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How to use self-aggrandizement in a sentence

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Collective apathy towards the problems faced by our nation stems from the burden of self-aggrandizement.
You're thinking that maybe I was predictably paranoid, which I now recognize as just a sneakier state of self-aggrandizement.
Without a foundation of love, these gifts risk promoting self-gain and self-aggrandizement.
No one can claim that politicians sought to exploit this occasion for their own self-aggrandizement.
It is a noteworthy exercise in vitriol, and perhaps self-aggrandizement, but it falls far short of legitimate journalism.
Where some saw self-aggrandizement, others saw the sartorial manifestation of a wry sense of humor.
We were a group with common ideals, a willingness to share, and, if I may say so, a singular lack of self-aggrandizement.
He also betrayed the trust of his American friends for profit and self-aggrandizement.
He is a carnival barker on the legal midway, seeking little but his own self-aggrandizement.
Without artificial self-aggrandizement, he may realize that external pomp is a poor substitute for inner worth.
I tend to win more than my fair share of games and so there will sometimes be jokes that I'm only keeping score as a form of self-aggrandizement.
The people should monitor and criticize their officials in order to prevent abuse of power for self-aggrandizement while infringing on the rights of others.
He's a symbol, obviously, not of the youth who have abandoned their elders, but, in a bit of unashamed self-aggrandizement, of the writer who has not.
The fact that he was in a national political debate, where it's all about false modesty and self-aggrandizement, made his acknowledgement all the more remarkable.
As my younger brothers never tire of reminding me, becoming a Rhodes Scholar entails a definite measure of self-promotion and self-aggrandizement.
She took a drubbing, fielding accusations of self-aggrandizement from the financial press and fans alike.
But chasing has always been an uncomfortable combination of science, thrill-seeking and self-aggrandizement.
Later on another city appears: Jerusalem, the City-of-Peace, founded not on human self-aggrandizement but on God's promise.
It is not something the devotee waves like a flag in self-aggrandizement to enlist awe from others or to gain congregants.
Canadians do not want the government to use taxpayers' funds for self-aggrandizement or self-promotion.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They were men who thought along the lines of duty, not along the lines of self-aggrandizement.
Absolute turning from his life-purpose for the sake of self-aggrandizement.
The motives of self-aggrandizement by force of arms appear to be innate in human nature.
But jealous seekers after self-aggrandizement plotted against his rule and even attempted his life.
His moral character, however, was not on a level with his intellectual, self-aggrandizement being the main aim of his life.
Anger, fear, resignation, and greedy little thoughts of self-aggrandizement.
They erected defensive barricades of self-aggrandizement and of my devaluation.
He would do so, however, without any thought of self-aggrandizement.
In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit-making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God.
Someone who was attentive to duty, loyalty, and identity, not for any self-aggrandizement purposes, but to leave a legacy worthy of emulation.
Donors gone amok in self-aggrandizement, with a growing cadre of campus development and donor relations personnel, is one cause.
The noise created by SIGAR is clearly aimed at media attention and self-aggrandizement.
Leave aside everything else, bickering, personal vendetta, self-aggrandizement, vindictiveness and extremist views or values.
The human ego could easily convert this instruction about humility into a new strategy for self-aggrandizement.
Does he secretly crave fame and self-aggrandizement on the Internet?
A biting critique of national self-aggrandizement, written with intelligent passion and a keen sense for pointing out misdirections and half-truths.
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