Excellent as it is, The Times is too often self-satisfied.
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"The fat melts off," he says with a self-satisfied smile.
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And Delia is worse, because she's more evasive and self-satisfied.
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The likes of Mr Lott will get richer and more self-satisfied.
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That man's sacrifice deserves a deeper tribute than this self-satisfied limpdick.
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Inside the Oval Office, Trudeau basks in his own self-satisfied glow.
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In 1981, this sounded like the stammerings of a self-satisfied toff.
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That self-satisfied, nasal and plaintive presidential voice has become a norm.
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The Vulture becomes a narrative counterweight to Tony Stark's self-satisfied billionaire.
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There was something almost self-satisfied about it, stagnant behind the clouded glass.
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The court had become ever more bloated and self-satisfied over the decades.
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Sara is, in short, a self-satisfied, selectively generous and frequently withholding snob.
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Online, one can find fiendishly self-satisfied chat boards detailing the supposed lifts.
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It's composed of a self-satisfied people at the top, our new aristocrats.
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Wearing a tight suit and a self-satisfied smirk, Mr Kiselev drew three conclusions.
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Now in music I feel fulfilled, hopefully not self-satisfied, by what I'm doing.
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Baseball owners and the abacus boys would do well not to grow self-satisfied.
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His self-satisfied smile is no match for Vincent's flaring stars in a swirling sky.
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But, whatever else could be said about him, he was foolish, solipsistic, and self-satisfied.
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Instead, narcissists put up a self-satisfied front that shatters every time something goes wrong.
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Most would celebrate such a milestone, perhaps with a glass champagne or a self-satisfied smile.
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Then he flashed a self-satisfied smirk, quite like toddlers do when they wet their diaper.
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True, there's a point at which self-criticism can become neurotic, paralyzing and perversely self-satisfied.
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At what point does blame turn feral and we retreat, self-satisfied, behind our collective censure?
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It's one of the clunkier exchanges in the film, too self-satisfied to be entirely believable.
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This book is odd and self-satisfied and bizarrely specific, in all the best possible ways.
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Groucho took on the pompous, the elitist, the self-satisfied and the oblivious (poor Margaret Dumont).
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Over his face breaks what can only be called an astoundingly self-satisfied and cartoonishly evil grin.
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It devolves into self-satisfied, fish-in-barrel commentary about topics like Twitter and the tabloid press.
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Fashion is arguably always social commentary, but at its best it is revelatory, not merely self-satisfied.
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Trying to control how people use their phones is making clubs look like self-satisfied parents, so stop.
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Writing about Martin Shkreli's self-satisfied attempts to be The Big Music Guy did me no good, mentally.
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There's a dignified rooster, a downcast lion with an anxious lioness, a greedy monkey, a self-satisfied ewe.
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Chandler's hero, that "self-sufficient, self-satisfied, self-confident, untouchable bastard" Philip Marlowe, is a ravishing American creation.
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A dribbling tear tells you much about "Dragged Across Concrete," a self-satisfied slow burn of a movie.
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Elevated by fine performances and Wolfgang Held's lushly sensual cinematography, "Sophie" nevertheless feels over-managed and self-satisfied.
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"Well, now I'll have an answer," Irv said, with a self-satisfied nod that resembled davening or Parkinson's.
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She is in full drunk-asshole mode, like Henry II in The Lion in Winter: swaggering and self-satisfied.
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The worst thing one can do is become self-satisfied, Ortega told a group of business professors in 2007.
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American literature itself is—slowly—becoming more self-critical, more hard-edged, and thus less insular and self-satisfied.
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We're talking confrontations on overgrown lawns in rundown towns, blubbering heartbreak in real time, and Nev's self-satisfied smirk.
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"I have as many Oscars as Leonardo DiCaprio," we'd say, and erupt into riotous peals of self-satisfied laughter.
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Such self satisfied and power hungry elites are exactly the kind of people our Constitution set up to thwart.
