self-important

Example Sentences

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There are plenty of scrappy indie thrillers and international chillers that can pick up the slack outside of the glitzy domestic market, where Hollywood horror often gets lost in its own self-important sauce.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025

Pompous and self-important, it sounded as if the newspaper was really trying to say Without the Washington Post, we’re all screwed.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2025

Denis Leary, with a distracting dye job, plays self-important Army Col.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

The former excels at playing the earthy, sly, seductive trickster, the latter, the pompous, self-important rich boy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024

I might’ve handled the clerk with a softer touch, but Emma had no patience for the self-important authority of petty bureaucrats.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs