Sentence examples for self-satisfied expression from inspiring English sources
She takes the stage with a smug, self-satisfied expression.
In the paparazzi shots, Piers Morgan stands beside his statuesque new wife Celia Walden, dressed in a pale blue suit and wearing the self-satisfied expression of a man who can't quite believe how well life has turned out.
Laura recalls a younger Betty using the word "ashamed" for the first time: "She had a self-satisfied expression on her face, and I realised that she was pleased with herself for using the word, for applying it... words were like extra fingers that she grew each day.
You could not escape the self-satisfied expression on his face.
Two tethered camels gazed at the plains with droopy, self-satisfied expressions.
The white flowers, he thought, had a rather self-satisfied look about them".
Softening the severity of Kelly's expression, it also reveals a trace of self-satisfied smugness -- the look male CEOs seem to specialize in when posing in public.
In the accompanying catalogue her colleague, the journalist Patrick O'Donovan, discusses their work together and her alchemical talent "...she must use the accidents of time and place as they are to manufacture her gold, whether it be the hang of a curtain, a face in a crowd, the dead give-away in the expression of a self-satisfied man".
All of them look well off and self-satisfied.
Perfectly, perfectly self-satisfied.
