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Both museums underscore the danger of too much institutional self-inflation.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022

To arrive at that pinnacle, Vesco used an innate talent for self-inflation and conspicuous consumption.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Roy Cohn, thanks to a lifetime process of self-inflation, presented a lovely target.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apparently no actor, not Gunn or even Olivier, can bring himself to expose the actorish self-absorption and self-inflation that push Othello to his doom.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has assigned, among other grounds for this vulgar opinion, its power of abstinence, and its faculty of self-inflation.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger