It is, though not explicitly intended as such, a diametric statement against futuristic and self-aggrandizing designs like Hadid's — and perhaps futuristic and self-aggrandizing architecture in general.
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Kim's leak wasn't an artistic achievement, but an aggrandizing one.
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It's not just that Trump's speech was defensive and self-aggrandizing.
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And then we have this story's most self-aggrandizing seer: Melisandre.
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"Book One" was more self-aggrandizing; "Book Two" is more thoughtful.
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I'm not attempting to publish a self-aggrandizing piece of writing here.
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That was the sort of self-pitying, self-aggrandizing wretches we were.
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Hnath also draws on the audience's preconceptions about Disney's self-aggrandizing mind.
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Because Icahn is even better at self-aggrandizing deals than The Donald.
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It still wasn't enough to stymie the spread of incel-aggrandizing murder pics.
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We also talked to her about how she doesn't suffer self-aggrandizing bullshitters.
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Many Democrats came to view Mr. Nader as an obstreperous, self-aggrandizing spoiler.
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"Self-aggrandizing is not really his shtick," Mr. Roe said to the reporters.
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So I suppose either way, people are going to say self-aggrandizing things.
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His comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed.
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Self-aggrandizing during an interview only serves to hurt you in the end.
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But his brand of self-aggrandizing hyperpartisanship proved exactly wrong as a corrective.
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We know they are not really caught up in the president's self-aggrandizing blather.
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While other apologies have been self-aggrandizing or flippant, Rose's has a different problem.
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Media coverage can leave out his self-aggrandizing statements, but it still raises his profile.
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Eventually, in Beran's aggrandizing telling, 4chan's crescendo of furious nihilism delivers President Trump to America.
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It also manages the currently popular ploy of being at once critical and self-aggrandizing.
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And that interaction, to me, was Summit: cringey, self-promotional, self-aggrandizing, but also earnest.
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These lines read like lyrics by a self-aggrandizing old man who deals in generalities.
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Mr. Trump's projection of realness relies on him being reliably self-aggrandizing and wildly inappropriate.
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His end zone celebrations could be profane, and his antics on the sideline self-aggrandizing.
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You don't need to add to that in any sort of selfish or self-aggrandizing way.
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We have ample testimony that he's abrasively arrogant, nakedly self-aggrandizing, suspiciously oily, and generally repellent.
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The president's self-aggrandizing tweets on Puerto Rico are ideal fodder for political jockeying in Washington.
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This age-old device is a clever way to claim a mandate without sounding self-aggrandizing.
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His self-aggrandizing efforts at relevance in the 2016 presidential election were a public relations disaster.
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Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen unwittingly revealed its ugly underbelly: the smugness, the self-aggrandizing posturing.
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She was modeling the essence of Trump himself: mean, bullying, self-interested, self-aggrandizing and rapacious.
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And even the track's effective hooks are undone by the song's self-aware turned self-aggrandizing lyrics.
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And it's also why the self-aggrandizing nonsense of Faraday's presentation is so plainly and pointedly loathsome.
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It'd also be great if we could end self-aggrandizing events like the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Is there something self-aggrandizing about Gormley's career-long obsession with making casts of his own body?
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But the movie is slightly ahead of the curve in branding Assange as a self-aggrandizing hustler.
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It's hardly the first time West has found himself in hot water for combative, self-aggrandizing behavior.
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Some called him a voice for the voiceless, a phrase he might have rejected as self-aggrandizing.
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All that said, I don't think it's self-aggrandizing to say that obituary writing is important work.
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Perhaps it's self-aggrandizing of me to choose him, but a real enemy should be a stretch.
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Mr. Trump seems to have no sense of the boundary between his self-aggrandizing fantasies and reality.
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Nor did he express concern for their security when pursuing a self-aggrandizing program of diplomatic malfeasance.
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It has its own distinctive, salty vibe, driven by McEnany's simultaneously self-loathing and self-aggrandizing swagger.
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I felt she was being pretentious and self-aggrandizing, and wondered if she was also possibly high.
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And it's gerrymandered, minoritarian legislatures restricting the voting franchise and aggrandizing their power over popularly elected statewide officials.
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It was humorous, self-aggrandizing and another opportunity for Trump to show what a "great guy" he is.
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"Such serious-minded discussions support a self-aggrandizing vision of the totalizing power of the algorithm," he writes.
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The manuscript that Random House published was, depending on your perspective, either entertainingly insightful or shamelessly self-aggrandizing.
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At the heart of the Pakistani establishment's idea of national security is a self-aggrandizing notion of respect.
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"If I can say, without sounding weird and self-aggrandizing, they're both really complicated shows," Ms. Drury said.
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Folks even know what to expect: some commentary about what he's watching on Fox and Friends, some self-aggrandizing.
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Their absence was glaring — and befuddling given the CEOs' boundless enthusiasm for self-aggrandizing magazine covers and celebratory keynotes.
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This is why somebody feels inadequate or self-loathing or self-aggrandizing; this is what makes someone like this.
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Like many other pugilists, ancient and contemporary, rough-and-tumble fighters made self-aggrandizing claims to assert their dominance.
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This is a testament to the self-aggrandizing nature of the record labels and their unending quest for greed.
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When he's in this self-aggrandizing mode, YoungBoy Never Broke Again is rowdy, clipping his words into terse bursts.
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It's a tale of extremes, yet it underscores Silicon Valley's proclivity for tolerating – and funding – overambitious, self-aggrandizing dreamers.
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For a time, the outing of manipulated visuals, usually ones aggrandizing Mr. Modi, hardly seemed to compromise the government itself.
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If the album's title is a deprecatingly self-aggrandizing reference to the trio's own stubborn persistence, then bring it on.
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Is there something mildly narcissistic and self-aggrandizing about Gormley's career-long obsession with making casts of his own body?
