It was too long and disgustingly self-congratulatory. From Wordnik.com. [Cher Contacts Sonny ��� Mad About Jews ��� Julia Roberts Goes Ape ��� Seinfeld Strikes Out ��� Hasselhoff's Baywatch Wedding ��� The CBS V] Reference
But wait before you get into self-congratulatory mood. From Wordnik.com. [pangsuan Diary Entry] Reference
"Society of Gentlemen" enriched it with an ornate, self-congratulatory. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
And reading that last paragraph makes me sound very self-congratulatory. From Wordnik.com. [dulligirl Diary Entry] Reference
Like most of its kind, the video was pedantic, self-congratulatory, and dull. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Using a terrible tragedy as a means to spout more self-congratulatory claptrap. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It was Hillary Clinton on Hillary Clinton, somewhat self-congratulatory at times. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2008] Reference
Too self-congratulatory or perfect for what Barack Obama and the Democratic Party needed?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2008] Reference
As self-congratulatory as the report is, it's difficult to argue with real-world examples. From Wordnik.com. [Shifting To A Clean Energy Economy] Reference
But the memo also functions as a self-congratulatory backslap for the Web site's big year. From Wordnik.com. [The Morning After: What Happens at Politico?] Reference
And they were self-congratulatory too, about how far they had marched from 1963 to that day. From Wordnik.com. [Paula B. Mays: Oberon and the Interference of the Dream] Reference
The message is hardly self-congratulatory -- America didn't act honorably enough 60 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Exiles On Main St.] Reference
At times, Ultrahang sounds a bit chilly and self-congratulatory, a typical problem with jazz-rock. From Wordnik.com. [The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2009] Reference
Esther is ultimately much more cozy and self-congratulatory — and easier to stand up and applaud. From Wordnik.com. [City Opera's Long Weekend] Reference
He roared and lunged for it — and then whooped with self-congratulatory relief when he righted it. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
A thing of naive, idiotic, self-congratulatory excellence, much like triumphal glasnost America itself. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Brown Rails Against Machineless Time Travel] Reference
We inhabit a self-congratulatory society in which we constantly reassure each other how well we're doing. From Wordnik.com. [The Trophy Syndrome] Reference
Virtually every thesis is presented with immense self-congratulatory brio, only to be contradicted later on. From Wordnik.com. [The Shame of No Shame: Fawning, Sniping in Media Land] Reference
Always defended in a self-congratulatory way as a daring and brave “challenge to political correctness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Kramer vs. Kramer: Five Theories on Michael Richards] Reference
More nauseating are the planted questions asked by Labour backbenchers with their self-congratulatory answers. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
I make a self-congratulatory mental note: That having gotten a car for her means ever so much more free time for me. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
In less self-congratulatory news, the illness that I've been fighting has finally been kicked to the curb ... mostly. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
He should stick to his blog and save us the time of reading his very long-winded and self-congratulatory opinions. reply. From Wordnik.com. [Eventstreaming: The Seed Of A Revolution] Reference
At the least, the Tories will hope that it forces Brown and his acolytes to ease up on the self-congratulatory rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Turning Brown's happier mood against him] Reference
Often he would close this self-congratulatory catalogue with the words “and only thirty-six” — his age at the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall of Roberto Polo] Reference
This got us thinking about other self-congratulatory blurbs we've missed in the past: Dahl is right, I am large and amiable!. From Wordnik.com. [HUFFPOST HILL - SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2010] Reference
PILGRIM: It seems like a fairly self-congratulatory meeting, given what the consumers have been put through in recent months. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2007] Reference
The sincerity of dog love is a delusion of self-congratulatory owners with a need to believe they deserve unconditional love. From Wordnik.com. [The Mini-Me Decade and Other Digressions] Reference
There's something smug about the way they look at us, we prisoners of gravity, something self-congratulatory in their songs. From Wordnik.com. [The Saurians' Revenge] Reference
I wondered ff they'd woken in the morn-lng, peered down at the chamber of mutations and been warmed by a self-congratulatory glow. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
Things are looking good for Obama right now and liberals in their usual self-congratulatory arrogant and ungracious ways are crowing. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Roth's insistence on Sabbath as a walking affront to orthodoxy seems at first baldly self-congratulatory -- or at least congratulatory. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrating An Unholy Sabbath] Reference
What went wrong with the preventive mechanism that led to all kinds of self-congratulatory comments of the last two or three G-7 summits. From Wordnik.com. [Mccurry Briefing] Reference
Now he's airing urgent, effective ads on the deficit and the economy, as well as a series of self-congratulatory half-hours in prime time. From Wordnik.com. [Running Scared] Reference
UESTLOVE: Just from my personal insatiable self, I always felt that the downfall of any artist is to do that self-congratulatory pat on the back thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots: Getting Personal In 'How I Got Over'] Reference
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