Example Sentences

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To these mightily impressed but not entirely enraptured eyes, there remains a self-admiring quality to Cuarón’s imagery that keeps full immersion at bay.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2019

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

And the next, the one who played the Liebestraum, a tall young lady with the self-admiring graces and manners of an opera singer on the concert platform.

From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy