Translation of "Selbstbeweihräucherung" in English

Although it kind of sounds like you're congratulating yourself.

I am public about my own recovery not to be self-congratulatory.

Yet we certainly do not go along with the way Parliament is congratulating itself.

Of its 29 paragraphs, eight start by showing approval and four by being self-congratulatory.

But this is nota self-aggrandizing enterprise,

Explicit self-promotion is considered bad taste and generally associated with amateur artists.

To the wary eye, it smacks of ethnic self-congratulation.

Artistic self portraits always bear the risk that the artist is seen as self-aggrandizing and narcissistic.

For the moment, despite all the self-congratulating that is taking place, the economic balance sheet of the European Union' s action is reduced to carving up what remains of Kosovo' s economy and to putting it into the hands of Western banks and the grip of the mafias.

Having clarified the relationship between the peace process and the Barcelona Process, I have to say that in my view the Commission is being unduly self-congratulatory.

Notwithstanding the self-congratulation of the European Union's governing bodies, a rather sombre picture emerges from the situation of the Central and Eastern European candidate countries.

I can appreciate that to do so would endanger the tactical approach and strategic target he set himself from the outset, namely political self-aggrandisement.

Mathematicians got into self-praise to an extent which was absolutely amazing, that man can invent things that nature did not know.

The writer's indignation at finding it treated with silent contempt by the great scholar, who thought it was the work of a personal enemy - Meander - caused him to write a second oration (published in 1536), more violent and abusive, with more self-glorification, but with less real merit than the first.

Khrushchev’s self-eulogizing flatly contradicted his earlier de-Stalinization campaign, the point of which was that Stalin betrayed communism by doing all that he could to resemble the royals of the past.

But Fox needs to move quickly from self-congratulation to action, because Mexico needs a more fulfilling relationship with America than the scanty prizes that are now dropping from Bush's piñata.

He positioned himself in front of the Memorial Wall – on which are engraved the names of 117 agents who have been killed in the line of duty – and issued a grotesque and puerile self-congratulation for the number of supporters who had come to Washington to celebrate his ascension.

But Singh certainly did not fool any of the terrorists, some of whom may have read his self-congratulation as a challenge for them to act.

I'm so sorry to spoil your self-glorification, but I love eating, as much as I care what happens after.

But this is not a self-aggrandizing enterprise, because in this type of discovery research, if you don't feel like a complete idiot most of the time, you're just not sciencing hard enough.

In the hour of God cleanse thy soul of all self-deceit and hypocrisy and vain self-flattering that thou mayst look straight into thy spirit and hear that which summons it.

Marianne, however, although she was a wonderfully attractive lady, had not the slightest bit of understanding for his, as she called it, almost 'sickly chronic self-indulgence': on the contrary, she herself wanted to be admired!