How to Use self-important in a Sentence

self-important

adjective

• The people are bland, gossipy and self-important while my friends and family are almost a thousand miles away.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• The show has taken on Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, politicians of every stripe and self-important celebrities.
  — Josie Howell | , al, 29 Mar. 2023
• What’s Jimmy Buffett got that some self-important musical stars seem to lack?
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• The series is sincere but not self-important, slightly silly but not embarrassed about it.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
• The self-important justifications of these tourists will leave you feeling even more frustrated with the human race.
  — Longreads, 14 July 2023
• The fact is that bringing together a host of successful but self-important luminaries to forecast the future is a mug’s game.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• Pros: There’s a potent tension with the nearby monument to the Signers, which comes off as self-important and deeply complacent thanks to Red Star’s intervention.
  — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Even so, who better than Tina Fey to play a self-important, slightly bullying know-it-all who conceals her questionable competence behind a thin layer of condescension?
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
• There has always been the possibility in moving-picture narratives that our feeling ignored, downtrodden, and unknown in life can be relieved by gaudy monsters who trash the self-important world.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• Just as in Into the Spider-Verse, these opening monologues satirize the self-important and repetitive nature of superhero introductions.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
• But if education in the liberal arts actually achieves these goals, how come many humanities professors are self-important, status-conscious jerks?
  — WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
• The technology world can be, to its detriment, too analytical, sort of arrogant, and self-important, and those characteristics are anti-empathy.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024