self-approbation

My guess is that many of the journalists in question are still in shock and cover it by their grand, condescending, self-approbation.

What we are up against Helen 2006

Since the people are not always right but are by definition always in the majority, their self-approbation, Burke added, tends to make them shameless and therefore fearless.

Euphemism and American Violence Bromwich, David 2008

To talk grandly and with self-approbation about how worthy and right and righteous the content of the class (and the thesis in question) is while deflecting any need for empirical information, for transparency and for a rational review of the material is disingenuous and reflects an ego-centric view of things or, in this case, an incurious and ideologically invested view of things.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

To all that self-regard and self-approbation, you add your "bull in a china closet" sneers.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

To all that self-regard and self-approbation, you add your "bull in a china closet" sneers.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

“O, I told her,”, answered Morrice, with a nod of self-approbation for what he had done, “I told her it was you, for I knew I could soon overtake you.”

Cecilia 2008

Exert yourself to obviate all humiliating surmises, and you will amply be repaid by the balm of self-approbation. '

Camilla 2008

She was sitting in her dressing room bathing in self-approbation when the door flew open and designer Cecil Beaton stalked in.

I'm a Good Girl I Am: Julie Andrews Tells Her Tale 2008

And thus, in acts of goodness and charity, passed undisturbed another week of the life of Cecilia: but when the fervour of self-approbation lost its novelty, the pleasure with which her new plan was begun first subsided into tranquillity, and then sunk into languor.

Cecilia 2008

To talk grandly and with self-approbation about how worthy and right and righteous the content of the class (and the thesis in question) is while deflecting any need for empirical information, for transparency and for a rational review of the material is disingenuous and reflects an ego-centric view of things or, in this case, an incurious and ideologically invested view of things.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008