self-aggrandizing

However, methinks the bulk of them are wising up to the bad opinions, false heroics, cowardly verbal attacks, hysterical malaprops, boorish bravado and self-aggrandizing bile being poured on-screen, on the airwaves and the Internet by these current players, retired players, and boorish self-appointed "experts".

Ed Berliner: Jay Cutler Brings Out a Yellow Streak in Fellow Players Ed Berliner 2011

Presumably, what makes political networks so pernicious is not their personal sex life, but the very real damage they do to their states in the form of myopic and self-aggrandizing lawmaking, incompetent appointees, and a perversion of our democratic institutions.

Hi, Larry Marchant! [UPDATED] | RedState 2010

For a second there when I read this headline, I forgot that Evan was a political scion and thought that Matt was giving the DNC a little Singapore-style advice on how to deal with whiny, back-stabbing, self-aggrandizing Deficit Peacocks ….

Matthew Yglesias » Birch Bayh 2010

However, methinks the bulk of them are wising up to the bad opinions, false heroics, cowardly verbal attacks, hysterical malaprops, boorish bravado and self-aggrandizing bile being poured on-screen, on the airwaves and the Internet by these current players, retired players, and boorish self-appointed "experts".

Ed Berliner: Jay Cutler Brings Out a Yellow Streak in Fellow Players Ed Berliner 2011

Aside from being wrong, the cynical, self-aggrandizing view that all this warmongering from the right comes down to profit is unhelpful.

Matthew Yglesias » The Dumbest Term You Could Use? 2010

Joe, you tried to praise him for actually contributing to a discussion instead of preening and self-aggrandizing for once.

Matthew Yglesias » The Politics of Terror 2010

I admit it would be self-aggrandizing to try and account for this by blaming it on the misappropriation of ‘classic’ Halo sounds in the game, but at the very least it is a symptom of the larger problem at hand.

Archive 2009-03-01 Ben Abraham 2009

I admit it would be self-aggrandizing to try and account for this by blaming it on the misappropriation of ‘classic’ Halo sounds in the game, but at the very least it is a symptom of the larger problem at hand.

The Audio of Halo Wars – A victim of unambitious design Ben Abraham 2009

Apparently, even he's grown tired of the self-aggrandizing hoax through which he's flung enough ignorant, racist bile to fill 100 KKK meetings.

Andy Ostroy: Donald Trump Announces He's Not Running for President and Will Be Going Back to Simply Annoying Business People Andy Ostroy 2011

Why is it that Congress will vote on and pass resolutions for some of the most stupid and self-aggrandizing notions, yet, do everything in their power to prevent a simple Yes or No vote on POW-MIA Hearings that have been sought for more than a dozen years.

Statistics on the Prisoner of War issue 2010