self-exaltation
Example Sentences
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Joyce was an enemy of the Irish Literary Revival, which he excoriated as pretentious self-absorption and self-exaltation in the name of the authentic.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2022
Most major West German newspapers backed K�ng, though the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung accused him of "self-exaltation and contempt for others."
From Time Magazine Archive
He hated innovations as strongly as the Archdeacon himself, but with his clinging to old forms and rituals there went no self-exaltation.
From The Cathedral by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
Mr. Will Ladislaw's sense of the ludicrous lit up his features very agreeably: it was the pure enjoyment of comicality, and had no mixture of sneering and self-exaltation.
From Middlemarch by Eliot, George
Neither was there any pharisaical self-exaltation on the part of the rival.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
