There is a brief production featurette, which is mostly self-congratulatory blather. |
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The director does a slow, mildly informative commentary, which is slightly self-congratulatory. |
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She is a reluctant celebrity, finding extreme discomfort in the self-congratulatory world of literary awards. |
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To complement the unveiling of the work, the centre has produced a self-congratulatory brochure. |
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He deleted this self-congratulatory elaboration, more than 25 words altogether. |
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Being carried on the shoulders of college kids seems way too self-congratulatory. |
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I got the feeling he was going through a self-congratulatory stage of his career by showing us just how clever he can be. |
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In plush surroundings trimmed with red carpet, the cliques of minor celebrities gather in small, self-congratulatory packs, wine in hand. |
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It's the sort of self-congratulatory promotional material you'd expect. |
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That kind of self-congratulatory showmanship doesn't sit well with me. |
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Our banking system was in relatively strong shape and he was taking the bows and being very self-congratulatory about that. |
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This sappy, sentimental, self-congratulatory awards show sums up much that's loathsome about America. |
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By his own admission, the self-congratulatory title is actually a play on words based on the legendary Studio One in Kingston. |
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Since I was off yesterday and there was nothing on the telly I watched the self-congratulatory backslapping gathering in Trafalgar Square. |
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The whole thing feels too self-congratulatory, too much like an in-joke. |
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In addition, the Laeken Declaration, while self-congratulatory, does not constitute a credible policy position. |
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This deal will confirm the perception that Senators are clubby, timid, and self-congratulatory. |
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At times, the tenor of the discussions became cloyingly self-congratulatory. |
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The main weakness of the tradition is an attitude of campy superiority, one that can quickly become self-congratulatory. |
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They railed against Reagan and walloped like happy brontosauruses in a turgid pool of self-congratulatory idealism. |
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The wording of the motion is nothing but self-congratulatory, with praise for a duty that was poorly done. |
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Mr President, I hope I will not strike too discordant a note, but it seems to me this debate has been excessively self-congratulatory so far. |
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Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified. |
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But is anyone else finding the self-congratulatory smarminess of their fellow Australians as repulsive as I am? |
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Someone might gushingly thank the family dog and their 100 closest friends, not much of a stretch in self-congratulatory Hollywood. |
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Though given to bouts of rueful depression himself, he could only burlesque the spectacle of an artist's self-congratulatory struggles. |
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Hulme seems to have swallowed a dictionary and the results are arch and self-congratulatory. |
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, presidential memoirs are usually dull, uninformative and embarrassingly self-congratulatory. |
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This survey confirms the failure of Liberal policy in both Saint-Jean and Quebec and sounds a strong note of discord in response to the self-congratulatory speeches by the Prime Minister and his Quebec lieutenants. |
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Because the games are being held in Ireland, they have brought the most toe-curlingly hypocritical self-congratulatory creeps in the country babbling into the limelight. |
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We are all in favour of lifelong learning, but let us not be too self-congratulatory when the evidence is so thin. |
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Blindly self-congratulatory? Stiff upper lip? |
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But the book's tone isn't self-congratulatory. |
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It's all consuming, self-congratulatory nonsense. |
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Suffering from exhaustion always sounds so self-congratulatory. |
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Having clarified the relationship between the peace process and the Barcelona Process, I have to say that in my view the Commission is being unduly self-congratulatory. |
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Even worse, these millions of dollars of this self-congratulatory advertising have also blurred the image of the Government of Canada with the image, the colours and slogans associated with the Conservative Party of Canada. |
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I would reinforce the concern that it is taxpayer money that pays for government advertising, so in effect, taxpayers across the country have paid for millions of dollars of self-congratulatory advertising by the government. |
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We listened very carefully to the health minister's speech as she introduced the bill and it is certainly clear that she has been more than generous in her self-congratulatory words in introducing the bill. |
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The self-congratulatory tone in talking about what has already been done has not resulted in the desired effects that we are looking for and wrestling with. |
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Currently, the main strategy for diffusing multiculturalism is to publicize accounts of Canadian policies and institutions, often in an idealized and self-congratulatory way. |
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However, as we have seen, great amounts of money, millions of dollars have been spent on advertising by the government that is rather than educational, purely self-congratulatory. |
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Mr President, though this House, in self-congratulatory euphoria, will embrace this Constitution, thankfully the ultimate decision rests with the Member States. |
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The Council is being self-congratulatory while ably wielding the axe. |
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He was never self-congratulatory about this. |
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The trio reaches annoying heights of self-congratulatory backslapping on occasion, but on the whole there's an honest, cheerful camaraderie between the participants. |
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It's so smug, so self-congratulatory, and revels in glorifying militaria. |
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These types of self-congratulatory remarks are commonplace and formulaic. |
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She has a self-congratulatory Web site dedicated to the issue. |
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And it was particularly galling to hear this lazy, self-congratulatory blather from kids loafing their way through college and grad school on their parents' dime. |
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Then, two months ago, there came one of those news releases that seem to belch out incessantly from Washington, often incremental, often self-congratulatory. |
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So despite what the European Union has already done and the pledges it has made for the future, I am not here to bring you a self-congratulatory message. |
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Then a few days later the network managed to find several thousand dollars to print a self-congratulatory full-page ad in The Globe and Mail newspaper. |
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I believe that, in actual fact, we, and the Commission, in particular, would find it much easier to make these self-congratulatory statements if we had an evaluation, as my fellow Members have said. |
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The government, which is in a self-congratulatory mode having sailed pretty smoothly through the global financial crisis, has so far failed to respond adequately to this threat. |
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I do think that E. E. Cummings gives Graves a serious challenge, though I know that many sound people dismiss Cummings's love poetry outright, as self-congratulatory and goopy. |
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They are boring, self-congratulatory, tripe, filled with all sorts of overdramatic adjectives and if I never have to read another band bio sheet again, I will die a relatively happy man. |
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The extensional artist is the disciplined, self-challenging artist who is not given over exclusively to self-hypnotism auto-intoxication and self-congratulatory excesses. |
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