It argues that architects should take greater account of the tastes of ordinary people and move away from large, self-aggrandizing buildings.

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He has endured the embarrassment of watching his private, self-aggrandizing e-mails--collected by Spitzer's investigators--leak into the pages of the Wall Street Journal.

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Those who study the psyches of criminals said Dorner's aggressive and self-aggrandizing rant indicates a classic case of malignant narcissist personality disorder.

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Some Masters of the Universe have such rotten hubris, such selfish, self-aggrandizing drives they act like primitive warriors from a more violent time.

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Painted in 1551, before Veronese left the mainland for Venice, it presents an aggrandizing view of a plump, magnificently dressed young man from Vicenza.

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But that day will come all the sooner if the aid in the meantime arrives--as it does by remittance--with no aggrandizing apparatus to administer it.

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Is this another self-aggrandizing hip-hop star claiming rap supremacy?

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This comic novel will amuse and sell well, for the better elements of our culture and our youth have grown impatient with the travails and aggrandizing of Twixter books, movies, music and TV.

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So, yeah, unless you're toting a guitar case and cramming yourself into a sweaty tour bus every other month, we suggest leaving the term "rock star" out of your job title -- and even then, the whole "star" classification seems a little self-aggrandizing.

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