Sentence examples for feeling of importance from inspiring English sources

"Those wartime years gave him a feeling of importance.

The big publications, the National Institutes of Health grants, the invitations to speak, all gave him a feeling of importance.

They also discuss what people may lose when they retire, like involvement with others, the energy of the workplace and a feeling of importance.

As played by Ms. Watson, Leach is simultaneously appalled and excited by her new role, which gives her a feeling of importance she's never had before.

It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old porte-monnaie gave her a feeling of importance such as she had not enjoyed for years.

The fact that Burberry was live-streaming the show to eight million Facebook fans gave the event its feeling of importance, not that some person may have spent hours crocheting collars.

Anything a person does to enhance his or her feelings of importance or confidence will increase his or her motivation to change [ 27].

The décor might have telegraphed Mr. Nixon's now-famous obsession with control: according to Leatrice Eiseman, director of the Pantone Color Institute, blue-gold color combinations convey "a feeling of exulted importance.

There's also that feeling of manufactured importance to every moment, as if Jobs invented the cure for cancer or walked on Mars, instead of just, you know, being the guy who invented the iPod.

"Willingness to listen to your child": This instills in a child the feeling of his importance.

Boston is often criticized for its outsize feeling of self-importance — a recent Onion headline read "Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game of 'Big City.' " But back in the era of the founding fathers, Boston was indeed all that, as you'll realize if you do even a portion of the Freedom Trail, best tackled in D.I.Y. fashion.