self-aggrandizement

"In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit-making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God."

' Remember your appointment is not a license to self-aggrandizement, not self-enrichment or any personal gain for that matter.

Endearing and excellent, the show tackles a variety of different issues that surround race relations in the US and further-afield, from outright hatred and altright groups through to the fine line between using white privilege to dismantle white supremacy and the self-aggrandizement of the white savior complex.

After all, what would politics be without its many delusions of grandeur and self-aggrandizement amongst its most seasoned practitioners such as Mr Modi.

EDITORIAL - Epals keep out !-- -- (The Philippine Star) - April 23, 2019 - 12:00am It must be a Pavlovian reaction: a politician sees a worthy government program in which he has invested nothing by way of time, effort and money except through his taxes, and he begins salivating at the opportunity for free self-aggrandizement. The so-called epal urge tends to be strongest during election campaigns.

"We are on the cusp of a new world that will be the envy of history because it will be a reversal of the usual history of national self-aggrandizement resulting only in international confrontation which characterized the Great Powers of the past--producing little of lasting value at so much greater regrettable cost," he noted.

The PTI prides itself on being a new type of party devoted to the public welfare rather than self-aggrandizement. One expects its legislators to act as role models of austere living to encourage the man in the street to bear the heavy burden.

He's not given to self-aggrandizement. If anything, he's that rare politician who speaks quietly, calmly, modestly -- less about himself and more about the people and the community he serves.

LAHORE -- Provincial Minister for Information and Culture Fayaz-ul-Hasan Chohan Friday said the Punjab Saaf Pani Company was a litany of political nepotism and self-aggrandizement by former chief minister Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif.

It is not a call for self-fulfillment or self-aggrandizement. The Kingdom of God is not about privileged membership.

Self-aggrandizement can promote belief in a candidate's superior qualifications or abilities, in contrast to one who humbly underplays personal achievements.