Sentence examples for puffed from inspiring English sources

Borrowing may be puffed up by vulnerable domestic sectors, such as housing, as well as by pre-election tax cuts, and – yes – also by chill winds from abroad.

Narcissists can have violent mood swings as they are alternately inflated and deflated, puffed up by hubris, or crushed by a collision with reality that cracks open a cauldron of shame.

You're dead Maths in flux Puffed up Man takes to the air Pictures of perfection Out of the darkness The forgotten father figure The liberator A matter of gravity Jam tomorrow?

The executive jets, the teams of "advisers", and the brand puffed up to match the ego.

So we're not in any way saying that we're the tail that wags the dog, there's a recognition of the scale of the contribution that we can make and we're not puffed up by our own importance in that context.

Each had a six-pack of beer and a few joints, which they quaffed and puffed as we played.

There is plenty of evidence already of the increasing disjoint between players and referees, and also of a certain arrogance among the current generation of rather puffed-up and self-regarding professional referees.

Again, though, it simply came off as a rehash of his greatest hits: a smattering of let-me-be-clears, a puffed-up I'm-the-leader and – just for the fanboys who'd been with him since the very beginning – an awkward tumble from the plinth as an encore.

It only adds to the movie's clunky, 1950s feel: it has all the puffed-up high camp of a Charlton Heston swords-and-sandals epic, without any of the fun.

It also helped that he attacked philosophy as a puffed-up pretender with no monopoly on deep truths.In fact, for Rorty there weren't really any deep truths at all.

More of that would do Germany's puffed-up political journalism much good.