McCain's bleatings are either for domestic political consumption or self-satisfaction, a form of hip-shooting onanism that demonstrates why he would have been a foreign policy .
Faria creates nothing more than a pot mood: airless self-satisfaction.
But the British should keep their nostalgia and self-satisfaction surrounding the colonial period within strict limits.
California budget negotiations a breeze for Jerry Brown California lawmakers have adopted on-time budgets so rarely in recent decades that the one they negotiated with Gov. Jerry Brown this week filled the Capitol with an air of self-satisfaction -- if not disbelief.
June 15, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee
John Wooden in Wisconsin Law Journal Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable,Wooden once said in explaining such performance.
Phan Van Khai in Sydney Morning Herald But, Khai added, the Vietnamese face many challenges and must "avoid self-satisfaction, and realise the weaknesses and challenges posed to us."