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His characters included self-satisfied corporate executives, crusty academics, imperious dowagers and bewildered teenagers on the cusp of adulthood.
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Neither is it enough to deem healthcare coverage a human right, unless the goal is self-satisfied virtue signaling.
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There's something smug about that phrase, slightly self-satisfied, but the "Finders, Keepers," puts this editorializing on different footing.
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But even self-satisfied paulistanos no longer ask him why he spends the rest of his time in the south.
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"I'm changing it from fake news, though," a self-satisfied Trump said of his label for Acosta's employer, punchline chambered.
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That is not a case for glorious, self-satisfied isolation, but for Britain staying in and rolling up its sleeves.
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But as for The Times's need to keep its liberal readers in a self-satisfied oblivion: Mission accomplished, I guess.
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We need British voices — insistent, contrary and maddening — to disturb decades of self-satisfied dust that has settled over Brussels.
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You'd have to meet a writer from Family Guy to find a person more self-satisfied by a bad idea.
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Like most I'd asked on the trip, he did and wondered if self-satisfied and happy were the same thing.
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He was once dismissed by many as a commentator whose self-satisfied broadsides did not always reflect China's official views.
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Tammy Lee, a haughty Asian businesswoman, chafing at perceived slights from some of her equally self-satisfied, younger white teammates.
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There's a world where this storyline ends up being a savage take on the self-satisfied piety of white feminism.
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Schwartz loved to get meta, a tactic that can be genuinely funny at best and gratingly self-satisfied at worst.
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Rounding out the quartet of fed-up statesmen is Thomas Jefferson, who mocks Trump's self-satisfied behavior in a meeting.
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This is a part of the draw of a fraud, the self-satisfied affluence that holds up amid so much hoopla.
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Instead, it's actually a good deal stranger, funnier, more self-aware, and more grossly self-satisfied than anyone might have predicted.
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The youthful attorney Lizzie Pannill Fletcher beat the self-satisfied Republican Congressman John Culberson, who had represented West Houston since 2001.
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Self-satisfied and too slick by half, "Boundaries" projects a sheen of artifice that deflects any genuine engagement with the story.
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If Mr. Koch pummeled people with a frown or sometimes a self-satisfied smile, Mr. Giuliani did so with a snarl.
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Justifiably, many French feel themselves the victims of economic stagnation, of cultural decline, of a blinkered and self-satisfied ruling class.
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The best Britain can ever hope for outside the EU is to be Norway, basically — an isolated, if friendly, self-satisfied country.
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Luckily, a band of self-satisfied elitists found him babbling on the streets, threw some pants on him, gave him a stage.
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It's a cringe-inducing belch of a song that could only have been performed by the chronically self-satisfied and cocaine-addled.
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We can already see how self-satisfied you are for "putting one over" on the Republicans by finagling this deal with Trump.
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Instead of offending my parents, my act of defiance might have made them look at each other with a self-satisfied smirk.
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He bumbles around cluttered environments with his dreadful tattoos on show, and every sentence he utters is a smug, self-satisfied, snarky comeback.
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Like that 2005 movie, Peter Farrelly's interracial buddy dramedy is insultingly glib and hucksterish, a self-satisfied crock masquerading as an olive branch.
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But when in 2015 she reached the House of Commons, mastering the ways of that self-satisfied, mysterious and privileged institution was easy.
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Today, no one in his right mind can stand this self-satisfied sap or understand why Ingrid Bergman chooses him over Humphrey Bogart.
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The film's news peg may be the current administration, but its target is self-satisfied liberals who more or less trust the system.
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John Gotti, the well-tailored mob boss who died in 2002, looked so self-satisfied that his walk amounted to a perp strut.
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They fill these YouTube-friendly short films with pounding music and a sense of danger — plus a healthy dose of self-satisfied triumph.
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"Stories are the new News Feed" is the TechCrunch headline; "the camera is the new keyboard" is the self-satisfied cocktail party conventional wisdom.
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If young activists have exposed a conflict between progress toward social justice and self-satisfied leftism, is "the left" an idea worth saving anymore?
