The smug style resents them for it, and they resent the smug in turn.
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At times, she looked a little smug — surely a lot smug to Mr. Trump's supporters.
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While Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy's (Rosamund Pike) relationship gets increasingly twisted, you'll be getting more and more smug – disturbed, but smug.
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It is, for all intents and purposes, a fairly smug proposition by someone who, by all rights, probably would be a bit smug.
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No. I just okay– Cado: That's beautiful Patrick: "Pietro is a smug sheep villager" like this description is already dragging, is Pietro smug?
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"One should always look smug," Michael says when Marissa questions why he looks smug after a plan to figure out what Elsbeth is hiding fails.
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Samantha Bee follows the same tired trope, blaming "white people" for ruining the country after the election, and acting smug after being asked about smug liberals.
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" - Amanda, 30 "Gwyneth Paltrow and her smug face.
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But the response always felt a bit smug to me.
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A modest achievement, surely, but I still feel rather smug.
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Nonetheless, we would do well to refrain from smug condescension.
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He called the Democratic nominee a "flawed" and "smug" person.
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If you are one of those smug individuals, well played.
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Surprisingly, perhaps, the people in this Transylvanian city feel smug.
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Forget George, Charlotte, and all of those smug British royals.
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You'd like to punish the smug, crisply packaged faux finite?
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They are, to their supporters, the comeuppance smug elites deserve.
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He had no savoir faire; he was smug about it.
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Was he too smart and smug for his own good?
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"He was absolutely smug about his convictions," Mr. Ritchie said.
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Users created smug frogs and sad frogs and angry frogs.
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There's no M.C. to be urbane or smug or real.
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So, before it was just a squirt of smug arrogance.
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This, I think, is fundamental to understanding the smug style.
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The smug style plays out in private too, of course.
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The smug style, at bottom, is a failure of empathy.
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For example, I find Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg insufferably smug and entitled.
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Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo)It's easy to feel smug around kids.
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" The video ends with Bee impersonating Trump with a "[smug sigh].
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Bethenny calls Carole "smug" and eventually criticizes her boundary-pushing dress.
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Maybe his smug re-enactments betray his lack of moral seriousness.
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And that's what Hader leaned into in his smug, preening performance.
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So do most of us "smug liberals" so disparaged by those
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Almost as punchable a face as Ted Cruz, and equally smug.
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It is progressive, blue, reasonable, secular, and smug—almost like California.
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Not a few smug white kids or chanting American Indian elders.
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Whittaker's opinions, at least that night, were dubious, racist and smug.
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"It doesn't take a smug or easy position," Mr. Hood said.
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It's Clinton's Democratic Party today — managerial, technocratic, polished, a little smug.
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Psychopathy is evident in the smug laugh at someone else's pain.
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They and their sybaritic buddies are smug in their social insularity.
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"Our identity is smug complacency," Brandon Hackett, another cast member, said.
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"If there's anything I hate, it's a smug woman!" he snarls.
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I think everyone thinks the other side is very smug. Yeah.
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The guy&aposs also arrogant, smug, the deplorables, we&aposre all deplorables.
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His bizarre public testimony was infused with a strangely hyper-smug arrogance.
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Turns out this walking piece of smug in a suit is worse.
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I felt smug about my supply, and guilty when I eventually stopped.
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The art world is replete with this kind of smug, tiresome gesture.
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The formats themselves became a little smug: flip books, pop-up books.
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One critic for the New York Times called it "vain and smug."
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Danny alternates between childlike naiveté, smug condescension, and terrifying bursts of violence.
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It ended his career, actually, because he was too smug about it.
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Just take a glance at the smug look on Big Lachie's face.
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Ustvolskaya was, in this playing, unfailingly grim but never icy or smug.
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Herbalife benefitted from a widespread sense that Ackman was smug and patronizing.
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Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus's cynical, conniving cohort.
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Few exchanges are that obvious, but most are that smug and tiresome.
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The central message of the song is at turns regretful and smug.
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Was Hillary Clinton a model of composure, or smug and overly rehearsed?
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And then the universe punched me right in my smug, dumb face.
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Whoever put money on this should be feeling pretty smug right now.
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Over 230 years, an industry arose to cater to the smug style.
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But to the smug liberal, it isn't that Kim Davis is wrong.
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To the Defense Department, the smug confidence of young engineers doesn't go unnoticed.
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Canadians, at least in the south, can sometimes feel smug about climate change.
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Read This Next: A Single Fuck Makes People Smug for Two Whole Days
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But putting it in London seems a little smug, not to mention hypocritical.
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A budding entrepreneur, Cooper is objectively annoying, a smug next-gen Ferris Bueller.
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BOSSES at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) ought to be feeling smug.
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"Kids With Guns", "O Green World", ring with almost smug levels of prophecy.
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Today's meritocrats are not only smug because they think they are intellectually superior.
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My cousin Jacqueline and her partner Sergio look a tad smug and skeptical.
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The Internet has also even dragged Ivanka Trump's smug neighbor into the mix.
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It cannot afford to be smug at the faltering of the European project.
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Boy did we miss seeing this smug Halpert grin after a good prank.
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HEDGE-FUND managers may be feeling quietly smug about their performance in 22005.
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Over the last few days he could be forgiven for being outright smug.
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" Challenges "To be absolutely certain that one isn't feeling smug or self-content.
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Pls ignore the shades, gold watch, smug look, private jet, and sheer cockiness.
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I saw the old-school blue bloods, the smug looks on their faces.
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And O.K. for a second, I felt the tiniest bit smug about it.
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They were celebrating Trump in all his arrogance, and smug conceit, and ugliness.
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Those smug smoothie places sure are running a hustle, and you know it.
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What more, the smug man posts, could there be to say about it?
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I'm here to tell the smug case loyalists to leave us caseless idealists alone.
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My love for the CW's Riverdale was once an ironic, smug kind of love.
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On the other hand, he very much is smug, confident, and comfortable on television.
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Ashley & Jared Midway through the episode, Jared Haibon and Ashley Iaconetti materialize, looking smug.
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But he did get this smug shot in six weeks before the 2016 Games.
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There are no smug jocks, mean girls, or other antiquated tropes about social hierarchy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Smug markets are underestimating Donald Trump's volatility risk at their peril.
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How smug do you feel when you talk to your friends working shitty jobs?
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It turns out some of those smug academic Ph.Ds were onto something after all.
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Smug Europeans are congratulating themselves that Americans were always wrong about their exceptional democracy.
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After Mr Trump's poor showing in Iowa, such observers had reason to feel smug.
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Trump's demeanor can seem smug or complacent — low-energy, even; Ingraham was a firebrand.
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There's Anna, the smug homewrecker who seemingly revels in reminding Rachel what she's lost.
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It's just a tired old establishment joke, coming from a place of smug privilege.
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But mostly, there's a smug contentment to this story that perversely isn't very satisfying.
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It's simply an overly elaborate and smug way to say absolutely nothing at all.
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And this smug condescension cost them dearly, including for many their own professional reputations.
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To you smug, prima donna Capitol Hill drama kings and queens, get with it.
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Before I end up sounding too smug, let's just review the latest Uber news.
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Doom 4 Doom 2.0 will let me punch the smug arch-vile to death.
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He is a charming guy, to be sure, but also smug and self-pitying.
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I immediately recognized the smug voice of my interrogator: my arch nemesis, Elon Musk.
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Much of the American foreign policy establishment, including Democratic legislators, reacted with smug surprise.
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The workouts negated the smug supposition that my thinking was something other than physical.
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Canadian self-flagellation results always in the same warm, comfortingly smug sense of virtue.
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"Smug-bombing," they call this stunt, which seems to have been mostly Leon's idea.
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In this episode, I have to admit he's right...although still cloying and smug.
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They're probably feeling smug right now — and also possibly stocking up in case it disappears.
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And, as a Canadian living in Washington, DC, it's easy to feel smug about this.
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That, in a nutshell, is the charge made against smug liberals who champion "open borders".
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"It was probably No Country for Old Men," my date suggested, looking a little smug.
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Aren't they a bit corny, I suggest, a bit naff; maybe even a smidge smug?
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If your coupled-up friends seem smug, it's probably because they're saving some major cash.
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Hell, as we're reminded by smug misanthropes on a semi-regular basis, is other people.
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The musical narrowly avoids being a smug commentary on the travails of the Labour party.
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The Trump cameo is smug, cheap, and just another way of flaunting the man's brand.
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He was smug, I thought, but this was back when I gave people a chance.
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I am happy to say we are warm, dry and snug — or is that smug?
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His paintings are funny and sharp, but there is nothing superior or smug about them.
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He makes his way over to my table, with a smug grin on his face.
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But however smug I felt bypassing the line, the tenders cut me down to size.
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"Their response has been a mix of smug sarcasm and denial and obfuscation," he said.
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Well, that's just something you can feel smug about when you sit down to eat.
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These stealthy heroes exact vengeance against smug villains who think they've gotten away with genocide.
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They defend themselves and their marginalization by being smug to "lesser" outsiders when they can.
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A smug establishment has just learned about the political power of a disenfranchised middle class.
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The losers walk away satisfied, in the smug conviction that their winning sibling has overpaid.
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Liberalism has become more smug and out-of-touch; conservatism more anti-intellectual and buffoonish.
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But this insistence is smug and unnecessary; its energy is half Scrooge, half reply guy.
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Just look at that posture, the full-bodiedness of the shot, that smug ass grin.
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The smug style is a psychological reaction to a profound shift in American political demography.
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The smug style has always existed in American liberalism, but it wasn't always so totalizing.
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But the smug style sees no true ideology there, no moral threat to contend with.
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The smug style demands an object of disdain; it would find a new one quickly.
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I watched the tenor of our social media posts morph from smug to incredulous to despondent.
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But something tells me Pai is still feeling smug about how clever he thinks it is.
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But with a smug smile firmly planted on your 20-something face, you shrugged it off.
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Twitter is a way for us to feel smug at misspelled rants from the White House.
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"Raad's answer is not only evasive but should be perceived as 'mocking and smug,'" Philipp added.
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Smug, satisfied, and awaiting my chariot, I come back to check the link a day later.
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Heather Bresch, Mylan's CEO has every reason in the world to have the smug press photos.
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" In his opinion, "size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.
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Before dog owners get too smug, it's important to note that canines also outperformed many humans.
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I remember your Tarrants, your Monkhouses, Noel Edmondses thinking, 'who the fuck is this smug bastard?
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Those of us with a foot in both continents are not so much smug as heartbroken.
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Smug marathon vets, with their running apps and aversions to weights, have it in the bag.
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Yet with regional stars realigning, Indian pride has grown less prickly and American prejudice less smug.
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Some smug left-wingers will admire "Where to Invade Next", but they are already convinced anyway.
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She thought the abuse proved her point: her opponents were smug, intolerant and out of arguments.
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I was buying the cheap shit before I heard that podcast; now, I feel extra smug.
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Can you really argue that DiCaprio didn't have that same smug awareness at this year's ceremony?
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There's some truth to this, as the reactions of smug elites to the Brexit vote demonstrate.
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Henry is no Babbitt; he is far from smug or vacuous; he is not a dupe.
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A majority of these tweeted opinions, he notes, are smug and hypocritical when not utterly inane.
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"As far as I'm concerned, this conversation is over," he said, flashing me a smug look.
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Peña Nieto looked similarly smug when his government caught up with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — twice.
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Sure, journalism can be a "cheap shot" when it's self-congratulatory, or voyeuristic, smug or shallow.
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I returned to my seat, smug in my belief that I had done a good deed.
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I think the publishing world's obsession with New York City is pompous and a little smug.
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Jacqui Frank: Also I have a headphone jack now, so I&aposm really smug about it.
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Yes, smug professionals sit atop our class system, but they aren't the only winners up there.
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She's awe-inspiring, a little smug and a little too confident to make Ophelia's breakdown persuasive.
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The videos were accompanied by headlines and text that evinced a distinct sensibility—ironic, knowing, smug.
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Solidarity isn't pitying or patronizing, nor is it a reason to feel smug about one's politics.
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At the risk of appearing smug, I've known very few people who can say the same.
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"not voting and being really smug about it"—is more than just a stoner-thought experiment.
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It would be unfair to say that the smug style has never learned from these mistakes.
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If there is a bingo card for the smug style somewhere, then cross off every square.
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Trump capturing the nomination will not dispel the smug style; if anything, it will redouble it.
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It's always fun to see Superman get a fistful of angry vigilante in his smug, perfect face.
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Ailing malls might seem like good news for nearby competitors but they should not feel too smug.
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But I couldn't understand the moral fervor surrounding breastfeeding, or the smug superiority of many breastfeeding mothers.
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It's a very different mood than the almost smug gunning down of Rebels of the first level.
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Unfortunately, Smug Mug couldn't keep up with the competition and stopped supporting it a few years ago.
