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• n  an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance

• At least some of Sukarno's later reputation would rest on an active self-aggrandizement, while Ho Chi Minh during this period still skulked in the shadows, trying to foment .
• In the context of the times it chimed with the blowsy rhetoric of fascist self-aggrandizement, though just about no one looking at it today would take away any such message from it.
• From anyone else, this might seem like delusional self-aggrandizement, but Mori actually has the muscle to put some mortar behind his message.

• self-aggrandisement
• ego trip

News & Articles

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• Conservative Freedom Lovers: You’re Doing It Wrong
  I love lamp. Even though I do not usually share it, I understand the concept of fearing government power. Sometimes you give the government the power to do something noble, or apparently noble, and government distorts it into an instrument of self-aggrandizement or abuse.
  June 7, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Marco Rubio in TCPalm
  I want people to understand our motivations have nothing to do with self-aggrandizement or personal paybacks,Rubio told the Florida Times-Union, apparently with a straight face.
• Robert Mugabe in USA Today
  Mugabe called on the crowd to compare "the patriotism and sacrifice" of the country's heroes "to the character of our people who have chosen to worship the god of wealth and who have shown unbridled greed, corruption and self-aggrandizement."
• Efraim Karsh in The Conservative Voice
  These historical claims are "frequently dismissed by Westerners as delusional, a species of mere self-aggrandizement or propaganda," Karsh writes in his new book. "But the Islamists are perfectly serious, and know what they are doing. Their...