self-importance

Jordan, whose talent for handling dull clients was equalled only by his acute sense of self-importance, would feel slighted.

Excessive preoccupation with one's own well-being and interests , usually accompanied by an inflated sense of self-importance .

But Ashley was a bit too full of his own self-importance.

The old devil was going to clobber me again, probably with my self-importance, but I did not mind this time.

Sinful human pride involves having much too high an opinion of oneself, being puffed up with self-importance, looking down on others.

Imbalances at this level can result in low self-esteem, inferiority complexes, an inflated sense of self-importance or snobbishness .

Much as it pains me to say it, you should do what everyone else does and present your CV in the language of self-importance.

It is the bleak reality of a stalled car and spinning wheels impinging on the neat time schedule of our self-importance.

It is bleak reality of a stalled car and spinning wheels impinge on the neat time schedule of our self-importance.

So, cure for self-importance, way to sort of make us feel the Darwinian idea.

Self-importance and public whingeing do not win arguments in Washington.

Be on your guard against a false sense of self-importance.

The work by a young contemporary female artist deconstructs male dominance and self-importance in the history of western art.

Entrenchment in the self, consumption of self as a result of self importance or insecurity, strangles empathy.

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance.

Regrettably, these commentators wished to increase their own self- importance by pretending that they had witnessed a historic event.

Of course recognition feeds a sense of self-importance.

Here, I can only dimly infer somebody's status from their self-importance, and from the reactions of other people.

Austerity is not harsh, not a disciplined assertion of self-importance.

Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

They have a grandiose sense of self-importance and entitlement, crave admiration and attention.

Because where I grew up there really wasn't much tolerance for self-importance, people who put on airs.

Self importance only makes one forget to love oneself.

Facebook appeals to a kind of vanity and self-importance in us, too.

There is a pleasurable feeling of self-importance, of being in a position of authority.

Pathological Diagnosis of Media's Self-importance