It was funny that two former fashion victims now find their former world overbearing and self-important. |
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The eldest daughter of an alcoholic, self-important Lancashire bootmaker marries his boot-hand and sets up a rival business. |
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There were witless, self-important demi-mondaines and courtesans lauded in the popular press. |
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They deliver nonsensical presentations to self-important dim-witted businessmen to hilarious results. |
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Sport in general, and football in particular, is going through the most colossally self-important period in its history. |
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But the role of Sandeman brings out the self-important worst in Harris, who delivers an exasperatingly conceited, whispery performance. |
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But for the most part, the beauty is lost in the sonic flatulence of self-important experimentation. |
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You also said that your Dad always taught you that being pompous and self-important was just about the greatest sin of all. |
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In the second part De Schrijver successfully parodies the self-important actor. |
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Those inept, self-important idiots ran that place into the ground, creating unnecessary crises through decades of obstinate mismanagement. |
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It is the access any time and in the long term to a self-important daily quantity of food, to a reasonable cost. |
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But this self-important pooh-bah is more than an ominous senior legal and political figure. |
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I'm getting tired of these self-important money grubbers I associate with all the time now. |
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Some might say that it's because the actors are silly, strident, vacuous, and self-important. |
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If we can't laugh at a caricature of ourselves, then maybe we have a lot more in common with these self-important buffoons than we think. |
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They might think it sounds horribly self-important, turgid, avant-garde and inaccessible. |
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He's only 15, but thinks like his dad, a pompous self-important academic. |
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His sense of humour, always in evidence, made it impossible for him to seem pompous or self-important, and he never attempted to disguise his own fallibility as a human being. |
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Their coverage was dominated by the self-important vapourings of a stream of politicians. |
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Had he ever done something like in Newtown, every self-important shrink on TV would have claimed they'd have seen it coming. |
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The blogger, surely, must be far too self-important to think anyone cares what she consumed each day. |
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Yet she finds that there, too, she is manipulated and marginalised by struttingly self-important men and their simpering handmaidens. |
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Real Spike will never sound that self-important, no matter how artistic he gets. |
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It ends up being more a plea for tolerance than a scathing indictment of self-important religious rightness. |
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As if concerned that his rants may appear too smug or self-important, he tempers them with spoonfuls of self-loathing. |
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The quality and conviction of her performance almost rescued even that most soporifically self-important of police dramas Inspector Morse. |
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The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings. |
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A potentially exciting adventure gets bogged down in a self-important and unintentionally disrespectful parody of Native Alaskan spiritual beliefs. |
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The assistant manager was a self-important fellow who strutted about the office barking instructions. |
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He is self-important, quick-tempered, duplicitous and vicious. |
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Instead of sounding self-important, the effect is endearingly comic. |
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I love the fact that the self-important pooh-bahs at 43rd Street now have to worry that they'll be corrected on a daily basis by a bunch of former nobodies. |
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If you're able to say that with such disgusting and self-important glibness, you are putting yourself on the same moral level with the monsters who did this crime. |
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It was small and self-important rather than big and magnanimous. |
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They get bloated, self-important, and impossible to deal with. |
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Wiesenthal comes across as a self-important busybody, obsessed with titles and recognition, squabbling with rivals. |
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To try to replace it with capital is as naively self-important as trying to plan and control how much toilet paper a nation will use in a year. |
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Kalaj is bombastic, reckless and self-important. |
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If a leader is self-important, he can be deceived by flattery. |
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There's less of this self-important thing going on. |
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP is always so self-important. |
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Without that particular word, our task of enacting the practices of love, hope and solidarity is bound to become onerous, even overly self-important. |
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Violence, hypocrisy, self-important people. |
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We occasionally feel self-important towards the judges who operate in the field and who know better than we do the human problems of those who submit cases to them. |
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A brown-suited instructor with ramrod posture and an air of self-important officialdom points at a blackboard covered with indecipherable scrawls. |
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This was a year when the big hitters in the book industry paid vast sums for huge, often very self-important books which swiftly wound up in the remainder bins. |
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Eric Roberts, who can be either outhouse or castle, comes a castle here as a slick, self-important minor-league thug who wants to swim with the sharks. |
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And a tough neighborhood, it was, too. irate Mars, and sexually explicit Venus, the kerfluff of a moody moon, and self-important stars. |
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This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle. |
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Her face aglimmer with self-important gloom, she bars his entry, while goodwife grunts and groans within. |
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He concluded this sentence with a self-important cough, as one who has laid down the law in an indisputable manner. |
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He also excelled at charming flimflam men, smooth-talking sleazebags, self-important airheads, didactic sellouts, old-time movie heroes, and cigar-chomping jerks. |
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Besides, the self-important Leo adores mirrors equally as well, silk shirts and scarves, bedcovers with oriental motifs in which gold dominates, gold-plated lighters or key-holders, and all the bulky jewelry in massive gold. |
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Anyone who discounts the peril is a self-important, arrogant balatron. |
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Not while we have self-important grandstanders like these taking part. |
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However the spectacle on the main street side is more gently prosaic, as the self-important, space-age interloper nuzzles up to workaday terraced houses. |
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