self-contentment

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Noun
  • Corporate leaders will be called upon to overcome self-satisfaction with progress made in the advancement of gender parity for women, especially those in senior and middle management.
    Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information, Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • That results in the appearance of company complacency.
    Anne Lackey, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Despite this approach, Orr says many companies suffer from a culture of complacency at the top.
    Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Shrugging off physical vanity and even declining to correct strangers on their nonbinary pronouns, Gibson retreats from identity in the face of an all-consuming and transformative illness.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Whether the room is used for overlapping daily routines or as a space to rest and relax, popular features include separate vanities, dual sinks, and showers with multiple showerheads and plenty of space for two people.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • At the same time, the song channeled the slightly uncomfortable fusion of selflessness and self-glorification that pop and rock ‘n’ roll stars inevitably projected during the charity-rock-event ’80s.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Writing about other peoples has long been in service of self-glorification.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Gratitude is the opposite of selfishness, egotism, avarice or narcissism.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
  • But by trying to avoid how Trump’s past reflects his current approach to politics—his zero-sum relationship to power, his pettiness and egotism—while simultaneously winking at viewers’ knowledge of him, the film lands itself in a trap.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • There isn’t a politician or entertainer on the planet who can match the hubris and delusion of an outgoing president with nothing to lose.
    Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The level of hubris that overtook Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her first-line officials could partially explain the pervasiveness of explicit corruption all the way to the upper echelons of government.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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