There is also a good deal of self-flattery posing as analysis.
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Trump ran for president as an exercise of self-flattery and to boost his brand.
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What I do see is an awful lot of self-flattery in the form of yearning.
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When writing about yourself, it's difficult enough to ease up on the pedal of self-flattery in the interests of truth.
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At this point, the interview moves towards policy topics, and Trump relaxes into self-flattery: I know more about the big bills.
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The 22-minute speech Trump delivered was packed with the confidence, self-flattery and showmanship that have become hallmarks of his tenure.
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Until that day arrives, we have this book, which forcefully interrupts the comfortable bath of self-flattery in which our well-graduated professionals pass their hours.
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There's a middle zone, a sweet spot, where we are pulled out of the solitude of our hearts, where bitterness and envy and rancor and self-flattery lives.
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Given that Trump has made his presidency an exercise in self-flattery and has rarely striven for national unity, the omens are not looking great for a heartwarming non-partisan evening.
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Unless we will find a way to account for the whole human subject, without self-flattery and self-delusion, we will move in circles, unable to overcome the blinding hyper-rationalism under which we currently slave.
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By showing that the Eastern half of the continent often acts on the same anxieties as the Western half (or indeed, the United States), Krastev makes clear just how much self-flattery is involved in that assumption.
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GILBERT, S.C. — The political world was still shaking with the news that Donald J. Trump would sit out the next debate, but on Wednesday night the candidate himself, full of self-flattery and short on time, barely mentioned it.
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What seemed to hold them all together in their obscurity was a love of mocking the earnestness and moral self-flattery of what felt like a tired liberal intellectual conformity running right through from establishment liberal politics to the more militant enforcers of new sensitivities from the wackiest corners of Tumblr to campus politics.
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Now that Lehmann has been had by a hoax that similarly tried to flatter her prejudices in absurd style, my advice for her would be to acknowledge that her politics of anti-"identity politics" grievance is a politics like any other, prone to confirmation bias and self-flattery and falling prey to hoaxes that play on those biases as much as the academic humanities are.
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This was one of the first autobiographies ever written by a woman. Charke's tone is, like her father's, chatty, witty, relaxed, and intimate. It is a mixture of honesty and self- flattery, but with nothing like her father's self-aggrandizement. She wrote the autobiography, she said, to reconcile herself to her father.
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He edited several television documentaries, including Katakombi. He had a main role in the four seasons of the popular teleserial F'Salib it-Toroq. He is the director and co-founder of ImaginArts Entertainment Productions. He directed four short movies, L-Ittra (The Letter) (2002), for which he wrote the original theme score as well; Dilemma (2003), which won Certificate of Merit – MACC 2003 and 2004; Is-Siġġu ta-Roti (The Wheelchair) (2004); and Self Flattery (2005), which both won third place in Best Production at the National MACC Awards Film Festival.
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