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Conspiratorial thinking has been less common among Clinton supporters, but they shouldn't be too smug about it.
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They imagined the reds thought Democrats a bunch of smug, godless, politically correct traitors to the constitution.
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Put your phone on do not disturb, whack on some Kiasmos and revel in your smug solitude.
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It's all just a little bit too smug and a little bit too mealy mouthed to land.
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It also made them wildly uneven and more than a bit smug, but I appreciated the ambition.
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And I'll be goddamned if I let any smug, clueless, condescending prick make me feel any different.
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Pierre is idealistic and a bit smug, when he goes on and on about living for others.
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All in all, I was feeling really great (borderline smug) about myself as of about 11 p.m.
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Stephen Strange's trauma-fueled transition from smug egotist into grim, bitter bully gives the film its drama.
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"—Hilaria Baldwin "In Glengarry Glen Ross he played a smug a–hole and he's never broken character.
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Yet there is less reason to be smug than some on this side of the Atlantic suppose.
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" Smug remarks aside, he said, "Riding in the city is freedom from traffic, timetables and transit delays.
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It seems to be settling into a smug, fairytale version of reality that filters out discordant information.
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I don't really believe in the smug nationalism of American exceptionalism, but I believe in Oprah exceptionalism.
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Paul Ryan wore the classic American flag pin on his lapel and his equally classic smug face.
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It is worth being clear about exactly what happened here, so that no one gets too smug.
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We're seduced by similar smug, smart, supposed innovators hawking data's potential to revolutionize health care and education.
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" It's exhausting to feel perpetually estranged, and Wiener felt herself slipping "into a smug sense of belonging.
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It's a smug grin, and rightly so; she has Rick and his people exactly where she wants them.
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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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One of those guys that get all smug because they don't have a smartphone or a Facebook account.
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Think of the sign as a slightly less smug version of another protest perennial, "Make Tea Not War".
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His smug prediction that Russia would be bogged down in a "quagmire" there has proved a historic misjudgment.
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A smug, amoral response from the people at the top of powerful tech companies isn't what we need.
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At his worst, he's Gordon Gekko; at his best, he's still a smug and unrelatable San Francisco techie.
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Nonetheless, he had to apologise quickly, for fear of appearing rather smug—and for getting ahead of himself.
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This version of "An Enemy of the People" reinforced divisions, and allowed its audience to leave feeling smug.
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Meanwhile, we here in the future can be smug and look on at paparazzi photos and Snapchat feeds.
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The shots are crisp, clean, and against dark backgrounds, and they feature young people looking smug and satisfied.
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Fox News commentator: Trump looked "annoyed, put out, uncomfortable," Clinton looked "composed, smug sometimes, not necessarily attractive" pic.twitter.
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FOX NEWS OPINION John Stossel: Are looney liberals and smug celebrities about to put an end to tipping ?
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He became known for wandering porn shows with a smug smile, his polo shirt embroidered with the Sex.
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Then they subject her body to the look of smug four males, the studio audience and TV viewers.
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He was so locked in, it's almost like his celebrations weren't even as smug as they normally are.
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Then again, it's hard not to be smug when your "mouth" has resulted in a burgeoning rap career.
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Vance Faraday was her name, and there she was on our dossier, looking moneyed and a little smug.
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Unsurprisingly, Italians have responded to the incident with a combination of embarrassment for the students and smug superiority.
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They seem to be of one sensibility, with their playful, raunchy sex talk and smug, pleasure-seeking narcissism.
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It seems to be settling into a smug, fairy tale version of reality that filters out discordant information.
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The critic Greil Marcus's first reaction to "Shot of Love" was that it was arrogant, intolerant and smug.
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Part of it is the smug virtue signaling that has become a daily feature of the Establishment's commentariat.
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Also disturbing, however, is the broader tone with which Powell delivered that warranted exposure — smug, arrogant and demeaning.
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Mac owners can be a smug bunch, but to be fair they have plenty of reasons to be.
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Political comedians like Samantha Bee or John Oliver, she writes, alienated conservatives and made liberal viewers too smug.
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But librarians shouldn't be so smug to assume they have the only say about what constitutes community standards.
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"Back in the day, we already felt so smug for tying two pens together," one Weibo commenter said.
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Jeremy Northam finds humor in the smug self-regard of Anthony Eden, the prime minister who succeeds Churchill.
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We took one look at that smug face and we knew: Julian Assange is out for Julian Assange.
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And certainly there's some people from D.C., who are probably just feeling really smug about the whole thing.
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The smug style belonged to real elites, knowing in their cocktail parties, far from the ears of rubes.
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This, more than anything I can recall in recent American life, is an example of the smug style.
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Today, it is the excuse of American smug mind: Where did all of these poor people come from?
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The smug style did not arise by accident, and it cannot be abolished with a little self-reproach.
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On camera, Goodell can come off as tight, smug and sanctimonious — a politician, and not a particularly compelling one.
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Maybe our democracies are mimicking the markets -- the rich were getting too rich, technology too complex, elites too smug.
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In America, we regularly endure news reports about some sort of War on Christmas, so don't feel too smug.
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And I didn't want some smug prick attaching himself to our music and try to normalize himself with it.
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Iran's reaction was as furious as Saudi Arabia's was smug, with hardliners and reformers alike reviving old revolutionary slogans.
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Pepper another person with continuous questions and you risk coming off like an investigator or a sanctimonious, smug interpreter.
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My discomfort grew as I watched Trump's open condescension when he turned to address Clinton with a smug smile.
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Of course Todd Krakow (Danny Strong), the most smug hedge fund manager on Billions — and that's quite a feat!
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I think my initial reaction was similar to Rob's, which he admits at first was quite a smug one.
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"Alright ladies, time to scrub up," Curtis says with a smug smile, offering out three sets of bloodied scrubs.
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That might seem like a satisfying comeuppance for the imperious Valley, but it's not something to be smug about.
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Smug in the breadth of my Hollywood education, I approached STANLEY KUBRICK AND ME (Arcade, $229.95) with some trepidation.
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I doubt I was aware at the time how well I had the smug poet/intellectual look nailed down.
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While that may seem financially wise, it's not exactly something to be smug about, if you do the math.
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While hoarding opportunity for themselves and perpetuating structural inequalities, they can also come off as smug, condescending and paternalistic.
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But, is it possible to avoid saying nice things in a smug, heroic tone that simultaneously insults other women?
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As his multiple arms rotate, they cause his eyes to flicker, in an almost smug wink at the viewer.
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It's a clever way to win arguments, as long as the politician can avoid the allure of smug posturing.
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Or smug, or righteous, or vindicated in your beliefs, no matter what they are, about an endlessly divisive subject.
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This kind of smug, half-cooked moralizing has been Far Cry's narrative bread and butter now for three games.
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He came off as smug and unapologetic, a trait that is too common in the current White House occupant.
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Out of context, you might be tempted to describe it as smug, but the effect was somehow deeply endearing.
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Luhnow was a true McKinsey consultant's consultant, which is to say that he was secretive and a little smug.
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The scientists, who were young guys of the sort you would expect, talked among themselves in low, smug voices.
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I can stroll four or five steps, safe and smug, from the park right to my golden double doors.
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The entire matter has left some Kansans befuddled, some Democratic lawmakers smug, and some Brownback supporters a little sheepish.
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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 observe how quickly professed concern for the oppressed becomes another shibboleth for the smug, another kind of knowing.
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And they use smug left-wing arguments about political correctness to feed their voters' sense of being looked down on.
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The only real difference between them was that the cat wore tiny golden earrings and looked a trifle less smug.
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This classy tweet is so smug it makes you want to punch yourself in the face, friends: Ah, fuck it.
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Kim's smug as hell over it, but the real credit goes to Scoot who proves that he's a changed man.
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"Strzok was smug, defiant, and laughed off a lot of questions," one congressional source told Fox News following the interview.
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"Strzok was smug, defiant and laughed off a lot of questions," one congressional source told Fox News after the interview.
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So next time you're insecure or villainous or sensual or smug, know that you and Angelina have something in common.
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Smug eco-warriors may think they're curbing global warming with their vegan diets, charged-up Teslas, and rooftop solar panels.
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I'm always a little smug when I one-up waiting customers by grabbing my order from seemingly out of nowhere.
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Similarly, talking confidently about what you do or being forthright about your own accomplishments isn't necessarily being arrogant or smug.
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It tells us far more about the smug, closed-minded certainty of illiberal liberals than those they look down on.
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On the other hand, playing double-agent meant that Ben wasn't part of the smug gloatfest after the JP blindside.
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It's this flat, nostalgic version of Rockwell — a #MAGA Rockwell — that McCoy is co-opting into his smug, cramped vision.
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To be fair, the detectives on the police force have always been smug douchebags, especially because they always wear plaid.
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People got so mad, and then the iPad was a huge hit, and people stayed mad but also became smug.
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It's one more reason for married people to be smug, but if you're single, don't let it get you down.
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The doctor waits at smug attention in his steel-and-glass cage, like a symphony conductor — or a sadistic inquisitor.
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The camera pans up to a modern-day Varys sitting in a park with a smug look on his face.
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Prentice's whole demeanor is worlds away from the smug, entitled jock he plays on the buzzed-about new Netflix series.
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Ending the smug reign of the White House Correspondent's Dinner is the only unequivocally good thing that Trump has done.
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In the picture we see several of the group's generals, their faces set in self-importance, a smug self-regard.
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IF SUCCESS is the sweetest revenge then the makers of "Mersal", a Tamil-language action-romance, must be feeling smug.
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Neither will your smug insistence that you are different — not like that ocean of unenlightened whites — satisfy us any longer.
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"We should never be smug about our past accomplishments... and must firmly push forward our fight against corruption," it said.
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Mr. Willard's turn as a smug, clueless oaf peppering a dwarf with inadvertently offensive questions about his size is priceless.
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A livestream on an anti-abortion site showed Daleiden posting bail this morning and appearing smug upon exiting the courthouse.
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In our smug, infinite, 21st-century wisdom, we love to look back and laugh at the phenomenon known as Y2K.
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That has been part of what Mr. de Blasio, with a measure of smug scolding, has been saying all along.
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Sanders has now been eclipsed by Joe Biden as the likelier Democratic nominee, and they've got to be feeling smug.
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More damning, I thought, is Kraft's smug answer to the lawyer's inquiry as to what he does for a living.
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Those guys are a smug little cartel, and it's fun to watch them squirm, at least for a little while.
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For its first half-hour or so, Bombshell feels like it might be a smug but darkly clever satirical romp.
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But few movements have let the smug tendency so corrupt them, or make so tenuous its case against its enemies.
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It was smug and arrogant, but most of all, I thought it was insulting to the very people he works for.
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Silent balefulness is all I have to offer, but his smile wavers so I know I've pierced some level of smug.
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Users on the subreddit r/photoshopbattles have been hard at work putting this smug, though admittedly cute, goat in his place.
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If the news you're reading makes you really angry or super smug, it could be a sign that you're being played.
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Smug, unctuous, fueled by hatred and obsessed with fear: These were the shining qualities of Trump's acceptance speech on Thursday night.
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Later in the film, she veers into some minorly cocky, smug territory when her temporary magical powers earn her some acclaim.
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One hears that to point out things like this is smug, which suggests that the analysis is mistaken in some way.
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"I can't wait for the world to meet these little Gemini illuminati babies," she gloated, in a classic smug Gemini manner.
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Second, they would amplify liberals' perceptions of conservatives as racist bigots, while amplifying conservatives' perceptions of liberals as smug, privileged elites.
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But to paraphrase all those smug red priests, it looks like the Lord of Light has greater plans for him yet.
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We saw women and minorities gain civil rights -- we feel somewhat smug that we helped them become CEOs, senators and president.
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He was in trademark form: bullish and predictably smug, spouting falsehoods about unemployment, health care, and trade partnerships with glib confidence.
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A probation report said he "showed no real remorse and seemed smug" in his interview and recommended he not receive probation.
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Not only that, but they referred to me as smug, arrogant, and even have the gall to point out my baldness.
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Perhaps, sitting snug and smug in an office somewhere, he cared nothing for the ant-like confusion of the crowd below.
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Today we have smug bullies, such as Richard Spencer, Steve Bannon, and Milo Yiannopoulos, and sanctioned hate is on the rise.
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It stops him from being smug, which for a young media superstar barely out of his 20s is no mean feat.
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But she also seems a little smug about using her body to manipulate a man into giving her what she wanted.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei seemed pretty smug this week, judging by the Trump-like swagger of his Twitter feed.
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Alternately manic and maddened, Bill is like a red flag to overly smug husbands, wildly warning of the comeuppance to come.
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She sees in both a smug certitude whose source and symptom is a gross simplification of both the Bible and reality.
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But, judging by the current state of polls, liberals shouldn't be too smug that she's got this locked up just yet.
