Harvard Notice] Reference

Many are trumped-up titles from self-proclaimed "institutes," mainly to give cover to high-pressure salespeople.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money Guide: How to Pick a Planner] Reference

But these self-proclaimed neo-Luddites start out from a wrongheaded premise: that computers themselves are evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luddites Are Back] Reference

He was even president of East Timor's self-proclaimed government when Portugal withdrew from the territory back in 1975.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I'm Running To Protect Democracy'] Reference

Experts urge patients to investigate the background and medical qualifications of a self-proclaimed bariatric specialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diet Of Last Resort] Reference

The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified 440 self-proclaimed antigovernment militias active in every state in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Feds' Quiet War] Reference

On one side are the Mungiki, the self-proclaimed protectors of the Kikuyu, but also of the disenfranchised, the poor and the outcast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gangs of Nairobi] Reference

What would Eliot, a self-proclaimed "classicist ... royalist ... and Anglo-Catholic," say about that Jungian analysis of the princess and the mouthpiece?.    From Wordnik.com.  [T.S. Eliot And The Jews] Reference

The 27-year-old self-proclaimed prophet is hellbent on "raising up warriors for the Lord," and finds his recruits on the fraying edges of the MP3 generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [For the Love of Christ] Reference

Widely regarded as one of the world's top novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a self-proclaimed "radical liberal" who extols the virtues of the free-market economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mario Vargas Llosa] Reference

But the gimmick of the night belonged to MTV itself, which transformed a rendition of 'N Sync's "Pop" into a surprise homage to the self-proclaimed king of said genre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsmakers] Reference

Maybe it can't top that duet between Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for forced friendliness, but this year's Grammys feature a lot of self-proclaimed pals facing off.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWSMAKERS] Reference

The Deaniacs fingered Lehane, who acquired a reputation for expertise in such work as a self-proclaimed "Master of Disaster" fending off attacks on President Bill Clinton.    From Wordnik.com.  [GRINS AND GRENADES] Reference

Stein, a self-proclaimed literary genius, is a writer no one reads anymore — but Malcolm is respectful, even as she describes her own slogs through the thicket of words.    From Wordnik.com.  [They’ll Always Have Paris] Reference