self-perceived

The mainstream media seemed content, this week, to view the landscape of political discussion high atop their self-perceived ivory towers of journalistic ethics and excellence -- without pausing for a single moment to consider their own contributions to this culture.

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech Chris Weigant 2011

The mainstream media seemed content, this week, to view the landscape of political discussion high atop their self-perceived ivory towers of journalistic ethics and excellence -- without pausing for a single moment to consider their own contributions to this culture.

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech Chris Weigant 2011

For countries in the sphere of Globalization 2.0, elites seem to recognize that their responsibility is first and foremost to improve the livelihoods of their own peoples, and the survival and legitimacy of their power depends on their national interests rather than some self-perceived destiny to run the world.

Nathan Gardels: Eric X. Li's Globalization 2.0 Nathan Gardels 2011

The men were assessed for physical attractiveness (both self-perceived and other-rated), body size (height, BMI), 2D: 4D ratios and masculine personality/sex roles.

Come Upstairs and See My Vocabulary, Baby? 2009

With that small training device and a huge injection of his belief in me, Will rebuilt my hopes and erased my self-perceived inadequacies.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

Despite their self-perceived genius, neither Donilon nor Obama appear to have appreciated that alternatives to Karzai might be worse or unavailable, and that the U.S. seldom has perfect choices in wartime allies.

Stephen Yates and Christian Whiton: Obama's Mini-Me Stephen Yates 2010

But he was drawn to books and learning for their own sake, and the mean-spiritedness of academic politics—typically driven by envy, resentment and self-perceived inadequacy—grate on such sensitive temperaments.

A World We Have Lost William Anthony Hay 2011

"Your ability to innovate is inversely proportional to your client's self-perceived sophistication."

Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch 2009

With that small training device and a huge injection of his belief in me, Will rebuilt my hopes and erased my self-perceived inadequacies.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

Every year into the future, China will graduate more than seven million people from its universities, up from fewer than a million in 1998, and many of them are struggling to find work suitable to their self-perceived status.

Is China Next? Francis Fukuyama 2011