self-glorification
Example Sentences
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He’s a narcissist, a peacock, dressed to the nines in sharp suits and expensive shoes, reveling in the finer things in life with his self-glorification at the core of his preaching.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022
“The guy just works tirelessly. Never for self-glorification but for the team.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2022
Mr. Sheinin says that’s bringing joy back to baseball, and his analysis was a celebration of our trash culture of egoism, vanity and self-glorification.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2020
Otherwise, is it really so unendurable if celebrities use their global platform for something other than self-glorification?
From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2020
Covering more than twenty-five miles of temples, Angkor Wat was built by powerful Khmer kings as monuments of self-glorification in the ninth century and completed three hundred years later.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