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Of course, everyone's the hero of his own story, and Comey may well be engaging in a little self-aggrandizing.
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While often this manifests itself as aggrandizing, he's also had no problems gunning for the state of everything around him.
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One stops reading practically mid-sentence when confronting a self-aggrandizing passage about Patsy's past as a former beauty queen.
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In his autobiography, which he published and then repeatedly revised over the years, Barnum is, by turns, confiding and aggrandizing.
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But Ibsen, Mr. Rem said, "makes it impossible to sympathize with Stockmann completely," because he is self-aggrandizing and elitist.
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Self-aggrandizing philanthropy for the construction of egotistic monuments — especially museums — would merit only a minimal tax break, if any.
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But it's notable that even when just telling the truth would serve his purposes, Trump opts for self-aggrandizing obfuscating.
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Maybe you missed Mr. O'Rourke's invocation of perpetually self-aggrandizing Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and her support for reparations?
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A: I've got to watch out that I don't get seduced into saying something rather self-aggrandizing at this point.
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Had reckless leaders made self-aggrandizing choices, the collapse of a great power could have led to chaos and war.
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Hitler kept presenting himself as a man of peace, even if "Mein Kampf," his bellicose, self-aggrandizing autobiography, suggested otherwise.
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Yes, he's always been outlandish and self-aggrandizing and not particularly in touch with the granular details on any issue.
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"We're a small, independent company with no resources, so to do self-aggrandizing efforts like that — " said Mr. Cohen, trailing off.
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The manifesto intersperses details about why the shooter targeted New Zealand with self-aggrandizing rhetoric about the shooter's own personal bravery.
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According to Knapp some Winnipeg Muslims took umbrage with Driver's online postings, especially those aggrandizing Islamic State or other militant groups.
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Comedian Louis CK's apology, while acknowledging that the accusations made are true, is still a bloated, self-aggrandizing, self-pitying missive.
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Self-portraits inspired by Egon Schiele before I realized how much more fun it is to be self-aggrandizing and vain.
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Naturally, Mr. McBride would have to play some sort of self-aggrandizing character, with a heart of gold far, far beneath.
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Despite his reputation as metal's preeminent conservative blowhard, I wanted to see if I could get past that self-aggrandizing exterior.
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The three agreed that many usages were self-aggrandizing, and often frivolous; they rarely correlated with an act requiring considerable contemplation.
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For those whose lives are not shaped fundamentally by the indifference of others, empathy can be a seductive, self-aggrandizing goal.
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Mr. Ahmadinejad's self-aggrandizing demagogy in some ways makes him Iran's version of Mr. Trump, in the view of some Iranians.
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Overall, Trump squandered one of the best moments of his presidency by speaking cavalierly in his free-wheeling and self-aggrandizing manner.
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Aggrandizing folklore has been kind to the name: today, most comments I get do not come from a place of visceral disgust.
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He has veered wildly between deriding the benchmark as arbitrary, and aggrandizing himself as the most productive early-term president in history.
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It's hard to say because it's really hard not to sound self-aggrandizing in trying to say who should read this book.
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Two weeks before the 2016 election, Bloomberg's Joshua Green and Sasha Issenberg published a story about Trump's brash, self-aggrandizing digital team.
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At the same time, local leadership is not a magic solution, since local leaders can also be dominant, hierarchical and self-aggrandizing.
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But the more eagerly and prolifically you tell, the easier for people to paint you as self-aggrandizing or having an agenda.
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Will I build my own organization that tries to "change the world," like any self-respecting (or self-aggrandizing) Silicon Valley startup?
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This is where this version loosened its grip on me — all that male suffering, abusive back story and choked-up aggrandizing agony.
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As a prefix, über is sometimes equivalent to the English "super"— übernatürlich is "supernatural"—but it has less of an aggrandizing effect.
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Rather, he hoped to turn this into a spectacle, an insult to him personally, another opportunity to play the self-aggrandizing victim.
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Icahn has been padding his pockets on corporate raids, stockholder suits and self-aggrandizing schemes since he started in business in 1961.
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They are a testament to my self-aggrandizing devotion to a trilogy of racing games: SimBin's GT Legends, GTR 2, and RACE 07.
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To scurry about chest-beating, trying to make amends for misunderstanding the white working class of western Pennsylvania, strikes me as self-aggrandizing.
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But they never adequately deciphered how to nationalize party politics without aggrandizing presidential power, and without hollowing out state and local party organizations.
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He's the self-aggrandizing salesman who over-promised success for his Atlantic City casinos and for the ill-fated United States Football League.
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The album continued to showcase his own skills as a rapper and singer and unique mix of confessional, inspirational and self-aggrandizing lyrics.
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But while selfies can be condemned as self-aggrandizing and only for the vain, Ali's words underscore the importance of one's self confidence.
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The self-aggrandizing but terminally insecure Sand, who chose godhood when he couldn't reach stardom, is like an '80s revival of Charles Manson.
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This is especially important given Trump's tendency to bring every question — no matter the topic — back to himself in a self-aggrandizing way.
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The self-aggrandizing speeches given at art openings and galas — often cringe-worthy performances in themselves — have become another of Ms. Fraser's specialties.
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To the Editor: Every day I marvel at the number of people willing to vote for a self-aggrandizing prevaricator named Donald Trump.
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By embellishing and aggrandizing his images using words and color, Morrisroe more than alters them: He reconstructs their reality according to his own.
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But some responded, in spite of the president's self-aggrandizing, in the spirt of a shared purpose, however awkwardly it falls around him.
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This means victory of law over dictatorship," Rouhani said Sunday, slamming the US for what he said were its attempts at "self-aggrandizing.
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The Italian hyperrealist jokester's simultaneously self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing works benefit from being sparsely installed in the ostentatious rooms of the Paris mint.