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At other times, Mr. Wright's pleasure veers into the self-satisfied, and all that love feels smothering, near-bullying, like bro-cinephilia in extremis.
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For all the self-satisfied liberals who want to claim him as one of their own, I'm sorry, but Leonard Cohen belongs to everyone.
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With harlots in fish-net stockings hanging on each arm, a self-satisfied grandee, shades and ascot in place, struts down a city sidewalk.
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Trump was part of a doomed competing league in the 1980s that tried to take on the "smug, self-satisfied monopoly," as he called it.
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The following are edited excerpts from the conversation: Question: What shows that Americans are less dynamic and more self-satisfied than their parents and grandparents?
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Every sarcastic comment, every casual writing-off of their plot, every self-satisfied pronouncement that their cause is dead on arrival only gives them strength.
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When "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway in 1956, Rex Harrison inflated Henry Higgins with such self-satisfied pomposity that he loomed frighteningly over everyone.
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" Ansel Adams, with his grand views of the mythic American West, was a "slick, self-satisfied" Californian whose photographs were merely of "sticks and rocks.
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Let's consider just the most recent examples, each of which offers its own insights on how a pattern of self-satisfied inaction might be broken.
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We're the cohort everyone skips over — the all-but-invisible slice of 224 million fortysomethings, jammed in between the self-satisfied boomers and self-indulgent millennials.
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Accusations of self-satisfied queer-baiting are not unreasonable, but for what it's worth, Hammer's enthusiastic allyship has always come off as entirely sincere to me.
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On Twitter, he poses as a self-satisfied devil's advocate, crushing the Libs with logic, perpetually goading his most high-profile critics to publicly debate him.
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But rather than stop there, self-satisfied with holding a mirror up to nature, Percent for Green strives to effect concrete, positive change in the world.
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New Yorkers are infamous for regarding their city as the center of the universe and, on especially self-satisfied days, as the only place to be.
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Movie allusions and Andrew Garfield's hard-working star turn as a Los Angeles slacker is about all that holds together this labyrinthine, wildly self-satisfied mystery.
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The opening duet showcased the pristine athleticism of Benjamin Griffiths and Jonathan Porretta, yet Mr. Porretta, flashing surprised and self-satisfied looks, tried too hard to seduce.
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This mindset is fundamentally pernicious as it is wrong, and it contributes to a dangerously pollyannaish and self-satisfied view of the U.S. position in the world.
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It's ironic today, in an increasingly self-satisfied China, that he is sometimes upheld as a model of perfect prose as well as a paragon of behavior.
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On the trail he tells the same jokes, accompanied by the same gestures and self-satisfied chuckles, reproducing chunks of his book, "A Time for Truth", verbatim.
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Naomi — her beauty, youth and novelty — disturbs the fragile geometry created by Nick, Alyssa and Alyssa's supremely thorny, self-satisfied sister, Gwen (a peerless Mary-Louise Parker).
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The reactions to their demonstration were mixed: a writer at GQ said Jerry looked "self-satisfied" and didn't deserve the praise, and Deadspin called the whole thing bullshit.
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My mother was only trying to be sympathetic to my life as a working mother, but the self-satisfied way she proclaimed the sacrificial nature of motherhood grated.
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His early radicalism has aged into a vague, self-satisfied liberalism, warmed by the afterglow of his participation in historical moments, or at least his proximity to them.
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Part police procedural and part dystopian thesis about thought crime versus actual crime, the play isn't entirely successful—often genuinely disturbing yet also sometimes self-satisfied and obtuse.
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"At least I know how to read," she said, shooting a raised eyebrow and self-satisfied smile toward the back of the room where the male comedian stood.
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When they asked for the bill, they said, with self-satisfied smiles and a big wink, that I could add an extra $0.50 to the total for a tip.
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"At Microsoft we have this very bad habit of not being able to push ourselves because we just feel very self-satisfied with the success we've had," he said.
