Sentence examples for congratulatory about from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker, September 19 , 1942P. 9 After the all-clear signal had put an end to the city's first bona-fide night alert, we made a note to write something congratulatory about air-raid wardens, but we have decided that this would be out of place.

Most people were quite congratulatory about my public spiritedness, although a few warned that I might have trouble with classroom discipline.

He was never self-congratulatory about this.

EUROPE has become rather self-congratulatory about its newly discovered role in the communications revolution.

"There's something inherently chest-beating and self-congratulatory about promoting an award you've won," Mr. Hirshberg said.

Although showing the transformative power of art, neither of these plays is self-congratulatory about the art of performance.

We bristled when we heard them wax self-congratulatory about ending segregation and war, even as they voted for politicians who would deregulate banks and invade Iraq (the first time).

Literary fiction of that ilk – insular, socially and psychologically hermetic, neurotically backslapping and self-congratulatory about a certain milieu, disaggregated from any estrangement or rubbing of aesthetics against the grain – is in poor shape".

But before we get too self-congratulatory about 2008's diverse and idiosyncratic selection, it should be noted that women are conspicuous by their absence, despite the colossal pay-packets still demanded by Reese Witherspoon (up to $20m), Angelina Jolie ($15m) and Cameron Diaz ($12m).

But, as he put it to me: "how easy it is to be self-congratulatory about how much less prejudiced we are than previous generations".

The real marker of adulthood is doing things that seem "adult" without feeling self-congratulatory about it.