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Example sentences for: self-satisfaction

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Yet the pieces are also suffused with a strange self-satisfaction.
For such people, we might say that their very grip on reality depends on their control of language: it is their security blanket, the corners of which they chew with everlasting self-satisfaction and in which they wind themselves for protection against the hostile forces that would shake the foundations of their traditionalism.
The Nazis were well out of power; nothing would have come of the killings except a vague sense of self-satisfaction on the part of those involved.
Are we made impervious by a shell of arrogance, numb by self-satisfaction, or tolerant by the wild ethnic diversity in which most of us live?
For the most part, Leroi makes an agreeable and humane commentator, though he is not immune to the slight self-satisfaction that seems to overcome all scientists on television.