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It's hurtful to see talented, brainy, driven Rory spiraling out 10 years down the line because she still has a terrible self-aggrandizing attitude.
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But that message can get lost in a narrowly cast, self-aggrandizing vision for the "disruptive" role that their products can play in society.
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It would be self-affirming and self-aggrandizing: whatever it takes to remain the focus of everyone's gaze, the syllable tumbling from everyone's lips.
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As Amy Harmon reported for the New York Times, white supremacists have lately been distorting and appropriating genetic science for bizarre, self-aggrandizing ends.
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Naysayers often charge that critics and sommeliers explore the wine fringes in an arrogant, self-aggrandizing desire to show off something new and different.
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You have to be pretty bold to spin those kinds of self-aggrandizing lies and to carry it off as long as Skeyhill did.
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"This whole speech, with its nativism, its fearmongering, and especially its self-aggrandizing in the face of tragedy, feels like a new low," Colbert said.
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President Donald Trump gave an "impromptu" interview to the New York Times on Thursday and it's as incoherent and self-aggrandizing as you might expect.
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The president's self-aggrandizing remark followed a string of criticisms aimed at his predecessors, whom he claimed had ignored the consequences of China's trade practices.
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True, one can quarrel with the speed and manner of the withdrawal, along with the president's bizarre, inane, and self-aggrandizing defense of the deed.
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Varoufakis then began a career as a kind of professional victim, a tragic hero to his fans and a self-aggrandizing egocentric to his critics.
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Narcissism is often regarded as a negative trait, and narcissists are seen as self-centered and not dissuaded from self-aggrandizing, even after personal failure.
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Lahren, a 24-year-old known for her video monologues delivered in a brash, self-aggrandizing tone, rose to quick prominence within right-wing media.
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Popular Chinese actor Jia Nailiang made a self-aggrandizing tribute video that folks flocked to and naturally, for the kids, emojis of their national hero.
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He slips in self-aggrandizing comments between rallying cries for tighter borders and call for better trade deals, all while boasting how humble he is.
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In the opera's opening scene, three women sent by the Queen of the Night seal his mouth with a padlock for telling self-aggrandizing lies.
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"This whole speech, with its nativism, its fear-mongering, and especially its self-aggrandizing in the face of tragedy, feels like a new low," Colbert said.
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"Adam would say, 'This is exactly what I expected," Ward, 71, told PEOPLE of his costar's penchant for straight-faced but tongue-in-cheek self-aggrandizing.
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The self-aggrandizing mission statements, the anxiety meltdowns as the show nears, the abstruse declarations about the purpose of performance art—Blanchett mimics all of these.
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First and foremost is Mr. Trump's tendency toward the self-aggrandizing fib — as if it were not impressive enough to be paid $400,000 for a speech.
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But this they do know: Mr. Trump will thoroughly reimagine the tone, standards and expectations of the presidency, molding it in his own self-aggrandizing image.
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In fact, the humor in the first episode of last night's season premiere displays the promise of lighter, less self-aggrandizing fare, set in this world.
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It's not a self-aggrandizing display, but rather a love for the entire lineage of rock music as it's grown into increasingly challenging new art forms.
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Maybe his words are simply strategic — a bid for sympathy, lenience and redemption — and maybe he has swapped one set of self-aggrandizing delusions for another.
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In a statement both remorseful and self-aggrandizing, Mr. Weinstein pledged yet more money for liberal causes, including gun control and scholarships for women in film.
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For him, history is a blank slate to be overwritten with self-aggrandizing lies; ideas like justice and equality are elitist dreams to be swatted aside.
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After both halves of the duo agree that this description of themselves is definitely true and not at all self-aggrandizing hogwash, they've officially buried the hatchet.
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Given the UK's self-aggrandizing in the face of decay, Blake and Blunt's mock-patriot zeal serves a far higher purpose than a conventional protest ever could.
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In other words, the Republican Party of the 1970s and 80s may have shaped Cheney, but he left his own self-aggrandizing stain on the party itself.
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But Trump's behavior — his divisive, boastful, dishonest, egotistical, infantile, self-aggrandizing personality — has made it impossible for most people to give him any credit for anything; 5.
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But sandwiched between a 2018 podcast about Bundy and Berlinger's upcoming biopic, it mostly just seems gratuitous — the kind of self-aggrandizing focus that Bundy would have loved.
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Pretty much any Hollywood awards show can be categorized as a self-aggrandizing display of narcissism, but nothing lives up to that description quite like the Golden Globes.
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It's pretty dumb, but the "don't touch things that don't belong to you" moral helps give the movie's events some sense of direction without getting too self-aggrandizing.
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Anyone who came of age with Ronald Reagan found more to recognize in the Democratic Party's rhetoric last week than in Donald Trump's self-aggrandizing George Wallace imitation.
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His self-aggrandizing, dreadful treatment of opponents and subordinates, public embrace of homicidal dictators, and rambling speaking style draw a portrait of a leader embarrassing to many Americans.
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Despite Trump's relentless self-aggrandizing and bragging, a whopping 1 million fewer jobs were created during Trump's first 34 months in office compared to Obama's last 2023. Period.
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At any point in this poem, he could have gotten bogged down (or should I say wallowed) some self-serving, self-pitying, self-aggrandizing memory, but he didn't.
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In theory, it's the most unsecretive, self-improving, mind-expanding, barrier breaking, self-aggrandizing, ego-fueling, selfishly, instantly mythologizing, connective, gratifying, easy era any music fan could hope for.
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Many gave the cold shoulder to a kothi one year because her name was the only one mentioned in the event's printed program, which was seen as self-aggrandizing.
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Mr. Trump surrounds himself with self-aggrandizing magazine covers; by contrast, Mr. McConnell's office in Louisville is decorated with political cartoons depicting him as, among other things, a turtle.
