self-admiring
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In his final year he joined the Cambridge Apostles, a club that the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper described as “an egregious secret society of self-perpetuating self-admiring narcissi.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But in contrast with the heavy, self-admiring sheen that has weighed down Snyder’s imagery since “300,” the filmmaking here feels nimbler, grittier, more energized.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2021
O’Neill wasn’t wrong, though, in the self-admiring assessment he made in a 1940 letter to the critic George Jean Nathan, to whom he had sent an early draft.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
Like many self-appointed saviors, Haftar spoke with a certain self-admiring fatalism.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
We heed not that the selfish condemn, that the self-admiring wise censure, or the parricidal accuse us.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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