We think there's more to Alan Pardew than sheer self-adulation, however.
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Trump, on the other hand, appears to have no core or drive, apart from self-adulation.
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But she remained more interested in the work done by her writers than she was in any kind of self-adulation.
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Normally, the President, preternaturally given to hyperbole, "alternative facts" and self-adulation, would have used more bombastic rhetoric to laud the results.
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He speaks in incoherent sentence fragments and never resists an opportunity to brag, even when his self-adulation is based on partial or complete falsehoods.
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For ten minutes, Rock hit Hollywood again and again for its worthless self-adulation and its undeniable racism, which was also indicative of a broader racism.
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The opportunity to come together in a moment of self-adulation was a huge boost to the morale of the cocktail party class, and frankly, we should be happy for them.
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But the bombastic tycoon and the bellicose tyrant do have some things in common: a habit of self-adulation, an original take on reality, a preference for high walls around their countries.
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Because if he didn't, a down-to-earth sort like himself, not as comfortable as Mayweather or McGregor with the vertiginous perils of multi-million-dollar public self-adulation and the triumph of the surreal, could become unmoored and go flying off into the ether.
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But it is especially so now with a president who careens from gross incompetence to troubling executive overreach; who tolerates, even encourages, corrupt behavior; and who tries to govern through a toxic mix of self-adulation, divisive rhetoric, fear-mongering, outright lies and juvenile name-calling.
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But the pomp and self-adulation of the Oscars can stand some roasting, and Mr. Kimmel delivered, dinging Mel Gibson (nominated for best director for "Hacksaw Ridge"), having a little fun with Meryl Streep (also a nominee as well as the target of President Trump's ire).
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Sam Tsoutsouvas, as Theseus, flaunts his habitual love affair with his overripe voice with an orotundity that reeks of self-adulation.
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A review in The Reading Teacher noted that Ustinov's portrayal highlighted "the braggadocio personality of the Baron", with "self-adulation ... plainly discernible in the intonational innuendo".
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"King James" is a self adulation track with a reggae melody. Prior to its release, M.I hinted to possibly retiring. It has been alleged that "King James" was indirectly directed at Olamide. The lyric video for the song was uploaded onto YouTube on August 21, 2014.
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In July 1937, the Mutual Network gave Welles a seven-week series to adapt Les Misérables. It was his first job as a writer-director for radio, the radio debut of the Mercury Theatre, and one of Welles's earliest and finest achievements. He invented the use of narration in radio. "By making himself the center of the storytelling process, Welles fostered the impression of self-adulation that was to haunt his career to his dying day", wrote critic Andrew Sarris.
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By 1915 the cultural changes and the economic effects of the war finally took its toll on Camera Work. The number of subscribers dwindled to just thirty-seven, and both the costs and even the availability of the paper on which it was printed became challenging. Coupled with the public's decreased interest in pictorial photography, these problems simply became too much for Stieglitz to bear. He published issue 47 in January, 1915, and devoted most of it what Steichen referred to as a "project in self-adulation".
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" Pittsburgh Post- Gazette television columnist Rob Owen raved that "Martin radiates class and wit, something often lacking in awards show hosts. From jokes about the allegedly scaled-down ceremony to reaction to his return to the Oscar stage, Martin entertained consistently." He also quipped that even the segments honoring Oscar history "seemed tighter and less tedious." Tom Shales of The Washington Post gave high marks to Martin commenting, "Helping immeasurably to make it a great show was Steve Martin, who served as host for the second time and triumphed as a welcome sardonic voice amid all the usual piousness and self-adulation.
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