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Nor can they quite overcome the disconnect between the glossy, self-admiring visual beauty of “Close” and the stormier, uglier emotional depths it purports to uncover.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

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