“Things come to a head when Coriolanus seeks to aggrandize his name still further by having himself nominated to the office of consul.”

“Many found his habit of taking to social media to aggrandize his accomplishments as, frankly, annoying.”

“It's not something we ask for simply to aggrandize the amount of authority the agency has.”

“I wish every young fella with my background would know that it is a joy to learn and to aggrandise yourself.”

“The Empress, too, forgets her own consequence, in eagerness to aggrandise her favourite.”

“But these use them for the benefit of others and not to aggrandise themselves.”

“As the government has assumed power over monetary policy in contemptuous disregard of the expressed wishes of the savers, it aggrandizes power.”

“The brushy handling of her gorgeous clothes aggrandizes her smoothly painted skin: undressing her, in effect.”

“Man and nature seem to be working in a partnership that aggrandizes both and diminishes neither, so dramatically different from our world of extraction and exploitation that it brings the viewer to the verge of tears.”

“But historical processes may have disrupted or even aggrandized an original cosmographic plan.”

“Like many homesick people, living outside their language in an abrasive foreign culture, Qutb aggrandized his loneliness into heroic solitude.”

“Rather, this is an excerpt taken from his address to the convention in his race for governor, where 2500 supporters aggrandized him with numerous standing ovations.”

“However good their intentions, they'd risk aggrandising themselves and diminishing or insulting their subject.”

“And also getting a free programme aggrandising myself printed in the process.”

“It is a foolish question, for it assumes that these writers are somehow aggrandising themselves.”

“Again, people say they are lame or opportunistic for aggrandizing themselves by trying to rally a world-wide coalition in opposition to us.”

“Governments are committed only to perpetuating and aggrandizing their own power, if need be, by trampling on the Constitution.”

“Written for a popular audience, the smoothly flowing narrative does not document sources and sometimes lapses into romantic and aggrandizing prose.”