Bjørn finds this self-satisfaction repellent: His son as an optician.
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But I felt self-satisfaction in our virtuousness in just knowing.
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Instead "his extreme self-satisfaction rubs off," Wolff wrote of their interaction.
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It was his way of both encouraging hard work but cautioning against self-satisfaction.
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For decades, Whole Foods could charge a premium to give shoppers this self-satisfaction.
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Appropriation suggests a significant amount of self-satisfaction and a desire to show off.
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In other words, can we be genuinely happy if our primary aim is self-satisfaction?
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You're supposed to be growing in Christ, and instead you've been growing in self-satisfaction.
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Can we get a break already, a moment of tranquil self-satisfaction about anything we eat?
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But in any case, the Russian President's resting face is one of self-confident self-satisfaction.
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But there's a self-satisfaction that I imagine resides in spinning a narrative of being superhuman.
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It is also bad for London, turning it into a bubble of self-satisfaction and self-indulgence.
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Reaching the daily targets creates feelings of happiness (303%), self-satisfaction (100%), pride (98%) and motivation (98%).
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It's an exuberant, intelligent, confidently delivered record that never falls into navel-gazing self-satisfaction or cliché.
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"It's foolproof," he tells me, with the self-satisfaction of a man who knows he would pass.
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"So, are your daughters back from their jobs?" asks one, in a voice thick with self-satisfaction.
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Is there a sense of self-satisfaction that comes with out-living many of those early peers?
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It seems less about scoring a point and more about starting down the road to self-satisfaction.
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Given how rooted the storyline is in validation fantasy and self-satisfaction, uprooting it will be a difficult process.
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At worst, it's yet another example of Hollywood's obliviousness and its willingness to feed into its audience's self-satisfaction.
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I was, frankly, impressed with my body's resilience after childbirth, and that self-satisfaction made me want to get some.
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He wants to leave his family and potentially go burn up in a fire in the pursuit of self-satisfaction?
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Unlike getting laid, memes provided a sanctity and self-satisfaction difficult to find from the comfort of one's mom's office.
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Visiting China less than a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, he finds an air of "triumphant self-satisfaction".
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But then a new girl, Ericka (Nabiyah Be), arrives on the scene and drills a hole through Paulina's self-satisfaction.
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Zagajewski consistently writes with lightness, wit, and a dry sense of irony that never shades into cynicism or self-satisfaction.
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While self-satisfaction is the first mountain's primary goal, gratitude, delight and kindness spring from a life devoted to service.
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Löw, at least in public on Wednesday, was grasping for answers, but did suggest self-satisfaction had played a role.
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The questions covered everything from self-satisfaction, to how we behave in social situations, to how important certain character traits are.
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But what about those who seek the self-satisfaction that comes with brewing your own cup of coffee in the morning?
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On Sunday's 60 Minutes interview, Trump could hardly contain his self-satisfaction regarding how well Twitter and Facebook had served him.
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Even his hateful self-satisfaction can be a relief; Duvall's Commander is a monster, but Offred can maneuver under his eye.
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Everything in the picture, from a bravura swirl of bedclothes to fast notations of arabesque-patterned wallpaper, bespeaks exultant self-satisfaction.
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Facebook could delete itself tomorrow and, best case, we'd only be chucked back to earlier forms of lazy political self-satisfaction.
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But that self-satisfaction justified a myopic approach to the very complex problem of how to integrate vast numbers of foreigners.
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All of the egocentric fanfare belied any genuine designs, rendering a philanthropic effort down to a perceived vanity outing for self-satisfaction.
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To avoid expensive court cases, some supervisors put the kibosh on all self-satisfaction, whether it has an aggressive intent or not.
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He visibly swelled with self-satisfaction, as he did weeks later, down in Alabama, celebrating the insurgent Senate candidacy of Roy Moore.
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Fortunately, this is usually balanced out by a healthy dose of self-satisfaction that comes from having chosen an apple as a snack.
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And while it sees itself as the antithesis of Trumpism, it is, in its raging intolerance and smug self-satisfaction, Trumpism's mirror image.
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Such difficulties notwithstanding, Zagajewski consistently writes with lightness, wit, and a dry sense of irony that never shades into cynicism or self-satisfaction.
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To look from face to face was to regard a study in contentment, or even, thanks to the pervasive cigar smoke, self-satisfaction.
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Heck, even Brad Wing miming a golf swing when he flops a punt inside the 10 is a wonderful expression of self-satisfaction.
