| The foundational anniversary marked by Republic Day is categorised as a celebration, a moment for self-congratulation. |
| In his critical writing, too, Pritchett's manner is to disavow authority and try to escape any hint of self-congratulation. |
| However, this experience was rarely examined, and there was no self-congratulation about having accomplished the task successfully. |
| Eight years old tonight, the Irish language channel will forgo the traditional on-screen orgy of birthday self-congratulation. |
| Sometimes it's just the hippest sort of vanity, an easy form of self-congratulation that utterly fails at detoxifying the original object. |
| She talked about the persistence of elements of racism that we may be missing in self-congratulation of multiculturalism. |
