self-important

Quid pro quo is his answer, but perhaps it is also the chance to feel self-important again.

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

Self-important wind puppets like Bill Maher, merely hours after the shooting, declared that the assassination attempt “damages the left.”

It’s laughable to me how self-important as an industry we can be.

This sounds kind of self-important, but at times it does feel like, “Well s**t, I'm lucky enough to get this far.”