Hopefully you'll forgive this bit of self-aggrandising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic Cuts - 23 April] Reference

That sounds terribly self-aggrandising – embarrassingly so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

My immediate reaction to this news is 'what a self-aggrandising twit'.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I think he's an incompetant, insensitive, self-aggrandising apparatchik.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting personal] Reference

I think Oprah is the most giving celebrity of all and not in the least self-aggrandising.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007] Reference

Through their absurdly self-aggrandising histrionics, the Tories are now dangerously exposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Histrionics, not history] Reference

Yet another self-aggrandising poster boy for "family values" that look and feel a lot more like cardboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Republicans' Larry Craig vs. Oliver Thomas, New Orleans' ex-councilman] Reference

Stuff Bowen and stuff that ghastly Guerin woman who's self-aggrandising tone of voice would make a dog sick.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

This piece of self-aggrandising pompous puffery was so egregiously conceited, it cried out to be commented on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference

His cheffing days have been relatively smooth, even though he's encountered his share of self-aggrandising psycho-loons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radiation] Reference

Can't be sure whether Harriet Harman's spot of William "15 Pints" Hague's self-aggrandising website is a throw back or a throw up.    From Wordnik.com.  [William "15 Pints" Hague: Throw Back or Throw Up?] Reference

We have received over a thousand letters from Clark County voters criticising the Guardian's "arrogant and self-aggrandising" campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-10-24] Reference

None of us can hold a candle, however, to film director-type James Cameron: quite possibly the most self-aggrandising man on the planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christians Not Really Sold On This Whole Jesus Coffin Thing] Reference

I too was surprised by how self-aggrandising he was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncommon Descent] Reference

And I don't mean that in a self-aggrandising way, like.    From Wordnik.com.  [ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News] Reference

Whoever approved that self-aggrandising nonsense should sack themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mirror.co.uk - News] Reference

Writers can tend to become self-obsessed and self-aggrandising (not me, of course).    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

And I don't mean that in a self-aggrandising way, like, 'Look at me, I can make a difference.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood.com - Recent News] Reference

Now, that's what a CEO wants to hear, not some self-aggrandising spin that can't be quantified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Computerworld] Reference

What's left are a lot of mean-spirited or self-serving, self-aggrandising potential motivations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference

My heart sank when I saw Bono on the cover as I was expecting another self-aggrandising interview.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference

In which the smarmy self-aggrandising tube promotes himself to a Law Lord with masterly word ordering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour of Love] Reference

Bean counters eh; self-aggrandising, dull as dishwater and not worth their self-important weight in sand!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

This opinion-based 'research' is not worth the self-aggrandising wind of the respondents who produced it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The IT Skeptic - Comments] Reference

To those who don't, he's a slippery, self-aggrandising charlatan, running what amounts to a criminal enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The dark triad manager is self-aggrandising and aggressive; egocentric and duplicitous; exploitative and callous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online]

It is hard to compare such an act of contrition with the self-aggrandising resignations of Hazel Blears, Jacqui Smith and Caroline Flint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Back here in the real world, we are fed up with self-aggrandising politicians who think they can do whatever they please with the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Front Page - The Washington Times] Reference

This literary device could easily have come across as self-aggrandising but Skloot fully earns her status as the story's third protagonist.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference