Words similar to congratulating

Example sentences for: congratulating

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It is a conventional celebrity biopic, lionizing its subject at every possible turn, and congratulating itself for its insight.
In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post ran an editorial congratulating Clinton for his role in China's decision to send Tiananmen Square hero Wang Dan into exile in the United States.
P laying by Heart has the strident psuedosophistication of a late-night dorm room colloquy as dramatized by a sophomore busy congratulating himself for having more insight into love than all the incoming freshmen.
This is like replacing the money you'd been saving for your kids' college tuition with an IO-me note, buying a new car, and then congratulating yourself on your financial prudence.
All three of his arrest-story "sources" speak in a stilted, too-perfectly-advancing-the-story-line way, telling the author more or less the same thing, and congratulating him on his genius in ferreting out this facts.