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Christie in a subsequent tweet accused Woodward of "being a stenographer for Mr. Bannon's self-aggrandizing revisionist history" and claimed Woodward had not contacted him for a fact check.
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The entire production was, in short, classic Trump — an overhyped, self-aggrandizing display aimed at focusing the spotlight on himself for reasons of both personal gratification and political expedience.
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Sure, he wanted to make a better school for his students on some level, but he mostly seemed into the idea of being in charge for self-aggrandizing reasons.
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Silicon Valley businesses can often seem smug and self-aggrandizing, however they do have a record of producing things that have been culturally and socially transformative on a global scale.
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The documentary is self-aggrandizing in this way, pointing out that it, unlike the news media, has the time and the patience to care about the nuances in this case.
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She feels Penn torpedoed the point of the meeting -- hijacked it -- spending the entire 6 hours on the interview, which she believes was a self-aggrandizing move on his part.
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Once he trains his gaze on an ex-lover, an obscure D.J. or his self-aggrandizing studies of the Middle Passage, he's enthralled by every detail he thinks he sees.
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He won't illuminate his philanthropic activity or the workings of his charity, which, according to David Fahrenthold's terrific reporting in The Washington Post, operates in a bizarrely self-aggrandizing fashion.
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They've connected these interactions to the type of self-aggrandizing viewer who co-creator Dan Harmon condemned after a group anonymously harassed female Rick and Morty writers during season three.
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When it came to other ill-considered presidential directives — a cruel ban on transgender troops and a self-aggrandizing military parade — Mr. Mattis quietly smothered the proposals with Pentagon bureaucracy.
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Even when he was right on the merits of an issue, he was still too aggrandizing, too eager to impose his own judgment, too quick to short-circuit legislative debates.
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Morgan tracks three generations of Kentucky's aristocratic Forge clan, horse breeders whose self-aggrandizing mythology is shadowed at every step by a black Ohioan family descended from their founder's slaves.
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Aquaria danced like a pro, and while her jejune, self-aggrandizing lyrics didn't exactly "unite this beautiful country," I suppose I have to accept that they represented its collective id.
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His opposition seems little more than an attempt to incite partisan rancor and now to ingratiate himself with the Trump administration, with an eye to aggrandizing his own political future.
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These stories nevertheless played into Bloomberg's aggrandizing narrative as a doer and a fixer—the rare disinterested politician who was only trying to do what was best for New York.
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Whereas everyone from Chuck to Frank isn't allowed to recognize how their personal brand of "self-aggrandizing," as Vincent puts its, is absolutely ridiculous, his White Gold character revels in it.
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Her nervous staff and extended community of sycophants, hangers-on and self-professed "confidantes" keep unburdening themselves in the press — while being granted anonymity in exchange for their self-aggrandizing candor.
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" I confess I would actually prefer True Detective's open, unabashed embrace of pulp aesthetic to something like The Night Of, with its self-aggrandizing view of being "actually about the system.
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Case in point: Just this week Twitter finally fell into the trap of the Internet's most self-aggrandizing troll — the self-styled "supervillain" Milo Yiannopoulos — by kicking him off its platform.
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In "Caveat Viator," she gives us a blistering, bone-true indictment of new age man's self-aggrandizing struggles to be at harmony with the natural world — from Northern California to Africa.
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Still, Johnson's self-aggrandizing pronouncements ("no one else was going to hunt them down but me") can be grating, as is his tendency to lapse into pumped-up, cliché-ridden prose.
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Prince Hal, morphing into Henry V, may be a great leader, but he dumps his friends, rewrites his past, and in carnage is a self-aggrandizing commander of the Death Star.
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The Times examined a week of his falsehoods and found a clear pattern: Almost all bolstered a self-aggrandizing narrative that depicted him as a heroic savior for a troubled country.
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"The days of Arizona being a place where people are humiliated or abused or ridiculed for the self-aggrandizing of others are over," said Mr. Woods, a former attorney general for Arizona.
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ERIKA PETERSEN NEW YORK To the Editor: It was refreshing to read Julia Alvarez's comments in By the Book (April 14) because she doesn't have a nightstand towering with self-aggrandizing books.
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" Executive editor Tom Brevoort adds, "Stan's best creation was always Stan … Stan … was somehow able to tap into his own larger-than-life, self-effacing and self-aggrandizing at the same time personality.
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" But Aselage went on to say, "There's also a lot of self-aggrandizing ... a lot of ego that comes out of Mr. Shkreli and some insensitivity with how he deals with other people.
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What had happened to this diminutive scholar from Baghdad, in Iraq's dusty plains and dense alleyways, to leave him capable of such a self-aggrandizing pronouncement and the sickening violence that went with it?
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This is an opinion I have formed through nearly nine years of higher education at R1 research universities, which afforded me ample exposure to the aggrandizing affect and xenophobic tendencies of the Serious Academic.
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It is absurd that Trump's self-aggrandizing nomination is being given incessant attention, while someone whose peaceful and tireless work spanning many years for the advancement of all Saudi women remains locked behind bars.
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In the hands of another artist, the self-aggrandizing drama of the performance would've seemed like an embarrassing homage to a dying genre, but Juiceboxxx made late '70s punk feel like a new discovery.
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His characters — like his put-upon den-mother vampire Viago in What We Do In The Shadows — tend to be hilarious but impotent, and they're endlessly self-aggrandizing, without realizing how foolish they sound.
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Hammering away at the theme that Trump's "temperament" makes him "unfit" for the Oval Office makes a great deal of sense, especially in light of his self-aggrandizing response to the tragedy in Orlando.
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Self-aggrandizing oratory, the mercurial backstabbing of loyalists, callous disregard for anyone else's well-being: The party's bedrock principles would bring a tear to my eye if I had the capacity to feel tenderness.
