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  • Isn't is ironic that Beck (and Fox) started this whole mess and didn't even bother to ATTEND the thing; kind of like Palin's self-adulation crew committing her (don't I wish) to an important GOP event and then she suddenly has no knowledge (yeah, we get that) of ever having been invited.

    Networks respond to false Fox ad 2009

  • But we won't get anywhere if the current cultural climate persists, and I appreciate Slosar's efforts to point us toward some sanity in this world gone mad with self-adulation and self-entitlement, and to suggest ways in which this trend may be reversed.

    Peter Clothier: The Culture of Excess 2010

  • One can almost see the drops of self-adulation dripping from the corners of his mouth.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • They too use inaction and empty moral posturing, not to affect change but to engage in an orgy of self-adulation and self-pity.

    OpEdNews - Diary: A Farewell to Arms: Why I Left "The Left' 2010

  • Then, first pop, now self-expression and willfully ignorant self-adulation has taken over.

    July 2008 2008

  • Influence is based on trust and targeted connections, not ego and self-adulation.

    Courtney Boyd Myers: Fast Company's Influence Project Is About to Burst Every "Social Media Guru's" Bubble 2010

  • They too use inaction and empty moral posturing, not to affect change but to engage in an orgy of self-adulation and self-pity.

    Printing: A Farewell to Arms: Why I Left "The Left' 2010

  • Many basketball fans began to see James as an egomaniacal narcissist during this year's playoffs, and many more rebelled against his irony-free self-adulation during this summer's free agency tour.

    Wizards fans were right about LeBron 2010

  • And the alter egos that stabilize America's penchant for self-adulation can continue deluding themselves that they possess any positive social purpose.

    Matthew Anderson: All Hat, No Cattle 2010

  • I wasn't a big Hillary fan before the election, but she's been the sole member of the administration who's doing her job and is not focused on self-adulation, ass-covering or outright embezzlement.

    Do Us A Favor, Pakistanis! 2009

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