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self-important

How to use self-important in a sentence

But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

That the inconstancy of such notices, in cases equally important, proves they did not proceed from any such agent.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?

An estimation of the solids, therefore, furnishes an important clue to the functional efficiency of the kidneys.

Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.

Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.

These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985