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"aggrandizement" Definitions
  1. an increase in the power or importance of a person or country

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Moore still suffers from bouts of self-aggrandizement and snide generalization.
They were not merely material objects or objects for self-aggrandizement.
And Trump's copious tweeting is about self-aggrandizement and instant gratification.
Like most things he says, it's a tool of self-aggrandizement.
But these days, his self-aggrandizement and personal mythmaking border on megalomania.
Trump's moves are aimed at self-aggrandizement and self-profiteering as well.
Male self-aggrandizement is baked into the story's foundation but not ruinously.
But, as usual, in Trump's desperate need for self-aggrandizement, he oversold.
So we can expect lots of self-aggrandizement once he's in office.
Yet a kind of self-aggrandizement just as often rules the page.
It's about the acquisition and execution of power for his own aggrandizement.
But Peter's self-aggrandizement also leads him to sabotage Alicia's own political future.
He was atrocious at bragging in a year when self-aggrandizement was king.
But Reagan also knew this personal chemistry should not turn into personal aggrandizement.
Of course, incompetence, self-aggrandizement, and xenophobia are some of Trump's key traits.
Emma is serenely joyous in her self-aggrandizement, and that makes her a delight.
Nobody in this chain of self-aggrandizement and back-patting really believes it's legitimate.
And several Republicans, including some allies of the Kochs, accused them of self-aggrandizement.
We need leaders motivated by a love of justice and not merely self-aggrandizement.
In fact there were news stories that mocked the self-aggrandizement of his announcement.
It is almost painful to watch the degree to which he pursues self-aggrandizement.
He pivots and deflects with abandon, often resorting to some form of self-aggrandizement.
JW: Self-aggrandizement is so much nihilism — critical, self-lacerating feelings of total impotence.
I believe that the only thing you care about is self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment.
Unfortunately, West's past few months have been caked with misogyny, implicit homophobia, and self-aggrandizement.
Those changes are, in fact, narrowly tailored to restrict the aggrandizement of the regime's military.
I believe that the only thing you care about is self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment.
His 76-minute speech was the usual brew of aggrandizement, aggrievement and demonization of political foes.
Just enough truth mixed with self-aggrandizement to appeal to a man in his early 20s.
Better yet, his record of bipartisanship is not a matter of delusion or of groundless aggrandizement.
He is a would-be King Ubu for whom self-aggrandizement never self-aggrandizes quite enough.
The National Football League, which has institutionalized righteous self-aggrandizement, had a bright idea on Wednesday.
I think that makes clear that this is not something he bought for his personal aggrandizement.
Just another bit of clever self-promotion and self-aggrandizement from MMA's undisputed champion of both.
Still, Trump is likely to revert back to the self-aggrandizement because it is who he is.
Most elite charitable giving is terrible, more a vehicle for wealthy donors' self-aggrandizement than actual change.
Apple was never known for its extreme humility, but presenters usually stop short of blatant self-aggrandizement.
As long as the base is with him, the Trump pattern of self-aggrandizement will likely continue.
Throughout the back-and-forth, Trump alternates between an unusually conciliatory tone and his familiar self-aggrandizement.
But the truth about Steve - the internecine leaking & self-aggrandizement - is now plain for all to see.
Mr. Chaudhry left a mixed legacy, though, unable to make lasting reforms and accused of self-aggrandizement.
Nurtured by a delinquent government and rabidly poisonous press, uncritical self-aggrandizement has been given free rein.
Most don't think his visit yielded anything other than a photo opportunity for Trump's own political aggrandizement.
Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.
The piece is an interesting combination of defiance, self-aggrandizement, anti-establishment sentiment, good intentions, and, well, eloquence.
The video genre does not lean on political statements or self-aggrandizement, the common sources of internet ire.
But Mr. Trump's goals have more to do with Twitter feuds and personal aggrandizement than any particular policies.
Red flag #7: If your founders focus on name dropping and self-aggrandizement, they're probably compensating for something lacking.
Trump's ideology is a mess; he's clearly unwilling to care about anything beyond self-aggrandizement and making a buck.
He demeans himself and damages his legacy with personal attacks, hyperbolic tweets, demonization of the press and self-aggrandizement.
"These provisions are impermissible forms of congressional aggrandizement with respect to the execution of the laws," Trump's statement reads.
The narrative homes in on the hollowness of imperial ambitions as Iskandar blazes a frenzied path of self-aggrandizement.
Republican senators must be seen defending conservative policy priorities, but can't afford to defend personal enrichment and self-aggrandizement.
But much of the media posturing against Trump appears to be more about self-aggrandizement than hard-hitting reporting.
But as more women have entered the political realm, they have created more space for authenticity over self-aggrandizement.
That's not a case of IMU engaging in territorial aggrandizement, I don't think; at least I haven't seen that yet.
Strip clubs are built around flattering the male ego, and the customer's own aggrandizement was often part of the package.
While Trump once used the briefings to announce new policies, recently they have featured more misinformation and aggrandizement than news.
But the court's self-aggrandizement in recent decades is more insidious and destructive of American values in the long term.
Unhindered by public opinion, laws and opposition political parties, Russia's autocrats have historically derived strength from territorial expansion and geopolitical aggrandizement.
"I think there's usually two ways of understanding what motivates what he does: Either self-preservation or self-aggrandizement," O'Brien said.
After all, humans are prone to making decisions based on ego, anger, and the need for self-aggrandizement, not the common good.
The self-aggrandizement, the populist tone, the erroneous capitalizations—they are familiar tics, which appeal to his base and no one else.
Nearly all presidential actions are motivated by mixed intentions, ranging from self-aggrandizement to political benefit to partisan advantage and to patriotism.
From fake magazine covers to fake compliments from the Boy Scouts, Trump has boundless creativity when it comes to trivial self-aggrandizement.
We have all witnessed President Trump's continued political and social ineptitude, self-aggrandizement and trampling of the work done by Mr. Obama.
But she is also an artist who can tell her own story sincerely and succinctly, with neither self-aggrandizement nor false humility.
He wanted nothing to do with the self-aggrandizement of men like Farage and Johnson, whom he viewed with barely concealed disdain.
And like many of Ms. Zepeda-Wilkins's dishes, it is neither an unrecognizable aggrandizement nor a straightforward replica of established regional fare.
"Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies," the paper's editorial board wrote.
Afterwards, Madsen has a brief and not particularly deep chat with a longtime staffer about his "demons," paranoia, and need for self-aggrandizement.
And there's another kind that isn't really good at much of anything at all but self-promotion, self-aggrandizement, and manipulating other people.
" That was a high point in the speech, a warmed-over broth of poll numbers, self-aggrandizement and grievance over his "bad press.
It has also been critical of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore when he raises concerns over China's South China Sea aggrandizement.
Though Putin will likely have only raised the stakes for bombast and self-aggrandizement at home, the message, nonetheless, is chilling for everyone.
Lincoln rarely looked into a physical mirror; Trump is obsessed with self-image, with clothes, style, hair, complexion, with his own self-aggrandizement.
Unlike almost all of those around Trump, she has no political agenda, either in terms of pushing a particular ideology or for self-aggrandizement.
As well as self-aggrandizement, Trump uses the presidency to indulge his prejudices and litigate his personal feuds, hence his incessant attacks on Obama.
We have become a country that divides power — not for the sake of protecting our liberty, but for the sake of personal self-aggrandizement.
The school's ethos discourages self-aggrandizement or drawing attention to oneself, and Ryan remains one of the most low-key superstars in the league.
No amount of purging the references to the Attitude Era's treatment of women and no amount of Stephanie McMahon's self-aggrandizement will alter that.
Frum thinks the combination of Trump's drive for self-aggrandizement and America's current weaknesses is nothing less than a threat to the democratic order.
Hitler was more interested in self-aggrandizement than policy — he could be the showman leader and stage his rallies; they would write the legislation.
Our first president was far from perfect, but he devoted himself to the public interest and he rejected all forms of personal aggrandizement in office.