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Bill AdlerNew York To the Editor: Much of the commentary on Mike Bloomberg's race for the Democratic nomination has treated it as a silly attempt to buy an election by a self-aggrandizing billionaire.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Every once in a while I see a show that makes me feel good, even hopeful about this overheated, self-aggrandizing, status-obsessed art scene in New York.
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Mr. Trump is never mentioned by name, but the narration sketches an undisciplined, uncouth monarch who has been propped up by obscene wealth, a nonstop media circus and a remarkable talent for self-aggrandizing.
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Even the accidentally creepy "More of You" ("I don't look at you, I stare"; "I don't miss you/I crave") fits the pop industry's universal ballad standard, building rather predictably toward an aggrandizing soar.
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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy In almost all his adventures, Nathan's personal stakes feel dwarfed by the grandiosity of the cultural histories he tramples over like a crumbling ledge on his self-aggrandizing reach for legacy.
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It's no secret that Trump horribly mismanaged his businesses and wound up out of cash in the early '90s — he even wrote a self-aggrandizing version of the story called The Art of the Comeback.
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" Paul Begala: Boomers, worst generation ever Sixteen years ago I wrote in Esquire, "The baby boomers are the most self-centered, self-seeking, self-interested, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing generation in American history.
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And since his first outing — on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1993 — Fictional Stephen Hawking has become a recognizable character himself: petty, self-aggrandizing, prone to stealing ideas, and always the funniest person onscreen.
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As far as I know, Hearst, the famous muckraker and publishing baron, who used the power of his massive empire to feather his own various business nests, would never have uttered such self-aggrandizing nonsense.
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Perhaps a similar lack of executive skills was also true of the way he ran his businesses, but, as a privately held organization, they were out of sight and hidden behind his self-aggrandizing puffery.
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And while Ali was as known for the comical insults he dished to opponents as he was for the self-aggrandizing brags he tossed out about himself, he was also a fiercely intelligent and introspective man.
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"Instead of self-victimizing and self-aggrandizing, instead of being spiteful and vindictive, President Trump could have used his nationally televised speech to show some contrition and unite the nation," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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But inevitably, you will have some people who are selfish who want to be self-aggrandizing or will go out to the press and try to make a name for themselves and that&aposs a shame.
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The 2020 election has a motley crew of non-politicians who have expressed interest in running for the presidency, from fugitive/disgraced cybersecurity impresario John McAfee to former Starbucks CEO and self-aggrandizing billionaire Howard Schultz.
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"They're not in the self-aggrandizing business," Mr. Gregorian said in an interview alongside two other committee members, Gareth Evans, a former foreign minister of Australia, and Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian peace activist and Nobel laureate.
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The effect can be dazzling or grating, depending on your taste, or perhaps both at once, in the case of the self-aggrandizing, self-effacing "All That Jazz," starring Roy Scheider as a Fosse-like choreographer.
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We're seeing a woman who refuses to wear either a scarlet letter or a superwoman cape, and she stands in sharp contrast to a self-aggrandizing president who may face serious consequences once this all unspools.
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Like ostriches, they stick their heads in the sand of their self-aggrandizing phrases when it comes to fixing the entitlement programs that shower funds onto the Baby Boom generation and debt onto the coming generations.
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Gail: I do think Lieberman is so self-aggrandizing that if he had to choose between looking like a hero and going easy on the guy who picked him, he would totally go for the hero.
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Drawing contrasts and being specific will go a very long way toward distancing her from the ugly prospect Democrats have of the self-aggrandizing Clintons back in office to feather their nest and favor the few.
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If Mr. Woodward would have performed rudimentary journalistic fact checking with those he was quoting, he would have had a more accurate book rather than just being a stenographer for Mr. Bannon's self-aggrandizing revisionist history.
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Trump himself described the new order at a news conference last Thursday, albeit in typically vague, self-aggrandizing terms: "We are issuing a new executive action next week that will comprehensively protect our country," he said.
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Trump's policy aloofness put him closer to former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a self-aggrandizing media tycoon, than to Chávez or Morales or Long or even someone like Marine Le Pen, the right-wing French populist.
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Like today's preppers, he valued self-sufficiency for reasons that were simultaneously self-aggrandizing and suspicious: he did not believe that he needed anything from other people, and he did not trust other people to provide it.
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Local activists persuade London-based gentleman radical Henry Hunt - a self-aggrandizing fop played by Rory Kinnear - to address the crowd, adding a north-south divide to a story already riven with countless layers of class differences.
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Once built, Fallingwater was rapidly mythologized, its reputation goosed by everyone from Mr. Kaufmann's self-aggrandizing son Edgar Jr. to the Museum of Modern Art, Ayn Rand and press barons like William Randolph Hearst and Henry Luce.
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Widespread rot requires legions of enablers, many of whom are driven by varying blends of personal ambition, ideological expedience and the self-aggrandizing delusion that, through their invaluable counsel, they can save the state from total destruction.
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His remarks echoed an essay the mayor posted online on Friday, sounding a tone that, as he appears to be cruising toward a likely re-election without strong opponents, is remarkably both self-aggrandizing and self-pitying.
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But now, the uproar triggered in the wake of Mueller's Russia investigation raises the question of whether his time-honored methods have left him vulnerable to exploitation in a new political era of hyper-partisanship and self-aggrandizing.
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Some have praised Mr. Comey's forthrightness, but others have criticized his wall-to-wall TV appearances as a self-aggrandizing publicity stunt that has exacerbated the already strained relations between Mr. Trump and the nation's law enforcement agencies.
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Then in 2000, we painted Al Gore as inauthentic and having a penchant for self-aggrandizing exaggerations, and the most memorable element of the presidential debates that year became not George W. Bush's misstatements but Gore's dramatic sighs.
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A quasi-Trumpian worldview was emerging, in which society appeared a mere sum of self-aggrandizing individuals locked in fiercely zero-sum competition with one another, with winners as well as losers racked by fear, distrust and envy.