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Doesn't it require a truly undeserved sense of self-satisfaction to believe your penis is unique enough to be permanently immortalized in rubber?
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For these people — and Held counts herself as one of them — negative thinking improves function, and positive thinking actually worsens performance and self-satisfaction.
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His ad-libbing had that distinctly Cruz flavor of freeform hate; he views the world through a lens of anger, thuggishness and self-satisfaction.
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No matter what other people think of him, he thinks he can power the league to profit through his own sense of self-satisfaction.
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Living inside the gap is excruciating, but it is what religion -- real religion, not the religion of complacency and self-satisfaction -- requires of us.
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You can imagine his bearded mouth creasing in self-satisfaction at both the pun and the efficiency of doing so much in five words.
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There's Spike Lee courtside at a Knicks basketball game, his hands placed on his hips as if to suggest a kind of self-satisfaction.
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They both trigger a dopamine hit of self-satisfaction that encourages you to continue sharing that's more visceral than just knowing someone watched your Story.
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In 2018's production of Angels, Roy's viciousness, his casual racism, the self-satisfaction he displays at his own corruption, have shivering and uneasy resonances.
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It's not a particularly subtle performance, but it is a nuanced one, never missing a step as Will's self-satisfaction gives way to anxiety and rage.
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"Two hours into the show and Donald Trump hasn't tweeted about us once," Kimmel said with evident distress and self-satisfaction as he hosted the Oscars.
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When I visited Goodell in his office a month later, his demeanor betrayed a mix of relief, fatigue and a perhaps surprising measure of self-satisfaction.
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Jobs embodied all of Apple's best and worst qualities: its perfectionism, its self-satisfaction, its willingness to overturn whole industries when a better path presented itself.
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Russell's crisis of spirit, as it unfolds over the three books, feels like a natural and uncontrived consequence of a lifetime characterized by buoyant self-satisfaction.
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Then, after taking 15 minutes of questions at a downtown Marriott, he pulled out a package of Eclipse gum with self-satisfaction and a mischievous grin.
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For a while now, the most succinct takedown of the smug self-satisfaction of South Park at its worst has been a screencap of a Reddit comment.
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But it feels polished to a fault, packed with straight-faced sincerity instead of Will Smith's smarmy self-satisfaction or Tommy Lee Jones' crisp, brutally insensitive professionalism.
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Why not just bathe in my own self-satisfaction as Guy Who Didn't Fall For It till my skin wrinkles and falls off, no harm no foul?
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The weekend, your vacation, sense of self-satisfaction, orgasms, the taste of pizza and other dope things never stop when you're listening to indie pop duo Freedom Fry.
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And, even now, he is more viscerally annoyed by what he calls the "self-satisfaction" of Trump's critics than by anything Trump has done, or failed to do.
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But the momentary zing of self-satisfaction you receive from donating online to a huge relief fund is nothing compared to how the women in giving circles describe their experiences.
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The Starks represent a moral compass of sorts for the series — even their take on revenge has the smarmy self-satisfaction of a person who's done good by the world.
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The NPCs and stories of that world are all about its harshness, and with mods a player can experience that bitter reality, and the self-satisfaction that accompanies hardiness, themselves.
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In the laboratory settings, about 60% of the students choose to save lives, and their responses on a survey indicated a feeling of self-satisfaction and happiness about their choice.
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Many of Le Pen's supporters might be bigots, but their case against the self-satisfaction, self-dealing, moral preening and economic incompetence of the French ruling classes is nearly impeccable.
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That night, in the lobby of the luxurious Mayflower Hotel, a gay man wearing a tuxedo and a white silk scarf talked with self-satisfaction about why he supports Donald Trump.
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At the center are Pattinson and Dafoe, running through this two-hander that one can read any number of wider issues into — age versus youth, diligence versus incompetence, self-satisfaction versus restlessness.
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But more broadly the country is coming to grips with cheating in one its most popular sports, and asking itself if its self-satisfaction in fair play was a myth all along.
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Madonna designed herself to be a polarizing figure, and her breed of feminism has evolved over the years — at times she's been more focused on self-satisfaction than the advancement of womankind.
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"Success is a peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming," Wooden once wrote.
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Of course, they also betrayed a certain self-regard, if not self-satisfaction — traits less common among Americans today in a fast-changing world environment that has challenged their traditional cultural dominance.
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There is the comfort of wishful thinking, the thrill of empty hedonism, the glow of self-satisfaction (we can all think of examples), and then there is a more fulfilling kind of pleasure.