While no less visually impressive and sensually rich, they reference the spirituality of creation and the flow of life without recourse to mythologizing self-aggrandizement.
However it is important to recognize that these disparate strands of conservatism, negation of the West and self-aggrandizement fail to form a coherent whole.
At best, moralism is an earnest expression of personal values; at worst, it is an exercise in self-aggrandizement that lends itself to righteous bullying.
It makes sense, but then I'm reminded of Donald Trump, a man who isn't really an ideologue but a demagogue interested only in self-aggrandizement.
Pruitt was a mess all right, but he was also a mirror, reflecting a boss for whom governing is an act of epic self-aggrandizement.
He'd grown up in a world where politics was a means to serve the public good, not a vehicle for self-aggrandizement or self-enrichment.
"Our members serve asylum seekers without going through this process of self-aggrandizement," said Robert Pang, a vice chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association.
We also need to acknowledge President Trump's willful ignorance of world affairs, and his equally willful self-aggrandizement in the context of addressing the public.
Critics are scathing of that idea — they see recklessness and self-aggrandizement where Trump loyalists see guts — but it clearly has an appeal to some.
Giuliani, an opera buff, has made his time on the public stage an endless aria of political pettiness, braying self-aggrandizement and ethical and personal turmoil.
The institutions that currently characterize and control decision-making have been too compromised to provide leadership and direction that go beyond greed, self-aggrandizement and power.
"In typical wise-ass fashion, we wrote 'Overblown,' taking the piss out of the glorification and aggrandizement of the scene," Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm told Yarm.
The corporations that produce movies like this one, and the ambitious hacks who sign up to make them, have no evident motive beyond their own aggrandizement.
It lacked the self-aggrandizement implicit in calling out an unsolvable political and cultural divide that's self-evident to everyone living on either side of it.
What we do know is that his boastfulness and belligerence and tendency to self-aggrandizement are not only costing America worldwide support, but also isolating it.
"It wasn't about self-aggrandizement for him — it was about helping people," said City Councilman Barry Grodenchik, a friend who worked with Mr. Simanowitz in Mrs.
Or it may be that his natural inclination toward self-aggrandizement causes him to believe there is no storm in the forecast that he cannot master.
"Despite the aggrandizement of the executive branch at Congress's expense, though, there are still 'built-in barriers to presidents' delivering on their promises,'" Mr. Hertzberg continued.
But we are so used to the idea of ownership, borders and territorial aggrandizement that we can understand the Kurdish enterprise only as a land grab.
Political quietism involves stepping back from the activities of the world to focus on religious truth, and it condemns self-aggrandizement and the naked reach for power.
Former CIA Dir Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Trump's despicable display of self-aggrandizement...(1/2) ...in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of Agency heroes.
" They were cheered on by local officials who claimed, as one put it, that Jews "exploited the Christians in a hundred unscrupulous ways, to their own aggrandizement.
Through him, we're given a rare close-up inspection of the jumbled mess of self-aggrandizement and self-loathing that seems to drive so many public menaces.
He is a victim of his own self-aggrandizement; there does not appear to be anyone within his campaign who can respectfully challenge his opinions or positions.
But for you to use the murder and holocaust of slavery for your own self aggrandizement is at the core of your vile appeasement of white supremacists.
But Marshall also had a sense of proportion and humility, and an aversion to self-aggrandizement and self-promotion that set him apart from contemporaries like Douglas MacArthur.
"Sugar in Our Wounds" is part of a trilogy, called with gentle self-aggrandizement "The Love* Plays," exploring the neglected history of same-sex relationships among African-Americans.
More than 14,000 thousand people jammed Joel Osteen's megachurch when West confessed to his previous lifestyle of arrogance and self-aggrandizement and acknowledged his bouts with mental illness.
"The corporations that produce movies like this one, and the ambitious hacks who sign up to make them, have no evident motive beyond their own aggrandizement," he wrote.
And that is that it's impossible to keep him focussed on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes, and even then . . .
Whatever role editing and self-aggrandizement played in her depiction, she leaned into — and played up — that villainous persona when she returned to the program a few years later.
