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Ironically, the movement to change ethnic names to those used by the groups themselves frequently restores these kind of self-glorifying terms.
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Now, going after an economic impact, I always found, frankly, bin Laden's comments about supposed conscious intention to strike at the heart of America's financial system with the 9/11 attack to be ex-post-facto and self-glorifying, he said.
Cargo Plane Bomb Plot May Signal Al-Qaida's Strategic Shift 2010
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Most of those in the spotlight these days appear to be far from heroic: politicians who are self-glorifying panderers, corporate leaders who are greedy and corrupt, athletes who are entitled and irresponsible, and entertainers who are spoiled and aloof.
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The -- I swore I wasn't going to use this expression, but here goes -- "unacknowledged legislators of the world" is one of poetry's great, self-glorifying characterizations.
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Herodotus relied largely or wholly on oral testimony — on a storytelling tradition that grew with each new rendition as the magnitude of the Marathon victory became firmly planted at the center of the Athenians 'self-glorifying and self-defining imagination.
A Battle of Long-Running Interest Paul Cartledge 2010
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The -- I swore I wasn't going to use this expression, but here goes -- "unacknowledged legislators of the world" is one of poetry's great, self-glorifying characterizations.
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And you want us to vote for you for President, because you gave a few self-glorifying sound bytes on 9/11?
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It will give the nasty ungracious, self-serving, self-glorifying, sanctimonious louse sympathy.
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Why do you feel the need to indulge them in their self-glorifying fantasies?
The Official TPM Tally: The McCains Own Eight To Eleven Houses 2009
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That's Rudy's self-glorifying, tabloid view of himself.
Mark Green: RudyWatch II: On Arafat, Is Giuliani a "Leader" or a "Hothead"? 2008
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