Sentence examples for self-satisfied manner from inspiring English sources
I've sometimes found that self-satisfied manner hard to love, and I'm clearly not alone: tonight, a member of the audience – a nationalist, or just a random loose cannon?
As a newly empowered Eliza storms out the door trailed by an order from her tormentor for a "ham and a Stilton cheese and a pair of reindeer gloves, number eights," Shaw describes Higgins as behaving in a "self-satisfied manner".
But the presentation of D'Angelo is far from straightforward here; early on in this episode he explains, in a self-satisfied and dislikable manner, his cynical attitude to women, while the portrait is rounded off with a nicely nervous performance from Larry Gilliard Jr when Uncle Avon comes calling.
This is not to say that Ms. Holofcener, an acute observer of the manners and morals of the self-satisfied metropolitan middle class, West Coast division, is decorous or genteel.
That a buffoon with deplorable manners can endlessly exercise his right to self-satisfied idiocy is a scary thing.
Many of the "geniuses" we meet along the way are self-appointed and self-satisfied.
It is a code word not for the stinking rich but for the self-sufficient; for people with the education, social contacts, tastes and manners that make them not only self-sufficient but also apparently self-satisfied.
Perfectly, perfectly self-satisfied.
I was super self-satisfied".
And the more self-satisfied.
