A mix of self-reliance and faithful colleagues helps.
For many politicians, success arises from a mix of self-doubt, drive and extraordinary ambition.
The answer is a mix of self-interest, stinginess and politics.
The annual report from the Serious Organised Crime Agency, published yesterday, is a mix of self-congratulation and spectacular underachievement.
Here, though, you make sure to talk about it — which is why the term exudes a false note, a mix of self-consciousness and self-congratulation.
But yes, it will probably devolve into a mix of self-congratulatory snark, celebrity retweets, and 140-character demagoguery soon enough.
There, the standards are established under threat of violence, and accepted out of a mix of self-preservation and self-loathing.
Clutching her bare knees to her chest, her furtive gaze a mix of self-consciousness and contempt, Lisa is a monument to the sullen blankness that drives parents of teenage girls everywhere to despair.
Dozens of US flights were hijacked and diverted to Cuba in the 1960s by a mix of self-described radical leftists, fugitives seeking asylum on the Caribbean island and criminals scheming to extort money from the US government or airlines.
In it, Jack Kerouac is leaning toward a radio speaker, listening to a broadcast of himself reading, his hand curled around a stubby volume knob, a mix of self-interest and disdain squeezing his face.
