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Boasting or
bragging is
speaking with
excessive pride and...
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caput inter nubila (condit) (she plunges) [her] head in the
clouds So
aggrandized as to be
beyond practical (earthly)
reach or
understanding (from Virgil's...
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singing the song,
because he
believed audiences would think it was a "self-
aggrandizing tribute".
According to NPR, "My Way" has
become one of the most requested...
- his
theory being that "Macoraba" is the word "Makkah"
followed by the
aggrandizing Aramaic adjective rabb (great). The
Roman historian Ammi**** Marcellinus...
- in Rome on 30
October to
accept the appointment.
Fascist propaganda aggrandized this event,
known as "March on Rome", as a "seizure" of
power because...
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Anwar Sadat, to sue for
peace with the
Jewish state. Saddam's self-
aggrandizing propaganda, with
himself posing as the
defender of
Arabism against Zionist...
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Emperor Ping of Han (9 BC – 3
February 6 AD),
personal names Liu Jizi and
later Liu Kan, was the
eleventh emperor of the
Chinese Han dynasty, reigning...
- was
taken for
granted that a
legitimate function of a
monarch was to
aggrandize his dynasty: that is, to
expand the
wealth and
power of his
family members...
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replace it with a
monumental structure to
house his
enormous tomb and "
aggrandize himself in the po****r imagination". A
competition was held, and a number...
- Walpole, with
regard to
foreign affairs: he has
deserted our allies,
aggrandized our enemies, betra**** our commerce, and
endangered our colonies; and...
