Translation for "autocomplaciente" to english
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La carta es presuntuosa, autocomplaciente, hipócrita y, en vista de los hechos, de execrable gusto.
The letter is smug, self-complacent, unctuous and, considering the facts, in execrable taste.
La poesía traiciona a su daimon cuando es demasiado perezoso o autocomplaciente para pensar profundamente (el astreindre de Valéry).
Poetry betrays its daimon when it is too lazy or self-complacent to think deeply (Valéry’s astreindre).
Le sorprendió que, apenas quedó él en silencio, Darwin empezara a hablar de sí mismo, de un modo minucioso y autocomplaciente: algo que jamás pasaba antes.
It surprised him that as soon as he fell silent, Darwin began to talk about himself, circumstantially and self-complacently—something that never used to happen before.
Te envidio tanto. —¿Y tú? —preguntó la camarera entre las risitas autocomplacientes.
I’m so jealous.” “And you?” the waitress asked through the self-congratulatory giggles.
Su relación con el antiguo linaje nunca fue simple, ni entrañable, ni autocomplaciente.
Their relation to the ancient lineage was never simple, never cozy, never self-congratulatory.
Después, Stan se sentó en la cama de olor dulce de Carrie, en un estado de ánimo autocomplaciente.
After it was over Stan lay in her sweet-smelling bed in a self-congratulatory mood.
Él sonrió, sin variar un ápice su estudiado retraimiento autocomplaciente. —Qué curioso —dijo.
He smiled, without cracking the glaze of his studied, self-congratulatory diffidence. “How curious,”
—Fíjate, y habla ruso —dijo Vincie trazando una sonrisa autocomplaciente con sus labios resecos.
“That’s right, he speaks Russian,” Vincie said, a self-congratulatory smile on her cracked lips.
A medida que iba bebiendo más cantidad de la espesa malta que prefería, se volvía más locuaz, más autocomplaciente, casi sensiblero.
As he drank more of the thick malt he favored, he grew loquacious, self-congratulatory, almost maudlin.
La ironía es que el punto débil del poder masculino blanco, de la postura exclusiva, autocomplaciente, congratulatoria y pugilista, es la vulnerabilidad extrema.
The irony is that the underbelly of white male power, of the clubby, self-congratulatory, back-pounding, pugilistic posing is extreme vulnerability.
Durante esa larga tarde, leí El diccionario del diablo de Ambrose Bierce, un libro de humor negro y cinismo autocomplaciente.
During that long afternoon, I read The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, a grimly humorous book of self-congratulatory cynicism.
Los neocimek habían empezado a extenderse por los Planetas Sincronizados aniquilados, sí, pero la gloria de esas conquistas no era más que una ilusión absurda y autocomplaciente.
Even though neo-cymeks had at last begun to sweep across the dead Synchronized Worlds, their glory had become a petty, self-congratulatory delusion.
Muy solo aquí, ¿con una chaqueta de piel, un mechero plateado, una sonrisa autocomplaciente y una turgencia bajo la cremallera de sus vaqueros ceñidos?
Alone here! I thought. Alone here with a leather jacket, a silver lighter, a self-congratulatory grin, and something pressing zipped into his tight jeans.
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