Words similar to self-importance

Example sentences for: self-importance

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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.
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.
Eleanor could have been--at times was--a dangerous mix of patrician self-importance, self-delusion, and imperiousness.
It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.