self-regardingly

Indeed it's now somewhat hard to imagine how Ford Madox Brown's self-regardingly Romantic colleagues were seen as decadent rebels and conscientious social realists.

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But by complying with what has been enshrined in laws and guidelines, Weiner highlights their absurdity and the hypocrisy of the self-regardingly pious Politically Correct creed.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

But by complying with what has been enshrined in laws and guidelines, Weiner highlights their absurdity and the hypocrisy of the self-regardingly pious Politically Correct creed.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2010

But by complying with what has been enshrined in laws and guidelines, Weiner highlights their absurdity and the hypocrisy of the self-regardingly pious Politically Correct creed.

The creator of Mad Men identifies with… Miss Havisham 2010

But by complying with what has been enshrined in laws and guidelines, Weiner highlights their absurdity and the hypocrisy of the self-regardingly pious Politically Correct creed.

The creator of Mad Men identifies with… Miss Havisham 2010

In which, superciliously, patronisingly, self-regardingly and at excruciating length, the defendant laughs if the word is not too robust and unpretentious - perhaps 'sneers' might be more apt at the sad little people who actually have to get off their arse and work in dull jobs for a living in order to keep food on the table and a roof over their head.

Botton's Up juliette 2009

In which, superciliously, patronisingly, self-regardingly and at excruciating length, the defendant laughs if the word is not too robust and unpretentious - perhaps 'sneers' might be more apt at the sad little people who actually have to get off their arse and work in dull jobs for a living in order to keep food on the table and a roof over their head.

Archive 2009-07-01 juliette 2009

They were better at slogans, too, than modern rioters; modern riots always sound like the growl of overcrowded caged animals punctuated by the noise of destruction, whereas the soixante-huitards coined some memorable phrases as they trotted self-regardingly down the boulevards: memorable, that is, for their pithy moral and intellectual dishonesty, for example the one that went 'We are all German Jews.'

The Two Malcontents 2009

Instead of self-regardingly searching out architecture of consequence, administration and Trustees should first specify that they want something that gels with the rest of Dartmouth, and then demand excellence within the prescription.

Dartblog 2008