When her brother saw me he grew self-important with knowledge and spoke.

But, of course-itis very natural-theythink that rather self-important and silly.

Well, he thought, blocky and self-important architecture or no, this was it.

And Milani, safe and secure and self-important, did not bother with peepholes.

I walked at the self-important speed of all managers visiting an insubordinate.

A stack of dossiers tied with self-important red ribbons stood by him.

He accused her of being mean-spirited, critical, self-important, humorless, conceited, profligate, bigot-

He was old, fussy, and self-important, and withal no friend to me.

What happened when Rip made his innocent reply to the self-important gentleman?

She'd imagined that he would be a pompous, old, self-important stuffed shirt.

Jack's dislike for that cheap, self-important little prick Ullman came flooding back.

There's something innately arrogant and self-important about nearly every journalist I meet.

You mean driven by smug, self-important, middle-class idiots with hideously spoiled children?

This sluggish, self-important tribute to clinical depression managed to kill the franchise.

There's the naked ambition that often manifests itself as arrogant and self-important.

I had met self-important officials in my time, but Fealty was something new.