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I sat beside them in the over-air-conditioned room, feeling a little smug — I would not be needing a tissue!
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Berenice sees through James's smug intellect, cutting him down to size with a mix of blunt candor and smart-alecky banter.
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She said: You Pakistanis must be feeling pretty smug about what's going on in India, quoting Ms. Riaz to one another.
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In "Horseman," a smug frat boy tells his professor, "Don't hold back," as she contemplates how to punish him for plagiarism.
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Fleabag describes herself as a rotting, insect-infested pile of trash, and we applaud, smug in our new understanding of womanhood.
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The next time a smug relation demands I justify what I do, I will simply send a screenshot of that definition.
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In part, that's because Bay Area voters consistently turn out in higher percentages, which is just another reason they feel smug.
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But the president's smug invocation of the Western symphonic heritage also pressed a sore spot for me as a music critic.
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" And beneath a headshot of a smug Trump: " Trump Immediately Concedes Election After Discovering Object of Desire is 240 Years Old .
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Alexis circa Season 1 was too smug and too busy trying to bang bad boy Mutt to worry about self-care.
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Who among us could ever be smug enough to skip a ceremony for the most coveted, esteemed award known to man?
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The smug experts are positive it is a bad idea to bait and insult the nuclear-armed dictator of North Korea.
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Before the anti-Trump crowd gets to feeling too smug, they should know that their brains run the exact same plays.
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Appearing smug and faintly nonchalant in the film stills, Bright's piece reshapes narrative and gender dynamics with the smallest of incisions.
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If the smug style can be reduced to a single sentence, it's, Why are they voting against their own self-interest?
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The robot itself seems pretty pleased with it own prowess, too, judging by the smug smile on the face on its display.
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At the risk of this Jess 'shipper getting a little too smug about the whole thing... I think that's for the best.
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Sometimes the chair is just, well, just sitting there all silent and smug, acting like it's too good to speak to you.
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These are all things orders of magnitude more arousing than Ted Cruz, who's smug, rat-like face is currently plastered on Pornhub.com.
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If you tell them anyone but the most popular person at the club, they're going to look at you with smug disgust.
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And, lest people get smug about the inferiority of machines, humans have proved only a little harder to fool than software is.
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This stuff could end up being the next matcha—or an exciting new way to be smug about your healthy eating regimen.
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Set in the near future, creator Steven Schardt's short film Auto is like a shorter and less smug episode of Black Mirror.
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Now, the show is still irritated by the smug, and it still nods toward the idea that caring about stuff is stupid.
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But now a new Finnish lifestyle concept is starting to become a talking point, and it's much less tasteful and smug-sounding.
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Now you can feel smug and enjoy the festivities without the stress of overheated shops and holiday songs on a loop. Ahhh.
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It was cancelled after only three series, after middling reviews (one called it a "murderously unfunny smug-a-thon") and poor ratings.
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"The Young Turks Election Day Meltdown 2016: From smug to utterly devastated." with over 3 million views is still up on YouTube.
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They have embraced disruption at any cost, declaring "Enough!" to the economic prescriptions (mainly austerity) and the smug impunity of globalizing elites.
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On the other hand, some people blame Meryl Streep, Katy Perry et al for sealing Hillary's fate with their smug celebrity electioneering.
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To be fair, there is a "smug style" on the American left far more likely to crush healthy debate than invite it.
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A few hours after leaving KFC for the final time, I waltzed into my hostel with a smug smile on my face.
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Canadians really, really don't need another reason to feel smug and superior to our neighbors down south, but now we've got one.
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" Or when Will says the Red Sox haven't won the World Series since 1918 and Damon added a smug "at the time.
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Plus, doing the right thing this one time means you can give smug personal advice to your friends for years to come.
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But you've been trying to ignore it because you don't want to admit to these smug, annoying liberals that they were right.
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In Huntsman's case, this habit included smug barbs about how much more reasonable and science-y he was than the average Republican.
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The smug and familiar humor with which this play hooks us winds up exploding in our faces, like a poisonous prank cigar.
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She messaged me a considerable growl, and five minutes later I went to bed with a smug grin plastered across my face.
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Ryan Coogler's "Rocky" reboot, "Creed," reversed the original's racial equation by making the long-shot challenger black and the smug champion white.
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The New York Jets were in town, bringing with them an army of smug shitheads from the lower half of the state.
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Arriving at the door at 24am—two minutes early and smug—I knock, and am met by a barrage of dog barks.
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And tell yourself, since you're so smug, that you should consider brushing your teeth in the morning, after lunch and before bed.
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Sprinting right out of the gate, the director, Yeon Sang-ho, dives gleefully into a sandbox of spilled brains and smug entitlement.
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And don't get too smug: You deducted that "home office" on last year's return when we both know it's really your bedroom.
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Among the most disturbing images were those of white children in the crowds, some with expressions of smug delight on their faces.
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From the get-go, you presume that Theresa is so smug in her perch that she's destined to pull a Humpty Dumpty.
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Gail: This election is going to feature a smug Donald Trump presenting himself as the savior who gave us the economic boom.
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After a summer love affair, he rejects Brenda and the nouveau-riche Patimkins with the smug self-righteousness of Joyce's Stephen Dedalus.
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They have marched to a different beat, promoted different standards, and played by different rules — all with a sense of smug entitlement.
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He urged Pete Buttigieg on Twitter to "not be so smug when you just got your ass kicked" in the Nevada caucuses.
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I felt as if other families were enclosed in a smug bubble, spared the understanding that misfortune can be random and inexplicable.
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Uncertainty and anxiety throw you off the smug island of certainty and force you into the free waters of creativity and learning.
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"I don't know how England can be smug about America," said Mr. Daley as he strolled out of Tate Modern this week.
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The family that felt so smug and ensconced in their gated home learns that terror had been living underneath them all along.
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But by the time of our visit, that smug notion had evaporated, and Nixon's doom was little more than four months away.
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In particular, I remember a smug anti-vaxxer mom in one Mommy And Me class who claimed she had an orgasmic birth.
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It's like being able to buy a little piece of the smug satisfaction and in-group affiliation of going to Burning Man.
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Smug and smiling in her golden garb, Beyoncé is the embodiment of a fantastical female power, which is just that—pure fantasy.
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Unpleasant, demonic occurrences unfold for anyone attempting to make a profit off the art, including a smug critic played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
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I'd tweeted at him a bunch of times about the prospect of getting high together, but he (sensibly) ignored my smug trolling.
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The main thing that unites them is a shared hatred for smug elites who hail from the left of the political spectrum.
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Deriding Hollywood as smug, elitist, out of touch, and self-congratulatory is a common refrain outside of, and even within, the industry.
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Finding comfort in the notion that their former allies were disdainful, hapless rubes, smug liberals created a culture animated by that contempt.
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If there is a single person who exemplifies the dumbass hick in the smug imagination, it is former President George W. Bush.
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I would be less troubled if I did not believe that the smug style has captured an enormous section of American liberalism.
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That the smug style apprehended the world as it really is, that knowing — or knowing, no inflection — did make our political divide.
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Chuck gets fired; the last thing he sees is the smug face of the interim Attorney General for the Southern District, Connerty. Ugh.
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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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If it felt unattainable to most Americans before, it now appears to be embodied by a smug and privileged heir taunting everyone else.
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It doesn't need to be this way though, particularly if price was the stumbling block preventing you from becoming a smug Mac owner.
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This includes an open floor plan, a lack of company hierarchy, and a grossly smug attitude about becoming bigger than the Huffington Post.
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Do not speak with smug entitlement on issues that affect Native communities just because you claim to be a quarter Indian or whatever.
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But of course we're shamelessly smug about the fact that we were already big fans of Colman way before Hollywood got on board.
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You wanna play the game or do you just wanna be known as a smug cheating bitch for the rest of your life.
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But in 24, reality television and scripted television aren't separated by as wide a gulf as casual spectators and smug critics might believe.
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While Joel and Sheila are usually the ones smiting smug jerks, the show also manages to question the couple's own prejudices on occasion.
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Sebastian Bergne's Drop carafe If you're after a water receptacle you can truly be smug about, designer Sebastian Bergne's Drop carafe is it.
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Smug looking individuals who, rather than struggle with a newspaper or hardback book, simply whip out their Kindle and enjoy a good read.
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I fill up my Swell bottle (my most smug-inducing purchase of 2017) and forgo the takeaway coffee en route to the subway.
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To understand California's mixture of nonchalance and smug defiance, it's worthwhile to remember what the Cole Memo actually was and what it did.
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The same tide of rage against an unfair system and its smug beneficiaries, coupled with Russian interference, has been running strongly in France.
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And as that smug conference photo from February suggested, Mark Zuckerberg will presumably wield full control over our most insignificant thoughts and feelings.
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Again with that smug grin, Adal tells Quinn that it's not out of love Carrie took him in; it was out of guilt.
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But the hopefulness is also a refreshing artistic change of pace, a backlash against generations of smug finger-pointing and knowing raised eyebrows.
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It's also why, when Zuckerberg answered Hatch, the 34-year-old billionaire smiled in a way that was interpreted by many as smug.
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He shook hands with the fat cats in the front row, the director and his wife, and then sat down, smug and sure.
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And you've probably gotten your share of smug looks from folks in the office who'd always said this crypto thing is a scam.
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Russia skeptics are feeling smug, declaring that media coverage of Mueller's probe was not just a debacle but perhaps even a generational failure.
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In video games, being a badass just generally means being a bad person doing bad things but who is impossibly smug about it.
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But in content — Republicans are the party of smug business executives, Democrats are the party of normal people — it's a return to form.
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And while it sees itself as the antithesis of Trumpism, it is, in its raging intolerance and smug self-satisfaction, Trumpism's mirror image.
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They are just smug advocates of Israel's destruction delivered from the comfort of their secure American sofas – it's hard to imagine anyone worse.
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Dubbed Janus after James Bond's smug Russian antagonist from the movie, the project gives the old game a much-needed dash of unpredictability.
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" He went on to accuse Mr. Buery of being "so smug and satisfied being a deputy mayor of a badly failing school system.
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In Mr. Crowley's case, it may have led him to become smug: The congressman had also skipped a debate with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.
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They are just smug advocates of Israel's destruction delivered from the comfort of their secure American sofas — it's hard to imagine anyone worse.
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Bret: Trump is not going to be defeated with feckless snark, or smug jokes, or hyperbolic depictions of America as a fascist hellscape.
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Instead of seizing this opportunity in his confirmation hearings, Judge Gorsuch alienated one Democratic senator after another with his smug and evasive demeanor.
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And, arguably more importantly, you receive the smug satisfaction of bypassing the interminable security line for a place in a more manageable queue.
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So, it's annoyingly smug for Sanofi to fire off a clever tweet that downplays the very real potential negative side effects of its product.
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" Williams had to hold up for a second as Siri threw down some smug knowledge, something Speaker John Bercow called a "very rum business.
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With his smug 4chan trollface, he's the video game equivalent of those dickheads in the comments who haven't read the article and just. Won't.
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While Strzok's testimony was uninformative, his arrogant and smug demeanor and feigned outrage during his testimony spoke loudly to anyone who observed it objectively.
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And when they get sick, they are greeted with smug smiles, a harsh reminder of all good things, as their bodies waste to nothing.
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Last Friday, a young gay paralegal, Brian Wasswa, was bludgeoned to death at his home in Jinja, LGBT group Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) said.
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" Kayleigh McEnany, Trump's campaign spokeswoman, said of Pelosi: "Her hatred for @realdonaldtrump has blinded her to the repulsive nature of her smug, elitist behavior.
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" Kayleigh McEnany, Trump's campaign spokeswoman, said of Pelosi: "Her hatred for @realdonaldtrump has blinded her to the repulsive nature of her smug, elitist behavior.
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The smug and smarmy Colbert demeans all Americans with his gutter language deployed at a sitting President on a regular late-night network show.
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That's precisely the response you'd expect from a smug, pompous law professor—an impression so spot on, in fact, as to seem quite deliberate.
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It's joyful heroine and colorful world are an alternative to the smug male leads and blood-soaked locales of so many big-budget games.
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No man should look too smug having not been rejected; if a woman is made a better offer, she should ditch an earlier one.
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Waltz is the perfect villain in this setting: He's played this exact role before, as the smug, drawling, creepy aesthete who rarely stops smiling.
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But instead of Estelle Getty, Nyong'o's character subs in as the fourth lady – sitting smug but sporting Getty's white cumulus-cloud of a hairdo.
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Mr Pullman's anticlericalism is not smug or contemptuous; among his heroes is a group of nuns, expressing their faith through love, charity and care.
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In his personal stories, Louis C.K. rarely plays the loser anymore and is more likely to present himself as a smug or entitled bore.
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When even Donald Trump, of all people, dared to tweet about Franken's misconduct, I found myself shaking with anger at the President's smug audacity.
