| 单词 | self-aggrandising |
| 例句 | He is good at knockabout invective, laying into "fragilista" economists such as Joseph Stiglitz and self-aggrandising journalists such as "the vile and harmful" Thomas Friedman, who was an apologist for the Iraq war. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z Sometimes today I have pathetic fantasies of regret that I have not achieved more than to be a light entertainer, a moderate practitioner of comedy, yet this is self-aggrandising delusion. Digested read: The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-20T20:00:00Z So now's the ideal time to catch up on all the jokers and self-aggrandising herberts who've been given "the finger". Catch-up TV guide: from Sealab 2021 to How Did This Get Made? 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z Hollywood hotshot producer Robert Evans narrates his wonderfully self-aggrandising, ultra-glamorous life story. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z However hard he tries to send himself up, it is inevitably self-aggrandising; there is also something a little odd about blaming your fans for taking you and your work to their hearts. As of 1.52pm GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-14T14:49:07Z Lindsay Lohan's investigation into Indian child-trafficking and Ross Kemp's self-aggrandising reports from the war in Afghanistan being two of the most baffling examples. Celebrity experts: time for a rain check 2011-04-08T11:49:31Z It sounds a slightly self-aggrandising thing to say, but I've always thought that death was my subject. Top 10 tips for writing poetry 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z It may be a self-aggrandising concept, but Watch the Throne is a surprisingly minimalist production. Jay-Z and Kanye West ? review 2012-05-20T16:24:58Z Rhys Ifans gets a crack at the role he was born to play: the wacky, self-aggrandising adventurer who is not exactly on oath with all the details. Pick of the Edinburgh film festival 2010-06-09T21:00:00Z To his critics, Schnabel was synonymous with the decade’s excess, yuppie culture and penchant for vapid self-aggrandising. Julian Schnabel: ‘Why can’t a white person tell the story of a black person? Everyone is pink inside’ 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The great exemplar is the immediate post-war prime minister, Clement Attlee, whose memory is a silent reproach to our current manipulative, media-obsessed, self-aggrandising and increasingly unaccountable political culture. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z There were no false agendas and there was no self-aggrandising after the event. Racing against the dark on Mt. Kanchenjunga 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Where she and Mr Frank disagree is over his central premise that such voters are being duped by an unholy alliance of Fox News, unscrupulous corporations and self-aggrandising Washington elites. Hand on heart 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The Oscars, the Golden Globes, even the IF awards … I think it’s really self-aggrandising. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z “Enough! We’re already in a self-aggrandising world that puts our looks and glamour at the centre. We need breath and distance from that. As much as we can get.” Patricia Clarkson: ‘I’m a free spirit… this is the life I want’ 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z There's nothing so unreliable as a criminal's self-aggrandising memoirs. Why wasn't Goodfellas' Henry Hill murdered by the mob? 2012-06-13T15:51:01Z Legend in My Own Mind is just the kind of self-aggrandising assertion Clinton would make, with a lyric about someone who's "the Shakespeare of his day". New band of the day ? No 1,077: The Stepkids 2011-08-04T16:05:05Z Separately, Nyad had previously been accused of exaggerating or making misleading statements about previous swims, and has been described as "a self-aggrandising scourge of the marathon swimming community". Nyad: Netflix film follows swimmer who braved sharks and jellyfish 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Indeed, his sincerity is a refreshing change to the self-aggrandising businessmen of old. Morley's: The family-run chicken shop with cult status 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z If indie bands of the noughties were lamentable in their mawkish, self-aggrandising sentimentality, then both Fat White Family and Idles should be recognised for their efforts to connect to something bigger. Idles v Fat White Family: what the indie showdown tells us about class 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, who lived during the same tumultuous days recounted by Fletcher, produced this outrageously self-aggrandising work. Top 10 books about tumultuous times 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z “He’s turning these briefings into a self-aggrandising, self-justifying, overly defensive, politically partisan, almost like a rally to him – almost like what’s more important is winning the election in November,” Morgan said. Piers Morgan, voice of reason? Now I know the apocalypse is nigh | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Xi’s vacuous, self-aggrandising ideological vision lies at the heart of this global crisis. Xi Jinping has buried the truth about coronavirus | Ma Jian 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z She is passionately vegan, in the funniest, least self-aggrandising or patronising way possible. My changemaker of the decade, by Amal Clooney, Solange Knowles, Caitlyn Jenner and more 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z “His language is self-aggrandising, almost absurdly so, to the point of megalomania,” Higgins says. President Supervillain: behind the alarmingly accurate Trump-Marvel mashup 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Most mornings in Australia begin with news from America – the bid to buy Greenland, adjustments to a weather map hand-drawn with a Sharpie or another self-aggrandising tweet. As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunned by Trump's press conference | Lenore Taylor 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z British rap can be myopic - focusing on the same minor-key aesthetics, clipped beats and self-aggrandising lyrics. Mercury Prize-winner Dave: What you need to know 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Yet was it America’s self-aggrandising president who triggered last week’s sudden crisis between India and Pakistan over Kashmir? Why Modi’s Kashmir coup threatens India’s democracy 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Woolf never had to endure Mansfield humblebragging about book sales on Twitter, and Stein didn’t have to watch Hemingway’s self-aggrandising vlogs. Headbutts, snark and furious obsession: a toxic history of literary rivalries 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z “His eyes went from blue to black” when he talked about his crimes, said a detective