Sentences with phrase «aggrandizement with»

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Is it simply that the concept has gotten too hot for its own good, suggesting a certain flashy self aggrandizement and will to glory that those with more sedate dreams of building a sustainable business over the long haul find unpleasant?

The common thread, however, is the inability to reconcile some things with others: reality with aggrandizement, hope with reality, anecdote with fact, ideas with proof.

This was the Incarnation: Et Verbum caro factum est. 20 And from this first, basic contact of God with our human race, and precisely by virtue of this penetration of the divine into our human nature, a new life was born: that unforeseeable aggrandizement and «obediential ’21 extension of our natural capacities which we call «grace».

The Lord was never concerned with aggrandizement.

Jesus may be charged with having given unrealistic commandments, but no one can deny that they are oriented to peace and generosity, not to self - aggrandizement and gaining power over others.

Also, I have touched upon his tendency toward sin as a free, rational spirit who is seduced into idolatrous loyalties both by fear of losing his life and by fascination with special advantages he can gain for himself by calculating self - aggrandizement.

The most common evil is the encouragement of acquisitiveness, and with it all the perils of self - aggrandizement, self - righteousness, and a false trust in material possessions against which Jesus spoke so vigorously.

The vulgarity of the author's self - aggrandizement is breathtaking, the viciousness toward those who disagree with him deeply saddening.

[Rabbit] cries and, turning to Eccles with a smile of aggrandizement, repeats, «That's it» (Rabbit, Run, pp. 112 - 113).

Not only is there an accumulation of individuals with an undue self - regard, there is a collective pride of nations and groups that has a proclivity toward self - aggrandizement; the self - seeking of institutions, groups, and nations has a life and momentum of its own.

When it comes to sanctimonious self - aggrandizement, I couldn't possibly compete with NCB and homebirth advocates who like to pretend that how they give birth is an achievement.

This represents everything that is wrong with government - can't keep schools or hospitals open, can't remove snow, can't do upkeep, but self - aggrandizement - sure, we've got all the money in the world do that!

There is something fundamentally wrong with a police force whose commissioners are ready to undermine the constitution at the altar of self - aggrandizement for financial benefits.

New York voters, staring at a long ballot filled with a vast array of political parties, have no clue that some of these parties stand for nothing other than the aggrandizement of political power.

This not to mention that most practitioners today fail to start with Yama and Niyama and so their plying of asana comes with great risk — the least of which is the aggrandizement of ego.

A feature - length commentary featuring director Ortega, producer Mike Finnell, lead choreographer Peggy Holmes, and writers Bob Tzudiker and Noni White starts in the pits with exhausting recountings of where the kid cast members have wound up since the «triumph» of Newsies (it's like a biblical genealogy)... and continues in the pits with never - interesting back - patting and masturbatory aggrandizement.

Nelson is a natural in the role, subtly establishing the sense of ego and vulnerability and self - aggrandizement in the character with brave intimacy, and Basil Harris is just as good as the old friend he attempts to woo back, resigned to Nelson's pushy sense of entitlement and slowly falling into old rhythms of offhanded joking.

Mr. Affleck handles his own roles, on camera and behind it, with a noticeable lack of self - aggrandizement.

It's a bold and clever conceit to hang a film on, and if McDormand's character had been only slightly more human, the audacity of her actions would have rung with genuine anger and desperation, rather than the same relentless sense of bitter self - aggrandizement that she evinces all throughout the film.

With the dads on separate - but - intersecting story tracks, Rock, still of narrow acting range, gets the slightly short shrift, his belated realization that he needs to be a better dad overshadowed by the usual looming Sandler self - aggrandizement.

Yet you do not have to be a Biennial truther to see the false flags of an exhibition so concerned with its own aggrandizement, with an entire range of work geared for its provocative and thereby publicizing potential: a controversy in search of a cause; a trolling in search of a phish; a tail in search of a dog to wag.

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about, and in addition apparently have some issues with self aggrandizement (gummint secrets and all that...).

Along with this is the constant self - aggrandizement.

Are we not a little bored with nasty little dweebs with negligibly justified complaints, rambling sleights and unctuous self aggrandizements?

The ESA dealing directly with Britain and Holland is the same, both in violation and aggrandizement.