self-admiring
Example Sentences
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It’s hardly a problem unique to “Titane”: Absent the element of surprise, even the most heroically uncompromising vision often runs the risk of being later dismissed as a showy, self-admiring stunt.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2021
O’Neill wasn’t wrong, though, in the self-admiring assessment he made in a 1940 letter to the critic George Jean Nathan, to whom he had sent an early draft.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018
Like many self-appointed saviors, Haftar spoke with a certain self-admiring fatalism.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
Her work with Minna Lyons at Liverpool Hope University revealed that people who habitually stayed up late were, on average, more self-admiring, manipulative and psychopathic.
From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2014
"Have you?" he asked of Edith, who sat apart, gathered up in her own loveliness, like a self-admiring rose.
From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia
