self-worship
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
But when these free human wills organize falsehood, institute injustice, and establish oppression, they have passed into that mental state where will has been perverted into wilfulness, and self-direction has been exaggerated into self-worship.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various
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
