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Example sentences for: self-congratulatory

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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.
With a self-congratulatory smirk, the show presents the most bullying reactionary ideas as if they were progressive . It's the naughtiness of the privileged that runs something like this: Everyone says it's wrong to club kittens with cinder blocks.
When they project their particular self-consciousness onto society as a whole, the upshot is a sour, self-congratulatory muddle.
The paper contains much more in this self-congratulatory vein.
However--and you may choose to call me a smug foreigner who is also sensitive to "smugness" on the part of the superpower--I thought it self-congratulatory, ill-considered, and decidedly anecdotal.