Assigning inevitability to Islamist terror attacks risks aggrandising the terrorist in his own mind as well as that of the public. |
However the reason I can't stomach Russell Brand or take anything he says seriously is because he's a self aggrandising, arrogant, immature fop who talks twaddle. |
And also getting a free programme aggrandising myself printed in the process. |
In his oil sketches, you can see how Rubens danced to the not-so-delicate tunes of his ecclesiastical paylords, aggrandising a donor here, taking an unloved saint down a peg or two. |
However good their intentions, they'd risk aggrandising themselves and diminishing or insulting their subject. |
That sounds a lot, until you reflect that using the same aggrandising tactic, the Government will spend nearly £4.2 trillion on welfare over the same period. |