Exhibiting self-importance.
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Examples for "big"
Examples for "big"
1We still have big water issues following the Havelock North water crisis.
2No idea what half those big words mean but, yes, good point.
3The paper sheds new light on a big issue for technology companies.
4The big question now is: Can Quora really hope to answer everything?
5New firms offering 'big data' solutions to bond traders continue to emerge.
1He'd been bragging all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.
2I am not bragging of it; I am only stating a fact.
3She's been bragging to my other cousins all week that you're coming.
4But it is an opportunity for the supporters to get bragging rights.
5If I were in your place I'd go around bragging about it.
1And, at one level at least, their crowing was easy to understand.
2He laughed; a high, chuckling, crowing laugh; the laugh of triumphant optimism.
3It was morning now; the cock was still crowing down at Sirilund.
4From somewhere outside, she heard a crowing sound and looked up expectantly.
5The animals were in the southeast corner, mooing and crowing and baying.
1Jason Barnett and Michele Austin are equally good as the boastful neighbours.
2How many times in your life have you heard this boastful remark:
3I grow boastful; I am an old man and should know better.
4She was surprised to hear something almost boastful in her own tone.
5And while he was there he heard the Giant speak boastful words.
1Women such as I am are not won in this braggart fashion.
2He'd been such a shameless braggart that the crowd couldn't help cheering.
3That man may have been a convict; but he is no braggart.
4Something in his pose, half rustic, half braggart, seemed familiar to Gaspard.
5He tried hard to despise the braggart, but ended with envying him.
1He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man.
2My heart began to pound, beating against my chest, pummeling my ribs and getting all braggy about its muscle strength.
3One day, will our children turn to us and ask, "Mommy and Daddy, why was all of your hip-hop performed by braggy robots?"
4The second day out he was feelin' pretty braggy and uppish for a stowed-away conspirator that owed his existence to a mule and stolen bananas.
5Granger was at Braggy's late headquarters in bed.
1To read their press, Conservatives should be cock-a-hoop at Labour's policy splurge.
2Australia, newly-crowned Tri-Nations champions are cock-a-hoop after their bonus point win over Italy.
3UK property website Zoopla, which is also contemplating a float, must be cock-a-hoop.
4This week, they arrive buoyant and cock-a-hoop, ready to take on the world.
5Naturally, the artist was cock-a-hoop about the outcome and who can blame her?
1She's eager to avoid the cliches of sweaty torsos and self-aggrandising story-lines.
2I'm all for a healthy dose of scepticism where self-aggrandising mercy missions are concerned.
3Rock biographies are often worthy and self-aggrandising but this is brilliantly funny and self-deprecating.
4How self-aggrandising is that? If he had a whip to hand, he'd be lashing himself.
5There's nothing so unreliable as a criminal's self-aggrandising memoirs.
1He was not interested in self-aggrandizing or having his name in lights.
2Is there some basic right which self-aggrandizing politicians seek to destroy first?
3Typical self-aggrandizing hyperbole, but acknowledged to be a reasonable comparison nonetheless.
4Many physicists loathe the term, fretting that it makes their discipline seem self-aggrandizing.
5Harris was affable, charming and simultaneously self-deprecating and comically self-aggrandizing.
6In fact, he described you as a self-aggrandizing liar with a history of violence.
7His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history.
8Why might I want to use such self-aggrandizing language?
9I could see, even appreciate, the value of things apart from all our tacky self-aggrandizing.
10Does one talk about the noble things one has done, or is that too self-aggrandizing?
11But his decision to declare a "Republic" was pre-mature, self-aggrandizing and in vacuo.
12They even had a self-aggrandizing name for themselves.
13It's Michael Moore without the self-aggrandizing hyperbole.
14One self-aggrandizing chapter implies that the author's own Lifestreams software is a splendid example of beauty in action.
15The Swede was a dramatic man, whose self-aggrandizing antics on the slopes with his camera sometimes irritated other climbers.
16But then, the King was no doubt inspired by Wagner's operas, which were nothing if not overdramatic and ponderously self-aggrandizing.