self-important

How To Use self-important In A Sentence

• What in the hell is the self-important blithesome texter rocking as a hairstyle? Smoked Salmon: Lock Your Bike, Don't Lox It
• His sense of humour, always in evidence, made it impossible for him to seem pompous or self-important, and he never attempted to disguise his own fallibility as a human being.
• In the final section of today's masterpiece on 'dirty shipping industry', he lays out approvingly what the dictatorial, self-important, unrepresentative 'greenie' lobby groups demand of shipping; Harrabin says that shipping industry is unreasonably doing what the greenies and and 'scientists' don't want, QED, shipping industry is bad. OPEN THREAD
• There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it. Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
• Little self-important copperplate fountain-penned comments such ‘Easily distracted’ start to creep into the elaboration box.
• People don't get turned on when businesses convey self-important messages.
• Her "Potemkin villages" had deceived the self-important pundit into endorsing absolutism, just as Jean-Paul Sartre would prove vain enough to applaud Stalin. Why They All Came to Versailles
• She starts off, by design, as an unsympathetic character (hence the titled comeuppance), who, like any newcomer in a Hollywood flick, not only learns to cope well enough (despite the natives) to stay in Japan and grow, but also to recommend to everyone (in a self-important interview in the back of the book) to try living overseas (I agree, of course, but one year abroad hardly makes one an authority on world travel). Debito.org
• He was the secretly self-important moaner in all of us. Book club, week three: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
• He's only 15, but thinks like his dad, a pompous self-important academic.