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Former high-ranking employees have quit the sheriff’s office, often in public fashion, and accused him of being a vindictive and narcissistic boss.—
Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025
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Helm is nothing if not solipsistic, narcissistic even.—
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The attention to amusing detail is evident throughout, from the vainglorious mayor’s ample display of chest fur to the very long wintry outfit Gary De’Snake wears in snowy conditions.—
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All but the most vainglorious architects imagine that their buildings will change in some small way after completion.—
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As of this week, thanks to the egocentric exertions of the current President and his obedient underlings and friends, the place has been renamed the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.—
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As a chef’s kiss, Manning plays for Texas, a yearslong egocentric underachiever that plenty of college football fans love to hate.—
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In hindsight, that moment of hubristic braggadocio may have provoked the wrath of the retail gods.—
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In our own history, the failures of the Vietnam and Iraq wars owed less to insufficient brawn than to arrogance, cultural blindness, and the hubristic dismissal of diplomacy as weakness.—
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But that poem is no smug cliché.—
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Marcello is looking especially smug and evil in this scene for reasons unclear.—
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And his judgment of them is based on his own seeming goodness, and his refusal of the kind of boastful artifice with which Maia and Tallulah live their lives.—
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The Game of Thrones actor is the voice behind Lockhart, the boastful Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second book of J.K. Rowling's beloved series.—
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Figure skater Adriana Russo (Madelyn Keys) begins training for the world championships and falls for her new partner, a cocky but talented skater named Brayden Elliot (Cale Ambrozic).—
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Marty Supreme follows a wildly gifted, unapologetically cocky aspiring table tennis superstar named Marty Mauser (Chalamet), grinding it in Lower Manhattan circa 1952.—
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Why did the Eddie Murphy who had positively ruled in the ’80s end up taking a back seat to a Murphy who was a far more complacent talent?—
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This past summer, Mobley refused to become complacent even after his best season yet, coming off the heels of signing a five-year, $224 million extension with the Cavs in 2024.—
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“Orgulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orgulous. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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