Napoleon had drowned: It was an astonishing thing to see the Mississippi rolling between unpeopled shores and straight over the spot where I used to see a good big self-complacent town twenty years ago. ❋ Matt Dellinger (2010)
Anger and astonishment kept Mrs. Lilias silent, — while her old friend, in his self-complacent manner, was making known to her his political speculations. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I would have you neither bashful nor self-complacent; I would not have you in terror of losing my affection — that would be an insult — but neither would I have you wear your love lightly as a thing of course. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They belong to a self-complacent time, and we to a time of doubt and unsatisfied aspiration, and the two spirits are unsympathetic. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The self-complacent ignorance with which this remark was made was ludicrous in the extreme. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A bald deism has undoubtedly been the creed of some of the purest and most generous men that have ever trod the earth, but none the less on that account is it in its essence a doctrine of self-complacent individualism from which society has little to hope, and with which there is little chance of the bulk of society ever sympathizing. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The day you become too self-complacent will be the day you stop noticing this very same nay-saying. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It lacks the self-complacent unreasonableness of Board of Works classicism. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
This sort of misbehaviour varies in degree from the black hatred and fury of an uncontrolled egotism to what verges in some cases upon justifiable criticism of slightly fatuous or self-complacent behaviour. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
All he said was said in his throat and nose, for it is thus the Flamands speak, but I heard him to the end of his paragraph without proffering a word of correction, whereat he looked vastly self-complacent, convinced, no doubt, that he had acquitted himself like a real born and bred “Anglais.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
Oh, hideousness of self-complacent, unbending, cheaply bought virtue; thou art almost more revolting than the frank hideousness of vice! ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was self-complacent, yet there was small apparent ground for such complacence. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Alexey Sergeitch had a little nasal, piping voice, and an invariable smile — kindly, but, as it were, condescending, and not without a certain self-complacent dignity. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A select party of three or four perch on the bushes which skirt a small grassy plain, and cheer themselves with the music of their own quiet and self-complacent song. ❋ Unknown (2004)
While there's a clear pattern of people instinctively expecting the worst from the 900 pound gorilla of any given scene, and blame it for all sins starting with stealing underdogs' ideas and stomping them purposefully, there's also a long history of people and institutions becoming both thinner-skinned and self-complacent as they grow in established influence. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This man, this talking beast, this walking tree. — thus the poet turns upon his languid company as if he loathed their self-complacent foppery; and yet must indulge them. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Donne, to wit - narrow as the line of his shape was compared to the broad bulk of his principal, contrived, notwithstanding, to look every inch a curate: all about him was pragmatical and self-complacent, from his turned-up nose and elevated chin to his clerical black gaiters, his somewhat short, strapless trousers, and his square-toed shoes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Lord Chancellor204 had spoken with balanced unemotional sentences, now self-complacent, now derisive. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)
