self-complacency

He was looking at me with a self-complacency which would have been odious in any other man.

To be much alone with God is the sovereign remedy for pride and self-complacency.

Read vigilantly, the book emphatically does not minister to self-complacency, of course.

So, a sense of self-complacency is understandable for any favored party in this poll cushion.

Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind.

In the course of time I began to get the best of this knotty lesson, and my self-complacency moved to the front once more.

Self-reproach gave place to his usual self-complacency and self-exaltation.

A practice such as this is an excellent way of warning an aspirant against heedlessness or self-complacency.

It flatters his self-complacency, like the lion, to play a little with the puppy he is about to devour.

It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!

It's easy to say that sort of thing, to accuse me of self-complacency in the tiny little part I contribute to an enormous whole.

Far from retaining the humility that had oppressed him on his visit to the library, he now swung away towards self-complacency.

And this unshakable self-complacency reminds us that people don't always (or perhaps even usually) come to the views they hold by study, reason, and reflection.

Their evident self-complacency and immobility are things he does not understand at all and with which he has little patience.

Ah, the pitiable self-complacency in the twain!

Even the self-complacency of Sherwood Branciforte could not fail to note his utter indifference.

Self-complacency.

His low-toned self-complacency, like the faded banner of an obstinate fort, still flies unconquered.

His self-complacency was magnificent, 'Where is your kit, Manuel?'

He spoke effectively, and both he and his party had the self-complacency that comes to persons who believe that they are sure to win.

"Your self-complacency may be your undoing," growled Gemnon testily.

At present if anyone who has left the Christian communion declares himself a believer in God, priest and parson swell with self-complacency.

These spiritual assets of self-complacency are indeed to be rated as grounds of high-minded patriotism without afterthought.

It is agreeable, and perhaps pardonable, to indulge in a little self-complacency when our right to it is thoroughly established.

Bonaparte had beautiful hands, and he was very proud of them; while conversing he would often look at them with an air of self-complacency.