As a showman, Mr. Brown has none of the smarminess of Las Vegas prestidigitators or carnival hucksters.
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This is why you are having a problem right now, the smug smarminess in the face of suffering.
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Instead — in what's become something of a recurring theme — he projected arrogance, defensiveness and smarminess in speaking with reporters.
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Lauren Graham is sufficient as Rafe's mother, while Rob Riggle brings standard-issue smarminess to the role of her boyfriend.
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Menace: Negan is at his best in one-on-one encounters, where his smarminess contrasts cleanly with his unpredictability and vicious temper.
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Jovovich imbues the Dutchess with exaggerated, condescending smarminess, while Awkwafina offers a restrained take on Yu, one of the few characters who defies easy categorization.
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Bell, at least, is a distinctive lead personality — he's not at all likable, but that could be by design, and Mr. Prew commits to his precious smarminess.
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NEWLY RELEASED CANDY Adapted from a notorious novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, Christian Marquand's 1968 would-be far-out sex farce elevates smarminess to a universal principle.
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In the second episode, Annie confronts a troll (played with incredible smarminess by SNL's Beck Bennett), who has been leaving nasty comments on her articles felt all too real to me.
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Some don't see the fun in the mockery, and their responses lean toward smarminess — the argument being that making fun of the beautiful men of Instagram for their posts is fostering negativity and tearing our own community apart.
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King Julien XII (voiced by Henry Winkler) is a ring-tailed lemur who is the uncle of King Julien XIII. As Julien XIII's predecessor, Julien XII is a lazy, strict, paunchy, cowardly, and older lemur oozing smarminess where he had strict rules that kept the lemur kingdom quiet in order to keep the Fossa away. In the first episode, he gives the crown to his nephew and leaves when he learns from Masikura that the king of the lemurs will be eaten by the Foosa. When King Julien saves the captured lemurs, he got bitten on the butt and is still alive.
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Roger Ebert gave the film 1.5 stars out of 4 and called it "a dreary slog through morose situations, made all the worse by Martin's deadpan delivery, his slightly off- balance sense of timing, and his ability to make you cringe with his self- debasing smarminess." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune awarded 3 stars out of 4 and wrote that the film "begins with so much promise and sustains its mood of goofy gloom for so long that it is a shame to see it run out of gas at the end," explaining that the film went nowhere with the subject of Larry's fame as a best-selling author.Siskel, Gene (January 30, 1984). "'Lonely Guy' starts funny, loses spunk at the end".
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" Raja Sen from Rediff gave a three stars said that "Guru is fuelled by a slew of strong performances. Abhishek Bachchan owns the movie, forcing audiences to sit up straight as it begins and making us laugh and applaud as he carries on. He's impressive in every frame, as he ebulliently takes over an alien room by hopping onto a chair, or when he's trying to be ever so slightly slimy, polishing his spectacles and showing off his smarminess". Daily News and Analysis reviewer gave a three star rating and cited " Guru is a film that enthralls you for most of its running time as it traces the life of the uncannily forward seeing bumpkin from Gujarat who turns every disadvantage into an advantage.
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AllMusic's Matt Collar rated Switch three stars out of five. He began the review negatively, with the claim "For all intents and purposes, the death of Australian rock band INXS' lead singer, Michael Hutchence, in 1997 ended the band's career." He argued that without Hutchence, there was little point in the band continuing, and criticised their use of Rockstar: INXS, arguing "all the band was looking for was a relatively good-looking, relatively tuneful young man who could evince some cocksure rock smarminess." Describing Hutchence as the best part of the old INXS, Collar argued that Switch could never equal its predecessors, but nonetheless noted some quality work—Fortune's lyrics on "Devil's Party" and "Afterglow" were approved of, though his vocals, Collar argued, could nowhere near match the original.
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