Sentence examples similar to self congratulation of from inspiring English sources

Black humour and self-deprecation replaced the self-congratulation of past years.

It sounds a bit like the self-congratulation of a cancer-ward patient for best tumor.

But there was none of the standard self-congratulation of bygone hard-rock front men.

LONDON — After all the triumph and hoopla and, yes, the self-congratulation of the 2012 London Olympic Games, the Paralympics beginning this week may seem eclipsed in advance.

The novelist Melvin Jules Bukiet launched a particularly scathing attack in the American Scholar, accusing Eggers and his McSweeney's crowd of "the implicit self-congratulation of wonder".

Except for the hours I spent watching the craven self-congratulation of "Liza at the Palace," most of my time on the Rialto this year has not felt wasted.

Jamison is concerned from the outset that her book will not escape "the tedious architecture and tawdry self-congratulation of a redemption story"—that it will, in short, be boring.

Amidon stages scenes early on in which Wooten has some difficulties with a group of white construction workers; he also does a good job of conveying the unconscious self-congratulation of racially tolerant whites like Swope.

His likable default position is to satirise the self-congratulation of the worlds in which he works, and to examine the basis of the desperate rearguard action fought by the book-lover against the internet.

"Ragtime" was originally published in 1975, in the prelude to what Mr. Doctorow called "the self-congratulation" of the Bicentennial, and nowadays is a fixture on college and high school reading lists.

It is this created and imagined version, not its precise content or its 13th century historical significance, that explains why the Queen will be going to Runnymede on Monday and illuminates the national self-congratulation of the anniversary.