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A: Coming from a modest economic upbringing, I learned early about how limiting and uninteresting self-satisfaction was as a goal in terms of using wealth - and how important modesty and philanthropy are.
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Whenever Carmen walks off after a rousing exchange with women who are grudgingly admiring or envious of her—Carmen does nothing to improve relations—she leaves a trail of self-satisfaction behind her.
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And the President is measuring the length of the applause -- as much, one sensed, in the spirit of self-satisfaction for having orchestrated the moment as solicitude for the fallen SEAL and his family.
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Ms. Kemper, a veteran of improv and "The Office" who mixes precision and a remarkable fluidity, delivers each of her three short, rapid-fire lines with a different shading — consternation, hopefulness, smug self-satisfaction.
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That's why Matyszczyk was happy to hear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — who has tried to restore a more civilized environment to the company — say he wants to fight against self-satisfaction in his employees.
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His politics came from the quasi-fascist John Birch society; his theology bypassed all the millennia of existential grappling with the Bible and tradition, powered by a very un-Christlike self-satisfaction and hate.
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It's not hard to see the parallels today—the fleeting pop momentum of "Common People" in the momentary self-satisfaction of hashtag activism; the smug, Yorke-ian satisfaction that these issues aren't your fault.
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The boomer Steve Jobs might qualify as the original disrupter, but when boomers broke the rules, there was always a sense of grandiosity and self-satisfaction — Procol Harum performing with the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Weiner watches the clip of the interview online with apparent self-satisfaction over standing up to someone he characterizes as "a bully"; Abedin stands to the side, mortified, barely able to watch her husband's performance.
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As Kimmel rightly notes, there is no greater feeling of self-satisfaction than siding with a guy -- or a team or a horse -- who everyone told you couldn't win but wound up doing just that.
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And while mocking many of the very problems endemic to Silicon Valley—a lack of women in high-ranking positions, a lack of diversity, a bubble of self-satisfaction—the show had begun to replicate them.
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Donald Trump is the embodiment of a raised middle finger at a certain kind of cultural self-satisfaction and smugness coming from the "elites," or "coasts," or whatever else you might want to call, well, us.
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Hard to tell if it was self-satisfaction or the look someone might get when trapped at a dinner party next to a stranger who's describing how she met President William Henry Harrison in a past life.
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Even the best of secret servants would be hampered by a pervasive culture of inertia, lack of imagination, smug self-satisfaction, and that infectious curse of the bureaucratic mandarin, the incessant need to CYA: Cover Your Ass.
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In his new book, The Complacent Class, the economist Tyler Cowen argues that the affluent have actually doubled down on stubborn self-satisfaction—a complacency that he sees as symptomatic of a wider malaise gripping the country.
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It's such a naked fantasy of self-satisfaction, of a bullied kid being told that his self-indulgent obsessions are the most important things in the world and that he deserves power, respect, and admiration for having pursued them.
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This frank admission of self-satisfaction in "good" numbers is to be reminded of how agonizing it must have been for Katkin, the Type A, to be continually held back after the starting gun in the race to reproduction.
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Jim Nantz, the longtime host of the CBS broadcast and of the Butler Cabin sacrament, has perfected an air of unctuous self-satisfaction that signals even to the casual viewer that there is something batty about the whole enterprise.
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A level of achievement and waft of self-satisfaction that we can't afford to live out in the real world Another photo, one of Beyoncé holding some of Blue's snacks and a juicebox, also made the rounds during the Grammys.
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While the Democrats enjoy the self-satisfaction of the "high road," they have lost a most promising voice in the Senate, along with destroying the end of the career of the longest-serving, most prominent African-American in their ranks.
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On a gleaming metallic set whose silvery serpentine backdrop suggests a digestive tract (and whose light brown shag rug suggests, well, eww), Ikechukwu Ufomadu plays the fetishistic doctor with the shame-free self-satisfaction of a well-practiced talk-show guest.
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In the spirit of self care, self love, and self satisfaction, we've asked some of our favorite women in the sex-positive community to share their sexy selfie tips with us (while dressed in some of our favorite lingerie picks from the season).
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"It seems to be one of those nasty, smug little plays smirking continually at recognition of their own cleverness, as if they had an in-built air of self-satisfaction engulfing them," Clive Barnes wrote in his review in The New York Times.
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Throughout, Chau writes sexuality in a way both vivid and new, but somehow without betraying self-satisfaction (See: "Pants and skirts were shrugged, scooted down, buttonholes were stretched into O's like gasping mouths, then relieved of their charges"), and her stories are honest and arresting.
