1 He gives a lot of money to charity, but personal aggrandizement/self-aggrandizement is his motive.

2 If our relationship with others is based on self-aggrandizement, and our relationship to property is acquisitive, the structure of society is bound to be competitive and self-isolating.

3 Ego and self-aggrandizement oft seduce even highly evolved souls, and inevitably leads to downfall.

4 Many of the late videos are heavy on self-aggrandizement; others, on self-pity.

5 The agenda of the dark Ones has never allowed for the needs of you the people, and has followed their plan for self-aggrandizement.

6 This is true whether the seduction is for comfort, self-aggrandizement, money, or, in the most egregious public instances, sex.

7 Nowadays, our culture disvalues liberal education, is skeptical of virtue, and, in particular, glorifies self-aggrandizement over altruism.