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But just when you think you've had enough of Emmet's whining, self-aggrandizement, and emotional cowardice, Allen plays a trump card: that beautiful music.
We seem to believe that all human action is motivated not by the desire to know or improve the lot of humankind, but only by the basest motives of greed, power, and self-aggrandizement.
It's a form of self-aggrandizement whose effect is to make the skeptic feel knowing.
Rauch strikes back, gleeful in his further discovery of docudramatic distortion in Reich's backhanded self-aggrandizement.
In a book called In Theory --a wholesale slaughter of the sacred cows of the postmodern Western intelligentsia--the Indian Marxist literary critic Aijaz Ahmad raised further questions about Said's mastery of his sources and accused him of self-aggrandizement and insufficient political discipline.