But he has also been accused of self-aggrandizement and being out of touch - he auctioned a controversial tailored suit in 2015 that bore his name in gold pinstripes.
Art and intoxicants have always had a blurry relationship, yet writers seem to possess a lock on the most extreme and irksome form of self-aggrandizement on the subject.
From his detractors' perspective, unlike both his immediate Republican predecessors and other disjunctive presidents, Trump is dangerously clueless, disrespectful of American institutions, uninterested in a legacy beyond personal aggrandizement.
"The other way to inoculate yourself from that" — the charge of self-aggrandizement — "is to have a really good argument for why you're doing this book," Latimer told Snodgrass.
In his 91 years, Wright, who suffered a raft of personal tragedies, concocted an intoxicating elixir of a persona, mixing rank self-aggrandizement with no-way-but-forward tenacity.
By contrast, Mr. Trump is the consummate opportunist whose self-aggrandizement outruns any interest in how our most successful presidents have used the office to advance the national well-being.
As he prepares to appear on Capitol Hill, it is instructive to note that Mueller rarely veers off script for any personal commentary, nor does he engage in self aggrandizement.
In the past, Mr. McCombs has been uncomfortable and unforthcoming in interviews — he doesn't like self-aggrandizement — or has preferred they be conducted in unusual ways, such as by mail.
But what is most striking about Thiel is how it's only recently that he has pushed himself out there, having avoided the self-aggrandizement requirement of most citizens of tech.
To the Editor: True spirituality is practiced individually, internally and quietly, not as part of an organized mob, segregated by exclusion, negativity, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, chauvinism, self-aggrandizement or greed.
The fundamental challenge is a publishing service that's essentially based on self-promotion, self-aggrandizement and self-importance at some point is going to run into the wall of indifference.
But the problem seems closer to the statist aggrandizement that comes when state government becomes the definer and enforcer of morality and not the servant of what normal citizens believe.
It is saying something that in highly physical interpretations, Ms. Kerr and Mr. Farmer are willing to go as far as their demented characters demand in self-aggrandizement and self-abasement.
Paul's decision to post the video in the first place casts a harsh light on the showy, often deliberately invasive, self-aggrandizement that has come to define prank culture on YouTube.
Referring to a friendly leaker as a spy, as if Axios Presented By Bank of America is cobbled together by the Master of Whispers, is a perfect Allen-esque self-aggrandizement.
The interview went roughly as anyone might expect in the sense that there's no point in expecting anything but non-sequiturs, Facebook-brained untruths, and self-aggrandizement from Kanye West anymore.
He could be entirely innocent of soliciting or welcoming Russian help and he'd still be a proudly offensive, gleefully divisive, woefully unprepared plutocrat with no moral compass beyond his own aggrandizement.
He claims to be a combination of weakness and strength like anyone else, reflecting on his inability to euthanize his suffering wife, but his self-aggrandizement makes his true feelings clear.
" And when Trump stood in front of a wall honoring fallen CIA officers to (falsely) tout the size of his election win, Brennan labeled it a "despicable display of self-aggrandizement.
And given how poorly the world is currently being run by the oversized masculine egos who prefer self-aggrandizement over serving their people, why are we still so afraid to find out?
There is a canny nobility given this work by the surroundings that bypasses Cattelan's usual overtones of heroic self-mockery and simultaneous self-aggrandizement, which can be hectoring to say the least.
" Perhaps the book's most prescient passage: "At this point in our history the best qualification for high office may well be a refusal to cooperate with the media's program of self-aggrandizement.
At its worst, it is a charade in which civic bonds erode, power accrues to the few, self-aggrandizement becomes the norm, and tolerance and restraint are consumed by the howling mob.
He doesn't get to be part of every story, even as he barges into our every waking moment with new acts of cruelty or rule-flouting or self-aggrandizement or jaw-dropping ignorance.
If Trump is, as they fear, the antithesis of all she holds vital in power -- the careful execution of duty -- then his mission to meet her can only be one of self-aggrandizement.
