Example Sentences

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More than half a century later, pantheonization remains, quite literally, a spectacular tool of self-advertisement for France’s head of state.

From Slate • Jan. 18, 2022

Some of the posters in this exhibition were commissioned by the performers themselves, as self-advertisement.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2017

That’s fascinating stuff, and a rare glimpse here at real-world, spontaneous urbanism, but the whole display remains nonetheless a self-advertisement for the architect, by other means.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2012

Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images There's a memorable passage in Tom Wolfe's hyperactive self-advertisement of 1973, The New Journalism, where he describes 60s New York as "a hulking carnival… pandemonium with a big grin on".

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2012

Let quiet men who do not want mere self-advertisement tell the people what is their property and how to get it, and there will be no need of the outcry of one class against another.

From Side Lights by Allen, Grant