She had the expression, a sort of satisfied wince, familiar to parents everywhere, when a nagging suspicion — the toe is broken, the teeth need braces, the itchy scalp is really lice — has been confirmed.
While I'm disappointed, I am sort of satisfied because we didn't play anywhere near our best.
The design they produced has exactly the sort of self-satisfied sophistication one finds on the Côte d'Azur, a land of wooden Riva powerboats, Vacheron Constantin watches and exceptionally large hats.
Paolini based the dragon's behavior and attitude on the pets and animals he grew up around, particularly his pet cats: "I thought a dragon would be like a cat in some ways, that same sort of self-satisfied attitude".
As a genre it is soaked in that sort of self-satisfied "it's a lot more fun than listening to some boring trendy house music" line of thinking.
His film has something to say in Ireland in 2011, reeling from the Celtic Tiger comedown and badly let down by the same self-satisfied sort of politician whose back-slapping smugness was exposed in Rocky Road.
A lawyer doesn't make partner here, or accumulate a bookcase jammed with leather-bound case histories (a greatest-hits collection of the legal sort, featuring satisfied megaclients like Standard Oil, International Paper, Westin and Chubb) by performing like a milquetoast.
The solutions are sorted based on two measures i.e., the number of satisfied constraints and the violation measure.
Dan Cohen, the company's chief executive, said that although Better Place had a number of satisfied customers, its niche market appeal made it difficult to achieve the sort of sales needed to cover operating costs.
There he stands, at a little distance, jingling coins in his pocket, waiting for someone to need him: a satisfied man, with the sort of good humor and obliging manner I associate with an old-fashioned servant.
