But folks who constantly agree with one another grow insular, self-congratulatory, and not a little lazy.
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It is not another self-congratulatory CEO memoir, but a well-researched and interesting forecast for our economy.
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Katrina made brutally clear that the White House had substituted passive, self-congratulatory bravado for serious organized effort.
Everything above makes sense until you read the self-congratulatory e-mails among the traders.
Even the Pentagon, in its most self-congratulatory moments, has acknowledged that the campaign against Serbia did expose some weaknesses.
Everyone loves a good pat on the back, but the goal of my first Forbes column is not self-congratulatory.
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General Musharraf, they argue, is, despite his self-congratulatory new memoirs (see article), isolated politically and under pressure from insurgents in Baluchistan.
Following Sarid's self-congratulatory modesty, Yediot gave former defense minister Moshe Arens and Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau a sound bite apiece to lash out at the withdrawal.
You will have to go a lot farther than these self-congratulatory, over-hyped, over-rated, over-paid beer-drinking punks from boston to demonstrate the plucky, can-do persistence of the East Coast.
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Michael Eisner wrote an autobiography a couple of years ago, and nobody reading that tight-lipped, self-congratulatory volume could have concluded that he was a likeable sort of guy.
Moments like that help offset the somewhat self-congratulatory nature of the film, especially in how it halos the white people of the time who happen to have anti-segregationist attitudes.
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Despite their defensive efforts at self-congratulatory 'spin-control, ' this episode is but the latest example of the diminution of U.S. power and influence in foreign affairs during the Bush Administration's tenure.
One suspects their presence is self-congratulatory, a reminder that Buffalo has opened its doors to many innovators, not only the Abstract Expressionist painters with whom the Albright-Knox is closely associated.
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With the Democrats already cutting a day off their political convention, and Congress looking to eliminate government funding for the self-congratulatory kick-off party, political conventions are facing a grim future.
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America on the other hand is complacent and self-congratulatory.
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The vote was off, and when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister he signed up to Lisbon (although he arrived for the ceremony late and avoided joining other EU leaders at a self-congratulatory gathering).
Whilst I believe that principle from the bottom of my heart, I have to admit I still harboured for many years a secret disdain for awards (and the self-congratulatory hubris that surrounds them).
It wasn't just self-congratulatory laughter at a high-brow joke. (OK, maybe a little.) I also had a laugh at myself: I've tried for so long to understand Philip Glass, and all it took was a one-act parody?
And like Obama's campaign-trail statement, Clinton's diatribe, Sarkozy and Obama's vile gossip about Netanyahu and Britain's self-congratulatory declarations and veiled threats, those who make a distinction between the Israeli people and the Israeli government ignore two important facts.
"The only problem we have had is that a lot of our good work has been subject to vacillation by the president and, in far too many instances against the interest of the American people, vetoed from the president, " Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said during a self-congratulatory Republican news conference.
As a result, however, it is now possible to point to a bipartisan American approach to counter-terrorism. (In a backhanded way, the current administration has in this respect - albeit perhaps in this one only - lived up to its self-congratulatory hype as a purveyor of "post-partisan" policy.) We conservatives should not demean this, for it is significant.
We leave, at least, with an idea of where people stand on the big issues -- provided you can see through the panegyrics of self congratulatory backslapping that always takes place whenever you get like minded people in one place.
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