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Example sentences for: self-congratulatory

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He's too young, and there are too many self-congratulatory award ceremonies anyway, the ad seems to say.
The raunchy patter between Eastwood and James Woods as his editor in chief might have made for classic scenes if the former had known how to rein in the latter: Woods has ballooned into such a self-congratulatory grotesque that he now upstages his own blowhard characters.
The real war in Kosovo is featured inside, as it is in Newsweek . Time berates NATO for its self-congratulatory and ill-timed birthday celebrations.
I'd have welcomed her self-congratulatory sarcasm in Instinct , but here it made my back hair stand up.
The cinematography is alternately praised as stunning and condemned as boring, but the response to the story line is unanimous: It's a "liberal soap opera" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that consists of a "self-congratulatory anti-prejudice message, fleshed out with painstaking topographic detail" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). A few critics stand up for the film, calling it a "thoughtful, evocative thriller" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Find out more about Hawke here.)