ego-stroking

While both places have their fair share of ego-stroking, HN seems to have a much more condescending tone.

This, instead of constant affirmations, confirmations, congratulating and ego-stroking might actually be one of Japan's greatest gifts to the world.

Science has been growing a strange ego-stroking pop culture faction of late, and it's fairly worrying.

It is much more ego-stroking than joining one of the many groups already doing great work.

A species does not exist based on something as brittle as some ego-stroking social contract.

Rather than striking back with some ego-stroking revenge, maybe educating the recruiter on why his behavior was shitty might help more?

Maybe a lot of people are interested in the science of ego-stroking.

In that context some ego-stroking historical revisionism shouldn't be surprising.

One of the things I hate (hate hate ) about my current company is the amount of ego-stroking and special-snowflake-celebration the founders/execs get.

A lot of christian ego-stroking bullshit, no new content.

However, this intellectual ego-stroking in the videos etc.

I've seen a lot of ego-stroking back-patting around here recently which don't add substance to conversations, should we have a guideline around gratuitous positivity too?

It resorts to a weird sort of ego-stroking to explain away why the reader cum Ender was an outcast, then justifies all of the hyperviolence against all offenders under the age-old abuser's excuse "I didn't know my own strength." I don't think people read enough into the book and treat it too much as light, throw-away fiction.