Example Sentences

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If there were a Best High-Budget Selfies award, Bradley Cooper would have little competition for his self-exalting direction and performance in “A Star Is Born.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2019

Answers to personal and political struggles can’t be found in the next great politicians, in any self-exalting self-help seminar, or in the next cultural trend.

From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2015

Let me keep that, and my self-exalting schemes shall be all put by!’

From The Caged Lion by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Accursed be the high opinion Hugged by the self-exalting mind!

From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Brooks, Charles Timothy

This had brought some self-exalting thoughts into his mind; not that he talked of them to others, but he communed with them to himself, nevertheless.

From Added Upon A Story by Anderson, Nephi