Example sentences for: self-satisfied

How can you use “self-satisfied” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In all of them, scenes of repressive formality (hoary English actors sipping sherry in drawing rooms) would be shattered by scenes of Dionysian release (Dracula or some other fanged entity swooping down in an animalistic frenzy), and an aristocratic figure of both science and Christian faith--usually the crisply self-satisfied Peter Cushing--would show up to lecture the frightened villagers and pound a stake through the heaving bosom of some temptress.

  • That's what makes Election so much more insightful than Primary Colors : Tracy isn't fatted and self-satisfied like Nichols' version of Clinton.

  • will squinny his eyes, raise his chin, lift an eyebrow, and curl his lip slightly--his face seems to be involved in a somewhat painful, quasi-involuntary struggle to prevent itself from erupting into a broad, self-satisfied smile.

  • The camera pans down the occupied seats, to alight upon a fresh-scrubbed English lass, who stands up and lets the peevish boy sit down, much to his self-satisfied delight.

  • Murdoch brought the same fierce energy to the self-satisfied American TV industry.


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