self-aggrandisement

The US is not the first modern democracy; it's just the best at self-aggrandisement.

If you're building it for some sense of self-aggrandisement, why make it open source in the first place?

The self-aggrandisement and the unjustified certainty of the 25 years ago claim.

When ongoing EU self-aggrandisement at times reaches unbearable proportions, I like pointing to the other three.

It's a very humble post and I hope people won't take it as self-aggrandisement.

He just used them for his own self-aggrandisement.

I'm also a pretty strong inclusionist at heart, but I can see also that if the living-person rules were relaxed, self-aggrandisement would proliferate like crazy.

Think of the biggest pop stars - none of them write their material, none of them can sing or play an instrument - their chief skill is in taking credit and self-aggrandisement.

When I see people who I knew on television talking about the glorious future for their party and the country, and recall their proclivities for self-aggrandisement and shameless dishonesty, my toes curl.

In a conversation on another community, some people are voicing opinions that open hardware is indeed not dead, and that your post reeks as hubris and self-aggrandisement (not their literal words, I'm paraphrasing).

Good will; systematic persistence; humility and humour - all recipes for learning and improvement: Flashy self-aggrandisement, an emphasis on performance and (self-proclaimed) brilliance: all recipes for deceit, lies and failure.

(Though with him I will grant you he's so pathologically disconnected from the concept of truth existing in objective reality that it's difficult to say what his goals were beyond self-aggrandisement).

The result: a cult of personality, self-aggrandisement, conquest, kleptomania, and domination passed-off as "business".

I can think of two reasons for such an action: 1) Generally being "done" with that particular identity or community, and having lost interest to the point where the effort required to maintain it was disproportionate with the enjoyment or self-aggrandisement derived from it.

I’ll stick my neck out and assert that “cheap” films are better, anyway: movie budgets’ sizes are inversely proportional to the producers’ risk tolerance; therefore, big money films are devoid of originality and any message they carry is nought but masturbatory self-aggrandisement.