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"I alway gotta switch it up—I been switching it up in here," he says, pausing to rap a few bars, which he punctuates with a self-satisfied giggle.
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What might have been a self-satisfied smackdown of reality TV and its audience has become a challenging and delectably entertaining drama about power and deception, idealism and cynicism.
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Sanders, Hollywood's suavest cad of the 1940s, typically delivered his lines with a silken, self-satisfied purr and was much appreciated by Sirk for his sense of supercilious irony.
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If the Raptors want to spark any fear in a very self-satisfied fan base, they might look to run the Cavs out of their home arena Tuesday night.
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"I decided to purchase this album as a gift to the Wu-Tang Clan for their tremendous musical output," Shkreli wrote in a self-satisfied note accompanying the auction.
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In the original show, this number at least gets a big choral send-off; in the dry, crackly hands of Dame Judi, it becomes a prissy, self-satisfied catechism.
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Jerry himself was aware, however indifferently, of his own self-satisfied, masturbatory, antisocial value structure, and the series itself ends by convicting the entire cast of being selfish jerks.
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Post Malone's self-satisfied self-pity coupled with the Chili Peppers' we-can-still-do-this athleticism — the singer Anthony Kiedis ended up shirtless — all played like unintentional parody.
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On another black pedestal, a ceramic "scholar" in a baby blue robe gazes intently at a large cement rock of the same color with a small but self-satisfied smile.
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Tension ensues as her character, Beatriz, goes head to head with Doug, played by John Lithgow, a self-satisfied billionaire real estate developer with whom she has nothing in common.
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NBC has announced that Matt Bomer, 40, will act in an episode as "a smooth-talking, self-satisfied TV news anchor," who is a love interest for Eric McCormack's Will.
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It is not like any stone that has been used in such quantity anywhere else in New York, and it gives off a glow of happy, if self-satisfied, affluence.
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He, too, has used genre entertainment to convey otherwise unpalatable truths to his viewers, deploying sketch comedy to comment on police brutality or horror movies to skewer self-satisfied liberals.
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Meanwhile, the Guy (Ben Sinclair, who created the show with Katja Blichfeld, his wife) delivers pot to a rather self-satisfied couple (Amy Ryan and Lee Tergesen) planning a birthday party.
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He tried to turn away, for the sake of politeness and to follow the exercise, but his eyes were drawn back each time she spoke, to her odd, self-satisfied smile.
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But the comic screed is a noble tradition, and with so many hedging neurotics in stand-up, a confident voice, even a self-satisfied one, can be a powerful comic tool.
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Rabee'a was a charitable man from a privileged family — a little self-satisfied, perhaps, but he had enjoyed good fortune for much of his life, and that wasn't about to change.
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Yet this generous forbearance doesn't seem to extend to liberals — or to use his awkward slur, "liberalocrats" — who get tarred in this book as a bunch of condescending, self-satisfied chumps.
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It's also decent fun, in the leathery, businesslike, self-satisfied manner of this kind of movie, which soothes the hurt places in the male ego with sentiment strategically disguised as toughness.
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Most late night: A lot of it feels too smugly self-satisfied to really leave a mark in the Trump era, and a lot of it feels like so much padding.
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When his unbearably self-satisfied Head & Shoulders advert came on at half-time – sandwiched between highlights of his floppy-palmed attempt to keep out Sigthórsson's weak daisy cutter – it felt monumentally appropriate.
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Emmanuel Macron delivered a self-satisfied lecture on how foolish the Brexiteers were (Vladimir Putin apparently nicknames the French president "Macron-and-on-and-on" because of his habit of delivering lectures).
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I caught up with it in September, after it bombed in theaters, failing to find an audience for its self-satisfied modern-day riff on the story of the Salem witch trials.
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In a similar way, the punk movement of the late 1970s was a volatile response to a bloated and self-satisfied music industry — an attempt to strip everything back to the essentials.
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The contemporary art world is one of the most insular and self-satisfied subcultures in history, a milieu we think of as unplagued by anything so banal as paperwork or bodily functions.