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The Home Office insists that force is used as a last resort, but overwhelmingly people spoke of the escorts as violent, racist, and smug.
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However, Tarantino finds a way to ruin its potency by inserting himself into the film to comment on the moment in a smug voiceover.
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At times brash and smug, Wilson pointed to one line in Judge Lasnik's decision that he said allowed him to legally sell the blueprints.
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The smug look on the crown prince's face conveys the understanding that all will be well in the amoral relationship between our two countries.
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When we pass these other families in the supermarket, their dazed toddlers staring into iPads, we think — smug but terrified — we're not that bad.
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Mr. Gitai, who frequently cuts to himself listening, or interrupts his subjects with questions and counterarguments, comes across as a determined if smug guide.
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In a photo provided by the sheriff's office, Mr. Saito appeared calm, almost smug, looking directly at the camera as the deputies handcuffed him.
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They have marched to a different beat, promoted a different standard, and played by different rules — all with a smug sense of entitled exceptionalism.
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Istanbul, Turkey (CNN)ISIS' former minister for health Kefah Basheer Hussein is calm and collected, almost too composed and smug for a captured man.
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Renewable energy advocates are getting a bit smug these days, claiming that renewables are so cheap they can survive a Trump presidency, no problem.
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There seems to be a perverse pride attached: First you suffer, then you collect your reward and enjoy the smug fruits of your labor.
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Imagine one of those plaintive and/or smug Odyssey listicles explaining Twelve Reasons Why Millennials are Failing at Love, translated into its album equivalent.
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His sculptural jokes seem tailored to provoke knowing chuckles from smug museum- and gallery-goers, but don't challenge or unsettle them in any way.
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The conspiracy memes about him don't keep circulating because people believe them; they go around because this sort of smug behavior by Cruz alienates voters.
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Alex: One of the biggest problems with the Academy Awards is that in Hollywood the line between being incisive and being smug is incredibly fine.
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Gervais was predictably smug in his monologue at tonight's Golden Globes—though unlike in years past even he didn't seem to be having much fun.
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"They are just smug advocates of Israel's destruction delivered from the comfort of their secure American sofas -- it's hard to imagine anyone worse," he wrote.
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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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" Then chase it with "Dimed Out," which has a smug retort of "My challengers are talentless imbeciles / When my chalice is full I am invincible.
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" Kayleigh McEnany, campaign spokeswoman for Trump, said of Pelosi: "Her hatred for @realdonaldtrump has blinded her to the repulsive nature of her smug, elitist behavior.
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I also thought his smug appearance, constant head shaking, and outcry that Tim Kaine's mere repetition of Trump's words were "nonsense," was condescension and arrogance.
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They are smug because they also think that they are morally superior, convinced that people who don't share their cosmopolitan values are simple-minded bigots.
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The likelihood that the losers in the meritocratic race are going to give the other side yet another reason to feel smug is vanishingly small.
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On their surface, the Winklevii are Ivy League perfection, but beneath there's shades of entitlement, smug masculinity afforded by a lifetime of privilege—and vulnerability.
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But there is a right way to go about all this and heroic LA bassist Thundercat knows what it is: don't be a smug ass.
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Speaking on Tuesday, Kimmel addressed Trump supporters who "don't want to admit that these smug, annoying liberals were right" about the president and his failings.
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And lest the Democrats get too smug, the simple fact that their beloved Obamacare and Medicare plans are already going bankrupt cannot be ignored either.
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To smug Democrats who think themselves more evolved because of their supposedly modern view of women in power, these machinations against Pelosi should cause alarm.
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However, perhaps no ad managed to be so thoroughly tone deaf as the smug, saccharine, and stupid Airbnb ad known only by its hashtag -- #WeAccept.
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It rings insincere (c'mon, do you really believe Bill Gates would be content to simply raise chickens given different, impoverished circumstances?) and a little smug.
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For those of you who haven't read the books, good news: Those of us who have will finally have to shut our smug pie holes.
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He is not concerned with the smug anti-slavery clergymen ensconced in Boston railing against the brutality of the Southern slaveholders a thousand miles away.
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He's certainly smug these days, bragging about having a nuclear button on his desk that can send aloft missiles capable of reaching the US mainland.
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One smug little chuckle too many from Rachel Maddow the night he accidentally tuned in to MSNBC while looking for Tucker Carlson Tonight, and blam!
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I find it difficult not to associate Mussolini's hubristic "menefreghismo" with Trump's smug, cavalier dismissal of all things at odds with him and his agenda.
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The two-week interlude between championship games and the Super Bowl is a smug exercise in stretching … out … the … hype … to … out … rage … ous … extremes.
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Summer is the best time of year for a fully vegetable-based meal that satisfies even the pickiest carnivores (and makes vegetarians feel rightfully smug).
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Self-pitying or smug, jaunty or crestfallen, callous or contrite, the movie's fitful tone is fully yoked to Joaquin Phoenix's sodden-to-sober lead performance.
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His victory then was seen by many as a rebuke of the right-of-center political establishment that had grown smug and out of touch.
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In this final sequence, Euphoria finally peels away all its layers of smug, prepare-to-be-shocked pretension and exposes its deeply sincere, teenaged heart.
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Maggie Diaz Bofill's "Devil of Choice," a fizzle of a #MeToo gloss on "Faust," imagines Goethe's tragic hero as a smug English professor called Sal.
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After all, he was just there recently, tossing rolls of "beautiful, soft" paper towels into a crowd with that familiar smug look on his face.
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The stereotype included everyone from men in gray flannel suits to the slick professionals of "Thirtysomething," stuck or smug in their world of bourgeois comforts.
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Of course, there is a smug style in every political movement: elitism among every ideology believing itself in possession of the solutions to society's ills.
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The ridicule of Davis became so pronounced that even smug circles, always on the precipice of self-reproach, began eventually to rein in the excess.
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And as you slide your headband into place, you will know the smug satisfaction of being a high-caste member of an elite and important group.
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Oh yeah, and Hand leader Madame Gao (whom you may remember from Daredevil) is still out there looking smug and sipping tea, plotting her next move.
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He found "native" Californians smug and condescending, and he found their suggestion that their drought-prone home was better than everywhere else in the world vapid.
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Tweets from Carroll — featuring commentary like "BOOM" and "Tick tock..." — pop up complete with adoring replies, which ends up seeming more inadvertently smug than righteously triumphant.
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But his baked-in smug and aloof criticisms didn't seem to take Trump seriously enough, nor his supporters nor the undecideds who are skeptical of Clinton.
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When the electorate was more jumbled (for example, when the parties had similar numbers of racists and smug elitists) most Americans had interests in both camps.
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But although Winter still hasn't come to most of Westeros (hurry up, Winter!), it has come to book readers, who can no longer feel so smug.
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As you can see, one of the boys stands face-to-face with Phillips with a smug grin on his face as he continues to drum.
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Laura Moser is not a very good candidate, and her brand of smug online liberalism seems guaranteed to turn off both conservatives and bona fide leftists.
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It mostly follows the pattern, with McCarthy playing another smug trash-talker who hides a lifetime of wounded desperation under her vulgar, unapologetic, hilariously selfish surface.
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What caused my unmitigated revulsion more than a ninety minute harangue between a smug woman and a flailing man passing as a test of presidential fitness?
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The likes of Spike are seldom asked—onstage, or in life—whether their smug certainty might have its roots in a more personal, less comfortable place.
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His perpetually smug countenance disappeared, at times, when GOP lawmakers questioned the blatant political bias of his text-message exchanges with former FBI attorney Lisa Page.
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With a couple of exceptions, the men in the women's lives are pigheaded, arrogant, self-righteous and so smug in their power as to be repellent.
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The answer, he said, was that the video leaves the viewer annoyed at its smug sarcasm rather than appalled at the horrific images on the screen.
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I was only a child, but I was very close to my mother, so close that I couldn't help hearing the smug note in her voice.
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It's exactly the kind of smug, smarmy bullshit that makes conservatives angry enough at the Hollywood elite to vote Trump just to stick it to them.
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But it's fundamentally a class-oriented appeal to identity politics — you're supposed to imagine that the typical Republican is a smug business executive who you hate.
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This means that the dystopias we typically care about are ones that let us be a little smug about the correctness of our way of life.
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Still, readers on the left who are inclined to feel a smug sense of moral superiority should pause; they might share something with Thomas's bleak vision.
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Despite his use of stencil and other mechanical means to embed his brushstrokes into his paintings, there is nothing ironic, cynical or smug about Reed's work.
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Maybe he's just too blissed out on that sweet unsalted butter, or maybe he was feeling smug about going Dirty Keto before it was a thing.
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It is the smug style's first premise: a politics defined by a command of the Correct Facts and signaled by an allegiance to the Correct Culture.
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The Trip to Italy is self-aware and funny and really, really dark in a way that this smug show about two pretty boys can never be.
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It seems like each time a major privacy scandal hits the news, Congress holds another series of hearings with grim-faced politicians cluelessly questioning smug technology executives.
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The magazine heard from women who derided the "smug bitchiness" of that quote or complained that women who stay home "hardly have the time" for cookie baking.
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Spacey as Underwood is plastered all over the US right now in a similarly smug mock campaign poster, which makes Yeo's portrait great advertising — not great art.
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"We shouldn't have any smug sense of 'We would never do this'," says Jodi Giesbrecht, head of research at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.
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It may be nonsense that "the people" are infallible repositories of common sense, but there is no doubt that liberal elites have been smug and self-serving.
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For a while now, the most succinct takedown of the smug self-satisfaction of South Park at its worst has been a screencap of a Reddit comment.
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I understand the psychological roots of the superstition: not only a thirst for right answers to be revealed with certainty but also a smug pride in ourselves.
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Jim Himes, who organized the walkout among fellow Connecticut members of Congress, called moments of silence "obnoxious expressions of smug incompetence" when they come from elected officials.
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George Clooney stars as Lee Gates, the smug, garrulous host of a Mad Money-like stock-tips show that cruises along on gimmicky clips and leering language.
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If you're buying a Fairphone 2 you're probably not a smartphone addict anyway, so the counter's existence is an interesting oddity, but just a tiny bit smug.
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What Halperin and Morning Joe are doing is throwing around signifiers—they signify "smug liberal elite"—even though Trump's comments have been condemned across the ideological spectrum.
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I didn't want to be one of those smug vegans because I GET IT. I get that eating Humboldt Fog rivals the experience of falling in love.
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Except of course, it really has happened—and the smug cultural liberals, who have warned that the GOP is full of maladjusted voters, have been proven correct.
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Worn notions of masculinity play into Pete's feeling of failure and David's smug success; discussing salaries, David claims it wouldn't be right if his wife earned more.
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Can Newton, the Super Bowl-losing quarterback of the Carolina Panthers, dropped a shockingly smug, sexist comment on Wednesday after a female journalist asked him a question.
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WHATEVER smug feelings Hillary Clinton and her team enjoyed over the gaffe-strewn Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week died quickly, on July 25th, in Philadelphia.
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In that sense, Frank's fuming at the smug knowledge workers of Boston might have come straight from the pages of National Review, circa either 1955 or 2015.
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" J Street's supporters, he wrote, were "just smug advocates of Israel's destruction delivered from the comfort of their secure American sofas—it's hard to imagine anyone worse.
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But now here's the lawyer for the defense, approaching the juror's box, wearing a smug look on his face and a criminally expensive suit on his body.
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Yet as his palsy fails to improve, the hallmarks of upper-middle-class ease, which used to provide him almost smug levels of satisfaction, begin to rankle.
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As with liberalism in academia, the left-wing tilt in tech may be smug and self-serving, but it doesn't stop conservatives from getting their messages across.
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But being needlessly smug and self-righteous isn't necessarily helpful, either; we are all negotiating the fulfillment of our own personal needs with prioritizing overall harm reduction.
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The gold bugs would be feeling very smug and at Bitcoin folks might finally stop talking about how superior a decentralized, but TCP/IP-dependent, blockchain is.
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His smug impertinence, what Mr. Vonnegut in that early review called "the bitchy melody" of his writing, made enemies of subjects and their families, friends and acolytes.
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Everything about this portrayal of Dracula is dialed to 11, with Bang bouncing back and forth between smug slinger of blood puns to rabid scenery-chewing animal.
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Mr. Henry's screenplay, which was nominated for an Oscar, appropriated much of Mr. Webb's dialogue but softened the smug, unpleasant edge evinced by Benjamin in the novel.
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In her introduction, Solnit's evident irritation at the city's smug provincialism is in conflict with her need to acknowledge its place in our collective sense of self.
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"There is something in the kind of smug, sarcastic response that we're heard from the Russians that to me betokens their fundamental guilt," he told the BBC.
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Ironically, according to journalist Devon Dwyer, who was there for the shot, this "smug" face was actually the result of Obama dialing a wrong number while fundraising.
