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:

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.
Eleanor could have been--at times was--a dangerous mix of patrician self-importance, self-delusion, and imperiousness.
Plunging self-made into all that self-importance didn't seem to faze him.
Nor is it evidence of a megalomaniac mayor with a puffed up sense of self-importance.