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Early in "The Terms of My Surrender," Mr. Moore's shaggy and self-aggrandizing Broadway showcase, a photograph blown up as large as the stage of the Belasco Theater depicts the embryonic provocateur taking his place on that board.
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All that Trump likely did was get a competent speechwriter to give him a script -- which he then read near enough word-for-word, apart from that off-the-cuff, self-aggrandizing and frankly weird remark about NATO spending.
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What's more important than any emotionally self-aggrandizing story is how each person who becomes a fan of Brand New has their own tale, their own version of events of how they came to be obsessed with the band.
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Oblivious to the truth of the kingdom that he was romancing, he bought into and promoted the idea of the Saudis as forward-thinking fixers who would make his self-aggrandizing delusion of peace in the Middle East happen.
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From the very first track, "The Ringer" — which opens with a brutal litany of rap disses before seamlessly shifting to the rapper's well-established anti-Trump rage — we get Eminem at his self-aggrandizing, self-deprecating, dizzyingly self-assured best.
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In this case, it simply reminded many Republicans how much different this race would be if a knowledgeable Republican who could effectively articulate the issues were at the top of the ticket instead of a self-aggrandizing demagogue like Trump.
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But if ignorant, self-aggrandizing politicians like Trump shut down or curb the H-1B program, U.S. educational institutions would merely be training these future technicians, engineers and medical professionals so that they can return home and help grow other economies.
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But he's also been a self-aggrandizing egomaniac, an unstoppable publicity hound, he sits in an Ecuadorian embassy hiding from rape charges in Sweden, and there are a number of people who blame him in part for getting Donald Trump elected.
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Trump's basic tactic — and it's really his only tactic — is to viciously attack the perceived legitimacy of any person or institution standing in his way while aggressively stimulating the public's authority-identification gland through charismatic bravado and self-aggrandizing lies.
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Director M. Night Shyamalan has become known to most film buffs as a joke, an enormously promising director who squandered his talent on an endless string of twist endings and self-aggrandizing projects that suggested he had bought his own hype.
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Silicon Valley Despite all evidence to the contrary — the infantilized corporate campuses, the venal and pretentious company "visionaries," the self-aggrandizing talk of changing the world for the better — "Silicon Valley" is secretly a show that loves technology and innovation.
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Could it be because the Post's editors are so flummoxed by the Trump phenomenon they are reduced to promoting even the most crackpot groups and individuals whose self-aggrandizing mission is to undo, or undermine the legitimacy of, Trump's election?
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In addition to self-aggrandizing propaganda, which Deng eschewed, Mr. Xi has pressed a more assertive foreign policy that openly challenges the United States, worked to limit Western influence on Chinese society and sought to shield Chinese companies from foreign competition.
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It seems almost surreal that we're about to swear in the most unqualified person to ever hold the office — misogynistic, bullying, bigoted, narcissistic, self-aggrandizing, and wildly incurious — and that this opportunity to make history has slipped so painfully through our fingers.
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It is, however, a sign of the political profligacy of our time -- one in which a zealous and self-aggrandizing anti-abortion movement is willing to use any means possible and go to any lengths to deny women control over their own bodies.
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But the company has faced considerable criticism for combining secrecy about its ratings with occasional self-aggrandizing claims about how strong those ratings are — for instance, in 2015, when it claimed its series Narcos had a larger viewership than Game of Thrones.
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While not sharing the stylistic look of his early work, though, these paintings do seem to reach back to his younger motivations: they are less judgmental, less aggrandizing, and more exploratory of the authenticity of embarrassment and the painful uncertainty of human life.
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Set during the Mexican Revolution, it concerns a European mercenary known as "The Pole" (Franco Nero) who pragmatically switches sides, breaking with the corrupt government to work for a rebellious, if self-aggrandizing, peon (Tony Musante) and his ultraleft mistress (Giovanna Ralli).
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Looking at the work, it becomes clear that this technique is not the kind of self-aggrandizing we stereotypically associate with warrior culture, but a form of processing; art therapy has gained much traction in recent years as an effective treatment for PTSD.
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But whether you think he is a heroic truth teller or a self-aggrandizing grandstander, and there are arguments for both, what is indisputable is that he is also something else: a 21st-century embodiment of a 20th-century archetype rooted deep in American mythology.
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Rather than stay on message and talk about one of the charities she has visited, she put herself in the spotlight and offered an answer formatted like those we have come to expect from her husband, President Donald Trump: self-aggrandizing and thin-skinned.
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When you hit high levels of speed, there's less opportunity to replicate the more traditional tropes of rock music, the focus on overt displays of musicianship which could be seen as self-aggrandizing, because there just isn't the room to do that within the sound.
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In truth, it made him look a bit like if he unbuttoned his shirt you'd find a swastika tattooed over his heart—like the guy in that horrible nineties movie who was purportedly critical of the dangers of extremism but ended up aggrandizing white supremacists.
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A room dedicated to similarly self-aggrandizing portraits commissioned by court personalities vying for power shows a predilection for playing dress up: Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin, is depicted as Diana, while the Duchess of Cleveland and son are seen as the Virgin and Child.
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Although his voice was eventually silenced by his battle with Parkinson's disease, Ali was as known for the comical insults he dished to opponents as he was for the self-aggrandizing brags he tossed out about himself, he was also a fiercely intelligent and introspective man.
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At the last minute, the show tries to reverse itself by leading Rory to the idea of writing a memoir about her relationship with her mother… which is also a terrible, self-aggrandizing idea for a jobless person who is seemingly living off of a trust fund.
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Zolloc, Anne Horel, Scorpion Dagger, and more have scanned me or ripped my visage from Facebook to make a Beckett Mufson-themed Six-Pack that is as awkward for me—normally occupying the role of a faceless internet writer—as it is aggrandizing of my ego.
