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Hannah Waddingham, from “Ted Lasso,” plays Tyrannis’ mother, the noncanonical, self-admiring goddess Deliria, who has suffered a social reverse among the Olympians and has moved in with the family.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 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

PSYCHOLOGY: Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones and Minna Lyons, for figuring out that people who habitually stay up late tend to be more self-admiring, more manipulative and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early.

From Washington Times • Sep. 18, 2014

His jacket was neatly mended; altogether, Pepe was once more a self-respecting, even a self-admiring youth.

From Rita by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)