Congratulation you guys, it's like when a #MeToo works out.
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"Congratulation, Ellie, such love and such fun!" added Karlie Kloss.
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Congratulation on your induction to the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame!
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Congratulation Donald J. Trump President of the United States of America!
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It initially dropped as Trump opened familiar words of self-congratulation.
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Is congratulation the only way to keep their hands off our throats?
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Out of context, the act sounds, at best, like excessive self-congratulation.
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Congratulation to Donald J. Trump President of the United States of America!
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The rot at the center of "Falsettos" is slathered in self-congratulation.
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During a Class Day speech, Mr. Bolton denounced liberal self-congratulation at Yale.
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This is cause for much self-congratulation in the mansion in Saint-Cloud.
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I just wanna say thank you to everyone for all the congratulation wishes.
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Reynolds's challenge felt rooted in a long history of literary male self-congratulation.
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" Meanwhile, Trump was tweeting his congratulation to DeSantis, touting the congressman's "fantastic win.
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The General Assembly meeting needs a dose of reality, not more self-congratulation.
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The hug, the handshakes and a word of congratulation, eventually came on the podium.
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The Trump team's latest bit of self-congratulation comes from something of an unexpected source.
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In 2008 Pope Benedict sent a warm message of congratulation on the state's 60th anniversary.
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Slack uses those points as opportunities for both self-congratulation and backhanded slams of Microsoft.
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Critic's Notebook Awards shows are made for promotion, self-congratulation, flashy fashion and industrywide solidarity.
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" He's not lying, one tweeted a congratulation and asked if he's "planning a baby shower.
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For all the self-congratulation — where else could a 1-1 draw be so captivating?
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In between the Grammys' self-congratulation for deciding to value women, few women won actual awards.
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Excessive public self-congratulation makes it more difficult to backtrack later, should subsequent talks be unproductive.
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But it also continued many of the old patterns of self-congratulation, blame-shifting and misinformation.
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This is a time to open hearts and wallets; self-congratulation is utterly out of place.
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"Still the place to be," she said, with her normal mix of self-congratulation and scorn.
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And what fun to advertise the plenitude of suitors and extend the orgy of self-congratulation.
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A good Oscars host — Chris Rock, say — can puncture the bubble of rich-people self-congratulation.
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It took Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, nearly 24 hours to post a single sentence of congratulation.
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When John Winthrop used the phrase "city upon a hill" he didn't mean it as self-congratulation.
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The unrivaled greatness of America, though a cause for self-congratulation to many, also incited much uneasiness.
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The lack of self-congratulation about the show's inclusivity is welcome, but it doesn't mean Edge and co.
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With their tired tropes about spiralling downwards and the "tawdry self-congratulation" of recovery, such stories defy originality.
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But there's room to alter how the conversation is facilitated, to strip away the loftiness and self-congratulation.
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" Congratulation cards may combine a heavy stock of paper, letter-pressed printing and a Twitter-friendly hashtag, "#Instablessed.
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These are not the times for self-congratulation and claiming that only one man can solve the problem.
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The latest example of Amazons's policymaking through self-congratulation comes from Jay Carney, the company's public relations chief.
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For a supposedly intimate portrait, it can feel jarringly bombastic; its self-exposure surely tips into self-congratulation.
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For a supposedly intimate portrait, it can feel jarringly bombastic; its self-exposure surely tips into self-congratulation.
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" The journalist Christopher Hitchens, then still on the left, called Fukuyama's argument "self-congratulation raised to the level of philosophy.
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Political opponents from the hard-left France Insoumise (Unbowed?) party mocked the speech as a "tedious exercise of self-congratulation".
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Receiving congratulation for showing up and being yourself the way any man would is something every woman has long deserved.
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If this is the case, you will most likely jump two footed into the big, oily vat of mutual congratulation.
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He said Putin would spend the day fielding calls of congratulation, meeting supporters, and holding talks with the losing candidates.
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She keeps returning to the lives of mixed-race people: the scrutiny they face, the fascination, congratulation, suspicion and scorn.
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It will mean another jobless holiday season, lost opportunity throughout the region and more misplaced bravado and self-congratulation by extremists.
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AMONG the messages of congratulation for Andrés Manuel López Obrador on his landslide victory in Mexico's presidential election, one stood out.
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We in the United States are prone to self-congratulation, and the annual commemoration has become the perfect vehicle for gushing.
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It also would be extremely premature to engage in self-congratulation at the apparent capitulation of Kim to Trump's tough talk.
