self-admiring
Example Sentences
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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
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
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)
