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Boasting or
bragging is
speaking with
excessive pride and self-satisfaction
about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities.
Boasting occurs when someone...
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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...
- The
original church was
built between 1846 and 1847, then
enlarged and
aggrandized in the
Gothic Revival style between 1866 and 1868. A
Collegiate Gothic...
- 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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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...
- Walpole, with
regard to
foreign affairs: he has
deserted our allies,
aggrandized our enemies, betra**** our commerce, and
endangered our colonies; and...
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dangerous sign,' she says. 'It
really suggests that a
president wants to
aggrandize more
authority and more power. And that
should make
everybody nervous...
- The
Chesterfield portrait,
attributed to Borsseler, and the
earliest known aggrandized image of Shakespeare....
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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...
- 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...
