Sentence examples for celebrating himself from inspiring English sources

After five years spent alternately locked up at Zentropa and "celebrating himself" around the world, Vinterberg's next film at last emerged.

Then, instead of running around celebrating himself, he sat in the changing room consoling Michael Ballack who would miss the final through suspension.

John McCain, celebrating himself as a maverick, reinventing his voting record, and name-dropping world leaders, simultaneously re-exhibited his enduring ignorance of the cultural dynamics that led to his misjudgment on Iraq in the first place.

Balanchine celebrated women (and the Divine), and Nureyev celebrated himself.

He is the keeper of a sacred flame, which is the flame he holds to celebrate himself.

Either way, his desire was not, like Whitman, to celebrate himself and sing himself but to imitate Christ as far as he could or dared.

It would have been unthinkable for a baseball player to celebrate himself in the batter's box after a home-run swing.

There were a few flops, but the rate of success was almost uncanny, and he celebrated himself and his triumph very publicly.

But the Knicks-Bullets series lacked anyone with Miller's fictional bona fides: a skinny, galling, egotistical, trash-talking sharpshooter who celebrated himself and slithered under the sensitive skin of Knicks guard John Starks like a pest.

But his Silicon Valley ways — evident from a showy party in early 2012 that he threw to celebrate himself and his plans, replete with a light show, fake snow and flowing liquor — jangled from the start.

And so, whereas today's Olympic committee prefers to "celebrate humanity" (an official slogan of contemporary Olympiads), the Greek athlete wanted only to be celebrated himself; it was his one ticket to immortality.