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The opening set the tone of an Oscars that offered a little more self-examination than usual among the self-congratulation.
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I watched the Golden Globes and, yes, I noticed the false, sometimes cringe-worthy notes of hypocrisy and unwarranted self-congratulation.
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There is also a heavy dose of self-congratulation here, as if by doling out money, Walmart should earn a medal.
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In the course of phone conversations with Henry Kissinger and Hubert Humphrey, he sounds more in need of consolation than congratulation.
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Excruciating self-congratulation has always been part of Apple's brand, but the company took this to new levels at today's iPhone event.
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The company has always been defined in part by onanism and self-congratulation, but has managed a certain degree of self-awareness.
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But he doesn't even reach base camp on the slopes of Trump, whose campaign is one bottomless, boundless soliloquy of self-congratulation.
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Patriarch Kirill sent the new head of state a warm letter of congratulation and his Easter message contained no vituperation over Ukraine.
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It's an evening of self-congratulation, bad jokes and political bias, where Democrats go to get praised and Republicans to be lampooned.
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"Congratulation to Roy Moore and Luther Strange for being the final two and heading into a September runoff in Alabama," he tweeted.
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"Congratulation to Roy Moore and Luther Strange for being the final two and heading into a September runoff in Alabama," Trump tweeted.
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And the proceedings almost certainly wouldn't be followed up by a sportsmanlike round of bipartisan self-congratulation, as they were in 2010.
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But as opposed to being the celebratory exclamation point on all that self-congratulation, the prevailing mood may be closer to relief.
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He has oscillated between self-congratulation and fear-mongering, which was the running theme of the quasi-fascist speech he gave Monday afternoon.
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Some of them, like Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, offered veiled criticism even as they sent Mr. Trump pro forma letters of congratulation.
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This self-congratulation surely colors the survey responses, which may wind up saying as much about a school's status as about anything else.
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As the news spread, union loyalists flooded Twitter with messages of relief and self-congratulation, even though details of the agreement were few.
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Political sniping But Trump's fondness for early self-congratulation and political sniping has already led to criticism he's not taking his role seriously.
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Yet less attention has been paid to the men behind those cameras than you might expect, given Hollywood's constant stream of self-congratulation.
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Though the lack of cast involvement and LC-congratulation was excessive, there were a few gems throughout the episode that made it worth watching.
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Worried leaders tempered their letters of congratulation to Mr Trump with veiled reminders of the transatlantic values many of them believe his victory imperils.
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Hopefully one of those twins is me""as just listening to all of your albums when I saw this congratulation I'm about to cry.
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It's often a zippy, fun time, however—that is, if you can convince yourself to overlook its self-congratulation and mildly regressive gender politics.
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"As soon as Mr. Trump got elected, we sent congratulation letters, to which they replied, and we exchanged texts," the Russian pop star said.
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ADVERTISING WEEK, an annual stretch of industry meetings that began on September 26th in New York, is usually defined by schmoozing and self-congratulation.
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What emerges is the picture of a thoughtful, intelligent, cautious President, but also one who is more prone to self-congratulation than self-criticism.
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Was de Tocqueville right that we would just disappear into silos of self-congratulation and self-interest, or can we hope for something better?
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Who talked incessantly about how heroic his election was, summoning more energy for self-congratulation than he ever exhibited for the praise of others?
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In each case, the amount of self-congratulation on display seemed wildly out of proportion with the content of the supposed LGBTQ representation itself.
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I think there's too much self-congratulation that happens in big areas and a lot of the really big work happens in smaller places.
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Although he did not walk away with the coveted award, following the ceremony, the rapper sent a warm congratulation to Cardi B, who did win.
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So why would anyone want to watch two hours of self-congratulation, from musicians who haven't been a vital part of popular culture in decades?
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Although he did not walk away with the coveted award, following the ceremony, the rapper sent a warm congratulation to Cardi B, who did win.
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The Instagram post announcing Bush's accomplishment garnered more than 100,000 likes in a day, and dozens of commenters sent congratulation messages to the former POTUS.
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But curators can't resist self-congratulation either, and the Brooklyn Museum wants us to relate the show to its 1927 exhibition of the artist's work.
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Issa works at a nonprofit that strives to do nice stuff for black and Latino school kids between fits of self-congratulation and casual racism.
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The ceremony, the concert, the lunch, the parade, the balls, and more — all of this serves to create a nationwide mood of celebration and self-congratulation.
