self-inflation

We also agreed the so-called “techniques” tend to be an exercise in self-inflation – pretending that writing is something “beyond” our daily and hourly existence.

How to Touch Your Creative Soul: A Zen View | Write to Done 2010

Due to the dogged reporting of Mother Jones investigative correspondent Josh Harkinson, the Chamber is forced to revise its published membership numbers from 3 million to just 300,000 -- a self-inflation rate of no less than 900 percent and a total membership that's a tiny fraction of the 29.6 million businesses that operate in the country.

Anna Burger: The Year the US Chamber Became a Joke, And Why We're Not Laughing 2010

Don't you think there's something massively wrong with these Masters of Arrogance paying off their debt with a little bit of interest, puffing out their chests to their former levels of self-inflation, and re-commencing their old ways, albeit with a bit less recklessness?

Adam Hanft: When the Goldman Sachs Boys Celebrate, My Fury Meter Goes Way Up 2009

Through their inner learning work they will become familiar with their own tendencies that could lead to self-inflation and shoddy behaviors and practices.

John O'Neil: Virtues and Character Markings of Future Leaders 2009

This is how I remind myself that I will soon be descending from the high throne, thereby avoiding self-inflation.

Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

Just a bunch of pomp and self-inflation for someone who isn't getting nominated for anything.

Hillary: "Were You In This Campaign Just For Me?" 2009

This is how I remind myself that I will soon be descending from the high throne, thereby avoiding self-inflation.

Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

In pursuit of false power and literal self-inflation, he hid behind his stature.

Leslie Griffith: Bullying-Buffed-Up-Times 2008

The major psychological reason why Leftists so zealously criticize the existing order and advocate change is in order to feed a pressing need for self-inflation and ego-boosting — and ultimately for power, the greatest ego boost of all.

Think Progress » Sen. Edward Kennedy says voting against the Iraq war 2006

His presentation of the nouveau riche business class is a deadpan satire with few enough jokes but plenty of sharp critical observations, as in the dryly funny dinner scene where Losey skewers the banal chatter and pompous self-inflation of the bourgeoisie money-makers.

10/30: La Truite; Holiday Ed Howard 2007