Words similar to self-importance

Example sentences for: self-importance

How can you use “self-importance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Salinger's fame (she held out for years before dishing dirt on him); 2) not respecting Salinger's fanatically guarded privacy; 3) bad writing; and 4) self-importance.
Nor is it evidence of a megalomaniac mayor with a puffed up sense of self-importance.
People called each other by their first name; there was laughing, joking, and none of the aloofness or self-importance of the kung fu class.
It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.
Garry Wills' lethal piece in the New York Times Book Review blasts the book: "The self-importance underneath the self-criticism is breathtaking."