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
I am beginning to doubt whether my belief on the matter has not been the product of insular ignorance and idolatrous self-worship.
From North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope
With each there is sorrow, but in Wybrow, and still more vividly as we shall see in Tito Melema, it is the sorrow of self-worship only.
From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by John Crombie Brown