The aggrandizement of this statement sets the tone for the rest of the game, with its ham-fisted dialogue, questionable optics, and juvenile desperation to be taken as Serious Art About Social Commentary.
But in a press conference during that visit, Trump did little to help Americans understand the government's response to the virus, instead spreading misinformation while using the public health crisis for self-aggrandizement.
He wrote of the arrogance and self-aggrandizement of the colonizers, yet exposed the self-deception and ethical ambiguities of the liberation movements that swept across Africa and the Caribbean in their wake.
But just as the ear can adjust to the electronic noise — accepting it as the soundscape of an urban jungle or simply tuning it out — so can the mind accommodate or ignore the aggrandizement.
His larger point is that many men's need for self-aggrandizement, for confirmation about our prowess — what he called the "narcissism of male desire" — shows just how fragile the construct of manhood can be.
Even so, President Trump's recent aggrandizement of the executive branch may have the ironic and salutary effect of shrinking the power of the presidency by awakening the countervailing power of a long-dormant Congress.
Where Harrison Ford was all arrogance and smirking self-aggrandizement in the original trilogy, softening only when he thought nobody else might be looking, Ehrenreich's Han is more sly and more unsure of himself.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, who accused a Muslim lawmaker this week of diminishing 9/11, is wielding a hallowed date that he, himself, has been accused of wrapping in mistruths, self-aggrandizement and Islamophobia.
Joe McCarthy, an ambitious and unscrupulous politician, fanned these flames of fear and paranoia with conspiratorial insinuations, inflammatory language and brazen lies directed at national figures and institutions to advance his agenda of personal aggrandizement.
Above all, each operates within a framework of globalism and with an absence of self-interest or self-aggrandizement that, at least for the moment, seems to run utterly counter to everything that Trump holds dear.
Mr. Trump's salvo of tweets on Thursday as the island struggled with devastation — suggesting people were ingrates responsible for much of their suffering — set a new low, even meaner than his usual harangues and self-aggrandizement.
Trump's total lack of understanding of how past presidents have prioritized the collective good of the country over their own personal aggrandizement or self -promotion represents one of the most consequential breaks with history embodied in Trump.
Lizzo's real-time virtuosity and full-time exuberance are welcome correctives, along with her willingness to reclaim funk, soul and gospel, to fill her recordings with live-sounding instruments and to balance self-aggrandizement with campy amusement.
Trump will be "the most pro-Israeli president ever" Trump's penchant for hyperbole, exaggeration and self-aggrandizement mixes seamlessly with his foreign policy approach to Israel, and he seems intent on distinguishing himself from all his predecessors.
"Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump's despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of Agency heroes," Nick Shapiro, a former aide to John Brennan at CIA, told NBC.
The Las Vegas shooting reminds us we need to move in the other direction -- maintaining proper controls on silencers and preserving rules to protect our wildlife from people who would exploit them for personal gain or self-aggrandizement.
In this new sober time, Jacobs's career, with all its emphasis on joyful self-aggrandizement, feels a little like a cautionary tale of exuberance shading into shrinking profits, shop closures and a melancholy, if amicable, divorce from Duffy.
The book focuses on Hoffa's hit, but it also includes information on the highly publicized murders of "Crazy Joe" and President John F. Kennedy, with Sheeran's tale "admirably free of self-pity and self-aggrandizement," said our reviewer.
Various studies have found that psychopaths lack empathy and have a need for self-aggrandizement by gaining power over other people, while others suggest that in their need for stimulation some psychopaths have a capacity for risky behavior.
First, least important, and most Trumpishly, the interview makes it seem as if the campaign is less about liberating baseball from the conservative code of behavior it evolved over generations and more about the aggrandizement of Harper himself.
Furthermore, despite my contempt for Trump's constant lies and self-aggrandizement, I understand why people who have felt trampled on by "the system" for many years had trouble making meaningful distinctions between the respective vices of these two candidates.
For conservative Christians who are (rightfully) concerned about the appointment of several new Supreme Court justices, Trump's lack of integrity (except to his own aggrandizement) means we have no reason to believe he will follow through with his promises.
It's "impossible to keep him focused on any topic aside from his own self-aggrandizement for more than a few minutes.... Lying is second nature to him ... he has a complete lack of conscience about it," Schwartz told Meyer.
In this sense, his instinct for self-preservation is conflicting with his instinct for self-aggrandizement—Trump can't help but shout at Lester Holt that this is all because the Democrats can't handle what a big winner he is.
The sly question teased in "Unbreakable," the mystery that sets it apart from run-of-the-mill grandiose superhero fables, is whether Dunn is the real deal or if Glass merely wants a foil worthy of his self-aggrandizement.
We're dealing with a man in Trump who doesn't accept a fact-based reality, who only acts for his own self-aggrandizement, and who views any action that does not serve him as a threat that must be destroyed.
The former CIA director, John Brennan, thinks Trump "should be ashamed of himself" for the "display of self-aggrandizement" at his speech in front of the CIA on Saturday, according to former deputy CIA chief of staff Nick Shapiro.
This view is shared by ruling members of the monarchy, economic elites and the population at large, who see bin Salman as someone who has disturbed the status quo for the sake of massive personal enrichment and political aggrandizement.
"To me, [Moore's tenure at the Alabama Supreme Court] doesn't indicate good Christian philosophy; it seems to be self-aggrandizement," says Michael Bullington, 23, a member of the Greater Birmingham Young Republicans, a group that publicly withdrew support from Moore.
"Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump's despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of Agency heroes," Nick Shapiro, a former aide to John Brennan at CIA, told NBC News' Andrea Mitchell.
Apparently, after driving through Hollywood and seeing a DJ on every billboard, the Canadian producer came to the realization that EDM had reached a comical level of self-aggrandizement and cheesiness—and that the scene was due for a change.
Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York, has hired national political consultants, regularly fundraises out of state, makes well-publicized trade missions abroad abroad, and spent millions of taxpayer dollars advertising the state's greatness for his own political aggrandizement.
Mr. Trump's first news conference as president-elect, just last week, was a clinic in bombast and self-aggrandizement, punctuated by denials of the need to make his tax returns public or to curtail business interests that could invite corruption.
"It represents a remarkable aggrandizement of Erdogan's personal power and quite possibly a death blow to vital checks and balances in the country," said Professor Howard Eissenstat, a Turkey expert at the Project on Middle East Democracy, a Washington research group.
" "The character traits he has exhibited during the primary season suggest he would be a poor, even dangerous, commander in chief," Morell wrote, pointing to Trump's "obvious need for self-aggrandizement, his overreaction to perceived slights" and "his routine carelessness with the facts.
With no pretense, no self-aggrandizement — and seemingly little concern for her own well-being — director Nanette Burstein managed to pull off something remarkable, gathering damning, on-the-record interviews that speak to McAfee's guilt in two murders and a rape case.
For racers, 2017 was a legendary year in which several major racing franchises all put their best foot forward and showed just how expressive this genre can be, after years of flirting with a single, shared fantasy of affluence, acquisition, and aggrandizement.
"It represents a remarkable aggrandizement of Erdoğan's personal power and quite possibly a death blow to vital checks and balances in the country," Howard Eissenstat, an expert at the Project on Middle East Democracy, told the New York Times upon the referendum's passage.
"Doug participated in Rick Singer's process not out of ego or a desire for self-aggrandizement, but rather out of love for his children and an overriding, but misguided desire to be helpful to them," his attorneys wrote in their sentencing memo.
Trump seemed to believe he was above the law; that the rules don't apply to him; that the presidency is a position of self-aggrandizement from which he could wield the immense power of the U.S. government to ensure his own political longevity.
The reason they do so is not self-aggrandizement; it is that the increasingly frequent murder or repression of reporters is rarely random, and most often it is the work of people in power seeking to extinguish an unwelcome light on their corruption.
It&aposs not the people are just making up facts out of whole cloth, but the bias and the self- aggrandizement, and the idiocy that people see in the media is frustrating them, and the media really need to take a hard look inside.