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" Per Ingraham, "The rich might not be any happier than the rest of us on a day-to-day basis, in other words, but they are an awful lot more self-satisfied.
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He portrayed Davis, Sackler, Steinem, and the Brooklyn Museum as members of a self-satisfied liberal elite clinging to the tired mantras of 1960s radicalism while enjoying the fruits of late capitalism.
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But hearing Roberts, worn-down yet suddenly fed up, yelling, "He tastes like you but sweeter!" at a self-satisfied Clive Owen (here playing her husband, demanding she explain her adultery) is delicious.
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I lived in Los Angeles in 1997-173 and Washington, DC, in 2000-2010 and, like many self-satisfied ex-pats, I wore my ignorance of the motherland as a badge of pride.
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Salvador's portrayal of America's involvement in the conflict is, if anything, even bleaker than the one in Platoon, suggesting a dangerous and self-satisfied complicity between the military, intelligence operatives, and the media.
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I am not self-satisfied but I feel that God has made my life empty in this respect so that I may fill it in some wonderful way—the word 'wonderful' frightens me.
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Hudson to use a code word — a word representing the moment when his hubris got Mary killed — to tell him if he gets too self-satisfied or starts acting with too much hubris.
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That, and the appearance of the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, his head covered in Vaseline, strutting the runway in boxers, a tailored unzipped black coat, knee-high boots and a self-satisfied grin.
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The end of the Cold War produced reams of self-satisfied commentary about how capitalism had won, socialism had lost, ideological struggle had ended and the glory days of human freedom lay ahead.
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Indoctrination has, in other words, become so powerful that Kvikk Lunsj doesn't seem to need Don Draper to tell its story, because this annoyingly self-satisfied chocolate is its own best creative force.
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But its sermon-to-action ratio is so high, and its adulation of its self-satisfied hero so breathless, that it often reads as if it were written by one of Richardson's parodists.
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You only need to look at the picture of their reactions to see that Putin likely knew exactly what he was doing -- more striking than Merkel's look of discomfort is Putin's self-satisfied grin.
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But the tight, tinny, careful show broadcast by CBS on Sunday night didn't feel celebratory — it seemed alternately self-satisfied and insecure, as if it felt it had to keep making excuses for itself.
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A new paradigm should be installed in medical schools encouraging the trainees to stop with the self-satisfied assurance to themselves that x, y or z is "probable" and letting it go at that.
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While Apple did give away an emoji-covered reversible jacket at WWDC, it also set itself apart from its Silicon Valley rivals with an unusually strong stance on privacy and an aggressively self-satisfied tone.
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Although it is not the artist's attention, the images take the self-satisfied literalism of Joseph Kosuth and Mel Bochner to task, as well as counteract the latter's privileged complaining by retaining a deliberate muteness.
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When Olivia Jade says that she doesn't care about school, her video cuts and zooms in on her face — YouTube's standard visual grammar for emphasizing an arch joke, equal parts self-deprecating and self-satisfied.
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As long as it's (to take a partial, but broadly representative sample) shameful, offensive, idiotic, rude, humiliating, repulsive, violent, evil, inept, self-indulgent or self-satisfied, retrograde, or naïve, The Discourse can work with it.
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The self-satisfied smiling little shimmy she did after Trump went on one of his longer rants at the first debate would also be a poisonous gesture for her at any time in this different forum.
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Lee is just a few steps down from Jeff Bridges in The Fisher King on the "slick, self-satisfied asshole" scale, and his producer, Patty (Julia Roberts) is sick of him, and ready to move on.
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In the hands of a lesser novelist, the intricate tangle of lives at the center of "Late in the Day" might feel like just such a self-satisfied riddle or, at best, like sly narrative machinations.
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There are too many tension points running through the work — from the line's relationship to the painting (or container) to the painting's relationship to the wall — for it to come across as self-satisfied or controlling.
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As the spokesperson for God's Will, Enteo—a slight man with a high forehead, a perennial self-satisfied smirk, and large, expressive eyes ripped straight out of a Pushkin verse—is no stranger to fomenting public chaos.
