self-pleasing

Even If you are on a budget, you can make the items you consume deeply self-pleasing.

Eli Davidson: How I Lost My Marriage, Business and Health...and Survived! 2009

After his wife died, he performed the self-pleasing act, but as in all things, the thrill went away.

A Dangerous Return Rique Johnson 2007

After his wife died, he performed the self-pleasing act, but as in all things, the thrill went away.

A Dangerous Return Rique Johnson 2007

“And with hexameters and trimeters too, I hope,” interrupted Raleigh: “and all the trickeries of self-pleasing sorrow.”

Westward Ho! 2007

The touch is calm and masterly, though the result is looked at with a sweet, self-pleasing eye.

Uncollected Prose 2006

Or Weltschmerz as she will know it, only Weltschmerz is a touch self-pleasing for what he has in store for her.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

I really, really love everything to do with reading and writing and thinking about things (anyone who reads this blog regularly will have gathered that), but there is no doubt that the part of my life that's been both the most rewarding and the most ethically acceptable (reading and writing are delightfully decadent and self-pleasing rather than really public-spirited) is the teaching.

Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

I really, really love everything to do with reading and writing and thinking about things (anyone who reads this blog regularly will have gathered that), but there is no doubt that the part of my life that's been both the most rewarding and the most ethically acceptable (reading and writing are delightfully decadent and self-pleasing rather than really public-spirited) is the teaching.

So I have a piece Jenny Davidson 2005

But [it is also incumbent] to hold in suspicion others who depart from the primitive succession, and assemble themselves together in any place whatsoever, [looking upon them] either as heretics of perverse minds, or as schismatics puffed up and self-pleasing, or again as hypocrites, acting thus for the sake of lucre and vainglory.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

And this self-pleasing is the very root of self-righteousness; which, as it may defile the saints themselves, so it will destroy those who only in the strength of their convictions go forth after a holiness and righteousness: for it quickly produceth the deadly, poisonous effect of spiritual pride; which is the greatest assimilation to the nature of the devil that the nature of man is capable of.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968