I departed to the City filled with self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21] Reference
She received my compliments with a great deal of self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
After a pause, he continued, with a self-complacency that amused me. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Adrian felt all the satisfaction of the most approving self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
Was not your feeling a singular mixture of humiliation and self-complacency?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
The baronet received him with a countenance renovated with self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Many factors have gone into the making of this modern mood of self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
Alas, poor Judith, here was the opportunity to regain her lost self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
Hanmer; but Dawson's self-complacency and good-humour carried him through every thing. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Indeed she had convinced herself of this, and went out with an air of great self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Many things conspired to fill his breast with the serenest satisfaction and self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
There I sat in my den, and, with long-drawn puffs, I smoked and I dreamed in blissful self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Builder] Reference
By perfect humility and obedience, he banished the dangerous desire of self-complacency in his actions. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Riches fill the mind with pride, with self-complacency, and with a feeling that the gospel is not needed. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
James in their acquaintance -- one all passion, and the other all indifference and vapid self-complacency?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
She had her brother's self-complacency, and an air of encouragement which Mrs. Gordon seemed to find most gratifying. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
On first casting his eyes over his picture, a feeling of self-complacency and pride stole over the soul of the artist. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number] Reference
In the course of time I began to get the best of this knotty lesson, and my self-complacency moved to the front once more. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
When he looked at her he forgot the caution and distrust and sardonic self-complacency his southern training had given him. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
But being chronically shocked-shocked is a form of self-complacency, insidiously disguising itself as prophetic indignation. From Wordnik.com. [Corruption: A Spectator Sport] Reference
The thought of his self-complacency, his pride and arrogance brings out the plea, the supplication, "remember not past years.". From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Such is the self-complacency of the old Tory hag, that in her wildest moments would bite excessively, -- if she only had teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841] Reference
But there was neither movement nor remark among his listeners, and with a disdainful little smile of self-complacency he resumed. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Destiny] Reference
And their "personalities" remain blurry sites of work and family anxiety, with spikes of class guilt in a baseline of self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [Bonfire Of The Ironies] Reference
This is a very fearful view of our natural state, and one which contradicts all the conclusions of our own vanity and self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
English self-complacency is, of course, a growth of centuries, but perhaps a deliberate and intelligent effort to acquire some of it in. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
What a naïve question of this calibre reveals only too plainly is that self-complacency which is the most deadly foe of the spiritual life. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
He feels no self-complacency, but rather the self-dissatisfaction which comes of the consciousness of possessing faculties which he can but imperfectly use. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
This sudden enlargement of his resources, and also of his sphere of operations, caused him to feel additional satisfaction, together with a natural self-complacency. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
This costs little to self-love, which it rather feeds by entertaining a secret vanity, or self-complacency, in those who are not very careful in watching over their hearts. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
It somewhat disturbs our self-complacency to learn that they have spent more for public improvements than has any city of the United States, with the exception of New York. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
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