self-important

• “He had no patience for those he called 'self-important corporation types cut out of the same cookie cutter' who tended to stick to what was safe.”

  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

• “Much of the opera world is self-important and self-satisfied, but Glyndebourne is a great leveler," he says.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Glyndebourne: The Great Leveler

• “Her "Potemkin villages" had deceived the self-important pundit into endorsing absolutism, just as Jean-Paul Sartre would prove vain enough to applaud Stalin.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Why They All Came to Versailles

• “Look for not a whiff of irony in these mutterings of the self-important!”

  The Huffington Post: Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship

• “If all this sounds a bit too self-important and ornate, trust me, it isn't.”

  What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

• “We already have one self-important narcissist who makes political alliances (and betrayals) based on personal pique.”

  How the worm has turned in Virginia. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState

• “Yesterday when I said: "I defy you to find a more atrocious, self-indulgent, self-important piece-of-crap tune," I knew someone would find something uniquely interesting.”

  I Stand Corrected

• “I defy you to find a more atrocious, self-indulgent, self-important piece-of-crap tune.”

  The Worst Song Evar!

• “Certainly, tell me when a game seems manipulative, self-important, precious to fault.”

  I'd Rather Let The Flowers Keep Doing What They Do Best

• “David Thomson has noted that Walsh never made the kind of self-important, big-themed movies that get serious critical attention.”

  The Wall Street Journal: We Shall Not See His Like Again

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