How to Use self-important in a Sentence

self-important

adjective
  • The people are bland, gossipy and self-important while my friends and family are almost a thousand miles away.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The show has taken on Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, politicians of every stripe and self-important celebrities.
    — Josie Howell | , al, 29 Mar. 2023
  • What’s Jimmy Buffett got that some self-important musical stars seem to lack?
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The series is sincere but not self-important, slightly silly but not embarrassed about it.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The self-important justifications of these tourists will leave you feeling even more frustrated with the human race.
    — Longreads, 14 July 2023
  • The fact is that bringing together a host of successful but self-important luminaries to forecast the future is a mug’s game.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Pros: There’s a potent tension with the nearby monument to the Signers, which comes off as self-important and deeply complacent thanks to Red Star’s intervention.
    — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Not everyone is bland, gossipy and self-important anywhere.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The result is Shin Godzilla, a bone-dry satire of government impotence and self-important bureaucrats that’s the most realistic installment in the series since the original.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Even so, who better than Tina Fey to play a self-important, slightly bullying know-it-all who conceals her questionable competence behind a thin layer of condescension?
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
  • There has always been the possibility in moving-picture narratives that our feeling ignored, downtrodden, and unknown in life can be relieved by gaudy monsters who trash the self-important world.
    — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Just as in Into the Spider-Verse, these opening monologues satirize the self-important and repetitive nature of superhero introductions.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • Trailer spoofs In place of self-important promotion, Oldenburg every year releases a festival trailer spoofing a major blockbuster or cult movie.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • But if education in the liberal arts actually achieves these goals, how come many humanities professors are self-important, status-conscious jerks?
    — WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The technology world can be, to its detriment, too analytical, sort of arrogant, and self-important, and those characteristics are anti-empathy.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And both weave rich tapestries out of seemingly disconnected actions through a panoramic collection of archetypes: the criminal outsider, the lonely lady, the political expert, the self-important political climber, the master manipulator.
    — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019

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