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Now I had become that self-satisfied passer-by, and whatever fleeting gratification I might have derived from speaking to her this way was replaced, as I walked away, by an overwhelming sense of guilt and sadness.
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Kaz comes from a class of exorcists that had been exiled from society until the demons showed up—now they make up the "magistocracy," a not-so-subtle dig at the self-satisfied winners of the meritocracy.
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Jefferson's self-satisfied smile and proud comportment, his reputation as an enlightened thinker and co-author of the Declaration of Independence, juxtaposed with this mysterious woman is searing, her namelessness next to Jefferson adding to its power.
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All of this is preamble to say to SNL, I come as a friend: Your cold opens are terrible, cringeworthy pieces of self-satisfied liberal propaganda that are sometimes so bad they seem like parodies of themselves.
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Search Party isn't a show I turn to to laugh my head off, but I do catch its jokes sneaking up on me long after I've watched them, at odd moments, when I'm feeling particularly self-satisfied.
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" Fukuyama also summarized Alexandre Kojève's judgment of the postwar European countries as "precisely those flabby, prosperous, self-satisfied, inward-looking, weak-willed states whose grandest project was nothing more heroic than the creation of the Common Market.
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By the time I got there, in the mid-nineties, Houston was entering an era of glossy, self-satisfied power, enjoying the dominance of Southern evangelicals and the spoils of extractive Texan empires—Halliburton, Enron, Exxon, Bush.
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Among Ethridge's commercial work are assignments for VICE, and there's definitely an air of self-satisfied white fraternity among his entourage, with Parker as the white-blonde center of a crew of blue blazer–wearing art bros.
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I believe this little anecdote provides a perfectly reasonable explanation for why "Bow Chicka Bow Wow," one of the follow-up singles for "Cooler Than Me," feels like a totally unearned, self-satisfied victory lap of a song.
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What these businesses suggest is that you can have the benefits of a digital platform and an algorithmic feed while still feeling self-satisfied, pretentious, and exclusive in the knowledge that your content has been carefully curated by humans.
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It's possible, however, to see Trump not as an exception but as the logical conclusion of a national fear of corruption that long ago curdled into a self-satisfied conviction that everything and everyone in politics already is corrupt.
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We were the children of the highly successful economic modernization of the three preceding decades but we were repulsed by the oppressive political system of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, with its faded, empty and self-satisfied rhetoric.
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But with no shortage of either, Mr. Wuorinen's self-satisfied defense of "Western art" and his quick dismissals of nonclassical music do not evince the kind of careful analysis that he claims is necessary to appreciate his own work.
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At those times it's worth focusing on his comments, not as fodder for self-satisfied moral condemnation, but to have a better understanding of the ideas and pathologies he channels and brings to the surface of the national conversation.
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Charlotte, who narrates the movie in wall-to-wall self-satisfied voiceover, is an incredible pill who verbally attacks all the adults in her life, then openly brags about withholding approval from Mr. Church, his delicious food, and his fascinating books.
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CES 2017 was a great opportunity to disrupt this self-satisfied market, as the giants that are Lenovo and Samsung launched dedicated sub-brands for gaming PCs, starting off with big and powerful gaming laptops under the Lenovo Legion and Samsung Odyssey banners.
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We're a society of self-satisfied judgers: We judge mothers who work too much, fathers who don't work enough, women who dress too "provocatively," men who dress like slobs, the overweight, the mentally ill, the rich, the poor, the list goes on.
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Exam failers are also bound together by a common outlook on the world: anger at the self-satisfied elites who claim to be cosmopolitan as long as their job is protected, and a growing willingness to bring the whole system crashing down.
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That same weekend, in an effort to distance myself from the girl in the ubiquitous photos—that girl with the plunging neckline and the self-satisfied grin, brown curls frizzing down to plump shoulders—I cut my hair into a severe pixie.
