This self aggrandizing is convinced that she's on the road to sainthood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin: 'The media will never understand'] Reference

But paying it forward occasionally without whining or salf-aggrandizing is part of being a well-rounded human being.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Will Not Read Your F'ing Script] Reference

All this aggrandizing sure makes people hungry for debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vibe Rater: Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries, 138 Montague Street] Reference

"Republic" was pre-mature, self-aggrandizing and in vacuo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference

There was Elizabeth Wurtzel's exploitatively self-aggrandizing eulogy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The David Foster Wallace Deleulogy: Bill Bradley] Reference

And people see him as somewhat self-aggrandizing at times, Mary Louise.    From Wordnik.com.  [RNC Raises A Lot Of Cash And Criticisms] Reference

He is a self-aggrandizing publicity hound who makes Michael Bloomberg look good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pet Peeves for the New Year] Reference

Or is it the urban intellectual's self-aggrandizing equivalent of alien abduction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A River of No Return] Reference

Many traditional priests, however, found Shanley distasteful and self-aggrandizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unholy Communion] Reference

Jeezy's self-aggrandizing compliment has a certain amount of wishful thinking to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Jeezy Just Wants to Get Paid] Reference

AMJ: copyright holders have been aggrandizing their so-called rights for many years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Romney Defies Fox News' Ban On Use Of Its Debate Footage] Reference

It could have easily spiraled into a self-aggrandizing love-fest for the corporate set.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Schadenfreude of CBS' Undercover Boss] Reference

To his critics — and there are many — Stiglitz is a self-aggrandizing rock-thrower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Misunderstood Man in America] Reference

Thesmokinggun. com says the Los Angeles Times was duped by a self-aggrandizing con man.    From Wordnik.com.  ['LA Times' Says Source for Tupac Story Is Phony] Reference

It focuses on the actual qualities of the person, without aggrandizing or adding anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 17 Generational and Life Cycle Issues] Reference

They are a rather derogatory pair of words, aggrandizing Mahayana and putting down Hinayana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introductory Comparison of Hinayana and Mahayana] Reference

And so anything he said is just a lie covering up another lie or self-aggrandizing statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2005] Reference

While some colleagues remember her as "bubbly," others called her pushy and self-aggrandizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton And The Intern] Reference

Not for all the publicized million dollar fines and the self-aggrandizing regulatory publicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Singer: The Big Oops! Morgan Stanley's Research Failures] Reference

And I think that's a great way for the Obama campaign to combat this self-aggrandizing by McCain.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Ad: Empty "Hope" Won't Improve Our Lives] Reference

But isn't that a little self-aggrandizing there for Barry to say I write -- you didn't write that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 17, 2002] Reference

His style has always been more modest, less self-aggrandizing; he was appalled by Mao's cult of personality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight Of The Emperor] Reference

Arrogance is the self-aggrandizing feeling that we are better than others are, in all or in just certain ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [20 Dissolving Disturbing Emotions into Underlying Deep Awareness] Reference

Within 12 hours, friendly voices beaming from Western networks joined the orchestra in aggrandizing the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It seems self-aggrandizing to some, but Heinz defends it as a necessary method of "" personalizing '' charity work.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Of Focus And Fortune] Reference

Until now, when Tea Party leaders have threatened to go their own way, it's sounded like self-aggrandizing bluster.    From Wordnik.com.  [O'Donnell's victory signals new direction in Tea Party-GOP relations] Reference

Just as Rinpoche avoided any display of his greatness, he also sought to prevent his disciples from aggrandizing him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche] Reference

History suggests it can be a mistake to listen too closely to the ever-present (and often self-aggrandizing) critics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush in the Bubble] Reference

How could I not be revolted at such an irreligious, un-Islamic, self-aggrandizing, self-promoting statement like that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sumbul Ali-Karamali: Muslim Cleric Loses His Head] Reference

He thought that injecting himself into such an emotional moment would be not only self-aggrandizing but, of course, Clintonesque.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Wing Story: Blast From The Past] Reference

Now, after 45 years of post-mortem obscurity, George adds his most aggrandizing title yet to the list: creator of American pop culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hello, Gorgeous] Reference

The little knot of gentry-folk soon found the limitations of their new conditions; years went by in decades, aggrandizing none of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

Because most people in Bordeaux and Vichy did not suffer greatly during the war, their memories are argumentative and self-aggrandizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: Recollecting World War Ii] Reference

Because there are some who would say, you know what, actually, what that testimony was, was somebody aggrandizing what they actually did.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2006] Reference

With this criterion, we choose a Dharma center, monastery, place to stay, etc. without aggrandizing it as the most wonderful in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comparison of the "Dharma-Lite" and "Real Thing Dharma" Versions of Lam-rim] Reference