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:

  • Nor is it evidence of a megalomaniac mayor with a puffed up sense of self-importance.

  • 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.

  • Garry Wills' lethal piece in the New York Times Book Review blasts the book: "The self-importance underneath the self-criticism is breathtaking."

  • It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.

  • Nixon lawyer and defender Leonard Garment emerges as the anti-Dick Morris--a charming neurotic, free of self-importance and attentive to emotional nuance.


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