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Now, you may quote me on this, and I will say it slowly, quote: The New York Times, that bible of self-satisfied privilege, failed to do their homework, and as many commented, completely missed the point about the Center of the World.
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A new digital ad from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) breaks with a lot of the conventions of typical political advertising and simply portrays a caricature of self-satisfied Republican business executives talking about how much they enjoy the GOP tax bill.
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In "The God of Carnage" (2006, with a film by Roman Polanski released in 2011), two little boys have a fight and their parents attempt to settle the matter; what begins as a stilted meeting of self-satisfied adults swiftly descends into chaos.
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A revolt against meritocracy has been building in recent years, accompanied by a growing shelf of books from across the ideological spectrum decrying how a system intended to open up opportunity has instead created an entrenched, self-perpetuating, self-satisfied ruling class.
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When the nomination circus starts up again Mr Cruz's argument will be ready, as, no doubt, will his eerily memorised speeches, delivered with that awkward amalgam of lawyerly and preacherly mannerisms, and those corny jokes, often accompanied by an excruciating little self-satisfied chuckle.
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For some reason, his record of misogyny, in both language and acts, his running compendium of self-satisfied creepiness, the accumulated complaints against him of sexual harassment and assault (all denied, of course), have attracted only modest attention, one defamation lawsuit, and no congressional interest.
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Nor had she said that she'd stopped loving him, even when she'd become so shrill and angry under the tutelage of whatever Owl she'd seen back in the day—just that he was impossible, uptight, set in his ways, a rich, self-satisfied snob.
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You probably think that I sit there with Giles Coren and Miranda Hart talking about the quality of my track premier write-ups, as we quaff champers and roar with laughter—a self-satisfied trio hopped up on smugness and very, very, very pricey pasta.
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One could, on the other hand, consider the use of "a thing" a symptom of an entire generation's linguistic sloth, general inarticulateness and penchant for cutesy, empty, half-ironic formulations that create a self-satisfied barrier preventing any form of genuine engagement with the world around them.
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Eminently watchable and rather too self-satisfied, "The Report" centers on a Senate staffer (a fine Adam Driver) who is tasked by his boss, Dianne Feinstein (a bone-dry, finely calibrated Annette Bening), with investigating the C.I.A.'s interrogation methods in the wake of Sept. 11.
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What if, for one entire week, people who enjoy getting up early and then being loudly self-satisfied about that behavior—morning people, I believe they're called—agreed to shut the fuck up about their lifestyle choices for once and let the rest of us get some goddamn sleep?
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"Let's be honest, the greatest Oscars fiasco in history couldn't have happened to a bunch of smugger, more deserving people," he continued before hitting the "self-satisfied, snobbish and unrelentingly Trump-bashing" Times for an ad it ran during the awards, the paper's first brand-focused spot in a decade.
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Even if it proves fleeting, the mortifying resemblance to 2000, provides a backdrop for Clinton's increasingly warm and concerted courtship of young voters and of an increasing sense of alarm among Trump foes that millennials, through apathy or self-satisfied third-party voting, could tip the presidency into his hands.
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No longer are we merely concerned with one self-satisfied father's aloofness toward his children—a conflict treated in the first film as no less than a battle for his soul—but instead we must contend with a far knottier conundrum: how to be happy in the wake of tragedy.
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Ralph Fiennes impressed not once but twice, with his staunchly self-satisfied Solness in "The Master Builder" at the Old Vic followed shortly after by a Richard III at the Almeida Theater in north London fairly dripping with coercion and contempt, much of it turned against his own damaged self.
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Photojournalism needs to face its #MeToo moment Obama just gave the speech the left's wanted since he left office Turkey's last-ditch effort to stop mass slaughter in Syria just failed Why your desk job is so damn exhausting In Fahrenheit 11/9, Michael Moore spares no one — especially self-satisfied liberals
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It was the perfect sensory expression of a generation that grew up at the tail-end of the illusion that was the American dream, without the self-satisfied ambitions of their striving parents, alienated from gold chains, shoulder pads and "Miami Vice" pastels, ambivalent about the concept of … well, pretty much everything.
