The self-complacent, mock humility of this speech was all too apparent. |
Even my uncle was momentarily embarrassed, I think, by that invincibly self-complacent expression. |
The minister's welcome was kind, but there was a tinge of self-complacent pride in it. |
But at the same time it stops them from being self-complacent in their community life and it pushes them to open themselves to the newness that the mission brings with it. |
How he distrusted and feared this smug, self-complacent young man! |
But, beside this, there is no true and substantial happiness but for the self-complacent. |