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Example sentences for: self-congratulation

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If you try to flip away from the self-congratulation, you come across the synergy.
Sometimes, it addresses a virtually nonexistent problem or, at least, a problem that ranks lower on any sensible scale of national concerns than the fuss and self-congratulation would indicate.
Congress and the president indulged in a round of mutual self-congratulation over their agreement on an appropriations package for the new fiscal year.
USAT seems to maintain the most detachment from the hoopla, saying that the celebration capped "a week of self-congratulation."
Western pundits, having once placed Japan on a pedestal, now either prefer not to discuss the subject or see Japan's failures mainly as an occasion for smug self-congratulation.