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Over five seasons, Kitsch convinced audiences that the brooding, self-satisfied high school fullback contained multitudes: that he was at once tragic and dim, caring and self-effacing, charismatic with a sort of visceral, animal sex appeal that makes you embarrassed to be lusting after a teenager (a twentysomething playing a teenager, but still).
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In raking through the contents of Jakub's mind, the spider makes a study of human beings more generally — the pain of our individuality comes as quite a shock — and some of its observations about "humanry" can be self-satisfied, grating; the book is just sturdy enough to withstand its most irritating declamations without collapse.
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Powhida's scathing, hyperbolic analysis is clear, clean, and powerful, not to mention masterfully drawn and designed (the facial expressions, especially the creepily self-satisfied smiles on the faces of Trump, Shkreli, Duke, and Hitler, are highly effective; so are such grace notes as the reflected light in the shadow engulfing half of Michael Myers's face).
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If a film's only goal is to be stylish, it might as well be a music video, and that's what most of The Neon Demon feels like: a collection of flashy, colorful, high-concept music videos for songs that are dragged down by at least a couple of minutes of dull, self-satisfied noodling instrumental filler.
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The brief profiles of "The Know-It Alls," sprinkled with gratuitous ad hominem observations (for example, Mr. Cohen writes that PayPal is responsible for "releasing into the wild a self-satisfied Peter Thiel, a one-man wrecking crew who has been sowing chaos through American society up to this very day"), do not get the job done.
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I also would make the mayonnaise the same day so it remains loose and silken and doesn't risk becoming tight and stiff in the refrigerator; and I would not blanch the potatoes in advance, just to be able to pull these things out days later in a self-satisfied feat of back-to-school-back-to-work efficiency.
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It's not clear what that role was, but after meeting Snyder thought Eisenberg was a perfect fit for the role — a mix between a witty charmer and a man full of rage that's described as a mix between the "wisecracking psychopathology of the Joker, the self-satisfied clever-clogsiness of the Riddler, and the big-picture scheming of the Penguin."
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Looking at Donald Trump stoking his supporters into a frenzy, attacking "them" -- whoever "they" happen to be at the moment -- vowing to return American to greatness and then flashing his self-satisfied smile, the mind harks back to those grainy newsreel images of Benito Mussolini, the theatrical Italian "Duce," the leader, who became the central figure of fascist Italy a century ago.
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The story of the Red Sox's years without is of course made up of a million and more component stories, like all stories of that size, but it was told in the media like a long and self-satisfied chapter of Ken Burns' Baseball series, by a parade of wistful smiling people in well-appointed studies, none of whom seemed all that hungry.
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If people who love cats are self-assured (but self-absorbed), and people who love dogs are self-satisfied (but insecure), then it might be said that people who love turtles are, to some degree, fatalistic: Loving a turtle means pouring endless amounts of affection into a bucket that will never fill because it has a hole cut in its bottom.
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Whether it will be worth the loss in the long run depends on how willing Gatiss and Moffat are to really have Sherlock undergo the moral reckoning that would justify her death, or whether they intend to keep spinning out the same empty, self-satisfied love story of two crime-solving bros who would probably each be better off alone — or at least without the other.
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For months, we've been told that Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's election was a "populist revolt," working-class, alienated white Americans dissatisfied with the growing economic inequality rising up against a self-satisfied Establishment.
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Thinking about Martin McDonagh's work over the years hasn't led me to any definitive conclusions just yet, but his latest play, the comedic drama " Hangmen " (directed by Matthew Dunster, at the Atlantic Theatre Company's Linda Gross), his eighth to be produced in New York, illustrates, perhaps more than any other, how the slick, self-satisfied cynicism that infects his weakest scripts threatens to overtake his real gifts—which include an excellent sense of structure and, as evidenced in " The Beauty Queen of Leenane " (1996) and other early works, a genuine understanding of how loneliness can twist bodies and twist the truth.
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