After the cold war ended, though, this self-regulating and rather self-important culture has come under scrutiny.
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Mr Kaufman writes that the "self-important activists" within the Jewish community know too little of politics.
"This sort of self-important, self-involved thing seemed funny to me, " he said in the notes.
Self-important CEOs demonstrate an ability to act on their supreme confidence when others are timid.
An early target may be Rem Vyakhirev, the self-important boss of Gazprom, the national gas company.
That is a welcome contrast to the self-important style of many lesser journalists' books about great events.
Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter depicted Rolland as a self-important popinjay, contemptuous of any palate other than his own.
But this is what we have come to expect from an organization that is scientifically challenged, self-important and unaccountable.
Most of the big festivals have largely replaced the traditional fare of self-important authorial readings with discussions and debates.
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The euphemisms of television have vanished the blood hits the wall with a splat and the material is now grim and self-important.
And they are often conjured into existence by self-important managerial types who consider it their actual full-time job to attend meetings.
But if anyone can take blogging from an almost obscure hobby for self-important would-be pundits to a revenue-generating phenomenon, it's Google.
The self-important accountant in charge tries to brush aside our hero's questions.
The plotting members, in both parties, were as tedious, self-important and ineffective a crew as ever populated a major institution of state.
What's so weird about this chaos is that the NFL a self-important enterprise like no other has long celebrated itself as a paragon of institutional control.
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But the chocolate that Emmy Award winning Today Show co-host Hoda Kotb picked as her favorite thing was not a new, trendy, or self-important brand.
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In many areas of life, Americans cheerfully accept that the law intrudes too much: they accept the case for tort reform, and they dislike self-important judges.
And it remains exactly the same organisation: a self-important body that treats its members like demi-gods and requires a super-majority of 60 votes even to break a filibuster.
There is a feeling that they are getting little attention, and that what they do get is from second-rate civil servants the top brass being too self-important to leave Tokyo.
We work with over-complicated stuff involving lots of over-complicated jargon made up by self-important digit-heads who like to keep people in the dark because it makes them feel more important.
Lewis delivers Archer's grand, self-important speeches superbly and manages to keep believable as he strikes heroic poses, or strides across the top of police vans to rescue Margaret Thatcher from danger.
How many self-important people are there in positions of power, restrained by ethics or decorum from telling us all what they really think, and only a few keystrokes away from doing so?
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The movie is pure exploitation an extended, self-important freakout.
Over the next decade we as citizens need to recapture our voice and take back control of the political process which is currently dominated by narcissistic and self-important candidates on both sides of the aisle.
If anything, this was close to whistle-blowing: the person did not put their name in the data (in a self-important way), and in fact released a memo suggesting a clear whistle-blowing mentality in the second round of revelations.
In keeping with the anti-elitism of his boss, Rupert Murdoch, Thomson has always been publicly dismissive of the Pulitzers and other journalism awards, saying they reward exactly the kind of prolix, self-important writing readers can do without.
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Not that Bryan Singer has a particularly light touch, and indeed the script's narrative bookends land with a dull thud, but at least the "X-Men" director hasn't succumbed to the self-important bloat that mars Peter Jackson's work these days.
Two things are clear: First, as is also generally true of all things related to the United Nations, the costs associated with the countless meetings, meals, perks and logistical requirements of these five, self-important entities and eminent experts are exorbitant.
Midnight calls, clandestine meetings, threatening e-mail messages, not to mention cell phones used as obsessively as lances and shields in a jousting epic: the circuits never stop burning in this self-important but juicily entertaining public-affairs melodrama about big-time journalism and corporate villainy.
Having read the piece written by the self-important prince who might well be a one-eyed king in the midst of a blind commune of 5, one will note that it is full of conjecture and somewhat anecdotal evidence with the necessary xenophobic drift to inflame passions.
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