She gave no quarter to an opinionated bishop, a pompous statesman, or a self-satisfied professor.
Verona in particular was a full-employment town, as confident and self-satisfied as you could imagine.
Lane perceived that liberals suffer from a self-satisfied delusion about how the world works.
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The tone seems stuck at a lazy bonhomie, amusement for a rising, self-satisfied commercial class.
Like the first Socrates, he saw himself as a gadfly of the tyrannical, lazy or self-satisfied.
Her head is held high and her mouth curved in a slight, but distinctly self-satisfied smile.
Beneath the gush of his eloquent vocabulary incessantly burbled a subterranean effluence of inexhaustible mirth, a Gulf Stream of self-satisfied glee.
The reason over-the-top sports parents like Barry McConnell bother us self-satisfied sane parents is because he knows how the youth-sports-to-pro-sports system works.
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Two tethered camels gazed at the plains with droopy, self-satisfied expressions.
Like my view of Jeff as self-serving, egocentric and self-satisfied.
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In five and a half years at HP she shook up the company's calcified and self-satisfied style of business, known as "the HP Way, " and replaced complacency with urgency.
At the top of the heap, it is announced, are to be the self-satisfied priests, the Brahmins, who will be the only ones allowed the privilege of reading, writing, and making laws.
He seems too self-serving or egocentric or self-satisfied.
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The availability of labour and land has fallen, domestic capital is abundant, the local market is now understood to be among the most attractive in the world and sentiment has become more nationalistic and self-satisfied.
This might look an awful lot like self-dealing, but Schwartz keeps investors satisfied by making sure the buildings are independently appraised and keeping a piece of each fund to align ProLogis' interests with theirs.
Judith Walker, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the East Midlands, said she was satisfied the couple acted in reasonable self-defence and should not face criminal charges.
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Those with RLC have a natural tendency to focus on the self-interest of others, and how it can be satisfied to make a better trade for all.
Some of the female graduates claim not having the necessary skills required by the job market, not having had the opportunity to gain practical experience at the university, and for those working not being satisfied with the opportunities their jobs offer them for self-development and professional growth.
In other European countries where nationalist parties demanded self-rule for their region, regional government successfully met those demands, and satisfied all but the extremists.
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