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
If we make it the chief aim of life, it degenerates into a principle of exclusion, destroys sympathy, and terminates in a sort of self-worship.
From Education and the Higher Life by Spalding, J. L.
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 Brown, John Crombie
