Sentence examples for inflated importance from inspiring English sources
"One needs to be able to recognize and commit oneself to tasks with inflated importance and unreal deadlines while making oneself feel that these tasks are important and urgent".
Those familiar with Sennett's earlier work, especially "The Fall of Public Man," may well remember the impatience with which he treats the inflated importance given to Romantic genius, but newcomers may wonder why his working assumptions can't simply be revealed for the eyes of lesser birds.
"The narcissist regards himself as one would an expensive present: he is a gift to his company, to his family, to his neighbors, to his colleagues, to his country," Mr. Vaknin wrote, saying that such a person's sense of inflated importance and entitlement "makes him feel immune to mortal laws and somehow divinely protected and insulated from the inevitable consequences of his deeds and misdeeds".
In some ways, it has done exactly the opposite, merely underlining the inflated importance England give to Test cricket at the expense of other formats.
"Stop giving terrorists the obsessive attention and inflated importance that they crave".
What's of real concern is the inflated importance being afforded to the Bassiouni Commission by both the Bahraini regime and the U.S. Government.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) related beliefs such as inflated responsibility, importance of thoughts and perfectionism increases the likelihood of such misinterpretations.
I long detested you and knew that when Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid last December, he was igniting a fire that would render irrelevantBin Laden the man and his inflated self-importance.
And he was a relentless enemy of pomposity, particularly refreshing in this age of inflated self-importance.
When it first took root here in 1998, some people were drawn to its philosophy, while others were put off by what they saw as elitism and an inflated sense of importance.
Nevertheless, a teenager who has been told that having a passion for football and being able to analyze and write about it is great tends to develop an inflated sense of importance.
