How to Use self-importance in a Sentence
self-importance
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What remains intact across all versions of Cady is a devilish sense of humor and a lack of self-importance.
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Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
31 July 2026
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We’d sometimes get threatened, and that only inflated our self-importance.
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Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Late-night show hosts now have an attitude of self-importance, congratulating themselves for their work.
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Andrea Ruth,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
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Each one becomes a part of the fabric of Fashion Week, but their disparate problems are a far cry from the glitzy event’s self-importance.
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Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
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Season four course-corrected somewhat, but its hard embrace of a bleeding-heart sentimentality around found families and the power of food smacked of self-importance.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
25 June 2026
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There’s also a broader cultural undercurrent shaping all of this—a down-to-earth atmosphere that resists hierarchy and self-importance.
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Alli Forde,
Travel + Leisure,
8 June 2026
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Less of a reboot than a shameless do-over, Marc Webb‘s first Spider-Man film tells a more protracted origin story, with half the fun and twice the self-importance (the film earns a rare dead-dad hat trick).
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Darren Franich,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Aug. 2026
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This population crisis feeds into a post-imperial syndrome, where the decline of empire and power status invokes a sense of loss of self-importance that gives rise to resentment and an unwavering commitment to retain great power status.
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John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
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