Their jokes, while juvenile, were innocuous, whereas Richards displayed a self-importance verging on grandiosity.
The latest push for a balanced budget amendment is just more unseasonable GOP pie-in-the-sky grandiosity.
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Lastly come classic instances of rotten character, a sickening virus of entitlement and careless grandiosity.
The coming months will expose the grandiosity of his vision for this commission.
Hence too the modern unvirtuous circle, where intervention at the federal level encourages waste and grandiosity at the local level.
All of his colleagues found humor a useful tool to mock, deflate and overthrow the swaggering grandiosity of the Abstract Expressionists.
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His eccentricities on the public stage, Cliburn could veer toward affected grandiosity or oversaturated sentimentality now seemed to capture more attention than the playing.
Grandiosity, denial, and revisionism are all noted indulgences of the political breed.
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Psychologists say the footage indicates he could have been suffering from a severe case of grandiosity and possibly either bipolar depression or schizophrenia.
The movie inadvertently suggests that, without considerable vanity and a touch of grandiosity, Ellsberg might never have acted as bravely as he did.
All got high scores on the Psychopathy Checklist, the "gold standard" in the field, which assesses traits like lack of remorse, callousness and grandiosity.
Some of this is nothing more than innocent, if irritating, grandiosity.
And in my victimization I enjoy a moral and human grandiosity no matter how smart and modern my enemy is, I have the innocence that defines victims.
Back then, they helped distinguish between the different calendar years of the regular season and the Super Bowl while adding an air of grandiosity to the fledgling championship.
With green shag carpet lining the walls and ceiling of the Jungle Room, multi-coloured fabric running riot in the Pool Room, and a mirrored ceiling in the TV room, Graceland is star-studded grandiosity.
Now that Saddam Hussein has once again turned his pathetically impoverished country into a kitchen for poisons and a stage for his grandiosity, it is time to look backward and up.
The Brazilian experience stands out for the grandiosity of its act, which was not just the final chapter of a historical process but was also integrated to a development and self-affirming national strategy.
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It is easy to disparage Soros for grandiosity.
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The grandiosity of these expenditures casts broad penumbras.
An unnamed narrator recalls how he met the mysterious Jacques Austerlitz in Belgium, where they talk about architecture in particular the hubristic grandiosity of public buildings, and the extravagant but useless defensive fortifications once beloved of European rulers.
And, yet, a few streets down from the tourist icon of Galata Tower, ancient alleys tumble down to the Golden Horn in a decayed and unlit grandiosity, untouched, it would seem, since about 1840 such is Istanbul's gift for mad contradiction.
Given the huge number of ads I sold versus how empirically unnecessary an ad in Monk Magazine was, I was considered with the risk of indulging in Gingrichian grandiosity one of the better ad salesmen of my generation.
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And the fact that it supported Saddam Hussein in all these clandestine ways, a man who had been the pariah to the United States in the decade earlier, it seems to me could not have helped encourage Saddam's grandiosity about his role in the Arab world.
But fairness appeals to the British political class, for it has a common sense down-to-earthiness which avoids the grandiosity of American and continental European political discourse while aspiring to do its best for all men and of course for maidens too, fair and otherwise, for one of its virtues is that it does not discriminate on grounds of either gender or skin colour.
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