self-approval

And a voice of a guard from the gallery called in great self-approval.

Their obvious errors only stimulate them to greater error and noisier self-approval.

I shall look upon my self-denial with exquisite self-approval.

It's a rather smug feeling of mutual self-approval.

It was a mood of shining shameless ungracious self-approval.

He made a little clucking soundof self-approval.

Somehow a leader conversant with his own failings wouldn’t be as affected by the moral self-approval that afflicts most political movements.

It may be called the Master Passion--the hunger for Self-Approval.

He does not make Kenny likable, but he catches the vein of self-doubt that runs through the mountain of his self-approval.

The assurance of Tanis Judique's friendship fortified Babbitt's self-approval.

But they are - and are used as - gimmicks, with an off-putting look of self-approval that suggests Mr. Tadmor may not have seen much dance.

Paul Parnell has analysed the manipulative nature of Lady Easy's lines in this exchange, showing how they are directed towards the sentimentalist's goal of "ecstatic self-approval".

From that and other things I learned that he had not yet acquired a gnawing need for adulation; he was sure of himself at that age and needed only his own self-approval.

It is a tedious position, bringing no great reward, filled with the settlement of petty disputes and with the accounting of petty affairs, and paid only by the self-approval which results from a duty passably done.

Jefferson's review can't very well ignore most of this, but the grudging minimalism with which she reports it speaks tellingly of a shabby corporate self-approval that lingers in literary studies like a bad taste in the mouth.

It makes THEM happy to see others happy; and so with money and labor they buy what they are after--HAPPINESS, SELF-APPROVAL.

Others coalesced too, most recognizable as extreme forms of everyday types: the narcissist, with his fragile, grandiose self-approval; the dependent, with her smothering clinginess; the histrionic, always in the thick of some drama, desperate to be the center of attention.

There was no time to discuss the probabilities either way, for the charity school, in clean linen, came filing in two and two, so much to the self-approval of all the people present who didn't subscribe to it, that many of them shed tears.

And you know, don't you, that if we DO stick around, he'll probably make us do anything he wants us to--there not being any more powerful influence on God's green earth than the smile that wins, when it's got a bottom layer of good, sticky self-approval.

Upon completion and self-approval of the Action Plan by the CBWT (including INAC and HC regional representatives), Chief and Council, with support from team members, will begin implementing the Action Plan to resolve the DWA issue.