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Obama gave a date and that's how ISIS happened," Trump said Tuesday at a rally in Wilmington, N.C. "Hence the birth of ISIS, congratulation Hillary Clinton.
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For all the self-congratulation by Mr. Kushner, Mr. Mnuchin and their guests, the Palestinian Authority government, which deeply mistrusts the Trump administration, boycotted the event.
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And so its completion—on time and on budget, by some metrics; anything but, by others—was a cause for celebration, self-congratulation, and heavy Instagramification.
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Bush's infamous praise of FEMA director Michael Brown -- "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" -- became an internet meme that served as shorthand for clueless self-congratulation.
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Even though neither of us are millennials, it'd be understandable if outsiders see this as some kind of Everyone Gets A Trophy Day exercise in self-congratulation.
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We must resist congratulation for allyship and accept that despite our best intentions, we may make mistakes, cause harm and deserve to be criticized for those mistakes.
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Audiobooks Ignore the scent of self-congratulation that wafts from nearly every book in the How to Succeed category and what remains is largess, priced to move.
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But those mismatches, however cute, reek of male self-congratulation, whereas Wilde is unerringly focussed on her heroines, and on their fundamental right to get things wrong.
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For those trying to get by without insurance they were no better positioned to afford, the self-congratulation among Democrats only rubbed salt in their untreated wounds.
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It does not cost you a lifeline or break your streak or detract in any way from the hearty self-congratulation you may partake in when solving.
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So what could be an opportunity to offer a comprehensive and credible strategy to combat a grave internal threat becomes just another exercise in braggadocio and self-congratulation.
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When a routine letter of congratulation from Mr Xi was read aloud at Guiyang's recent expo, the province's current boss, Sun Zhigang, described it as "historic" and "a milestone".
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But by the end of the week, for precipitating reasons unknown to anyone outside of the campaign's highest echelons, Trump—the candidate who fetishizes dominance and self-congratulation—capitulated.
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He had made a career out of shameless self-congratulation, and the media took the opportunity to humble him with relish comparable to that he showed his defeated rivals.
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"Charlottesville has had a tendency to self-congratulation; it's constantly in the magazines as the best place to live," said Reverend Will Peyton, who oversees St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
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And Trump would surely fashion remarks like those during his belated visit to American troops abroad, when he performed an aria of self-congratulation — the only song he knows.
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And Conor Friedersdorf of the Atlantic tweeted that he was "happy to entertain" the idea that such actions might be politically productive, but he perceived mostly ineffectual self-congratulation.
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But this points to another factor, which is less cause for self-congratulation: a big part of Canadian millennials' wealth is explained by the barely interrupted rise in house prices.
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Jamison is concerned from the outset that her book will not escape "the tedious architecture and tawdry self-congratulation of a redemption story"—that it will, in short, be boring.
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Netanyahu called Trump to congratulation him on his victory against Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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But to critics it followed a familiar playbook -- as he blamed others for the crisis, basked in self-congratulation and xenophobia, and misled the country about his actions so far.
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" He added that he did not like the way "competitions tend to exist for themselves, full of self-congratulation when a few prizewinners go out into the world and succeed.
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That said, it's exasperating (yet predictable) that the movie makes such a great, groaning fuss over the fact that women are onboard, a self-consciousness that reads like self-congratulation.
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The commander in chief, who has been known for decades as a fan of flattery and who speaks of himself in superlatives, even indulged in a bit of self-congratulation.
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There are no erection troubles here, but if anybody has placed his or her chips on "extreme overexcitement and premature congratulation" then please don't spend all of your winnings at once.
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Instead, we are invited to indulge in some self-congratulation for being clever enough to live in the enlightened present, at a time when we all know how important jobs are.
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Thunberg and her fellow youth activists seem frustrated by sluggish and ineffectual efforts of adults, and are not willing to hand out self-congratulation for a renewed wave of protests, either.
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In a climate of self-congratulation, Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, was re-elected as the PP president, unopposed and with a Soviet-style margin of 96% of the vote of delegates.
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Thomas P. Bossert, who was the president's homeland security adviser during Hurricane Maria last year, conceded in an interview this week that Mr. Trump's self-congratulation should have been tempered with compassion.
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Books of The Times Time has a way of sanding off the rough edges of historical memory, turning even the most convulsive, contentious lives into opportunities for national triumphalism and self-congratulation.
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The self-congratulation masks a growing awareness that, for all its economic success, China has become a hard-edged society where the spirit of sharing and social trust is in short supply.