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Nothing is more confounding to the smug style than the fact that the average Republican is better educated and has a higher IQ than the average Democrat.
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It is adorned by a smug quote from the anti-religious Roman poet Lucretius, about the pleasure of watching a ship plough through a storm from dry land.
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Elijah Cummings had an opportunity to lecture Shkreli on basic morals, resulting in four minutes of smug facial expressions that ultimately will only make Shkreli hate himself more.
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Kevin's interest in Olivia felt unbelievably cliché: her smug, superior attitude attracted the insecure Kevin, who wanted to break through her cold shell to the real person underneath.
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The loop continues: "We separated ourselves in political echo chambers, treating the outside with smug contempt," Case said in a post-mortem on We Become What We Behold.
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And if it's not your style, pick one up for that smug hipster friend of yours who only drinks Intelligentsia and shoots on 35mm black and white Ilford.
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It's nice of Google to give us a new way to procrastinate the day away — just so long as that smug no-internet-connection-T-rex isn't there.
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"What a smug stinking lot my relations are and you've never seen such a seedy worn out bunch of old hags most of them have become," he wrote.
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Jim Telfer, a former coach of the national side, has suggested that any Scot seeking reasons for secession should spend ten minutes with smug English fans at Twickenham.
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To keep the list a reasonable length, we'll keep it fairly modern (so no John Travolta, Farrah Fawcett, or Cher vintage garbage.) Their waxy, smug auras mock me.
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Dog lovers have no right to be smug, either: woof-woof is also making a killing out there, contributing to nearly a dozen extinctions as an invasive predator.
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Conservative discourse becoming completely indistinguishable from the leftist parody of it affirms what we all already know: life imitates art just as smug imitates dumb and vice versa.
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The Sisters of The Valley have been the object of smug admonishment from practicing Catholics and more than a few actual Catholic nuns, who find their dress offensive.
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Who the fuck are you to be so smug as to think your stupid band name is like a commandment from God that we should all just recognize?
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The camera is only on him for a few seconds, but in that brief time, he neatly conveys incredulous disdain, exasperation, and the tiniest hint of smug relish.
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We've become a nation of obsessive scolds, smug and superior when we think we've achieved good health (however fleetingly), self-righteous when we think others are slacking off.
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" The group's supporters, Friedman had written, were "just smug advocates of Israel's destruction delivered from the comfort of their secure American sofas—it's hard to imagine anyone worse.
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" So, for the smug and condescending folks who scoffed at "secret societies" and "insurance policies," alluded to in previous texts from these two, we'll add, "No he's not.
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While Melisandre apparently resurrected Jon Snow in Episode 2 — though another explanation could emerge later — the formerly smug priestess's new vulnerability has been an undercurrent throughout this season.
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Smug, because while America led the actual deal-making, it was European companies who were among the first to race in to Tehran and cut big business deals.
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Here is a photo of me looking smug while the other journalists smouldered with jealousy: For this I won myself a Bear Grylls Survival Academy Instructor T-shirt.
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The movie's one joke is reserved for the end credits, where Lamm's colleagues are listed as Boring Professor, Drunken Professor, Smug Professor, Burnt Out Professor, and Department Lothario.
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Look at that quick cutaway during the baby shower to the men who run Gilead, smirking and shooting and just generally being supremely smug and satisfied with themselves.
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In a smug moment I dub it the Little House on the Prairie dress, right before I start to worry that we misjudged every other dress we saw.
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I would pass smug judgment when someone chose a cake I deemed a poor choice ("Maypole"), experience slow-burning jealousy when a risky choice paid dividends ("Rocking Horse").
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Enjoy it while it lasts, Netflix, 'cause you're not going to be feeling so smug in a couple of years when Snapchat is up here accepting Best Drama.
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"But you've been trying to ignore it, because you don't want to admit to these smug, annoying liberals that they were right," he said to the Trump voters.
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When I figured out I could take Megabus from New York to Boston for $50 round trip (rather than $250 via plane), I was smug for a week.
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Smug liberals said George was too stupid to get elected, too stupid to get reelected, too stupid to pass laws or appoint judges or weather a political fight.
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" He said he didn't support the invasion or occupation of Iraq and found the gesture of giving up a first-class seat to a soldier "smug and self-congratulatory.
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I went to the shops, stocked up on those sickly Thorntons caramel chews, and chowed down for the allotted sixty minutes before returning to work, smug, and scent-free.
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Your relatives who took the smug brother-in-law's advice and bought $2000,211 worth of bitcoin during the week of Thanksgiving 2000, have lost about $28 of that investment.
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I remember the smug smirk on his face and the gleam in his eye when he turned to me and snarled, 'Why haven't you told anyone that you're transgender?
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Click here to view original GIFTired of that smug look of satisfaction on your kid's face when they're able to find Waldo on a page faster than you can?
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Whether one approaches the book with a smug grin of superiority, unabashed enthusiasm, guilty titillation or something else, reading Fifty Shades of Grey is an undeniable rite of passage.
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While it might not be the first thing I want to do on a Saturday morning, it sets me up for the day and makes me feel pretty smug.
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Rather than being smug about how well they are doing at home, they need now to encourage the developing world in its quest for a less wasteful growth model.
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FOX 5 Atlanta posted this photo that shows the aftermath inside a Roswell, GA police station ... the poor box never had a chance against the super smug K-9.
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We did spy some SPECTRE rings though... The cinematic equivalent of a smug postcard from everywhere you're not, Bond films always jump all over the globe to coveted locations.
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We hear a married man give smooth, smug and self-congratulatory permission to his intense impulses, allowing them to outweigh the most modest sense of decency, fidelity and commitment.
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Danny is every white guy who has ever beamed at me with smug satisfaction after mangling a basic greeting to me in whatever he thinks my "native tongue" is.
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Observe: His latest Instagram puts the new ink front-and-center, which happens to be yet another furry creature — a smug-faced lion — located on his right pectoral muscle.
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That includes Lorde's mum, Sonja Yelich, who wielded smug parental privilege and hit Instagram to share two delightful throwback videos featuring the singer at the start of her career.
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It's hard to know what is truly going on here, beyond the unceasing effort by smug politicians like Mr. Cruz to claim some special understanding of religion and liberty.
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Barbara Bush / too "sick" to attend Nancy Reagan's funeral but not too sick to campaign for her smug, entitled low energy son Jeb in New Hampshire the next day.
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As Splinter's Libby Watson wrote on Tuesday, it was a moment that encapsulated a news outlet that privileged a smug sense of being "in the know" over meaningful reporting.
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It is so, so, so self-important and just patronizing to the reader and smug and just bad writing to quote a philosopher in a fucking album review, man.
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Ron taught me the allure of losing yourself in a puzzle, the smug satisfaction of completing one, and how to interpret the clues as they got harder each day.
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In "Admissions," these liberals include not just smug Sherri (Jessica Hecht) and Bill (Andrew Garman) but also their excitable teenage son (Ben Edelman), a high-achieving senior at Hillcrest.
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So if you're feeling pretty smug, thinking that you've got one up on all those still using a manual brush, we're here to bring you back down to earth.
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Casting the "Ring" is a task almost as herculean as singing it, and the Met can feel smug about much of the talent it has assembled for this revival.
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The so-called "prestige theory," the brainchild of a Kanye West fan named Spencer Wolff, appeared with smug enthusiasm: "The clues are right in front of us," Wolff tweeted.
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The result ought to serve as a wake-up call to a Democratic Party elite that's gotten a little smug and out of touch over the past few years.
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Learning a new skill makes you feel smarter, you get to enjoy the end result, and there's a smug satisfaction involved in knowing that you didn't need anyone's help.
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When I first started wearing the coat, I expected to feel both warm and smug; what I did not expect was the emotional journey the coat took me on.
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If you were feeling sort of smug about knowing nearly every word in an Erik Agard puzzle, get ready for him to fanute on all of us next time.
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I felt smug that while most of my millennial peers also walked with their heads down, eyes hovering just above their palms, I was not merely scrolling through Instagram.
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Silicon Valley businesses can often seem smug and self-aggrandizing, however they do have a record of producing things that have been culturally and socially transformative on a global scale.
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Trumbo and Segura likely don't care at all about the romance and the narrative and the smug "I told you so" that comes with picking the next big breakout guy.
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If any of this EU chicanery and power-hungry madness has my fellow American readers feeling somehow smug and superior to our European counterparts, take a look in the mirror.
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It then tops off its own philosophy lecture with a shameless plug for Netflix itself — because Black Mirror is nothing if not gleefully smug about enjoying its own nihilistic pleasures.
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The smug smile on Adal's face when he mentions to Saul (Mandy Patinkin) that Keane is finally starting to look upon the CIA in a good light says it all.
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Carrie's life is crumbling far worse than Adal intended, but based on his smug face at the end of the episode, he's pleasantly amused by how it's all shaking out.
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Kustomer's customers include brands in fashion, e-commerce and other sectors that provide customer support on products on a regular basis, such as Ring, Modsy, Glossier, Smug Mug and more.
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The move was typical Ted Cruz, a man so smug I wouldn't put it past him to recommission Mt. Rushmore into four sculptures of himself if he ever became president.
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What she thought would be her ultimate triumph came off looking smug and smarmy, like the real winner will always be illegitimate because Ben took herself out of the running.
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Who is to say that an elderly Dr. King would not have been outside the stadium with a bullhorn, goading the smug fat cats of Atlanta about housing and jobs?
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Maz Kanata – and Nyong'o – have good reason to be smug these days: Since it opened in mid-December, The Force Awakens has been obliterating box-office records left and right.
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He spent less effort on cross-hatching, and his figures became more cartoonish; a chubby cat, with a smug smile, appeared again and again in his pages, to tedious effect.
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It's not just a smug "more for us" attitude that won over in the end: These companies really were standing up for what's right — and were too popular to lose.
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The nature of the results left Selina vulnerable to becoming veep once again, but this time to the "smug, Dick Van Dyke-looking motherfucker" — Selina's words — Tom James (Hugh Laurie).
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There he finds the pundit class of the present-day United States, a tangle of arms and legs and laptops, with piteous cries and smug certainties rising in a chorus.
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She is, as you might have guessed, more than up to the task — even when she fights her way toward a confrontation with sleek, smug, liberal mastermind Athena (Hilary Swank).
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A smug, superior stance, aided by fancy psychiatric diagnosing by people understandably horrified and appalled by Mr. Trump's run-amok style and policies, only serves to further alienate his supporters.
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By the early hours of the morning on June 24 that smug, smiling, awful face of Nigel Farage was declaring a new dawn, and a day of independence for Britain.
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KEITH S. HELLER, NEW YORK To the Editor: Lest Jonathan Tepperman become too smug and self-righteous in extolling Canada's immigration policy, he would do well to examine Canada's sins.
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Hoover's men are smug, citified so-and-sos in trim suits who set great store by fancy crime-fighting techniques like fingerprint analysis, wiretaps, two-way radios and aerial surveillance.
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At the tail end of the 2012 Presidential election, an AP photographer caught yet another "oh, exploitable" pic of Obama holding a phone with a smug look on his face.
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These interruptions—and they can only be described as interruptions—always take the form of smug winks, moments of dramatic irony so obvious that they would make Guy de Maupassant blush.
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Agent Peter Strzok, a personification of the righteous left thinking they know better than the rest of us was a composite of pompous arrogant, indignant, sarcastic, smug, condescending, defiant and unapologetic.
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He has essentially pitched himself as the candidate of middle-class and "Real America" whites, who feel slammed by trade and immigration and oppressed by smug liberal environmentalism and political correctness.
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As part of The Economist's Open Future initiative, we interviewed Mr Sternberg about what's gone wrong, what young people can do and whether the older generation should really be so smug.
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"It's going to be the greatest thing that's ever aired on TV," he told EW, probably with a smug smile on his face as he played with his gorgeous ombre hair.
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Last week, before the latest accusations against Kavanaugh came into view, I was transfixed by the smug tone of key policymakers looking back on the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis.
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In a hackneyed version of Little Men, Brian and Kathy would be the smug, oblivious white people too wrapped up in their own lives to care about this kindly immigrant mother.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. You know when smug people on your Facebook post bad photos of beautiful sunsets or waterfalls that they have seen on their gap year?
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After the news was released on Tuesday, social media users bombarded Twitter with smug Aniston memes after digging through the depths of the internet to locate the perfect Rachel Green GIFs.
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Every year, millions of students take the Gaokao— one of China's most gruelling and difficult exams Chinese users on Weibo, a social media platform, were pretty smug about the machine's loss.
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If you've spent the last few weeks insisting to anyone who'll listen that Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" sounds like TLC's "No Scrubs," you're allowed to feel a little smug today.
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If this election had been written as a novel or a screenplay, it would've been ridiculed as the product of a smug, over-educated liberal who didn't know anything about conservatives.
