How to Use self-important in a Sentence

self-important

adjective

• The self-important Brackman often was the butt of his colleagues’ jokes.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2024
• This isn’t just one self-important critic’s opinion — Berry herself has talked about it.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
• Self-righteous and self-important, priggish and nagging.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2026
• This self-important aging fart, going on and on about himself, his thoughts, feelings, emotions.
  — Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
• 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 series is sincere but not self-important, slightly silly but not embarrassed about it.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
• These species, along with teal and shovelers, often get categorized by self-important duck hunters as scrap ducks or bonus ducks.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2026
• Matt and his direct reports quickly reveal themselves to be spineless, self-important, thin-skinned, and out of touch.
  — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
• What’s Jimmy Buffett got that some self-important musical stars seem to lack?
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• The former excels at playing the earthy, sly, seductive trickster, the latter, the pompous, self-important rich boy.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 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
• Public officials attend each year to bear witness and show their respects, not deliver self-important speeches.
  — Ken Frydman, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026
• Not to throw shade, but Aries can be self-important, similarly to how Collins deals with his relationship to others.
  — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 22 Nov. 2025
• Balmy does prove to be slightly sinister and fully absurd, in the way of self-important cult leaders everywhere, and Le Moulin even more so.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• And women who foreground themselves in any capacity are often perceived to be self-important drama queens, or narcissists.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
• The show has taken on Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, politicians of every stripe and self-important celebrities.
  — Josie Howell | , al, 29 Mar. 2023
• Putting on a show that’s self-important at worst, familiar and forced at best, this frustrating fever dream (a generous term) offers only a handful of surprises to the average horror fan.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
• Looking elegant as ever, Huppert appears with script in hand, half-reading, half-reciting a long, self-important monologue, written by Rozek.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Feb. 2026
• What about Miami would attract a phony, conniving, self-important, billionaire pedophile?
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 June 2024
• It was being painted as an out-of-touch, arcane, and self-important social institution from a bygone era, and was doing very little to dispel that characterization.
  — David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
• 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
• 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
• The effort was pointless and self-important and never once determined the Legislature could promote happiness by lowering the cost of living and staying out of people’s lives.
  — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Trailer spoofs In place of self-important promotion, Oldenburg every year releases a festival trailer spoofing a major blockbuster or cult movie.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
• Only this time the interns are boring Gen Z stereotypes (obsessed with TikTok, too sensitive, too emotional, too self-important).
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
• Although the director’s overuse of foot-stomp transitions can feel a bit self-important — experimental for experimental’s sake — this is interesting theater of ideas.
  — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2026
• 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
• The result is Shin Godzilla, a bone-dry satire of government impotence and self-important bureaucrats that’s the most realistic installment in the series since the original.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024