congratulatorily

But to assume that law enforcement is intrinsically racist in Arizona is to paint with a state wide brush and ignore the recent video taped happenings in the extremely Blue, “progressive” and self-congratulatorily “civilized” metropolitan area of Seattle.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Arizona Law is Much Worse than the Federal Law It is Supposedly Based On 2010

But to assume that law enforcement is intrinsically racist in Arizona is to paint with a state wide brush and ignore the recent video taped happenings in the extremely Blue, “progressive” and self-congratulatorily “civilized” metropolitan area of Seattle.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Arizona Law is Much Worse than the Federal Law It is Supposedly Based On 2010

Its political narrative is perhaps a little hamstrung by the fact that it doesn't, as a novel, realise that WWI is just around the corner; and all the sex stuff is a little self-congratulatorily 'daring' in a way which, since it all now of course seems dustily dated and oblique, is perhaps unfortunate.

Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Its political narrative is perhaps a little hamstrung by the fact that it doesn't, as a novel, realise that WWI is just around the corner; and all the sex stuff is a little self-congratulatorily 'daring' in a way which, since it all now of course seems dustily dated and oblique, is perhaps unfortunate.

H G Wells, The New Machiavelli (1911) Adam Roberts 2010

More perhaps than anyone since the Second World War, Updike championed a highly “literary” fiction, precious, breathy, self-congratulatorily “beautiful,” that was largely an effort to dress up and give a good name to the novel of moral uplift.

Updike dead at 76 2009

More perhaps than anyone since the Second World War, Updike championed a highly “literary” fiction, precious, breathy, self-congratulatorily “beautiful,” that was largely an effort to dress up and give a good name to the novel of moral uplift.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

We went to Dachau after -- during my three years in Europe working for the World's YMCA to put its -- itself -- congratulatorily, to bind up the wounds of war, because I had been a passivist during the war.

The Irony of Virtue: Ethics and American Power 1998

Le Chapelier clasped hands with him and became congratulatorily voluble, until interrupted by the red-coated giant at the door.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

Editor Dennis O’Neil’s preface on the history of Batman sidekicks begins, somewhat self-congratulatorily, “The third time we got it right.”

The Legend of Batman and Raven 2009

Editor Dennis O’Neil’s preface on the history of Batman sidekicks begins, somewhat self-congratulatorily, “The third time we got it right.”

Archive 2009-09-01 2009