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Example sentences for: self-aggrandizement

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60, actually, is less noble: It is that the spirit of self-aggrandizement, one-upmanship, and trump-thy-neighbor can be channeled into charity by making it a race.
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.
Rauch strikes back, gleeful in his further discovery of docudramatic distortion in Reich's backhanded self-aggrandizement.
Here, it's defeat as self-aggrandizement.
It's a form of self-aggrandizement whose effect is to make the skeptic feel knowing.