31. The controversy around him was centered on his brash and sometimes self-aggrandizing style. 32. It must be encyclopedic and not be self-aggrandizing or promotional in any way. 33. Earlier this year, Hatch described Kessler to reporters as self-aggrandizing and nakedly political. 34. Very soon, you grow impatient with his efforts to aggrandize his all too human material. 35. He had a tendency to self-aggrandize and a daredevil's fascination with chaos. 36. I feel absolutely outraged that I have to defend myself against a self-aggrandizing sociopath, 37. They would have to go beyond the craven or self-aggrandizing acts of individual scientists. 38. Likewise, bilateral donors should cease supporting those who self-aggrandize or abuse human rights. 39. Unfortunately, the DeAngelo is extremely self-promotional and aggrandizing , even after extensive revisions. 40. The term refers to perceived aggrandizing of Dacian and earlier roots of today's Romanians.