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He was a man of a good and kindly nature, a little vain and self-important, but earnest and upright, and possessed of very fair abilities.

Barring a miracle, Mrs Clinton's more self-important supporters will not stick with her much longer.

But I think it's a bit self-important and not right anyway as I'm neither crying nor in a desert.

Our manager is such a self - important man that he always shrugs off our suggestions even if they are constructive ones .

You may become too self important, arrogant, and domineering, thinking that your way is the only way.

Trinket, with a self-important cough, got out from under the bed, walked out of the room, and strutted unconcernedly towards the hall.

The law professor's self-important claim that he or she teaches students how to think is in need of some revision, some refinement.

Now you know that for one self-important group, it's no longer so.

As her pupil becomes famous, Jane receives threatening phone calls and visits from self-important officials in dark suits and black sedans.

Mary is so self-important that she makes me sick.

With editors and publishers, now that you're a fancy and apparently self-important writer.

Since then, the stream of self-important historians and art buffs arriving at his door had seemed never-ending.

They cultivate self-important eccentricities they think are suitable for "writers. "

Those self-important individuals apparently weren't salespeople--or good ones, anyway. They didn't understand the magic rule of sales.

They are patronized , ridiculed and shoved around by self - important staff members .

People don't get turned on when businesses convey self-important messages.

In asking the voters to decide on the trade agreement, it is setting an example to more self-important democracies elsewhere.

and no trace of self-important youthfully.

Mr Murdoch's defenders regard this as self-important tosh.

And they liked seeing their government face down self-important big countries.

unlike the girl i came across in the senior middle school , she is very self - important , never looking me in the eye.

He is so self-important that he can't take a joke.

Tom: No. I am not. I like all the beautiful women. Actually, I am not really into the blonde. They are stupid horny self-important bitches.

The Self-Important Consciousness in Chinese Traditional Culture and Its Influence on Her Modernization

Finally, they have a positive self-regard. They do not feel self-important or complacent;