The New Yorker, January 29 , 2001P. 89 Briefly Noted review of "Shutterbabe" (Villard; $24.95) by Deborah Copaken Kogan... Kogan's...account of her [photojournalist] career reads like an extended episode of acting out... [It] is self-involved and self-congratulatory without being self-aware.
The tent is congratulatory throughout.
The scene was cheerful, even congratulatory, though jittery.
He was very emotional and congratulatory, though, which was gratifying.
Chairman Ajit Pai, however, was less congratulatory in his own statement.
He could not have sent a congratulatory letter to Mr. Obama without at least the tacit permission of the supreme leader.
She ends the scene with Mrs. Clinton hanging up her cell phone without taking a congratulatory call from her husband at the White House.
He remained seated, as President Boudinot, without removing his hat, delivered the congratulatory address.
From the luge to the triple lutz, it is the most Olympics you can get without an awards ceremony and a congratulatory telephone call from the president.
Even the school district had to admit the high schoolers had crushed it, offering them a congratulatory "nice work!" for managing to freak everybody the hell out without actually damaging school property.
Steer clear of "congratulatory scorecards".
