No more fawning or self-worship - they get in the way.

The absence of stress does not diminish his capacity for self-worship.

You can?t love anyone else because your own self-worship takes up all the space in your heart.

Less predictable is the extent to which the night devolves into an orgy of self-worship.

The nominees reflect the astonishing fact, barely acknowledged during the Academy’s annual ceremony of self-worship, that film is an international art form.

In other words, ultra-liberalism is based upon a belief system steeped in self-worship, or idolatry.

Durkheim decided that the worship of the totems was a type of self-worship for the clan.

It was classic Hollywood self-worship.

The outcome of the gradual development of self-esteem, and self-worship was the dethronement of God.

Much of our trouble begins with the fact that ego self-worship aborts communication and leads to worship of religion rather than God.

We cannot forget the Greeks who preferred the Turk to the soul-destroying self-worship of the West.

To 'churches', full of happy-clappy modernists with their self-centred, man-pleasing, self-worship?

Some years, the Oscars have dragged on for more than four hours, resembling a ponderous exercise in self-worship by Hollywood royalty.

Since then, there has been a relentless shift to immediate consumption as part of something that has been called a "cult of self-worship."

The lives of the patriarchs were "sullied with atrocities," she said, while the prohibition against idolatry encouraged "the chosen people" to self-worship.

All you ever needed was self-respect, the self-worship which contains all of humankind and all the things that matter for your mutual immortality.

It started the moment I stepped out of Rockecenter's place of self-worship and back into the office of Miss Peace.

And the tension between envy and scorn, between self-worship and self-loathing gives her performances a resonance that reflects disquietingly on a celebrity-obsessed culture.

As in really, really silly, which is the kindest way to describe this hopelessly misconceived exercise in celebrity self-worship, which opens to nationwide ridicule today.

The chief should avoid falling into self-worship, should have the "emotional fortitude" to engage in candid discussion and should find the right kinds of people to get things done.

He argues that man's unwillingness to accept his own ego has caused him to externalize these gods so as to avoid the feeling of narcissism that would accompany self-worship.

In this evening of unrelenting self-worship, Dame Edna Everage, the Australian housewife turned superstar, anoints herself the new queen of Broadway, and not without reason.

Thanks to Gervais' inspired — and, yes, occasionally scathing — stewardship, the Globes steered clear of the pretension and self-worship to which awards shows so often fall victim.

Lamprecht has stated that, unlike Satanism in other countries which is predominantly about self-worship, "Satanism in South Africa is characteristically against Jesus Christ."

Commentators, including Mr Richardson, say that if Mr Rudd continues his tour of self-worship and a multitude of overseas trips he risks losing the momentum Labor now has.