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What followed would make a comprehensive opening chapter whenever a historian comes to write the story of soccer's cash-soaked golden age, when it became the plaything of nation states and media giants, dominated by the whims of self-aggrandizing executives and content-hungry broadcast networks.
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Faced with the impossibility of depicting financial transactions, Woods and Galimberti fell back on four types of photos: clichéd metaphors; aggrandizing portraits; architectural documents; and poignant, prosaic photos of tax havens' coercive consequences on people — the inequality and exploitation rendered on the backs of the poor.
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The pattern is eerie: it starts with a crude genealogy of the shooter's ethnic roots, then a self-aggrandizing Q. and A. with himself, followed by a litany of toxic in-jokes meant to confuse the media and those less savvy in far-right online culture.
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Mr. Berman, his friends and colleagues said, is a serious — but not too serious — man with a canny legal mind and a wry sense of humor, a lawyer who is eminently qualified, but not quite as intense, intellectual or self-aggrandizing as some of his former colleagues.
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In the earlier part of her memoir, her tight focus on her own story at the expense of anyone else's can come off as self-indulgent, even self-aggrandizing, but it is part of her considerable art that by the end, it feels like a winning frankness.
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Even if /pol/ is able to agree on some sort of game plan, Molyneux's hypothesis that the site could "take down ISIS" in less than seven days is patently ridiculous—a self-aggrandizing ploy to further solidify Islamophobia on the corners of the internet his fan club occupies.
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Instead, it is because his self-aggrandizing exaggeration raises real concern about how creative he will be when reporting numbers that really matter, such as American military casualties, ISIS fighters killed, jobs created or lost, or any of the countless other statistics that are important to American citizens.
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To be clear, Linton is not an elected official, and how she spends her money is her own business, whether it's on Birkin bags and Valentino heels or perhaps copies of her own bizarrely self-aggrandizing book, which peddles racist clichés about Africa and has been thoroughly discredited.
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Kaepernick's ostentatious and self-aggrandizing stunt underscores how we're now divided into a nation of Talkers — those who claim to see a problem and seek to launch an endless "conversation" about it — and a nation of Doers — those who see a problem and take action to address it.
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Within our own real-world context, Bran's ascension to rulership feels like a myopic, self-aggrandizing celebration of curatorial fandom, or the specific way in which many fans worship canon — in this case, Game of Thrones' source material, the Song of Ice and Fire book series by George R.R. Martin.
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But by now, he should be well aware that just about any of the soulless mongrels who have fetched for Trump would turn on any of the others in a second -- the volume of backstabbing and self-aggrandizing leaking coming out of the Trump White House is evidence of that.
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The Red Parts is skeptical of every trope of that genre, from the "cinematic, self-aggrandizing images ... of discovering some crucial piece of evidence that the 'professionals' had overlooked" to its unwillingness, except in rare cases, to reckon with much more than the most superficial questions about violence and human depravity.
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Band of Misfits, he voiced an inept, self-aggrandizing swashbuckler; in Guy Ritchie's swingin' 203s spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E. from 2015, he played a stuffy MI6 honcho; and in last year's biopic-cum-farce Florence Foster Jenkins, Grant was the adoring, hammy husband to Meryl Streep's warbling socialite.
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"His brand of self-aggrandizing, bewigged machismo was kind of de rigeur in the 80's and charmingly old-timey in the 90's, but now it's just passé and exhausting and increasingly offensive," Richard Lawson wrote in a post headlined "Donald Trump: A Sexist Dinosaur" for Gawker in 2008.
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Instead, he stands back, using McGraw-Hill language but pairing it with vicious, cool timing and framing to expose the history of the highest court of the United States as one smeared with banal, capitalist corruption and what amounts to petty, unforced treason on the part of self-interested, self-aggrandizing men.
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In this context, to suffer, she believes, would be melodramatic and self-aggrandizing, not to mention rendering her a person empathetically stunted when you consider real suffering like starving to death or stage four colon cancer or a baby rhesus monkey given a wire coat hanger to cling to instead of a mother.
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There are the eccentric characters who visit the "Weekend Update" desk (like the self-aggrandizing basketball patriarch LaVar Ball and an eerily upbeat neighbor named Willie) or the characters who hold together ensemble pieces (like the host of the fictional game show "Black Jeopardy!" and Steve Harvey, the M.C. of "Celebrity Family Feud").
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This overhead shot and others suggest that there's a divine aspect to the priests' mission, an idea that Mr. Scorsese visually and narratively underlines in the Lazarus-like cave in which Rodrigues and Garupe first take shelter in Japan; in Rodrigues's self-aggrandizing identification with Jesus; and, crucially, through the figure of Judas.
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And just as the mighty giant, Goliath, fell, despite his size and power and brazen self-confidence, Silicon Valley has arguably passed the point of no return, and may soon be taken down despite its own self-aggrandizing over-confidence and swagger, by one of the smooth, innocent-looking stones from a foreign stream.
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So we have the space to keep our bearings — which includes remembering that hot political rhetoric is a normal part of high-stakes debate, that lies are wicked but insults are very small-d democratic, that comparing self-aggrandizing presidents to Caesars is as American as apple pie, and that martial metaphors are not incitement.
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It would be a more powerful statement if those who oppose him attended but sat on their hands, unmoved by what will no doubt be a self-aggrandizing speech, filled with distortions, or, better still, if they didn't show up at all and the world got to see him address a half-empty hall.
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Record label head honchos, over-friendly music PRs, slick-talking A&R representatives, meandering journalists, colossal brands, and other industry entities flock to the seaside for the most important weekend on their working calendar: the Great Escape Festival—which is kind of like SXSW, but with bags of chips and pebbles instead of overbearing accents and self-aggrandizing tacos.