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More than once you have met a person in real life with the smug exhilarance of a yoga instructor who tells you how good it felt to delete their Facebook account.
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Very little can be said for Don MacLean's saccharine and embarrassing "American Pie," a song which persists entirely because baby boomers are especially prone to a particularly smug version of nostalgia.
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" While ostensibly educating her, he assumes "that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth," she writes, "eyes fixed on the fuzzy far horizon of his own authority.
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I watched this aux-chord wielding night-wrecker stumble up to the stereo, putz about with Spotify, clicking on his chosen song with an alarmingly smug tap of the index finger.
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The first time we encounter Peterson, over the course of the first eight episodes, he seems slightly smug, or at least enthusiastic about expressing his erudition in front of the camera.
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Gisele Bündchen refused to go on-theme, instead parading her moisturized and smug genetic superiority, safe in the knowledge that she was born to be an ersatz tribute to Studio 54.
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In painting an "unrelievedly dire picture" of African-American life, Mr. Trump once again appeals to prejudice by stigmatizing minorities, inflaming fear and passion, and feeding a smug sense of superiority.
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"All this smug advice over tabs is not unlike the Cult of Inbox Zero, which declares that keeping your inbox at zero emails is the only way to live," she suggests.
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There he is, the smug bastard, hammering away, not knowing the way his constant noise was a constant feature of my playing the first game, as explained in my previous article.
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A smug and nasty heel—or perhaps 'anti-face' as he is still universally beloved by Japanese crowds—Suzuki's nickname apparently means 'The Man with the Worst Personality in the World'.
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His smug catch-me-if-you-can arrogance so infuriated President Jimmy Carter that the White House ordered the Justice Department to double down on its pending prosecution of Mr. Barnes.
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" But Roberta is stuck there with her smug sister who is skilled at faking things and her nurse mother who Roberta claims is a "medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak.
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I'm tired of its smug cynicism, its edgy humor, the way it beats you over the head with a placard saying "everything you enjoy is terrible and technology is bad, actually".
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The NFL is a closed system, and a smug one; it knows only what it knows, and does not really care to know much about what lies outside of that circle.
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And when you post that sick yoga pose instead of a #ThirstyThursday 'gram, there's that undeniable feeling of smug happiness that flows through you as the hearts tally higher and higher.
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One upside I'm consistently smug about, though, is the fact that any dermatologist worth their tools will tell you that people with oily skin don't get wrinkles until later in life.
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Knowing is the shibboleth into the smug style's culture, a cultural that celebrates hip commitments and valorizes hip taste, that loves nothing more than hate-reading anyone who doesn't get them.
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Jealousy quickly morphs into bitchiness and hate, and I can only assume my first time paging through the issue was accompanied by smug judgments meant to assuage my own feelings of ineptitude.
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The friend, staying at my house because Hurricane Irma had knocked out her electricity, balled her hands together in a gesture of mock concern, imitating a generically smug not-from-Florida person.
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But the idea that someone might watch his show, agree with the content, and walk away feeling smug about how righteously they live their lives is one that Oliver clearly doesn't love.
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But there was Smug Mug's Camera Awesome, which allowed you to independently control focus and exposure, make powerful edits, and select from a set of photo filters that put Instagram to shame.
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As she marshals her fluency in policy, she will want to avoid coming off as lecturing or smug, the way critics say Al Gore did in his debates with George W. Bush.
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The 14-minute video, posted by user kcawesome13, digs deep beneath Snape's surface and shows how he became the vaguely smug, often cruel man who is portrayed throughout most of the movies.
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Man the fuck up and say something interesting These comments aren't indefensible, but they are as trite, as smug, and as self-congratulatory as the 'fake grief' Long is lashing out at.
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But the core of the show, like a stack of bland pancakes, has been gradually covered in a gooey, delicious syrup of self-aware humor that manages to tickle without turning smug.
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Liberals laughed when Trump said, "I love the poorly educated," but his tribe knew what he meant — unlike those smug liberals, he was on their side and thought they deserved more respect.
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The film is replete with all the cheesy 80s music and smug, action-hero one liners that one might expect from a Schwarzenegger flick (yes, he even drops an "I'll be back").
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Returning home with the news of his possible findings, Fawcett receives only smug skepticism, his cohorts refusing to believe that there's a society that predates their own in such a "savage" land.
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In some ways, the campaign that Banks led was an insurgent protest movement against the smug globalism of the ruling class—against the "big politics" that Farage decried in his victory speech.
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The mother frets at having felt smug about raising daughters who rejected liberal Norwegian mores; the father, in a frantic search, goes to Syria, where he is kidnapped and tortured by ISIS .
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Smug clients casually hand me money like they're paying at a toll booth, and the shy ones act like it's a present—which I hate because I worked hard for that money.
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As the day unfolded, politicians who voted to leave backtracked on false promises and we were confronted with Donald Trump's smug smile as he descended on his luxury golf course in Scotland.
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It could feasibly be the night I clipped my ex's heels in Glasgow Garage, and she immediately landed an elephant felling right-hook to my jaw of thin, smug, easy-shatter glass.
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Let's be honest, here: they always look really smug about it as well, as if the mere fact that they are a human being with a sequencer is immediately and massively impressive.
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But if you want more than one party, or even just an emergency option, you can't lean back all smug in your recliner and blame the smaller parties for not being legitimate.
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Let's see whether 13 weeks of answering your questions makes me feel smug that I don't do any of those things or paranoid about all the reasons my employees surely hate me!
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Those disparagements, coupled with Mr. Rechnitz's smug and combative demeanor on the witness stand, may have weighed upon at least some members of the jury, which ultimately could not reach a verdict.
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"I'll never forget how smug Bob McCulloch was when he announced the non-indictment of Darren Wilson," tweeted DeRay Mckesson, an activist who was in Ferguson at the time of the uprising.
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Or maybe the people who will get mad are smug liberals, who were upset about the film's release being pulled, or who will be surprised to see the tables turned on them.
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Grace's sometimes smug responses to Charlotte's high-heeled strolls into political and emotional quicksand are more upsetting than Charlotte's mistakes, because Grace believes she knows better, when, in fact, no one does.
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"She does have a tendency to come across smug and overconfident," radio host Rich Zeoli said while discussing the upcoming third presidential debate on 1210 WPHT Philadelphia, as first reported by CNN.
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In less controlled hands, Axe might come off as smug as Martin Shkreli, but the show won't let you hate him: he is a strategic genius, from a working-class Queens background.
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Before my injury, I had felt that dealing with grittiness and unreliability were the price of entry for living in New York, and even took a smug pride in dealing with obstacles.
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"I'll never forget how smug Bob McCullough was when he announced the non-indictment of Darren Wilson," tweeted DeRay Mckesson, an activist who was in Ferguson at the time of the uprisings.
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Although it wasn't until adulthood that I sat through the show's two seasons, I still possessed the smug, teenage air of being some kind of Twin Peaks authority based on birthplace alone.
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Read: Dismaland Is a Smug, Clichéd Monument to Banksy's Dated Agenda Despite major planning setbacks and accommodation concerns, London is about to get its very own theme park, the Daily Mail reports.
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His review was published Monday in the famously cheeky Christmas issue of the BMJ — and though it doesn't present any new findings, it's likely to make men feel pretty smug about feeling sick.
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I didn&apost agree with your characterization of every text message and every piece of evidence, but we did not see the smug attitude from Lisa Page that we saw from Peter Strzok.
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I went into the class a little smug — I do CrossFit four times a week, run on the other days, and I've tried everything from Pure Barre to The Fhitting Room to Flywheel.
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I mean, it's a bit smug and self-congratulatory, and it didn't have to go on Foo Fighters' Twitter, but I can get over that because the band from Cornwall are probably stoked.
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Most people have probably encountered an Alex Trimboli (Calum Worthy), the duplicitous teen boy from the first season with the mouth full of braces and the constant smug, weaselly expression on his face.
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Grad school was paid for with a fellowship and teaching, and that gave him more time—or simply more opportunities—to practice being what Brian and others in his life described as smug.
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When a smug fellow applicant tries to impress the recruiter (Zed, played by Rip Torn), Edwards mocks the recruit for hyping a job he — and everybody else in the room — knows nothing about.
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Canada has a lot to feel smug about: some of the world's most beautiful lakes and mountains, an unrivalled winter sports scene, Justin Trudeau … But you know what's better than all of that?
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"You are lucky to get even this room," the ward matron said, smug and indifferent behind the Plexiglas of the nurses' station when I begged for a private room, insisted we could pay.
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Advocates of middle-ground solutions such as a strong public option are as unjustifiably smug about the politics of their complex approaches as single-payer/Medicare-for-all advocates are about their own.
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Wilson sometimes plays him with the weirdly slick, smug affect of an atheist picking up a check for starring in a Left Behind movie, and sometimes with the passion of a true believer.
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Here she is, our Carol, emerging through the infamous door of smoke wearing a pleather corset and the justifiably smug expression of a recent divorcee who's decided they're ready for the club again.
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Even though many New Yorkers routinely sneer at the parade of beards, piercings, and tattoos that ride the L train every day, I would doubt that the shutdown is leaving anyone feeling smug.
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But still, just knowing that they might contain some kind of anti-viral or cancer-slowing super powers will make you feel extra-smug when you're eating your next slice of avocado toast.
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I'll be honest: I'm envious of diary people, the smug, strange genre of human being who possess the discipline to sit down before bedtime and compose actual introspective paragraphs about their daily lives.
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And many GOP lawmakers emerged from the hearing further enraged by Strzok, who they claimed looked smug while he refused to answer some of their questions — at the direction of FBI general counsel.
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You're paying for the ability to be smug and self-righteous to drivers in gas-powered cars, and now even little kids can start making others feel guilty about driving a gas-guzzler.
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"Trump University, yes, we have run into some hiccups," a smug, faux official from Trump University says, before cutting to a negative ad from Our Principles PAC, an anti-Trump Republican super PAC.
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"Lord of the Pi's," in which a group of radical feminists rape a frat boy with a plastic Easter egg and Veronica makes smug jokes about "keister eggs," is probably the worst offender.
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Though Bee has been criticized by some for exemplifying a kind of smug liberalism that doomed Democrats this fall, I've always felt that her show was far too angry to fit that description.
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But when they're bad, as in the Tennessee Williams riff "The Method Gun," they're smug and in-jokey, like a table full of popular kids who won't let you put your tray down.
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When she joked that Donald Trump should find out about her policies by picking up her book, I laughed along with the audience — then worried if America would find her superior and smug.
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So when he did come, at last, in the Blue Gum's car, Mama and Aunt Millie forgot the $500 bill, the smug grins of the Akron folk which showed their blue, blue gums.
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"Last year, someone tweeted at me and was like, 'Hey, Drynuary guy, I get what you're doing but you're kind of a smug ——," he said, ending the sentence with a four-letter expletive.
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"I think it's also important for Hillary Clinton to be presidential, to hang in there even if it does get personal, but not to be smug or self-confident or overconfident," Rendell said.
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After the "rainbow nation" triumphalism of the 1990s, the privileged were still mostly smug, the underprivileged were still mostly angry and the collective was still thoroughly traumatized by 350 years of racial division.
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It can feel almost cruel to watch Chekhov's great late plays from the smug vantage point of the present: we can see, all too clearly, the future that awaits his bewildered Russian gentlefolk.
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I left for school and came back smug, telling my family the places I'd been, the people I'd met, the art I'd seen — and became frustrated when they didn't care or couldn't understand.
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Sometimes, when I want to sound like the kind of smug, flannel-wearing guys who know the B-sides of obscure soul records, I ask people what the best cover of all time is.
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Here was Karadzic, the political leader of those same Serb paramilitaries who had committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, a decade and a half later, smug and smart, badgering the Dutchbat officer.
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Despite this rags-to-riches arc, the new museum is careful neither to appear too smug, nor gloss over more controversial topics, including Brexit, refugee housing and the ugly consequences of rampant consumer consumption.
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While some media outlets may want to cast Aniston as the smug, jilted woman in this narrative, Handler points out that Aniston is so over it — and likely has been for a long time.
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Bourdain also slammed HBO political talk show host Bill Maher as "the worst of the smug, self-congratulatory left" after being asked about an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher several years ago.
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Every smug, exercize-doing, Deepak Chopra-reading, sports-ambivalent, water-drinking dick who comes out with this stuff seems to be perpetually one step away from being hired for a fucking AT&T commercial.
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But think of those Shaolin type hand gestures, is that index finger nuclear tipped or is The Donald merely working up to a heart palm strike on a smug journalist from the elite press?
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Instead of claiming generosity with a smug or selfish attitude, it can become a rallying cry for building genuine solidarity with unlikely allies and communities or individuals whose lives and livelihoods are under attack.
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For a government trying to dispel an image of being a bunch of smug, entitled private-school types sleepwalking into national crisis, Mr. Rees-Mogg's air of condescension and disdain has not been helpful.
