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There is only so much gold isn't a justification for the rich and self-satisfied, it is a statement of consequences
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one side of the room, as self-satisfied and confident as
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grin, a self-satisfied crescent that lifted the loose flesh and took five years off his appearance
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Grindel smiled, a tight self-satisfied smile
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Finally admitting defeat, I watched as Uncle Hobart deftly open it with a self-satisfied smirk
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I could feel the heat of the body laying against my back in the confines of the sleeping bag, smiling to myself in a smug, self-satisfied way, recalling the fry-up Jill had done us, the talk, the monumental amount of beer we had drunk
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With a self-satisfied grimace he brought the stick down again
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She sat in her office with a self-satisfied
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I was feeling pretty self-satisfied as I shut the trunk without exercising the stealth I used in the house
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Has you self-satisfied
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A wide and somewhat self-satisfied grin was locked upon his countenance, and he kept distracting them from their debate by fondly reminiscing on certain moments in their evening that he found particularly memorable
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By the God of Moses, that bordered on brilliant! Moshe thought, That’s three of them! Flashing a self-satisfied smile, he once again hurried off to where Judah awaited him
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He wishes to preside over our activities from his throne! How impossible that is he will soon see!” A self-satisfied smirk spread across his face
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god!” A self-satisfied smile creased the corners of his mouth as he further mulled the thought
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a self-satisfied smile, he once again hurried off to where Judah awaited him
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will soon see!” A self-satisfied smirk spread across his face
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They exchanged a lot of self-satisfied smiles while in the air, and more of them on the ground
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where he greeted me with a self-satisfied grin
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Half a dozen tiles followed before he climbed down and strutted back, feet apart, hands on self-satisfied hips, smiling cheerfully down at his victim
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I wanted to smear his self-satisfied smirk across the rocks
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At ten am on the sixth day Begum ran tired fingers through her blond hair, nodded and allowed herself a self-satisfied smile
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Her smug, self-satisfied smile would have earned her a punch on the nose, had anyone been there to see it
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He was uncomfortable with these self-satisfied, well-heeled couples so secure in themselves and their place in the world
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’ Mum’s self-satisfied smile made me want to hit her
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I was prevented from pouring a bucket of water over Mum’s self-satisfied smile by the sound of a car powering down the drive
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Him whom eleven of the apostles looked upon as the perfect man, as the "one altogether lovely and the chiefest among ten thousand," this self-satisfied Judean often dared to criticize in his own heart
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' And I declare that it is as easy for this camel to go through the needle's eye as for these self-satisfied rich ones to enter the kingdom of heaven
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With a self-satisfied grin I walk towards them
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Noël transforms back into himself and looks self-satisfied and haughty at every one of them
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while ago,” Jill said with a self-satisfied smile
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A self-satisfied smile came to Moose’s lips
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He staggered upright, waggling his head in an attempt to clear his ears, and focused on her defiant stance, legs slightly apart, hands on hips, and a wide self-satisfied grin
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With an air of self-satisfied confidence, Gupta lit a cigarette and sat down at the desk
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Schnottweiper knew that Brumvack had a belly full of fish and beer, and assumed that he had a head full of self-satisfied thoughts
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He wasn’t sure, but he thought he saw Venarya flash him a self-satisfied smile at one point
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Loki winces from where he lays atop Hoenir’s workbench, the self-satisfied smile slipping from his lips
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The Corporal spoke with a self-satisfied smirk
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This ironic, passionless self-loathing is cynically self-satisfied with its own acceptance of its nazi-denying indifference; one is bemused by one's own lack of self-hatred and their own unwillingness to do anything about their inability to care to will to act out of anything but their own need to be entertrained
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were swollen and his smile self-satisfied
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The man had a self-satisfied voice that infuriated David
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She hadn't realized how much she was staring until she noticed the girl looking back at her with a self-satisfied smile upon her face
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Denver nodded, self-satisfied and confident
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He was basking in self-satisfied silence
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I love the expressionless yet sensual, self-satisfied look of those statues
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A spiritual ode of smug-self-satisfied pride in exclusive wealth, that he is exclusively given the right to destroy and kill Nature… as a hunter and a farmer
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he had a self-satisfied look on his face
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“Take your time,” said Molloy, with a self-satisfied tone
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"He uttered this speech with a self-satisfied air, and went down stairs to dress
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Here was something to distract his thoughts: if not instructive or comforting, it would at any rate be interesting and even amusing to read the reports of the self-satisfied, futile talk of the profound statesmen who with comical gravity presided
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When she said good night, having filled his water-jug and shaken up his straw for him, Toad was very much the same sanguine, self-satisfied animal that he had been of old
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He was a very stupid and very self-satisfied and very healthy and very well-washed man, and nothing else
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’ ‘No; can a man with those dull eyes, with that self-satisfied complacency, feel anything?’