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But Carvel is into a lot more than self-congratulation; today it will also donate 10,000 to the American Red Cross's Sound the Alarm campaign, which aims to reduce home fire-related casualties.
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But during last night's episode I realized that it's the very idea of Negan as a character in this world; the dumb, cruel, '50s greaser sadist full of dad jokes and self-congratulation.
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Within a few weeks, she received a phone call of congratulation from another former political prisoner— Václav Havel, the dissident Czech playwright who, in 1989, had become his country's first post-Communist leader.
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Now, 10 years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers provoked a global financial panic and led to what Greenspan refers to as "the great stagnation," the self-congratulation seems to have been premature.
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At his current rate of self-congratulation, Saban, 211, is on track to bask in the glory of the five national titles he has won (so far) around a decade after he retires.
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So let's burst Mr. Trump's self-deluded bubble and remind him that bullying and threats, insults and self-congratulation, do not great negotiations achieve — as is clear from his lack of legislative victories.
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" Abigail, Taylor Swift's aforementioned childhood best friend, even quoted "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" in her Instagram post congratulation Swift on her ELLE cover: "Well this calls for a toast, so pour the champagne.
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S. foreign policy already suffers from far too much self-congratulation and excessive confidence in our own righteousness, so it was alarming to hear Trump speak in such stark, fanatical terms about international affairs.
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And he included all the other requisite elements of a Trump policy speech on Iran: burning resentment of President Barack Obama, critiques of his predecessor's nuclear deal, dubious factual claims and campaign-year self-congratulation.
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I would suggest that just as Americans should always check themselves for bias, and they should, those tempted to assail practically every second American voter in 2016 as a bigot ought check themselves for self-congratulation.
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"President Moon said he hopes I'd also pass on his gratitude to you for your message of congratulation and the telephone call after he was elected," Lee said before reporters were asked to leave the room.
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"President Moon said he hopes I'd also pass on his gratitude to you for your message of congratulation and the telephone call after he was elected," Lee said, before reporters were asked to leave the room.
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In their farewell speeches on the floors of the chamber — normally the venue for self-congratulation and (at least rhetorical) détentes — both Republican and Democratic Senate leaders offered muted endorsements of the previous six months' accomplishments.
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Although much of this recent discussion has been spurred by this year's Oscar contenders (all of the acting nominees are white), the issues are far greater and more enduring than the industry's annual Saturnalia of self-congratulation.
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For Nolan, born in London in 1970 to an American mother and a British father, Dunkirk is akin to checking a patriotic box and securing a pass to its permanent pageant of nostalgia and weepy self-congratulation.
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But rather than waste time on self-congratulation, Republicans who spoke up this time should be asking themselves why a president of their party felt he was enforcing its principles by breaking apart families and caging children.
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Governors, mayors and local officials have been making timely, high-stakes decisions and providing accurate information that sometimes surpasses that dispensed in White House briefings, which remain filled with self-congratulation and fawning praise for the President.
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Under the marquee that had been set up in the second sports field, old boy after old boy came forward to shake hands with Father Rector and slap one another on the back in fat-handed congratulation.
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He said that he was struck by Mr. Trump's instinct to turn the Orlando shootings of more than 100 people, nearly half of whom were killed, into an exercise in self-congratulation as opposed to one of empathy.
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Its 28503th birthday was marked by much self-congratulation, with more than a hint that prudent ECB policies had enabled Europe to avoid the worst of the financial crisis that had afflicted the so called "Anglo-Saxon" countries.
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Beyond the threat to lives and property, the storm also poses a formidable political challenge for Mr. Trump, whose public posture has been shaped by his penchant for self-congratulation and relish for lashing out at political rivals.
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At first glance, the documents the retiree had spread out on a table in Tucson looked as if they could have been keepsakes from just about anyone's career: a company magazine, a timeline, letters of commendation and congratulation.
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The world's progressives may have loved it, but some in Berlin were uneasy at the chiding tone of Mrs Merkel's letter of congratulation to Mr Trump, which pledged co-operation on the basis of a commitment to liberal values.
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This isn't rugby league's problem – it's society's, but the game has made it a priority by using its platform to promote mental health awareness in a way that doesn't require applause, or any form of congratulation, but rather emulation.
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What started as a ring-a-ding vaudeville act, with Ms. Newman as the star stooge, descends uncomfortably into a series of soliloquies about imparting liberal values to children, which contain more than a few notes of self-congratulation.
