self-satisfaction

• “He was wearing an expression of self-satisfaction.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fallen Hearts

• “I can see how it harms animals clearly, but what other than self-righteous self-satisfaction comes from attacking them?”

  The Huffington Post: Bruce Friedrich: PETA VP: In Defense Of VegNews & The Meat Photos 'Controversy'

• “When he came home, armed with the knowledge, he wore a look of self-satisfaction on his face.”

  Simon & Schuster: Raven

• “He doesn't come flat out and say it but he clearly thinks this a sign of our national tendencies towards complacency, self-satisfaction, and parochialism, and he'd like it if more of us tried to cure ourselves of those tendencies by packing up and shipping out on that slow boat to anywhere.”

  Questions of travel

• “We all need to bear witness, and do so without smugness or self-satisfaction from the safety of our "free" world.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Vazquez: On The Imprisonment of Iranian Filmmakers: A Moral Option For Iran and Any Government Presuming to Silence Its Artists

• “I feel all the same things — the conflicting attitudes about my body, the guilt but self-satisfaction.”

  What Does A Body Good | Her Bad Mother

• “I'm glad I lived that way for a time, just for the self-satisfaction of having done so.”

  Last month's expenses (some)

• “Sense of occasion or self-satisfaction, fresher food ...”

  My Take on Take-Out, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “I am more than a little tired of the combination of self-satisfaction and intellectual laziness of the pro-immigration economist crow.”

  A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Some people buy a similar form of reputation in Nordstroms, or self-satisfaction at a driving range.”

  Taxes vs. Philanthropy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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