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And frankly, it couldn't be more radically different than what I see certainly in this White House, where there's a lot of chest-thumping and self-aggrandizing, not to mention abusive behavior, but also a political agenda that seems to always be revolving around the idea that somehow it's too easy for poor people in this country.
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"Frankly, it couldn't be more radically different than what I see certainly in this White House, where there is a lot of chest-thumping and self-aggrandizing, not to mention abusive behavior, but also political agenda that seems to always be revolving around that idea that somehow it's too easy for poor people in this country," he said.
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I think that Daniel Hoffman was right, too, when he observed that the kind of comments that he has made publicly about President Trump aren&apost just something that harm the White House, but harm all of the good people within the CIA who are trying to do their jobs as this man is self-aggrandizing.
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Trying not to sound too egocentric or self-aggrandizing about it at the end of the day if you are putting together two companies that big and I also thought if you did that you could get not just synergies which you heard us talk about Jim Cramer: Which you were talking about some very big numbers.
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"Frankly, it couldn't be more radically different than what I see certainly in this White House, where there is a lot of chest-thumping and self-aggrandizing, not to mention abusive behavior, but also a political agenda that seems to always be revolving around the idea that somehow it's too easy for poor people in this country," Buttigieg said.
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Tom Price, his ousted health and human services secretary, was shady from the get-go, but still: Would he have acted quite so high-flying and mighty — all those regal seats on all those pricey charters — but for Trump, whose entire rule smacks of economically self-aggrandizing brand promotion and whose family is busting the Secret Service budget?
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He is the one guilty of "wordsmithing," torturing the language past the breaking point in a transparent attempt to push his own fear-mongering, self-aggrandizing, false narrative placing himself as the head of a righteous force protecting the vulnerable purity of Real Americans from the forces of evil, while conveniently positioning himself for the next step in his political career.
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The two shared the stage for the first time as a joint ticket, as the presumptive Republican nominee weaved in and out of his usual self-aggrandizing campaign stump speech — plus a bizarrely long and confusing anecdote about evangelical voters and a 1954 tax code that prevents tax-exempt organizations from endorsing political candidates — to tout Pence's record in Indiana.
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The event featured centerpieces made up of bright purple jacaranda flowers emerging from the top of a vase shaped like a stark high wall, all wrapped in twigs made to look like barbed wire; yes, this is the great big wall that looms over those on the border reimagined as a centerpiece for a book aggrandizing a culture vulture of the worst degree.
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Selling tickets to an event loosely inspired by a meme suggested a shift from the ironic and self-effacing to the self-aggrandizing and profiteering — Alienstock was to be a weekend-long experience in the middle of nowhere, with parking and camping spaces costing between $60 and $140, all in order to see unnamed EDM acts and ... get stoked about aliens?
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Until recently, almost all of Russia's ''patriotic'' movies were bottom-up attempts to curry political favor (Yuri Grymov's ''Strangers,'' a 22014 anti-American screed, was financed by a second-tier political party), self-aggrandizing ego trips (like 1998's ''The Barber of Siberia,'' Nikita Mikhalkov's Oscar bid and an oblique exploration of his putative presidential ambitions) or simply ways to painlessly embezzle federal funds.
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No doubt he was, in his usual incoherent, self-aggrandizing way, merely drawing attention to parallels between his surprise campaign and Britain's populist-fueled decision to leave the European Union: In both cases, so the received wisdom goes, simmering resentment among a forgotten, disparaged section of the public was stirred up by canny populists and visited defeat and humiliation on the complacent, smug political establishment.
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In 2007's "Terror's Advocate," about the slick, serpentine, self-aggrandizing lawyer Jacques Vergès (whose client roster included Klaus Barbie, Carlos the Jackal and perhaps even Pol Pot) and in this picture, "The Venerable W.," about Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk in Myanmar fomenting racial hatred and violence against that country's Muslim population, Schroeder lets the men sitting for these portraits have their own heads, so to speak.
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Cohen still believes, as he wrote in 2014, that Snowden is "a character so decent that John le Carré or Frederick Forsyth would have blushed before conceiving him," but most Americans still seem eager to see Snowden as either a Pollyanna or a cynical grifter; bookstores and news sites have scads of hot takes alleging he's a Russian plant, a Chinese spy, a self-aggrandizing anarcho-libertarian crackpot, or just a bread-and-butter traitor.
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So there is something striking about black culture's taking on "savage" as a concept, sapping its dehumanizing intent and allowing enough elasticity to include adventurous joshing and self-aggrandizing threat — from two black men starring in a very popular "Jumanji" reboot whose subtitle is "Welcome to the Jungle" to the romance series "Addicted to Savage: A Hood Love Story," to the 25-year-old Atlanta rapper Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, who makes grim, chart-topping music as 21 Savage.
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Still, for months, Mr. Pruitt held on to his job as the embarrassing revelations piled up like so many used mattresses: his profligate spending on posh travel, over-the-top security, and ridiculous, self-aggrandizing office supplies; his directing agency staffers to run his personal errands, including finding him a place to live in Washington and combing hotels for his favorite skin cream; his attempts to score his wife a high-paying job, possibly involving chicken nuggets and waffle fries.
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President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE visited an island completely devastated by the fury of Hurricane Maria and in full Trump fashion, used the opportunity as a self-aggrandizing political photo op to pat himself on the back for the "great work" he and his administration have done in Puerto Rico.
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Though the pathways were ice-crusted or snowed under when I visited last month, I watched tourists of all shapes and sizes hobble and skitter over them toward the tree for photographs: the Italian dude with the soul patch posing with double thumbs up; the overweight couple huffing, "You make it to the tree?" to a few young women returning to their car; the young man looking up at the tree, eyes closed and still, face in the sun — a tranquil image of cosmic, momentary oneness were it not for his self-aggrandizing sweatshirt, which read, I AM NOT A GOD BUT SOMETHING SIMILAR.
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