Words similar to self-importance

Example sentences for: self-importance

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Garry Wills' lethal piece in the New York Times Book Review blasts the book: "The self-importance underneath the self-criticism is breathtaking."
Nixon lawyer and defender Leonard Garment emerges as the anti-Dick Morris--a charming neurotic, free of self-importance and attentive to emotional nuance.
Visiting the city last weekend for a science convention, I smelled the unmistakable air of self-importance wherever I went.
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.
Plunging self-made into all that self-importance didn't seem to faze him.