In his critical writing, too, Pritchett's manner is to disavow authority and try to escape any hint of self-congratulation. |
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Eight years old tonight, the Irish language channel will forgo the traditional on-screen orgy of birthday self-congratulation. |
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However, this experience was rarely examined, and there was no self-congratulation about having accomplished the task successfully. |
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Richard says that to be consistent I should regard Australia in its entirety as a backwater of self-congratulation. |
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Real were elegant but there was an air of self-congratulation and the slackness that has beset them this season had not been purged entirely. |
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She talked about the persistence of elements of racism that we may be missing in self-congratulation of multiculturalism. |
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They were small, shining cogs in the movie industry's machinery of distribution and self-congratulation. |
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The foundational anniversary marked by Republic Day is categorised as a celebration, a moment for self-congratulation. |
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That, of course, is something that a culture of liberal self-congratulation would prefer not to contemplate. |
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I often feel that America's religious traditionalists ought to engage in more self-congratulation. |
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Sometimes it's just the hippest sort of vanity, an easy form of self-congratulation that utterly fails at detoxifying the original object. |
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Why is the environment minister engaged in premature self-congratulation instead of getting down to implementing a plan? |
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Far from indulging in useless self-congratulation, we must consider the future with stoicism and ask ourselves what we can do in concrete terms. |
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When this legislation finally goes through we will hear paeans of self-congratulation. |
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Notwithstanding all the self-congratulation by the French government this morning, the IGC simply did not finish on a good note. |
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But the mood is not one of back-slapping indulgence and self-congratulation. |
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He dishes out obloquy to former tutors and students and treats the reader to vainglorious self-congratulation. |
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While I understand why they would do this given the criticism that has been levelled at them, having to listen to such self-congratulation did get a little tiring. |
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His deep, stern voice cut through the honeyed tones of self-congratulation. |
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Also missing, thankfully, is the sense of entitlement and self-congratulation one finds in the Bay Area. |
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The old-line media, like its Boomer components, got old, and like the Boomers, it preferred self-congratulation to self-reflection. |
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Her line breaks are uniquely hers, beautifully jolting without any winking self-congratulation. |
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It is vital that heads of government do not indulge in self-congratulation. |
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Part of any negative reaction will be a response to the rhetorical tone of several chapters, which have an air of self-congratulation bordering on triumphalism. |
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While the mood last week was one of self-congratulation, the underlying reality is that circulation for Scotland's biggest national papers continues to fall. |
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Of its 29 paragraphs, 8 go in for approval and then 4 indulge in self-congratulation. |
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And while this may sound like self-congratulation, no other comparable event features as many performances a day. |
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We can spare little time for self-congratulation, however, in the face of emerging competitive and demographic challenges. |
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It feels odd to congratulate an awards ceremony that is already an exercise in self-congratulation. |
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But there was plenty of complacency and self-congratulation on display. |
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Okay, enough institutional self-congratulation. |
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Trump is prone to premature self-congratulation. |
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Our triumphs are not simply self-congratulation. |
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Then the audience chuckled in self-congratulation. |
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We have, therefore, voted against your self-congratulation. |
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Although we should not spend too much time on self-congratulation, it would be amiss not to highlight your role and your leadership, Mr. President. |
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Today, though, at third reading, we can permit ourselves some self-congratulation, because the conciliation procedure was, I have to say, difficult. |
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There is therefore no reason for self-congratulation. |
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Behind all this week's self-congratulation, that remains the real truth. |
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The time for passive reflection and self-congratulation is over. |
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This is not an occasion for self-congratulation, however. |
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He was the troublemaker of European musical self-congratulation. |
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It would be natural, on this date, to reflect with a certain pride and satisfaction on the achievements and successes over the decades, and to allow at least a modest degree of self-congratulation. |
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The self-congratulation of the digerati truly knows no bounds. |
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If everyone just backs off a little, shows some patience, and endeavors to listen and learn from others, maybe some purpose greater than self-congratulation will ensue. |
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Chronic partisan bickering largely gave way to a rare moment of well-deserved self-congratulation. |
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The act of contrition sometimes comes wrapped in self-congratulation. |
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How quickly that self-congratulation turned to self-recrimination. |
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Gobbledegook And, after the appliance of science, they debunked the crackpots with a rational explanation, with much misplaced self-congratulation. |
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Woody Allen, perhaps cinema's most famous Oscar shunner, has always been that rare movie-industry outlier who truly grasps the folly of self-congratulation. |
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