self-exaltation
Example Sentences
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Joyce was an enemy of the Irish Literary Revival, which he excoriated as pretentious self-absorption and self-exaltation in the name of the authentic.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2022
Most major West German newspapers backed K�ng, though the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung accused him of "self-exaltation and contempt for others."
From Time Magazine Archive
The self-exaltation of virtue was now taken out of him, washed away by his double repentance, and he was now again a child.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
Without pretension or self-exaltation, craving no man’s praise and envying no man’s distinction, he endeavors in an unwavering and high-spirited manner to disclose in his sermons the great verities, the substantial realities, of life.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
It was these conflicting feelings of distrust and self-exaltation that had induced the king to refrain from mentioning Irma's letter, and at last to speak of it in the way he had.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
