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American Idol and all the ego-stroking wish-fulfillment shows still top the popularity charts, and Toyota just became the biggest car manufacturer in the world by spending years building better cars, even as the well-groomed Detroit auto executives in their ego-stroking private jets beg for more federal handouts while trying to keep producing gas-guzzling behemoths that most users buy for their own-ego-stroking reasons.
January « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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The financial crisis that has besieged the United States and threatened to swamp the entire world financial system was generated primarily by the interplay of image and ego-stroking.
January « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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This is going to sound like blatant ego-stroking -- and it partially is -- but I really do want to see "Faces in Revolving Souls" or "Bradbury Weather" made into a film (with your complete creative control, of course).
"...to watch you shake and shout it out..." unknownbinaries 2010
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The complement to “image” is “ego-stroking” or flattery.
The Image Culture « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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The complement to “image” is “ego-stroking” or flattery.
January « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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And by the mid- to late- 1980s the cause shifted: We Evangelicals paid lip-service to "stopping abortion," but the real issue was keeping Republicans in power and keeping Evangelical leaders in the ego-stroking loop of having access to power.
Frank Schaeffer: Abortion Tactics and Conflicted Moral Ambivalence Frank Schaeffer 2011
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This sort of ego-stroking will make your man feel two feet taller and your woman feel like she's gone up a cup size.
Babe Scott: How to Give Old-Fashioned Romance a Little CPR Babe Scott 2011
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This sort of ego-stroking will make your man feel two feet taller and your woman feel like she's gone up a cup size.
Babe Scott: How to Give Old-Fashioned Romance a Little CPR Babe Scott 2011
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And by the mid- to late- 1980s the cause shifted: We Evangelicals paid lip-service to "stopping abortion," but the real issue was keeping Republicans in power and keeping Evangelical leaders in the ego-stroking loop of having access to power.
Frank Schaeffer: Abortion Tactics and Conflicted Moral Ambivalence Frank Schaeffer 2011
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The financial crisis that has besieged the United States and threatened to swamp the entire world financial system was generated primarily by the interplay of image and ego-stroking.
The Image Culture « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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