| Collective apathy towards the problems faced by our nation stems from the burden of self-aggrandizement. |
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| You're thinking that maybe I was predictably paranoid, which I now recognize as just a sneakier state of self-aggrandizement. |
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| Without a foundation of love, these gifts risk promoting self-gain and self-aggrandizement. |
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| No one can claim that politicians sought to exploit this occasion for their own self-aggrandizement. |
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| It is a noteworthy exercise in vitriol, and perhaps self-aggrandizement, but it falls far short of legitimate journalism. |
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| Where some saw self-aggrandizement, others saw the sartorial manifestation of a wry sense of humor. |
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| We were a group with common ideals, a willingness to share, and, if I may say so, a singular lack of self-aggrandizement. |
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| He also betrayed the trust of his American friends for profit and self-aggrandizement. |
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| He is a carnival barker on the legal midway, seeking little but his own self-aggrandizement. |
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| Without artificial self-aggrandizement, he may realize that external pomp is a poor substitute for inner worth. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| As my younger brothers never tire of reminding me, becoming a Rhodes Scholar entails a definite measure of self-promotion and self-aggrandizement. |
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| She took a drubbing, fielding accusations of self-aggrandizement from the financial press and fans alike. |
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| But chasing has always been an uncomfortable combination of science, thrill-seeking and self-aggrandizement. |
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| Later on another city appears: Jerusalem, the City-of-Peace, founded not on human self-aggrandizement but on God's promise. |
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| It is not something the devotee waves like a flag in self-aggrandizement to enlist awe from others or to gain congregants. |
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| Canadians do not want the government to use taxpayers' funds for self-aggrandizement or self-promotion. |
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| This was for self-aggrandizement, a bargaining position. |
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| She did not pursue fortune or self-aggrandizement. |
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| I would have expected more discussion on intellectuals as producers of ethnocentric symbols of exclusion, ethnic self-aggrandizement, self-pity, and exalted martyrology. |
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| Bombast and self-aggrandizement soon take over. |
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| Public communications about a client's affairs should not be used for the purpose of publicizing the lawyer and should be free from any suggestion that a lawyer's real purpose is self-promotion or self-aggrandizement. |
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| Especially now, in a culture that rewards self-aggrandizement to such a warped degree that some people find even their most grotesquely squalid distinctions aggrandizable. |
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