With inordinate self-satisfaction, I soldiered on. From Wordnik.com. [‘Love It or Leave It’] Reference
I had to allow myself a moment of self-satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Party Advice, From Father to Son] Reference
There was a touch of self-satisfaction in her voice. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
I will do it for the excitement and self-satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [What It's Like When The Power Is Gone] Reference
Nothing moves me to self-satisfaction like a nice dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
The doctor's self-satisfaction took the very proudest form. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The emotions themselves of self-satisfaction and abasement are of. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
No one noticed Ragan sitting there, smirking in self-satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Boobiac Strikes Back!] Reference
Blest exuberance of self-satisfaction, that overflows upon others!. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
There are drawbacks, of course, to this complete self-satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
"Smug self-satisfaction is no longer the middle class mind-set," says Gunn. From Wordnik.com. [Is the British middle class an endangered species?] Reference
And I was wondering at his self-satisfaction, when I saw -- what think you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
And who shall say that their self-satisfaction is not healthy and pardonable?. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
So the year 1805 opened in humdrum prosperity and national self-satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
As long as I remain in this field I may seek self-satisfaction without scruple. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
I have tried a thousand times, and always without the slightest self-satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
Too much self-satisfaction tempts us to treat disappointment as somebody else's fault. From Wordnik.com. [The Trophy Syndrome] Reference
To decide upon the costume which can secure this serene self-satisfaction is impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
He is a man, so, at the last stage of self-satisfaction, he despises what is not man -- woman. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
He who makes his moral aim self-satisfaction can scarcely be expected to advocate self-sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Many men attain self-satisfaction through negation, through a serene surrender of the unattainable. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Unconscious of all this, she pursued her way in serene self-satisfaction, -- a complacency shared by. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
Unselfishness appears to be the inevitable goal of the strivings for self-satisfaction of an unselfish self. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Hence his complete self-satisfaction implies the satisfaction of his social as well as of his other impulses. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The even tenor of his lot in life did not produce in him self-satisfaction and complacency, but often did make him uneasy. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
I was intent and uneasy, but I had room in my heart for vain self-satisfaction that I knew something of the Ottawa speech. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Such considerations as the above have led some moralists to define, as the end of desire, not pleasure, but self-satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The little speech I have just addressed to myself has restored me my self-satisfaction, but made me more dissatisfied with others. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And he grasps the old hostess by the hand with a self-satisfaction he rather improves by tapping her encouragingly on the shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Yet there was every indication that its wearer believed that it suited him, for he moved both with confidence and self-satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917] Reference
There was always some whiny, self-satisfaction in failure that was coupled, however improbably, with an implacable faith in the future. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Boston, Philly Fans Agree: Pats Win] Reference
Jeremiah listened to these joyous shouts and observed sorrowfully the self-satisfaction of those who had come to offer their sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference
The baseball hat, after all, is as American as apple pie, emblematic of virility and a peculiar brand of American male self-satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [I Don't Like What You're Wearing] Reference
When Dershowitz says, "From what I've seen of the rich, you can have them," von Bulow replies, his voice syrupy with self-satisfaction, "I do.". From Wordnik.com. [The Big Chill In The Upper Crust] Reference
As it is, Congress, with great self-satisfaction, last expanded the death penalty in 1988 to include drug "kingpins" who were involved in homicides. From Wordnik.com. [Crime Time In The White House] Reference
Appropriating Churchill with smug self-satisfaction, pundits recorded yet another instance of European "appeasement" -- even before the Spaniards had finished burying their dead. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Another Look At Spain] Reference
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