I like classic rock, but it just doesn't feel like the right time for a series with this much over-the-top aggrandizement of an era that already seems to be remembered with glasses that are way more rose-colored than they should be.
"It was all self-aggrandizement," said Mike Tollin, who, as the head of a firm that served as the in-house production company for the league, spent a great deal of time in Trump's company — but who was also close to owners who soured on Trump.
As with his waffling last year on North Korean negotiations and his sharing of a classified spy-satellite photo on Twitter last week, this was another example of Trump oversharing and throwing a wrench in the diplomatic works for no apparent reason other than his self-aggrandizement.
But as Henri and the rest of the predominantly white prisoners are tortured and murdered, it is hard not to see their suffering as a form of white self-aggrandizement and a way of erasing the crimes committed against both the indigenous inhabitants and enslaved Africans.
In his short novel, Ackerman accomplishes what a mountain of maximalist books have rarely delivered over tens of thousands of pages and a few decades: He makes pure character-based literary art, free of irony, free of authorial self-aggrandizement, dedicated only to deeply human storytelling.
"I felt and feel to this day that I have been spared not to waste my life on self-indulgence and self-aggrandizement but to spread a moral message by showing, using examples from history, how evil ideas lead to evil consequences," Professor Pipes wrote in a memoir.
It's not an impossible thought (though if anyone seemed built for the long haul of perpetual self-aggrandizement it was McGregor), especially not now, barely a week after McGregor witnessed firsthand the beating of Joao Carvalho that led to the death of the Portuguese fighter two days later.
"As a populist movement, the Trump movement should never make it look like government officials are crossing the line for self-aggrandizement or trying to use their position to facilitate a luxurious lifestyle for air travel or meals at the expense of the taxpayer," said a source close to the administration.
These traits include his obvious need for self-aggrandizement, his overreaction to perceived slights, his tendency to make decisions based on intuition, his refusal to change his views based on new information, his routine carelessness with the facts, his unwillingness to listen to others and his lack of respect for the law.
Given a chance to replace the empty sloganeering and self-aggrandizement of his primary campaign with solid proposals worthy of Americans' trust, Mr. Trump made clear that he instead intends to terrify voters into supporting him, who will protect them from violence, a word that occurs over and over in his remarks.
Given that he has repeatedly used the office of the presidency for personal aggrandizement (doubling the membership fees at Mar-a-Lago, hosting foreign leaders at Trump hotels), we can only believe that his plan is less a "Make America Great Again" plan than a "Make the Trump Family Ever Richer" plan.
The ghoulish victory lap Trump took after learning about the mass killing at a gay night club in Orlando on Sunday is completely consistent with his overall obliviousness to the fact that the boisterous belligerence and self-aggrandizement that helped him win the primary won't serve him just as well in the general election.
These traits include his obvious need for self-aggrandizement, his overreaction to perceived slights, his tendency to make decisions based on intuition, his refusal to change his views based on new information, his routine carelessness with the facts, his unwillingness to listen to others and his lack of respect for the rule of law.
" He told the audience, "This penchant for self-aggrandizement and this penchant for tweeting, this penchant to focus so specifically and eternally on what he does or doesn't do, even if he was right about everything, is sending a message to all of you and sending a message to your younger siblings that is just totally inappropriate.
While I applaud and commend the mothers for taking every opportunity to campaign for justice for their children and to champion policies that would prevent other mothers from ever being thrust into their position, I'm also incredibly aware of the using nature of politicians and how they try to politicize other people's pain for their own self-aggrandizement.
One wonders whether Trump suffers from a multi-personality disorder: his self-aggrandizement, the unabashed repetition of disproven claims (acknowledged even by his closest allies), his continued apologies for or denial of allegations against him, threatening to sue his accusers, condemning them as conspirators, and utilizing the same media he condemn as biased, to bolster his claims.
So when Trump tells younger Americans they are "not strongly affected" without providing any context, or when he says "it's a very contagious virus, it's incredible, but it's something we have tremendous control of," which is not true, he is doing more than giving bad advice or indulging in a little self-aggrandizement: He is putting lives at risk.
