Self-interest and self-satisfaction are replaced with self-reflection and significant improvement. |
Appalled by smugness and self-satisfaction, he simply could not bear to see an Irish institution go unchallenged. |
At other times, a Democratic bout of self-satisfaction has merely made the party or the particular officeholder look craven. |
It was not intended as a path to complacency or self-satisfaction, but to questions and action. |
Occasionally it crosses the line of self-satisfaction, as if to lament that the world is full of innumerate mouth-breathers. |
These are grounds for sober pride and greater self-confidence, but not self-satisfaction. |