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No self-indulgent twaddle, no luvvy duvvy waffle, no tedious explaining what we're looking at, no extraneous family members self-aggrandising and hogging the airtime with totally irrelevant bullshit.

Update karenmiller 2009

The chief enemy of excellence in morality (and also in art) is personal fantasy, the tissue of self-aggrandising and consoling wishes and dreams which prevents one from seeing what there is outside one ....

A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty 2010

Neither character has a track record of making aggrandising statements, later to be utilised by those marketing said horse at stud.

Frankel has potential to justify claims of greatness | Lydia Hislop 2011

Part of Woolf's genius, however, resides in her refusal to condescend to her women, without ever aggrandising them.

Virginia Woolf, my mother and me 2011

Really, anyone who chooses a fictional self-aggrandising cubicle dweeb as his screen name gets all the abuse he deserves.

Think Progress » Obama on Tea Partiers: “You would think they would be saying, ‘Thank you’” for my tax cuts. 2010

With a wry self-deprecating humour that stops her from coming across as self-aggrandising, GIlbert roots the trope of the tortured artist in this, asks if maybe this is a cause for all those suicides and self-destructions.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Sounds like I'm being self-aggrandising, and that's not my intention: I just think it's important to note that news-stand titles still have a place and can deliver a valuable (if differently paced) service.

Starlog To Cease Magazine Publication 2009

I predict that within a short period of time Bercow's or his wife's ego, avarice and self-aggrandising habits - with a little help from a few resentful MPs no doubt - will combine and he will let himself down and resign.

The Speaker: Bercow's boundaries | Editorial 2011

With a wry self-deprecating humour that stops her from coming across as self-aggrandising, GIlbert roots the trope of the tortured artist in this, asks if maybe this is a cause for all those suicides and self-destructions.

Genius in a Bottle Hal Duncan 2009

Part of Woolf's genius, however, resides in her refusal to condescend to her women, without ever aggrandising them.

Virginia Woolf, my mother and me 2011