self-praise

Chris Pratt has never publicly supported Donald Trump, but the sports analogy-laden op-ed he wrote for his mother-in-law Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper ramping up to the election reads like something Trump could have written himself — in that it rambles and wedges in self-praise throughout.

While I pushed him and did not necessarily agree with his categorical declarations or self-praise, I let him have his say.

“My mom taught me that self-praise is no recommendation,” Bass said.

“My mother used to say self-praise stinks,” he says.

Looking fresh, feeling fit and with a European tie looming against Roma, Shine permits herself some rare self-praise.