Sentence examples for hint of self-satisfaction from inspiring English sources

If there was a hint of self-satisfaction in that last comment, Johnson deserves it.

There was a hint of self-satisfaction in Groh's demeanor today despite the loss to Green Bay.

"They had never done anything like this before," Ruiz-Geli says with a hint of self-satisfaction.

"Yeah, I played pretty good against Sergio," Knox said afterwards, with a forgivable hint of self-satisfaction.

Ask him a question, and a little smile and just a hint of self-satisfaction flickers beneath his light brown mustache and reminds you, gently, that he knows a lot more than the answer.

In truth, it was not the words that struck home so much as the expression on his beaten-up face, which was a battleground of conflicting emotions: pre-match excitement, big-game nerves, a hint of fear, a touch of serenity, a smattering of self-satisfaction at participating in a fourth World Cup – and at its business end, too – against all medical logic.

New York may be a world capital of self-satisfaction.

Where his admirers see self-confidence, others detect a degree of self-satisfaction.

Survival against the odds is duly noted and admired with a degree of self-satisfaction.

But there is a danger of self-satisfaction turning to complacency and, ultimately, hubris.

In his post-match interview, he was a picture of self-satisfaction – the good kind.