There was a window just ahead of us, and standing next to it was Sharee, her arms folded, her expression self-satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Apropos of Nothing] Reference
I said, no, a little smug, a little self-satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [Yo-Yo Ma's Musical Autobiography: 'Appassionato'] Reference
Let the haughty, the proud, the self-satisfied man, open his. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
'You are a very self-satisfied soul, at all events,' he said. From Wordnik.com. [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference
I look at the two, trying to conceal my self-satisfied amusement. From Wordnik.com. [The Sylvia Plath Foreclosure Sale] Reference
"Rather, sir," assented the foreman, with a self-satisfied smile. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
He kept that pleased, self-satisfied grin on his face for six blocks. From Wordnik.com. [Damned If You Don't] Reference
The words “smug” and “self-satisfied” even came up a time or two. From Wordnik.com. [30 years without a credit card, part 2] Reference
It had a strangely self-satisfied aspect, and seemed to say, "Come look at me!". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
It had a strangely self-satisfied aspect, and seemed to say, "Come, look at me!". From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
She is a large, ungenteel woman, with self-satisfied and would-be elegant manners. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
With a self-satisfied air, she strutted forward in answer to her Captain's summons. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts' Good Turn] Reference
There was too much self-satisfied discussion of just how much money was being raised. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Dissecting Howard Dean's Implosion] Reference
This confoundedly good-natured, self-satisfied crowd moving in couples irritated him. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
Mrs. Lorton coughed in a genteel fashion, and her smile grew still more self-satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
"We were so self-satisfied, so proud of our ambiguity," says one Socialist Party insider. From Wordnik.com. [France: The Perils Of Victory] Reference
His "Hear, hear, hear," was the very essence of a self-satisfied and unconscious insolence. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Moreover, Brahma is bliss -- the joy of wholly perfect and self-satisfied thought and being. From Wordnik.com. [Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India] Reference
Do you begin to think, girls, I would have you always prosaic, plodding, self-satisfied, unambitious?. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Here she found Mrs. Highton, seated in the big arm-chair, looking about her with a self-satisfied air. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
When the night train halted at Bellair, Jarvis seated himself in the smoking-car, feeling quite self-satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
She licked her lips in a mischievous, self-satisfied way every time she delivered an especially harsh line. From Wordnik.com. [Oral Exam, Part II] Reference
Cut back to the wide shot, as the guy deftly steps over the banana peel, a self-satisfied expression on his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Geopolitics Of Pratfalls] Reference
Henry (Hopkins), the Wilcoxes 'powerful, self-satisfied patriarch, is outraged by this betrayal of family loyalty. From Wordnik.com. [Forster Revisited] Reference
Both say that the self-satisfied shouting in American political discourse is precluding systemic policy solutions. From Wordnik.com. [Spitzer: Politician to Pundit] Reference
A self-satisfied smile drew apart Mrs. Champney's thin lips; evidently the girl's lesson was a final and salutary one. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Goole's third degree of the Birlings gradually rips aside their self-satisfied exterior to reveal the dark guilts beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Broadway's British Invasion] Reference
The self-satisfied tone might set your teeth on edge, but who -- even a down-home guy like Aiken -- wouldn't want such a life?. From Wordnik.com. [DUET OF THE DIVAS] Reference
Jacqueline Kennedy disliked the Texas governor, whom she privately considered self-satisfied and too handsome for his own good. From Wordnik.com. [An Assassination Diary] Reference
It's hard to say whether he's gotten somewhat self-satisfied, or is just having a hard time keeping up with the demand for his art. From Wordnik.com. [Expressionism Italian Style] Reference
It did please her, too, so much that she almost cried, and she hugged us and thanked us till we felt very happy and self-satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
The self-satisfied man sees every one's faults in giant proportions; and every one's virtues, but his own, dwarfed into insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
“I am surprised that your stepmother should uphold any such superstitious ideas,” said Aunt Amelia with a self-satisfied expression. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
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