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Recent Examples of self-congratulatory
In a night full of self-congratulation, Chu’s speech was maybe the most self-congratulatory, somehow trying to make the case that the film was saving the world and also about … radical optimism?
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Beyond the lifeboat of major film festivals, which still assist a handful of buzzy international and independent films in their treacherous journey to release, such entities as the self-congratulatory, navel-gazing Oscars have seemingly abandoned the inclusion of riskier, daring films.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
And the self-congratulatory swells taken in by his lies are really just projecting onto him all their neuroses and biases.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
And what did the reunion tour with Liz Cheney and her evil father’s spectral presence accomplish, other than alienating everyone but a sliver of self-congratulatory consultants and pundits eager to flaunt their bipartisan commitments in the most obscene way possible?
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 Nov. 2024
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Beyond the lifeboat of major film festivals, which still assist a handful of buzzy international and independent films in their treacherous journey to release, such entities as the self-congratulatory, navel-gazing Oscars have seemingly abandoned the inclusion of riskier, daring films.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
And the self-congratulatory swells taken in by his lies are really just projecting onto him all their neuroses and biases.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
And what did the reunion tour with Liz Cheney and her evil father’s spectral presence accomplish, other than alienating everyone but a sliver of self-congratulatory consultants and pundits eager to flaunt their bipartisan commitments in the most obscene way possible?
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-congratulatory
Adjective
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The difference is Epstein was self-assured enough to publicly admit some of his mistakes.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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Gone are the comfy days of feeling self-assured and having yes people circling him.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Little ‘confident’ federal roles will remain even as layoffs begin Much of Idaho’s resiliency to federal funding cuts will depend on its maintenance of a state budget surplus, Little said Tuesday.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
26 Feb. 2025
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However, Gomes is confident that the winter moves have given the Dodgers some added adrenaline for 2025 and will offset a potential championship hangover.—
John Perrotto,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Liberals without children fear they are seen as selfish careerists or libertines.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Dropping this much weight in such a short amount of time is both dangerous and, according to his teammates, selfish.—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The caricature of Doug Gottlieb is the cheekily overconfident, know-it-all opinionator with no detectable filter.—
Brian Hamilton,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Social media worsens this as the simply act of sharing online can make users overconfident in their own knowledge.—
Callum Booth,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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There’s plenty such wordplay in The Safe House, to the point that the movie can seem like a caricature of overeducated, perpetually growling Parisians shouting for social change, but too self-centered and comfortable in their bourgeois lifestyles to do anything drastic about it.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025
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Sitting on the sidelines and labeling someone else as self-centered is easy.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But diners won’t find pretentious fare at Canal House Station.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2025
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Art fairs trend toward the exclusive and pretentious.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Maybe some person will be presumptuous enough to wonder aloud what might have influenced the plot of this book.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
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Stone sails through all this, seeing off the sneering disapproval of white America and the presumptuous demands of the Black Panthers with equal disdain, and for a time his band, the aptly named Sly and the Family Stone, become a republic within the republic.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Phillip, Portland, Ore. A: Unlike baseball, with some of its holier-than-thou decisions with its Hall of Fame, the Basketball Hall of Fame largely looks at career on-court achievements.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
18 Feb. 2025
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The story prompted an uproar from fans of Michigan’s Big Ten opponents, who saw Harbaugh as a cheater and Michigan’s holier-than-thou image as a fraud, and urged commissioner Tony Petitti to take action.—
Austin Meek,
The Athletic,
8 Aug. 2024
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