The idea of a right-populist agenda died with Bannon's exit from the White House, the standard-issue G.O.P. agenda has little left after the tax cuts, and Trump's authoritarian impulses, while genuine, seem unlikely to produce even aggrandizement on the scale of past presidents from F.D.R. to Nixon, because he has no competence to execute on them.
That "most outrageous war" (John Quincy Adams wrote) had been "actuated by a spirit of rapacity and an inordinate desire for territorial aggrandizement" (Henry Clay), and began with a premeditated attack by President James Polk, thanks to which "a band of murderers and demons from hell" were "permitted to kill men, women and children" (Abraham Lincoln).
Shamelessness has always been this band's specialty, as they long ago crafted a distinct sound from glitzy fluorescent keyboards underpinning otherwise conventional crunchy rhythm guitar, plus punchy melodies whining their way into your head like Auto-Tuned worms through an apple, plus vocals so steeped in pathos that their overkill functions less like self-aggrandizement and more like a sly wink.
But should that come to pass, it will be the result of a righteous mob that has too few choices; too little political education; too few structural and institutional supports for responsible citizenship; too much individualism, greed, self-aggrandizement built into the legal fabric; too many filters for political actors; and too much reliance on wealth to support the practice of politics.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpOur justice system must reward success Former Biden economic adviser: 'I really like a lot of' Warren's tax proposals Roy Moore calls for Omar to go back from 'whence she came' MORE has taken his circus of personal aggrandizement abroad, joining leaders of the advanced world economies in the French seaside town of Biarritz for the Group of Seven summit.
With the inauguration of a man who has made self-aggrandizement a business model fast approaching, an important question lingers: Who, if anyone, will serve as 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's "memento mori"?
For one thing, he engages in his own form of ludicrous self-aggrandizement, claiming to have been the "architect" of the briefly balanced federal budget of the late Clinton years — which is sheer fantasy: That's only true if by "chief architect," you mean that he voted against the two bills that did the most to get the government in the black, and sponsored one that sounded like it did a lot but actually didn't.
Reading of his comments questioning Senator John McCain's status as a hero, his equating the risks of contracting sexual diseases with the perils of combat, his attack on the family of a fallen Muslim officer, and his claim of sacrifice in pursuit of wealth and self-aggrandizement, I realized just how isolated and self-absorbed he was during that turbulent period, and how completely out of sync he is with most of his generation, veterans and evaders alike.
After Kerik pleaded guilty to tax fraud and false statement charges, the judge handed down a particularly harsh four-year prison sentence, stating on the record, "The fact that Mr. Kerik would use (the 9/11 attacks) for personal gain and aggrandizement is a dark place in the soul for me.." Perhaps the President knew of Judge Robinson's rather dim view of Mr Kerik's character but the White House press release describes the former NYC police commissioner as someone who "embodied the strength, courage, compassion and spirit of the people of New York" during the 9/11 attacks.
In voting for Clinton, it is absolutely clear that there will be cronyism, favors, limited access, self-aggrandizement, a willful oblivion to pre-election promises, unwanted and unwarranted compromises with a belligerent Congress, and a provocative and aggressive foreign policy style — but at least the Oval Office will not only be about the ways of the establishment; at least there will be a decent Supreme Court nominee and a concern demonstrated for the education of our children, the integrity of the environment, the need for infrastructure investment, the promotion of science and research, measures takens to tackle the more egregious elements of income inequality.
Despite similarities that these nations have due to centuries of friendship and living side by side, as well as shared Soviet experience, there are also key ideological and cultural differences, since Azerbaijanis made a philosophical choice of a strategy of peaceful development and modernization with no grand territorial ambitions based on selective historical claims, whilst Armenia chose the path of territorial aggrandizement and claims (against nearly all of its neighbors), ethnic cleansing (99% of the population is now Armenian despite being only 50% such a century ago) and embracing terrorism discourse as a legitimate and heroic way of achieving their goals (members of such terrorist organizations as ASALA are celebrated as national heroes to this day).

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