in the new Netflix series based on Bundy’s self-aggrandising tapes. Ted Bundy was deeply mediocre – so why are we romanticising him? | Suzanne Moore 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr Trump is a self-aggrandising liar whose desire for riches, infamy and adoration appears insatiable. The Guardian view on Donald Trump: the company of crooks 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z It is not easy to stay calm and rational when faced with the visceral, self-aggrandising, jingoistic drivel that flows endlessly from some in the leave camp. Auf wiedersehen, Britain: Brexit is forcing my German family to leave the country we call home 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Played by Mr Chaplin with anti-heroic verve, Bernard is the archetype of the self-aggrandising entertainment industry ogre. “Mood Music” lays bare the exploitative side of the music industry 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z “Well here’s the funniest one and I’m hesitant to talk about this because it sounds either like nonsense, or self-aggrandising.” Musician, activist, soothsayer: the many talents of Moby 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z An undercurrent to a lot of the criticism is that he is, in some ways, mannered, or false, or deliberately self-aggrandising. Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Not when sophisticated friends never fail to remind me how self‑involved, self-aggrandising, politically conservative and morally stunted the guilty are. Why do we feel so guilty all the time? 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s not just that he lives on Twitter, he embodies it: digressive, petty, trivial, poisonous and self-aggrandising. Maybe Trump is a kind of cry for help from the Earth, a human flare | Frankie Boyle 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z In his florid, self-aggrandising autobiography, and, indeed, whenever he felt like it, he made up stories at will, about his parents’ marriage, for example, or his authorship of works actually by others. Frank Lloyd Wright: fantasist or genius? 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The harshest portrait is of the novelist and critic Philippe Sollers, who is painted as a self-aggrandising dandy and finds himself at the sharp end of the novel’s denouement. Laurent Binet: ‘I’ll vote Macron, but I hate having to do it’ 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z There was to be no fourth success in a row for Europe, a handy scene for those who were growing weary both of one-sided contests and self-aggrandising statements. USA sweep to victory in Ryder Cup as Rory McIlroy and Europe taste defeat 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z At this point, most of what I do and I hesitate to say this because it does sound a little self-aggrandising but it's sincere, is that most of the work I do now is non-profit. Moby: 'I've always been potentially an annoying, opinionated loudmouth' - BBC News 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Jeremy Corbyn is not your typical self-aggrandising politician, but reading out voters’ questions hasn’t worked out fantastically well so far; David Cameron’s more traditional approach to power, in contrast, looks fairly solid. How modern power works: less Game of Thrones, more Black Lives Matter 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z It was the badge of self-aggrandising kings and presidents. Museum of Lost Objects: The Lion of al-Lat - BBC News 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Complaining about a rapper being self-aggrandising feels a bit like complaining about someone who works at an all-night garage pushing Rizlas and Snickers through a metal flap at 4am: it’s what they do. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo review: 'You can see why his immodesty rubs people up the wrong way' 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z “There’s a form of self-aggrandising, to become larger than life because you can afford stuff in the upper echelons.” So fresh and so clean: a brief history of fashion and hip-hop 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Rock biographies are often worthy and self-aggrandising but this is brilliantly funny and self-deprecating. Musicians and writers choose their favourite book about music 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z When it’s not drowned out by his self-aggrandising, Kanye can actually be humble. The enigma of Kanye West – and how the world's biggest pop star ended up being its most reviled, too 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Abenomics is the term Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has, in a rather self-aggrandising way, given to his plan to get Japan's economy out of deflation, and back in to growth. Could women help fix broken Japan? 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Defenders of the opera, such as the musicologist Robert Fink, say it shows the humble, loving Klinghoffers to be the moral compass of the work, while the four Palestinians are portrayed as tawdry, self-aggrandising murderers. Rudy Giuliani expected to join protest against Met's Klinghoffer opera 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Allow me to be self-aggrandising in a self-deprecating way’.” Richard Ayoade: ‘Shyness can be interpreted as a kind of aggression’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z The catalyst was King O'Malley, a self-aggrandising, teetotal Labor Minister for Home Affairs - and an American to boot. Disemvowelled 2013-06-27T10:29:49Z But the principal reception room, with its octagonal atrium, remains a monument of self-aggrandising kitsch. Putting the welcome mat out in Baghdad 2013-01-13T00:42:05Z But the principle reception room, with its octagonal atrium, remains a monument of self-aggrandising kitsch. Putting the welcome mat out in Baghdad 2013-01-13T00:42:05Z But even at its most banal, a lot of it is self-aggrandising. A Twitter fatwa may seem odd, but it's a sign of our times 2012-08-21T11:40:39Z The fact that Hayward, a geologist by training, does not fall into the self-aggrandising category has not protected him from becoming the most vilified business figure on the planet. Superheroes and supervillains ? why the cult of the CEO blinds us to reality 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z In the Daily Mirror gloomy, sardonic, quite nice-seeming Cardiff manager David Jones is on the verge of being pitched into a nonsensical self-aggrandising cauldron of Gollivan-related idiocy as West Ham's next manager. Football transfer rumours: Fernando Torres heads ?150m Man City spree? 2010-04-22T07:43:00Z But he steered clear of the self-aggrandising language of his "king of the world" Oscar acceptance speech, heaping praise upon Bigelow, and addressing his actors in Na'vi, the language created for his blockbuster film. 2010-01-18T09:01:00Z |
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