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The news conference proved to be another signature recapitulation of himself by himself — Mr. Trump's relentless superlatives of self-congratulation, his paint-ball putdowns of any and all critics, his swaggering dismissal of controversies already occurring in plain sight.
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European Council President Donald Tusk, whose job it will be to broker negotiations between May and the 27 other national EU leaders, sent a two-sentence letter of congratulation saying that he looked forward to a "fruitful working relationship".
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Among these posted conversations are pictures of signs and billboards simply saying "YANDHI 9 29 18" and announcing the streaming success of his latest song with Lil Pump, which is its own kind of self-congratulation based on numbers and engagement.
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During the 10-day stretch, he missed out on her picking up the Radio Disney award for favorite country artist, though he did offer her a shout-out on Instagram — and no doubt Ballerini also received a more personal congratulation.
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Fenech, a Sarkozy loyalist in a party riven by rival factions, referred to a meeting this week between Fillon and his camp as one of "mutual congratulation" in which "nobody wants to tell him the truth - or very few people".
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"Of course social media discussion could swing undecideds, but I think the effect here is likely to be marginal, as the political speech on these platforms so often consists of trading slogans, self-congratulation and a near-total disregard for accuracy," Evans explained.
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Despite the Paris agreement's ambiguities and some setbacks, including President Donald Trump's decision to yank America out of the deal, the air of self-congratulation was still on show among those who gathered in Bonn this month for a follow-up summit.
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When Oak Street Elementary posted news of the pregnancies to their Facebook account last month, many commenters wrote congratulation messages while joking about "not drinking the water" at the school — and Sheahon said she had already heard every joke in the book.
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European leaders across the continent last night and this morning issued unusually hearty notes of congratulation to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for his decisive win yesterday over the anti-Islam, anti–European Union populist candidate Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party.
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"Literally, I spent six months with the most sophisticated people in the top of the food chain in New York," Mr. Georges said in his office, where a double magnum of champagne sat on his desk, sent by a local banker in congratulation.
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It's also bracing to see the way in which the lives and concerns of the Indigenous characters are given precedence without the self-consciousness, or self-congratulation, that sometimes marks American productions' treatment of African-American or Native American characters in similar stories.
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Self congratulation, a feature of the daily coronavirus news conferences at the White House, is especially pronounced today — even as death toll rises, unemployment surges, hospitals are overwhelmed, and state and local leaders warn of worse to come over not weeks but months.
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The spirit of the time was a heady concoction of high purpose and self-congratulation—a secular brand of Calvinism, with the state of inward grace revealed outwardly by an Ivy League degree, Silicon Valley stock options, and a White House invitation.
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Instead of indulging ourselves in a fit of self-congratulation on our generosity and openness, we have to consider the legitimate claims of nations, the danger of future political violence, and the ugly lessons of nations like Lebanon where Christians once lived in freedom.
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Trump, Clinton surrogates battle over immigration rhetoric "At this point, there is an emerging Donald Trump playbook in reaction to crisis," said Sullivan, accusing Trump of indulging in "pathological self-congratulation," ignoring advisors, making up facts, and talking about what's good for himself, and not the nation.
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Mixing pique, self-congratulation and a relentless focus on whether the United States is being taken advantage of by its closest allies, Mr. Trump spent his final hours at the NATO meeting in Brussels bludgeoning other leaders but got little in the way of concrete results.
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And as much as Churchwell insists that "the scourges of racism and anti-Semitism were fundamentally inimical to the American dream," a convincing argument can be made that the dream was always a fantasy of self-congratulation, inextricable from the slave society upon which it was built.
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The prevailing tone of self-congratulation was reminiscent of generations of Oscar ceremonies and at times it threatened to overwhelm some of the modest surprises of the evening, notably Olivia Coleman's Best Actress triumph over Glenn Close, Lady Gaga, Melissa McCarthy and "Roma" newcomer Yalitza Aparicio.
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Lichtman, a remarkable thinker and social satirist, fills his first 50 pages with a misleadingly pedestrian cycle of basic cowardice, random aggression, flagrant self-congratulation and garden-variety self-loathing, until a Suboxone strip chops up the rhythm of his prose and the book begins in earnest.
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But the hurricanes are yet another reminder of this president's rare capacity for self-congratulation — a trait that seems particularly ill-suited to the aftermath of deadly disasters, when the plight of people who lost homes or even family members would seem to take precedence over testimonials to FEMA.
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The punchline is not the Jackson comment, but Trump's self congratulation on being 1st to ask why the Civil War had to happen Also "why was there the civil war" has been written about more than just about any subject in American history Andrew Jackson was a slaveholding plantation owner.
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In Tiny Habits, Fogg neatly translates a decade of research into a three-step program: Find a behavior you want to adopt (reading the newspaper rather than Twitter), tack it onto an existing routine (drinking a cup of coffee every morning) and then celebrate, liberally, every time it's done (self-congratulation works).
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At times, the report reads like a bit of self-congratulation among Fed officials for their performance in recent years, including steering inflation close to the Fed's 2 percent annual target, supporting strong economic growth and a low unemployment rate, and pushing Wall Street firms to strengthen their defenses against a potential financial shock.
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Every suspicion you might entertain — that this will be a sentimental tale of prejudices overcome and common humanity affirmed; that its politics will be as gently middle-of-the-road as its humor; that it will invite a measure of self-congratulation about how far we, as a nation, have come — will be confirmed.
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There's the "this show is so smart normies don't get it" self-congratulation that's so over-the-top it became a copypasta meme; there's the propensity to doxx the show's female writers and generally be such venal stains that Harmon despises them; there's the mass freakout after McDonald's ran out of limited-edition Szechuan dipping sauce.
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President Trump must get survivors ready for the long haul, convey a clear understanding of the immense challenges ahead, not use his time before the cameras to set timelines for self-congratulation for his administration's job well done, as the President alluded to in Corpus Christi, or spend Twitter time politicking about NAFTA and tax reform.
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" Rachel Chavkin, accepting the award for director of a musical for "Hadestown," broke through the general air of self-congratulation with a strong statement about how far Broadway still had to go in promoting diversity in the directing ranks, citing "a failure of imagination by a field whose job is to imagine the way the world could be.
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The bars and the old cobbled streets fill with enthusiasts of all ages, many of them with no place to sleep, enacting the rituals of performative public inebriation, while in lamplit panelled Stuben the upper crust of Middle Europe convene for private self-congratulation over their good fortune at being here, now, at the center of the Alpine universe.
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Since then, the torch has passed to a younger generation of writers, including MSNBC's Chris Hayes, whose 2012 "Twilight of the Elites" called for rethinking the entire ethos of liberal "meritocracy" — a system, he argued, that tends to fuel self-congratulation and incompetence at the top while offering little but contempt and dim prospects for those at the bottom.
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Its lion's share of the recently enacted US tax cut was not a reward for a job well done, but a no-strings-attached gift of the sort that would make almost anyone smile and applaud politely as the boss, who spent much of the past year creating chaos and crisis, indulged in a subdued version of his usual display of bragging and self-congratulation.
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To say "Hollywood" is to evoke an establishment, a hegemony, an aesthetic: a glittering realm full of bodies made beautiful by means of eleven dollar green juices and hundred dollar hot yoga classes; souls made empty by constant networking in ceaseless summers; "Hollywood" conjures up a kingdom of applause and self-congratulation—of gowns, stars, and golden statues—and it stirs up a complex brew of envy and distaste in Americans across the political spectrum.
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He emerges in the journals as almost a caricature of old-fartness: vain (devoting page after page to listing all the people who wrote him notes of congratulation after he became a Companion of Honour, in 1988); cranky; right-wing; nitpicky about other writers, including his betters (Woolf, Conrad, Lawrence, even Shakespeare and Dickens!); obsessed with genealogy, his own, especially; forever prattling about wine and recounting his many visits to the dentist.
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The DNA test thus simultaneously gives Trump an obvious way to keep the story going on his terms — just pick the lowest end of the genetic estimate and make sport of a "Pocahontas" who's only one-1,000th Indian — while also annoying Indian groups and anyone on the left (including the actual minority candidates against whom Warren may run) invested in a vision of affirmative action as a righter of historic wrongs rather than just a means to elite self-congratulation.
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Opinion columnist Donald Trump's speech from the Oval Office Wednesday night was horrifying for many reasons: It seemed barely thought through, containing three misstatements that had to be clarified (two about international trade, sowing more confusion in an already volatile market); he spoke without humanity, when humanity is precisely what this first-order crisis requires (peel off his back, and I'm convinced all we'll see are coils and springs); he blew a racist dog whistle while discussing a global health emergency (a "foreign" virus); he humped the same notes of self-congratulation — that his early decision to impose restrictions on travel to China was bold, that America is superbly prepared — when the latter point is obviously untrue, and the former point is moot.
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