self-gratulatory

Pouring out a remarkably viscous mixture of irrelevance and self-gratulatory dimestore rhetoric, the racist National Post blogger "Raphael Alexander" (not his real name) takes a poke at me for my remarks about Michael Coren yesterday.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

It did, after all, give some readers an opportunity for an orgy of self-gratulatory principle-mongering.

Let's talk about Dawg one more time. CC 2009

It did, after all, give some readers an opportunity for an orgy of self-gratulatory principle-mongering.

Let's talk about Dawg one more time. CC 2009

You are quite the pompous windbag with your "orgy of self-gratulatory principle-mongering".

Let's talk about Dawg one more time. CC 2009

To make a clean breast of it, I even suspect that his self-gratulatory whisper is still ringing in my ear, for I find that

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

Mrs. Emery was one of the women who are always well served by "tradespeople," as she now called them, "and a good reason why," she was wont to explain with self-gratulatory grimness.

The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

Foolish people sometimes, in a tone of self-gratulatory pity, will say, ‘If I have sinned I have suffered.’

Unspoken Sermons Third Series 1824-1905 1889

Those who dwell close to the hub of government, even though they build departmental fires, sweep departmental floors, and empty departmental waste baskets, from nearness of contact and a daily perusal of your truly great, come at last to look upon themselves as beings of tremendous importance -- and all after the self-gratulatory example of the thoughtful fly on the chariot wheel in the fable.

The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

She smiled in a sort of satisfied, self-gratulatory way, and said,

A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 A Novel Harry Coghill 1871

When, after this outbreak, Lucia's face went down upon her hands, Mrs. Costello could not resist a little self-gratulatory smile.

A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel Harry Coghill 1871