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Or perhaps it's merely that unself-consciousness and self-satisfaction are developmental stages in some artists' lives: the enviable concentration of someone who works only for his own pleasure becomes the annoying complacency of someone who thinks that the same solution will always please.
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" To the right of his childhood bed is his favorite quotation from John Wooden, which he easily recites from memory: "Success is a peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
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But a true landslide, a total repudiation, would also encourage unwarranted self-satisfaction and relief among the American republic's ruling class — a sense that the ideas Trump represents, the fears and concerns he has exploited, and the people he has rallied can be safely buried and ignored and consigned once more to the benighted past.
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Coyly, he has taken to referring to the part of north London he represents in Parliament as "Finsbury Park", rather than its official name of Islington North (smug Islington lefties being something of a standing joke in the pantheon of British political humour.) Some moments caught the heart as well as the self-satisfaction of the crowd.
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Sure enough, Munir Majid, a leading Malaysian intellectual and banker, has observed "some self-satisfaction" within the club that the "ASEAN Way" does not envisage "ever-closer union"—in other words the group is spared some of the stresses afflicting the EU. Yet he notes that ASEAN suffers its own strains over the pace and direction of integration.
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There are individual pieces that feel casually indifferent, such as Katherine Bernhardt's "Two Simpsons, Plantains, Basketballs, Cigarettes" (2016): it's a painting of cartoonish figures borrowed from pop culture and everyday life that just wallows in mundanity — which I can't help but read as a kind of complacent self-satisfaction that is coextensive with the gallery's attitude about this show.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren was musing with some self-satisfaction on the topic of how gratifying it is to take selfies with potential voters for free rather than charging "$5,000 or more" when Mayor Pete Buttigieg, next to her onstage and perhaps feeling a bit sensitive, raised his hand to signal that he wanted to say something.
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The only things detracting from the all-too-rare feeling of profound self-satisfaction were the effects of getting in shape that I didn't foresee: being cold and irritable, having unquenchable dry mouth, having what seemed like a drop in IQ points and, while at what I considered peak fuckability for me, having a greatly reduced interest and energy for sexual activity.
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I am also pretty left, and—though it's really lovely to talk about the perks of socialism for ages with an older, wiser person until you feel like the world will inevitably be beautiful very soon, honest—the last thing anyone needs right now is another frothy interview between two people who agree on everything; both shaking their fists at modern Britain and shouting into an echo chamber of self-satisfaction and sickly sweet confirmation bias.
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While "there is much in Trump and Trumpism that richly deserves a total wipeout, and much in his Republican Party that deserves to be sent howling into the political wilderness," he wrote... ...a true landslide, a total repudiation, would also encourage unwarranted self-satisfaction and relief among the American republic's ruling class—a sense that the ideas Trump represents, the fears and concerns he has exploited, and the people he has rallied can be safely buried and ignored and consigned once more to the benighted past….
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My better angels are not involved in the self-satisfaction of realizing the woman beside me at a manicure (where rings — wedding, engagement, and otherwise — are laid beside you while your nails are attended to by a woman who usually asks, directly or not, about what your rings, or lack of rings, indicate) is wearing a monster diamond — and that she definitely is listening while I go off about the absurdity of monster weddings, the corniness of monster rings, and the implications of monster expectations around what should be all love and joy.
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I suspect this is why I've been thinking so much about The Hateful Eight and its provocative statements about the dark heart of America as 2018 comes to a close; I've also been thinking about American Sniper and True Detective and Girls and a host of other entertainments that seemed to herald some sort of budding culture war in the first half of the 2010s with the discussions and debates they started, even as the sleek self-satisfaction of left-leaning media figures in those same years insisted that America was inevitably going to keep pushing further leftward, just very gradually.
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AT FIRST I THOUGHT I would write you a story about Jamie's mode of being, since he was someone I recognized from Mapplethorpe's picture as a type — the hustler vamp who hangs back and hangs back until he takes you to a new level to love about withholding — and what impressed me about the image was that it was also a portrait of an attitude that was familiar to me growing up in Jamie's Manhattan, a place where a kind of blind self-satisfaction and smugness based on having a very particular, commodifiable beauty brought a certain spiky envy, longing and pride to whatever kids his age — they were teenagers, and would always be teenagers — who competed to hang out with him on those long evenings, winter or summer, when Jamie was walking in the West Village eating a slice before heading uptown, to his "home," someplace where one or another older guy lived and where Jamie crashed, at least for a time.
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