Party upstairs thinks that, all things considered, he'd rather have a President who read and liked to read than one who preferred to watch television, the whole question just leads to self-flattery. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Never anything remotely close to condescending or evil, The Reader nevertheless suffers chiefly from a distasteful thematic overemphasis, though not far behind is the film's rather insistent self-flattery. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There is certainly an element of self-flattery in this. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Vain self-flattery tells us that we would follow the lead of Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mandela or any of the other models of resistance. ❋ Unknown (2009)
She wouldn't have to be sent on that three-month cruise to resist him -- that's male self-flattery. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Despite all of the blather about "doing it for my children," he strikes me as someone who never stopped to figure out what he wanted to do if he was elected -- putting aside the usual reasons of ego and self-flattery, just why he wants to be president. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
Conceit implies that the self-flattery is excessive or worse yet, imaginary. ❋ Jay (2008)
Compassion turns out to be a form of self-flattery. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I'm too politically correct to call you a "moron," but I will say that your reasoning is off and your self-flattery is embarrassing as you lazily conclude that the same 33% of Americans believe each of the things that you do not. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
Men of fair minds, and not given up to the overweening of self-flattery, are frequently guilty of it; and in many cases one with amazement hears the arguings, and is astonished at the obstinacy of a worthy man, who yields not to the evidence of reason, though laid before him as clear as daylight. ❋ Unknown (2007)
On the one hand, everything I just said about human origins applies just as well to the Virgin Birth — belief in it is dramatically non-scientific, and prompted largely by exactly the kind of mythological self-flattery that leads to skepticism about the efficacy of natural selection. ❋ Sean (2007)
Rather, associating with the America of the filtered past and using the eagle as a symbol is merely an exercise in self-flattery. ❋ Unknown (2007)
We'll all be stronger if you give up the easy self-flattery of trading on your privilege. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I know of no Empire, state, or entity that relishes the opportunity to engage in self-praise, self-congratulation, and self-flattery like the US Empire. ❋ As'ad (2005)
Still, some basic reporting can be done (and I think I can say without self-flattery or self-abnegation that I am not a conduit of choice for national-security leaking). ❋ Unknown (2003)
How strange, thought I, with a little self-flattery, that I, accustomed to the agreeable society of intelligent men and charming women, and of books, should find such perfect contentment here! ❋ Unknown (2004)
