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
PSYCHOLOGY: Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones and Minna Lyons, for figuring out that people who habitually stay up late tend to be more self-admiring, more manipulative and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early.
From Washington Times • Sep. 18, 2014
Truly 'tis not the self-admiring boy Nymph Echo longed so vainly to enjoy; Yet the old classic fable hath a phase Which seems to fit the opprobrium of our days.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 by Various
