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Example sentences for: self-congratulatory

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I'd have welcomed her self-congratulatory sarcasm in Instinct , but here it made my back hair stand up.
Charles Krauthammer makes this case in the post-election issue of the Weekly Standard . ("No Excuses, No Alibis," declares the editors' self-congratulatory headline, as if pinning the entire blame on one scapegoat deserves a medal for intellectual valor.)
Hughes handled this theme in a more self-congratulatory and heavy-handed way in The Breakfast Club (1985).
Payne freezes on her face at its most nauseatingly self-congratulatory, while McAllister recalls (in voice-over narration) how his fellow teacher and best friend, Dave Novotny (Mark Harelik), initiated a wildly destructive affair with her and got himself booted out of the school and his marriage.
But whereas Borges at his best elicits from readers a shudder of metaphysical terror, and Calvino stimulates a spasm of epistemological ecstasy, Stoppard consistently induces in his audiences a frisson of self-congratulatory pleasure.