self-aggrandizement

• “Ready your TV and your stomach for an hour of smears, self-aggrandizement and, with any luck, an airing of the issues facing California: Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown meet tonight in Davis for the first of three televised debates.”

  The Huffington Post: Stakes Are High For Brown And Whitman In First Debate

• “Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media's self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country's real problems”

  The Story Behind the Story

• “A former White House chief of staff for President George H.W. Bush, Mr. Sununu described Mr. Gingrich as having a penchant for "self-aggrandizement" and "off-the-cuff thinking" that "is not what you want in a commander-in-chief.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Tough Talk as Romney Takes Aim at Gingrich

• “In Death of a Thousand Cuts, the murder victim’s life was motivated by self-aggrandizement.”

  An Interview with Barbara D'Amato about Death of a Thousand Cuts

• “Saddam replaced some of the ancient Sumerian bricks containing the first language of cuneiform with his own inscriptions of self-aggrandizement.”

  The Huffington Post: Rajai Hakki: An Arab-American Iraq War Veteran Returns to the Middle East,

• “American self-aggrandizement, like all others I believe, is just communal biology at work and based on a deep-rooted drive to survive.”

  The Huffington Post: Joe Woodward: Occup(ied) America: A Literary History

• “I make up with true friends who accidentally hurt my feelings through acts of self-aggrandizement, neglect and unwanted pity.”

  The Huffington Post: Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe

• “And anyone accusing them of anything is obviously in it for the self-aggrandizement and/or to get a boatload of money.”

  Think Progress » Halliburton/KBR Goes After Rape Survivor Jamie Leigh Jones’ Personal Integrity In Its Supreme Court Petition

• “By Johnson's definition, you're Zen if you're a really focused cyber-flasher like Anthony Weiner or a buffoon like Donald Trump, whose pure self-aggrandizement requires laser-like concentration.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Sigman: Zen and the Art of Presidential Politics -- or Not

• “Will it be self-aggrandizement and cynicism, new avenues for Me-ism?”

  'Smokey and the Bandit' meet the Twitter Generation

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