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Viewed through the arch, the newly opened space where the lower roadway used to be looked smug and valuable; a lot of effort had gone into freeing up those sixty-four feet of sky.
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Ms. Kemper, a veteran of improv and "The Office" who mixes precision and a remarkable fluidity, delivers each of her three short, rapid-fire lines with a different shading — consternation, hopefulness, smug self-satisfaction.
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It's a marvellous coup de théâtre, assisted by Philippe Jordan's propulsive conducting, and at first sight it seems to offer a smug, empty message: the sublimity of German genius overcomes the nightmare of history.
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In the new Amazon series "I Love Dick," co-created by Jill Soloway, of "Transparent" fame, Dunne plays a smug Manhattan writer named Sylvère, who moves with his younger wife, Chris, to Marfa, Texas.
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In May, he placed ninth at Space City Beatdown - Chapter 2 in Texas; the winner of his bracket was Bryant "Smug" Huggins, a top-50 player as ranked by the fighting game repository Shoryuken.
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The focus then shifted to everyone's favorite 7-foot oaf Timofey Mozgov, who looks so smug in these pictures that you almost forget he scored just seven points over the course of the series.
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It's not hard to see the parallels today—the fleeting pop momentum of "Common People" in the momentary self-satisfaction of hashtag activism; the smug, Yorke-ian satisfaction that these issues aren't your fault.
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It would play better if Conner considered this proffered piece of anatomy with as much smug pride as the breasts, turning to his fellow passengers to again say how much his fans love him.
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" That maroon hunk of velvet is Fidge's nemesis, bought by Minnie the week after their father's death and blessed with a "horribly smug expression, like a clever child who knows he's the teacher's favorite.
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Sure, I eat it dutifully when it's on the table — mostly so I can enjoy a brief sense of smug appreciation of my own virtue — but obsession is not my natural response to roughage.
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To celebrate romantic and carnal bliss along with career success while trying not to sound too smug, Ariana Grande enlisted pop-factory experts — Pharrell Williams, Max Martin — to clear ample space around her voice.
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I was safe and smug in the United States, threatened by tear gas and possible arrest at the many demonstrations I attended, not the mortars and rockets faced by soldiers and journalists in Vietnam.
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Whenever her emotions reach a certain height, they spill out in a mess of telekinetic energy — cracking a wall, knocking over a stop sign, giving the smug jock who's dating Dina a bloody nose.
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When I talk to Tom and he decides he agrees with me, his opinion is also baseless, but now that the three of us concur we feel that much more smug about our views.
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In the spring of 2007, when I took the test to become an American citizen, I acted like the 19-year-old teenager I was: I was smug and annoyed at the whole affair.
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Documentaries like Lorena are timely for a reason — a bad reason — and instead of feeling smug for finally listening, 25 years later, it's worth taking the opportunity to see what we can do better now.
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"That's actually picking the right type of enemy," said a source close to the administration, calling NFL players "smug, entitled millionaires," before noting that would fit for any professional athletes in any major sports league.
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However, the clash of the fancied South Americans and Belgium's 'Golden Generation' has given the most casual of analysts reason to feel smug that, at least, they got one thing right in their scenario plotting.
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I am certain that anyone cheering Jeffries that day would have joined in the violence in Berkeley -- smug in the belief that their ideas were "right" and their opponents were "wrong," thus justifying the violence.
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I'm not the smug type, but it has definitely made me more of an advocate for the idea of leaving your shitty job, and I would support any friend who wanted to do the same.
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He survived this primitive lithotomy (and must have felt at least a little smug about the whole thing) but was left with a huge, festering wound between his legs for the rest of his life.
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A smug interpretation that Mr. Zuckerberg outwitted dopey legislators only plays into the Silicon Valley view that being called before Congress to answer questions is a bug of our democracy, instead of a vital feature.
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We have become islands, all alone with our electronic devices, spewing forth our opinions without much regard for the facts, retreating into our cocoons, smug in our righteousness, afraid for the future of our children.
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From the Pope to the president to the smug suburban mom, climate adherents live in glass houses that function thanks to evil stuff like oil and gas while throwing rocks at us so-called deniers.
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Though the process looks like pure pandemonium, the Sriracha-slathered egg saves me from a brutal subsequent morning, plus I get to feel slightly smug about eating it, knowing my $3 go to benefit hilltribes.
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I'll refrain from speaking too much on America's current situation because I'm Canadian and this year has proven a lot of my countrypeople to be smug, elitist motherfuckers via those awful "meanwhile in Canada" memes.
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In the final chapter, we get the brilliantly dark punch line: Offred's future reader turns out to be a smug know-it-all, a future professor of Gileadean studies, who deconstructs her like a bug.
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Part of the pleasure of this book is watching Toby's smug complacency, his belief that he sees the world correctly and that everyone else is just a little bit whiny, get slowly shredded into bits.
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Whether it's the failure to grow wages, manage financial crises or provide security, traditionalists resent the repeated failures of contemporary politics and the elites who implement their agenda with what they view as smug disdain.
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Acknowledging that there's nothing quite so smug-sounding as some cyclists explaining why they ride, the undeniable truth remains that a bicycle, whether its primary purpose is for transportation, recreation or wellness, is inherently liberating.
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Whether it's the failure to grow wages, manage financial crisis or provide security, traditionalists resent the repeated failures of contemporary politics and the elites who implement their agenda with what they view as smug disdain.
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"I wish there was a way to somehow filter out the smug self posts of trumpeteers there [KiA]," a member of the community with the username Ode_to_Joy wrote in a reddit thread in December 2016.
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The team jet isn't the only vehicle that got more smug after the Super Bowl -- Bill Belichick already renamed his personal boat, "VIII Rings" ... to reflect the 8 NFL championships he's won during his career.
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Along the way, Shadow gets sucked into another dimension by a newer god known as "Technical Boy" (Bruce Langley), a sneering, pompadoured embodiment of a particularly smug subreddit, who promptly tries to lynch him IRL.
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Marie's triumph is not just a victory for her sex and class but, given the explicitly xenophobic nature of the smug patriarchal order that she upends, a win for outsiders and outcasts of all varieties.
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Its denizens are bored or irritated by tales of adventure and heroism; they cultivate a condescending skepticism about El-ahrairah, the rabbit trickster-prince of legend; they seem comfortable and smug and yet subtly depressed.
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" He continued: "So I don't want to see their little smug faces talking about how much they care about law enforcement when I'm burying a sergeant because they don't want to piss off the NRA.
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The line — uttered by Emma Roberts' Madison Montgomery when she appears to have risen from the dead — is applicable to literally any situation in which one party is surprised and the other is extremely smug.
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Both Cain and Swanson hammed it up, playing up the "smug DC elite" factor, as well as the inherent absurdity of two grown adults in national law enforcement positions reading their candid text messages allowed.
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I stayed in just long enough to experience what might be called the smug reflex: the sense of satisfaction that comes from accomplishing, and even enjoying, something that most people would find unfathomably off-putting.
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But since Facebook has no effective competition, we can look forward only to being lectured on being more tolerant of "ideas" we don't like, and to smug talk of the false equivalency of "both sides."
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I remember feeling smug at the time — I knew the rules, and I didn't need the internal memos and meetings to remind me to do everything I could to prevent earning my own #StopTimeOutDubai hashtag.
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And in the process he shamed people for potentially being smug about trying to help the environment in small ways — an unnecessary jab that South Park already landed (in a much funnier way) a decade ago.
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And everyone, including the growing number of smug "experts" who are convinced Trump cannot win, needs to start thinking hard about the best way to react if it turns out their side loses on November 8th.
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Nevertheless, elements of Clinton's digital presence—the tool on her website that allows users to compare what Trump and Clinton were doing in any given year—has a smug vibe that is reminiscent of Weird Twitter.
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Paul Callan: CBS should fire Colbert, the King of Smug CBS should have the guts to fire Stephen Colbert for the crude and vulgar humor he has used to insult the President of the United States.
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But whether or not you agree that Bitcoin is a fraud, we can all enjoy the moment of watching Dimon's smug ass walk back his comments because the man has spent years being full of shit.
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Remember that your four-day workweek is a privilegeDon't act smug and show off the days you work in your email signature or post Instagram photos of yourself sipping cocktails on the beach at 10 a.m.
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So you, my smug, privileged friend, are going to lose your civil liberties, your faith in social progress, your endangered species, your affirmative action, your reproductive freedom, your international alliances, your 'wonderful' exchange student from Syria.
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But the film is an emotional black hole, its insufferably smug tricksters augmented by Mr. Harrelson — wearing too many teeth and a wig reminiscent of "Don't Look Now"-era Donald Sutherland — as his character's identical twin.
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The whole walk back to the car, my brothers covered in sea slime and sand, me eating and ice cream and firing an arrow into the sun, I beamed like the smug little goblin I was.
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We didn't own a video camera, and we were a bit smug about it; we were the parents who actually watched the soccer game, or the play, who participated in the party instead of filming it.
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One crucial moment in the film, when Edward's smug lawyer attacks Vivian and Edward pulls him off her and punches him in the face, is rewritten so that Vivian is the one who lands the blow.
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Can't really remember when eating dinner became synonymous with 'having a mind-bending holistic experience,' but it was probably around the time people started consuming previously unheard of grains and beans and feeling smug about it.
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When her company rents out a Michelin-starred restaurant for a holiday party—complete with Wagyu beef, lobster pot pie, and cocaine—she doesn't fall out of her "smug sense of belonging" until she stops dancing.
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We tend to think that the smug, smart people who run companies like Google and Uber have some secret knowledge; we even give them our personal information, uneasily, but ultimately with a bit of a shrug.
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The Contoured 3D Blackout Sleep Mask by SMUG is specifically designed to leave space around the eye area to prevent skin fatigue, encourage deep sleep, and even maintain your eyelash extensions, all while blocking out light.
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And so we're welcomed into a girl gang, kind of, traversing the (iconic) Dufferin Mall in downtown Toronto; hanging out on the playground; skateboarding around; and throwing chips at Kevin O'Leary's smug face on a television screen.
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President Trump's current antagonistic stance towards his intelligence and security agencies dates, we all recall, from before his election, when he characterized them as part of the smug, Democrat-inclined Washington establishment that he aimed to overturn.
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The hearing, on FBI and Department of Justice actions around the 2016 election, will take place next Tuesday and comes after Strzok was accused of being "smug" during questioning at a closed-door Judiciary hearing last week.
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I would love to find a source of smug affirmation in Tidying Up, a reality show argument for the overall virtue of having just the right amount of stuff, and having all of it arranged just so.
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Yet Japan was seen as an example of central-bank incompetence, until smug Western central banks discovered after 19903 that getting an economy to perk up when interest rates were near zero was harder than it looked.
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" One article in the Washington Post by an emergency physician describing the difficulties of dealing with a morbidly obese patient provoked one commentator to say she wanted to slap the doctor for his "smug and insincere pity.
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She's greeted by a no-nonsense, buttoned-up Rowan Blanchard, who advises Harrier that "smug/sad is a good combo" when it comes to pleasing her followers, who are literally, physically following Harrier down the hallway, IRL.
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Even the best of secret servants would be hampered by a pervasive culture of inertia, lack of imagination, smug self-satisfaction, and that infectious curse of the bureaucratic mandarin, the incessant need to CYA: Cover Your Ass.
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Look at their smug faces, proud at having put on such a fine—not to mention free—event, celebrating a medium that seems to be forgotten even though it's more popular now than it's been in decades.
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Ocean's Twelve is a fascinating text to dissect, a triumph on a technical level, and as soporific and smug as a piece of entertainment as a filmed European vacation featuring George Clooney and Brad Pitt can be.
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Using the conceit of liberal elites exacting revenge on know-nothing "deplorables," the filmmakers heap plenty of smug, self-amused scorn on both sides, but there's no doubt who the hero is once the tables are turned.
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The tone of "21 Up" is thus one of mild and slightly smug disapproval — of the haughtiness and complacency Apted finds at one end of the spectrum and the passivity and complacency he finds at the other.
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At the top of the odious heap is Viking (Tom Bateman), a smug and vicious helicopter parent who forces his young son to drink green smoothies instead of the sugary cereals that are every American child's birthright.
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If your flatmates are inhaling Frosties while you savour a steaming bowl of oaty porridge, you're allowed to feel smug over the fact that come 11 AM, you won't be the one reaching for the biscuit tin.
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Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and the FBI texting scandal explained Trump calls out Sessions over FBI lawyer Lisa Page's no-show at Congress FBI's Strzok 'smug' and 'defiant' in House interview , but regrets sending anti-Trump texts Rep.
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"I think it's also important for Hillary Clinton to be presidential, to hang in there, even if he does get personal, but not to be smug or self-confident or over-confident because elections can turn," he said.