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Challenger, like a glad father in the presence of his first-born, stood smiling and stroking his beard, in silent, self-satisfied content as he gazed at the creation of his brain
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conceited and self-satisfied he will be when he gets my note! But I will show him
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I hated him for not knowing it had to end, for truly believing he had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied
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“In the back of the bins,” he announced with a self-satisfied smile
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Self-satisfied laughter spread around the formal library table
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I could see from the old fellow's self-satisfied air and the way in which he looked round for the approval of his cronies that he was "showing off," so I put in a word to keep him going
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He flicked the ash off his cigarette and gave himself a self-satisfied look in the rearview mirror
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Next he thought of that self-satisfied Bonaparte, with his small white hand, who was now an Emperor, liked and respected by Alexander
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When Pierre went up to them he noticed that Vera was being carried away by her self-satisfied talk, but that Prince Andrew seemed embarrassed, a thing that rarely happened with him
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Mademoiselle Bourienne was the same coquettish, self-satisfied girl, enjoying every moment of her existence and full of joyous hopes for the future
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himself! I remember his limited, self-satisfied face on the field of Austerlitz
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There were very many of these, as one could easily believe, looking at the officer’s handsome, self-satisfied face, and noting the eager enthusiasm with which he spoke of women
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“And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your
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Connie Rivers lifted the high tail-gate out of the truck and got down and helped Rose of Sharon to the ground; and she accepted it nobly, smiling her wise, self-satisfied smile, mouth tipped at the corners a little fatuously
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He instantly subsided, however, and his face beamed with a self-satisfied smile, that " pardonably-insolent" smile, which was yet unspeakably repulsive to me
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Oh, you self-satisfied persons who, in your unctuous pride, are forever ready to mouth your maxims—if only you knew how fully I myself comprehend the sordidness of my present state, you would not trouble to wag your tongues at me! What could you say to me that I do not already know? Well, wherein lies my difficulty? It lies in the fact that by a single turn of a roulette wheel everything for me, has become changed
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He walked about with a self-satisfied air, by the side of his camp bedstead, beneath which he had concealed his spirits, previously buried beneath the snow behind the barracks, in a secret place
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He had been intimate with Rogojin, for example, and a brotherly friendship had sprung up between them—yet did he really know him? What chaos and ugliness fills the world at times! What a self-satisfied rascal is that nephew of Lebedeff’s! “But what am I thinking,” continued the prince to himself
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) And what do they want with their ridiculous ‘Pavlofsk trees’? To sweeten my last hours? Cannot they understand that the more I forget myself, the more I let myself become attached to these last illusions of life and love, by means of which they try to hide from me Meyer’s wall, and all that is so plainly written on it—the more unhappy they make me? What is the use of all your nature to me—all your parks and trees, your sunsets and sunrises, your blue skies and your self-satisfied faces—when all this wealth of beauty and happiness begins with the fact that it accounts me—only me—one too many! What is the good of all this beauty and glory to me, when every second, every moment, I cannot but be aware that this little fly which buzzes around my head in the sun’s rays—even this little fly is a sharer and participator in all the glory of the universe, and knows its place and is happy in it;—while I—only I, am an outcast, and have been blind to the fact hitherto, thanks to my simplicity! Oh! I know well how the prince and others would like me, instead of indulging in all these wicked words of my own, to sing, to the glory and triumph of morality, that well-known verse of Gilbert’s:
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I hate you, Gavrila Ardalionovitch, solely (this may seem curious to you, but I repeat)—solely because you are the type, and incarnation, and head, and crown of the most impudent, the most self-satisfied, the most vulgar and detestable form of commonplaceness
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He had probably been very busy that day on all sorts of errands and probably with success, which was reflected in the self-satisfied expression of his face when at six o'clock that evening he turned up at Stavrogin's
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A young fellow of some nineteen summers entered the room; he might have been even younger, to judge by his handsome but self-satisfied and very juvenile face
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In appearance he was a tall, dark-haired, particularly thick-set man, with European whiskers, with a self-satisfied, red face, with teeth white as sugar, and with an irreproachably gentlemanly deportment
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came out by another door, and immediately afterwards coming towards us appeared her self-satisfied husband, who was returning from the garden, after just escorting into it quite a crowd of ladies and there handing them over to a competent cavaliere servente
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But I looked with wild curiosity at the self-satisfied person of M
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Sónya Petróvna, on the contrary, smiled that imperceptible self-satisfied smile which people smile who have caught a man's ridiculous side
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Healthy, fat, red-faced, loud-voiced, and rough; with a self-satisfied smile constantly on his lips
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He was very stupid by nature, but, besides this, he had had the misfortune of finishing school with a gold medal and of receiving a reward for his essay on “Servitude” when studying Roman Law at the University, and was therefore self-confident and self-satisfied in the highest degree (his success with the ladies also conducing to this) and his stupidity had become extraordinary
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Kolosoff’s self-assured, trivial tone of liberalism was unpleasant, as was also the sensual, self-satisfied, bull-like appearance of old Korchagin, and the French phrases of Katerina Alexeevna, the Slavophil
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Not that there was any scorn apparent in their manner, but there was a certain self-satisfied tranquillity, founded partly on money and partly on their close intimacy with generals, a certain consciousness of superiority which even extended to a desire to hide it
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Therefore the best among them stood on a moral level that is not often reached, while the worst were far below the ordinary level, many of them being untruthful, hypocritical and at the same time self-satisfied and proud
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He was stout, and seemed a resolute, self-satisfied man, but he looked ghastly pale, downcast, and seemed frightened; then his assistant, frowning but resolute; behind them the watchman
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It was impossible to think and remember one’s sin and be self-satisfied
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But he had to be self-satisfied in order to live, and therefore he did not think and forgot
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His features were like his sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak
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There will be no sleek, plump, self-satisfied thinkers and artists
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When Pierre went up to them he noticed that Véra was being carried away by her self-satisfied talk, but that Prince Andrew seemed embarrassed, a thing that rarely happened with him
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And of Bonaparte himself! I remember his limited, self-satisfied face on the field of Austerlitz
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I can remember blushing hotly at the question, but at the same time feeling—for all my efforts to prevent it—a self-satisfied smile steal over my face as I began talking, in the most inflated and long-winded French, such rubbish as even now, after dozens of years, it shames me to recall
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If it were put into picture no one would ever believe it!' I turn round and naturally I see a self-satisfied, full-fed paterfamilias, who delights in repeating some one else's silly statement as though it were his own
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” And it was with a self-satisfied air, the air of a conqueror, that Almington unfolded his long legs and followed Mrs