bigheadedness

For a while, he was the most admired personality in the game, one of the rare people who could make bigheadedness feel vaguely attractive when he reminisced about life at Porto with its “beautiful blue chairs, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God and, after God, me”.

They are a very low-key family; there has never been any bigheadedness.”

Yet Japan’s brand of cultural bigheadedness is proving an obstacle to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s three-pronged policy to revitalize the country with a mix of radical monetary easing, fiscal stimulus, and pro-growth measures.