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Sentence Examples The track is self-contained and self-satisfied, like they've found a circus of their own. He looked smug and self-satisfied, possibly having forgotten his precarious position. They'll use it to create jobs, he says with that self-satisfied smirk of his. Those self-satisfied smirks and self-assured snarlings will sooner or later turn to hands begging for forgiveness. Compare that to the eternally smug self-satisfied attitudes exhibited by the advocates and practitioners of music. We are smug and self-satisfied, most of us, and I include myself in that analysis of our situation. This isn't the smug, self-satisfied account of a young person growing up in the suburbs, with all the boredom and complacency that follows. It's probably because she has found after six years that she is married to a smug, self-satisfied, arrogant, pompous twit. He tells jokes pretty well, though he could do with easing up on the old self-satisfied smirk after the punchline. They go home feeling accomplished, smug and self-satisfied because their intentions were noble and worthy. James shrugged, attempting to look innocent but failing miserably with that self-satisfied smirk on his face. You frequently encounter a stereotype of Americans as self-satisfied and smug. Anna seems to believe its legacy belongs to a legion of smug, self-satisfied designers and copywriters. Even from this distance it exudes the smug, self-satisfied and lively aura for which it is famous. Kyle slammed his hands on the hood of the car and stood with a malicious, self-satisfied smirk across his face. He grinned, and one of those male, self-satisfied smirks slid onto his face. This certitude explains to this bigot why he has such a self-satisfied smirk in his photo. He does not interpret the role as a menacing villain, but as a confident, tireless, self-satisfied trickster. We often find them self-satisfied and overly correct, but as a rule we are, of course, just envious. With a self-satisfied flourish, she whipped her iPod out of her pocket and held it in front of my face. Show More Sentences Urban economists, particularly those on the self-satisfied coasts, tend to envision utter hopelessness for the region. Yes, some of them are handsome, yes they're all clever fellows, but they are also thunderingly self-satisfied. So, what are self-satisfied European leaders and the forgiving bond markets overlooking? Should he become self-satisfied, it will be time for man to raise the question whether he and his culture are threatened with degeneration. On Saturday morning, Londonist awoke from a sound sleep with a self-satisfied smile plastered all over one's face. Nothing can be more repellent to me than the self-satisfied smile of someone who thinks he has got it made. Little will actually be solved other than a generation exhaling with self-satisfied relief. Every politician, economist and self-satisfied person should read it. They're embarrassingly on the nose and incredibly douchey in their own self-satisfied cleverness. At the final whistle the Brazilian team gave each other self-satisfied high fives, which hardly seemed justified considering their performance. The body politic is stagnant, its membership mediocre and undeservedly self-satisfied. He had stood for voluntary poverty, not self-satisfied greed. A self-satisfied grin appeared on his face before he turned away from the mirror. No-one objects when you boogie around your flat in a victory dance with a self-satisfied grin on your face. The other curious thing is that those who announce the death of the nation state usually do so with a little self-satisfied smile. We cannot content ourselves with a self-satisfied pat on the back as our executives are often wont to do on the subject. This is a refreshing departure from the self-satisfied ballyhoo typical of rockstars. Therefore, the shaking directly threatens the self-satisfied believer, who does not feel the need to deepen his personal relationship with God. Without thus coming close to death, I doubt that I would ever have gotten out of my self-satisfied state. It is a memory fed by expectation, weighed down certainly by human weakness, national frustration and a self-satisfied apologetic. Show More Sentences But his would-be debonair, self-satisfied yet insecure dotard could not be more appropriately laughable or pitiful. Above all, no one can be a business development leader who is a complacent person, satisfied to drift without aim, avoiding whatever hints at risk, smugly self-satisfied. The sight of self-satisfied politicians shaking hands has generally been a bad omen for the average citizen, especially in the East. These people are already dangerously self-satisfied. In fact, one should not drop off to sleep, become self-satisfied. In the face of this antithesis, I cannot help thinking of Byzantium, of the balsamic and self-satisfied utterances of the Byzantine administrators at a time when their world was sliding into oblivion. The image of a closed, self-satisfied and selfish community must be confronted by the ideal of an open, dynamic and close-knit society that is capable of sharing not only resources and knowledge, but also hopes and dreams. In those years there was a lost of discussion about the white regime which made sustained efforts to convince self-satisfied elites that apartheid was the only bulwark against Soviet communism. And, what's more, we in the northern hemisphere have to get beyond our self-satisfied attitude and start asking ourselves about our own processes of development. We sometimes seem very smug and self-satisfied within our borders. There is a self-satisfied air about this that I find quite disconcerting, given the worsening economic situation, and a refusal to consider the conditions needed to promote sustainable development. Please open our eyes, Heavenly Father, so that we stop feeling self-satisfied with our poor spiritual condition, and so that we begin to seriously prepare ourselves for the glorious return of Jesus Christ. Bafflingly, from the few glimpses we're given of it, this haven appears anything but alluring, with Julia coming across as a self-satisfied nag and prig. In his self-satisfied sense of superiority, it never even occurred to him that he might have been addressing one of those ignorant rubes who voted for him. Her tone in doing so was truculent, self-satisfied and arrogant. Emma, a clever, pretty, and self-satisfied young woman, is the daughter, and mistress of the house, of Mr Woodhouse, an amiable old valetudinarian. Then they stood in front of the chalkboard, smug and self-satisfied. Sometimes narrator Nora at first comes off as a likably upfront, if slightly self-satisfied Parisian gallery owner. Likewise Mr Garcia-Margallo y Marfil rightly says that the European leaders at the forthcoming spring summit must dispense with vague and self-satisfied declarations and must speak plainly. Until, that is, they took in Ogechi's self-satisfied air, so different from the anxiousness that had followed in her wake whenever she had blessed a child in the past. Show More Sentences The opening of the Ukraine archives is interpreted by some as a sign of intellectual openness and by others as a sign of self-satisfied, self-justifying nationalism. I'm eating now, I got this Hornitos Plata tequila on the couch next to me and, self-satisfied, I took a nip from the cap. He's a self-satisfied klutz who aspires to be a con artist.... Compared with Lawrence, Freddy is small change. He portrayed O'Reilly as a self-satisfied windbag and tinhorn populist. Examples from Classical Literature Csar was moved by his self-satisfied piety, and began to make' noises in his nostrils. I understand that he's a trifle too self-satisfied to be a very popular candidate. Every man nudged his neighbor, and the aguish, blue-eyed boy grinned in a ghastly, self-satisfied way. He struck me as a dapper man, noticeably, but not offensively, self-satisfied. He looked up into the blank, smiling, self-satisfied face of his wife. There was danger of his growing up with a self-satisfied, pharisaical spirit. And, self-satisfied, he passed to the triclinium, where he sat down to supper with Eunice. He had the superficial kindness of a good-humoured, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties. And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours? The same pride of family that had, by its self-satisfied indolence, conduced to aid their fail, now became a principle to stimulate them to endeavor to rise again. Then the townswoman's self-satisfied arrogance came to the surface. He stood therefore at matins, feeling unusually self-satisfied. Otter, meek, mediocre, and self-satisfied, wore an air of importance. Though unable to walk, she had arrived borne aloft in an armchair, as brisk, aggressive, self-satisfied, bolt-upright, loudly imperious, and generally abusive as ever. Find more words! 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