Example Sentences

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Self-regard bordering on self-worship and a willingness to bend the truth may have been assets that helped his rise.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2016

He has the late senator’s gift for exaggeration and self-worship, and he needs the spotlight the way a vampire needs blood.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2016

James Douglas' excellent essay "Star Lords" on The Awl pegs the rise of Silicon Valley's self-worship to Star Wars fandom run amok.

From The Verge • Dec. 19, 2015

In his own house, this old man was given up to self-worship, without a shadow of concealment.

From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

The judgment begins to waver or go astray out of a kind of self-worship, which makes the satisfaction of self, and not the realisation of what is possible, the dominant object in every transaction.

From Success (Second Edition) by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron