self-admiring
Example Sentences
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To these mightily impressed but not entirely enraptured eyes, there remains a self-admiring quality to Cuarón’s imagery that keeps full immersion at bay.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2019
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
Her work with Minna Lyons at Liverpool Hope University revealed that people who habitually stayed up late were, on average, more self-admiring, manipulative and psychopathic.
From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2014
His jacket was neatly mended; altogether, Pepe was once more a self-respecting, even a self-admiring youth.
From Rita by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
