Example Sentences

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His careerism, his scorched-earth path to self-glory, will likely fail, as it did with his effort to get a sweet post in the Bush administration.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2016

"Nick's really lovely and restores your faith in 'celebrity'; someone who is talented and humble and in no way out for self-glory or self-gratification," he said.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2010

One was of Europe so ordered that it would be a third force, protected, exclusive, Narcissus-like in its self-glory.

From Time Magazine Archive

But as they listened to each other they nodded, as though to say, "Yes, that's how it was," and there was no consciousness among them of extraordinary adventures, and neither self-glory nor self-pity.

From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip

And so it really is; for he has not had the life of charity in himself, and has cared only for praise and self-glory, and not for the name of God.

From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint