How to Use self-importance in a Sentence

self-importance

noun

• What remains intact across all versions of Cady is a devilish sense of humor and a lack of self-importance.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
• We’d sometimes get threatened, and that only inflated our self-importance.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• Late-night show hosts now have an attitude of self-importance, congratulating themselves for their work.
  — Andrea Ruth, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
• Each one becomes a part of the fabric of Fashion Week, but their disparate problems are a far cry from the glitzy event’s self-importance.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
• Season four course-corrected somewhat, but its hard embrace of a bleeding-heart sentimentality around found families and the power of food smacked of self-importance.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 June 2026
• There’s also a broader cultural undercurrent shaping all of this—a down-to-earth atmosphere that resists hierarchy and self-importance.
  — Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
• Less of a reboot than a shameless do-over, Marc Webb‘s first Spider-Man film tells a more protracted origin story, with half the fun and twice the self-importance (the film earns a rare dead-dad hat trick).
  — Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Aug. 2026
• This population crisis feeds into a post-imperial syndrome, where the decline of empire and power status invokes a sense of loss of self-importance that gives rise to resentment and an unwavering commitment to retain great power status.
  — John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026