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An objectively perfect pop song, it empowers while twisting the knife; it encourages you to move on but also make a point of looking back, knowing full well how buff you look in those jeans, and feeling smug.
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Honestly, though, even us full-fledged adults with decked out kitchens will be tempted to drag one of these into our Amazon carts, if only so we never have to think of that smug "watched pot" saying again.
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Confronted by rows of smug faces, it is tempting to land a blow, although visitors familiar with Bushman, Baumeister, and Stack's research, which warns against the self-perpetuating nature of anger and aggressive behavior, may find themselves recoiling.
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As a weary, bearded newcomer in a beautifully saturated landscape, all you want to do is confess your terrible sins, but a smug guy informs you that they're not local enough and you need to commit some more.
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Brady is sex-positive, socially progressive, and a little smug about all of his enlightened stances; he's exactly the kind of guy who would've looked at Looking's two seasons and dismissed them as heteronormative, insufficiently representative, and boring.
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The mug shot that had been provided to the press, evidently from his pre-Islamic years, portrayed a hard and contemptuous man, but he had grown chubby in prison and now radiated a smug detachment more than violence.
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But every now and then, one of these smug adults will step outside, take a deep breath, and feel a wholly unexpected nasal irritation or a welling of tears for the first time in his or her life.
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I arrived with the smug grin that one has when carrying a handbag that is actually just a neoprene sleeve with a $900 bottle of Champagne in it, and was seated at the far end of the bar.
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Bloated, bombastic, cloying, quaint and smug — and occasionally, it must be said, very pretty — "Mass" (1971) now exists mainly as a stale memento of the aftermath of the liberalizations in Catholic ritual inspired by the Second Vatican Council.
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Waititi isn't doing anything so smug as suggesting that we could all get along, if only we'd talk civilly to each other, or so useless as fantasizing about the next generation righting the wrongs of the previous ones.
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A playwright and director, Mona (Maëlle Poésy), presents a new work to her American ex, Nick (Linas Phillips), a smug hoodie-wearing beardo who snipes at her about the difference between honesty in art and the merely confessional.
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Recorded on the White House taping system, Nixon's comments about many groups of his fellow Americans ranged from somewhat comical remarks about "long-haired hippies" and smug Ivy Leaguers to highly bigoted complaints about African Americans and Jews.
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It isn't surprising that her schoolmates thought her accent was "affected" and that she had about her "a smug perfection": she would not be held back; she was not going to stay in the rural town of Grantham.
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Marriage Story served as a timely reminder for B and me that just because we're smug and happy right now, it's silly to assume that doesn't mean there's a point in the future where we might not be.
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But then athletic contests are really just slightly less consequential versions of military combat, a populist version of masculinity at play — with all its smug self-regard and a love of violence that affirms a sense of dominance.
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But a more fundamental element of smug disdain for Kim Davis went unchallenged: the contention, at bottom, that Davis was not merely wrong in her convictions, but that her convictions were, in themselves, an error and a fraud.
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But even as many have come around to the notion that Trump is the prohibitive favorite for his party's nomination, the smug interpretation has been predictable: We only underestimated how hateful, how stupid, the Republican base can be.
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The Glass clone looks to ease users into the AR and AI wearable experience by marketing it as a tool to aid businesses, rather than a tool to help smug early adopters get punched in the face at bars.
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A pack of talentless teenagers who played covers of Liz Phair songs like they meant nothing began to tune their guitars, looking for all the world like the smug bastards my friends and I were in the early 1990s.
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And before we become too smug in our recriminations of the evils perpetrated by the Axis powers, it's important to remember that before Pearl Harbor, the very same forces of bigotry and intolerance were resurgent in our own country.
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Shkreli then escalated that argument with a series of controversial statements defending the increase, his smug appearance before a congressional committee, and his social media feuds with people such as Hillary Clinton and members of the Wu-Tang Clan.
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Last week's cover of Der Spiegel, the German news magazine, shows a smug President Trump — backed by Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and proclaims "Das Zeitalter der Autokraten," the age of the autocrats.
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But she never feels at home with his smug Republican buddies—"Your friends make me feel like I'm invited for drinks and everyone else is staying for supper," she says—and he finally gets sick of her moral stridency.
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In Brandenburg, as in Trump-world, there's plenty of political energy against globalized, mealy-mouthed, quinoa-loving, inequality-fostering, immigrant-embracing elites with their gender spectra, climate doomsdays, multilateral organizations, mainstream parties and smug no-alternatives views of existence.
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Cat instagram—a space dominated by rescuers "Kitten Lady" Hannah Shaw and Beth Stern and user-generated accounts like Bodega Cats of Instagram—is a welcome, adorable reprieve from people posting self-righteous workout selfies and smug travel #TBTs.
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On this particular day, Jonathan Tan was assaying a smug Lord Chancellor in Shaw's "Saint Joan" less than two hours after hopping around the stage as a frog in a charming family adaptation of Oscar Wilde's tales for children.
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Given how smug venture investors can be about their ability to gauge value compared with public markets, it might be healthy for them to recognize that private markets are as susceptible to bubbles and group think as public markets.
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Josh and Alex are smug masters of offhand bragging: about their oh-so-modern arrangement, about their busy Manhattan lives (Josh is a theater director, Alex a graduate student in chemistry), about the baby they're expecting with a surrogate.
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He happened to be standing by the Ohio Clock Corridor in the Capitol at the absolute perfect time, and was able to capture the smug grin on Jon Stewart's face seconds after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walked past.
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Uninterested in fitting in, or being charming, or acting snarky, ironic, or smug — all forms of presentation the class-conscious art world has celebrated — Webster is a true renegade who, in her paintings, has mastered synthesizing mayhem and repetition.
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Nearby, there's a photorealistic portrait by Smug, a Glasgow-based artist, of his barber, facial tattoos on full display and with a bowtie-wearing puppy in his lap — an invitation for viewers to challenge their snap judgments of people.
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So it's unsurprising that Streep incurred immediate backlash from conservatives on social media for perpetuating Hollywood "elitism" and "smug liberalism" — most notably from news show hosts Meghan McCain and Tomi Lahren: This Meryl Streep speech is why Trump won.
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The smug style leaves its adherents no other option: If an idea has failed to take hold, if the Good Facts are not widely accepted, then the problem must be that these facts have not yet reached the disbelievers.
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It's not that we don't have adventurous personalities, as smug foodies usually assume—it's just that the sheer number of foods that taste, smell, or even look unappetizing (to us, anyway) often prevents us from exploring beyond our comfort zones.
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Lollapalooza is gleefully raging on through the rain in Chicago, your Facebook feed is an endless cascade of the vacationing smug, and you spent all your money on ice cream last week so now you can't even go to the pub.
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And while Muslims across Europe are terrorized by street fascists, smug satirists, and the state, Charlie Hebdo knows where real travesty is, it screams, a greedy child with sticky fingers and a pig-eyed indifference to the suffering of others.
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For young and poor Colombians who deem politics too grubby, the elites too smug and economic progress too slow, Mr Petro promises a "humane Colombia" with a much bigger role for the state in health, higher education, finance and business.
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Since then, Sherlock's showrunners and writers, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, have spent years promising grand things for the series, which at least had the lofty ideas — along with the stellar acting, rapier wit, and gorgeous production values — to be smug.
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So whenever Lady Leshurr, the rapper hailing from my fair(-ish) city's Kingshurst area, pops up with more irresistible rhymes, it always brings a smug smile to my chops—and there's nothing more iconically Leshurr than her "Queen's Speech" freestyle series.
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He knows all this is a little bit ridiculous but never is smug about it: Doctor Strange might be a familiar character, but Cumberbatch gives him a pride, a dignity, and a wry sense of humor that the movie desperately needs.
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At which point you will 100% bump into that smug bloke you went to school with, with the nice shirts, the one who you can't quite explain to everyone else why don't like him but you just know he's a wrong'un.
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But a closer look at the alt-right reveals conservative animals of all stripes, a veritable zoo of foxes and wolves, mythical creatures and pastel-colored ponies led by a furry Trump, cast as an extremely smug-looking anthropomorphized lion.
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The von Furstenberg and I. She saw me out of the corner of her exquisitely lined eye going to the back of the store to retrieve it between the frigid Eileen Fishers and the smug Max Azrias and she disapproves.
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No matter how viewers feel about Weiner's infidelities, or his repeated lies about them, it's still discomfiting to see how ruthlessly and single-mindedly the journalists around him chase any whiff of humiliation, generally with a tone of smug, patronizing superiority.
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A young woman named Abby enters some kind of alternate universe in which her social media followers are people who trail behind her like a shadow, and a woman insists that looking "smug-sad" is better than looking happy in photos.
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"Debbie Meier said in one of her books that, without a powerful system of accountability, well-intentioned schools can easily become smug, secretive, tyrannical and even racist," said Elaina Watkins, who has three children at the school and supports Ms. Garg.
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Instead, Weekend Update and the cold opens are the two spaces where SNL gets blatantly political, and the show keeps leaning on smug, self-congratulatory liberalism, taking easy potshots at Republicans that make conservatives righteously angry and are stupidly one-dimensional.
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But you might just have let out a sigh of relief (while sobbing) when, instead of devolving into some smug male fantasy, the film ended with Annie dumping him for the last time, because she'd evolved past his antisocial worldview.
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We will tolerate an aeon of Alan Pardew's after-dinner speaking, we will listen to his smug anecdotes about the 1990 FA Cup semi-final, we will even ride a steam train to Southampton while letting him snarfle our dinner.
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Many of us night creatures know at least one smug early bird who quotes some ancient Greek philosopher or founding father about the virtues of waking up early as we squint at them, pupils not yet adjusted to the daylight.
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Charles Hill told me that he found it hard to contain his frustration at the inaction of the French police, which he attributed to smug complacency—a feeling, common to those investigating art thefts, that the work will ultimately be recovered.
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Tesla owners get to feel good not only for driving an electric vehicle, Tesla stock owners get a double dose of smug for believing in the save-the-planet-electric-vehicle social movement — all the while rooting for the underdog.
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Where the Red Sox and their fans made the long story of their suffering into a sort of smug municipal folktale, even before the team finally ended it, the Cubs and Indians simply live in the longstanding fact of their denial.
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But a closer look at the alt-right reveals conservative animals of all stripes, a veritable zoo of foxes and wolves, mythical creatures and pastel-colored ponies led by a furry Trump, cast as an extremely smug-looking anthropomorphized lion.
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It's 2017 now, and the days of anyone being shocked by the sight of William Shakespeare in leather pants are long over — but Will presents this sight with the smug expectation that viewers will be shocked, nay, outraged by the spectacle.
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This awareness of an amused Macdonald lurking behind the deadpan Norm is what animates his forays into meta-comedy — not the smug refusals of anti-comedy, but genuinely funny subversions that exploit what audiences have come to expect from the form.
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When he began writing "The Longing for Less," he was put off by how minimalism had become commodified — a smug cure-all that countered late-capitalist malaise with self-help books by Marie Kondo and seasonal pilgrimages to The Container Store.
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Well, here we are with the outcome four decades later: teachers barely making it, prisons privatized, roads in ruin and smug contractor-kingpins claiming that the solution is further privatization while they're really only seeking to further line their wallets.
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The perfect details were all there: The guy leans back in his chair with a smug smirk, seated beneath a framed Tom Brady jersey, and — amazingly, considering the scene was shot weeks earlier — in his hands, he holds a lacrosse stick.
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This suits the proclivities of smug suburbanites just fine, but as someone who grew up in a big city in the 1980s and 1990s when city living was both less fashionable and more affordable, it seems like a tragedy to me.
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The presentation and the characters and the smug tone eventually coalesce into something deeply irritating, the TV series equivalent of one of those "Can you believe there are people who voted for Donald Trump?!" articles in a big-city newspaper.
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In 2016, the smug style has found expression in media and in policy, in the attitudes of liberals both visible and private, providing a foundational set of assumptions above which a great number of liberals comport their understanding of the world.
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They hear the "paternalistic semi-intellectual experts" telling them what to do; but now they hear other voices, too, telling the left-behinds that they have been cheated, manipulated, betrayed; telling them that the status quo truly only serves the smug preening Establishment.
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Remaining quietly smug while your friends struggle with the aftermath of last night's dodgy lamb doner … But here's something that may stop the vegetarians of the world from going HAM (or should that be Tofurky?) on the virtues of plant-based living.
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So if you're feeling smug about the fact that you've been spared, take it from a recent convert: it sucks, and you may soon be eating humble pie—if you can breath through your clogged up nose long enough to take a bite.
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Bucking the time-honored Trek trope of selecting a "redshirt" (a low-ranking, generic officer) to be the sole casualty of the first Starfleet away mission of the season, Discovery instead chose to off a smug, insecure white male science officer — mid-mansplain.
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She's more interested in channeling James Dean and David Lynch into the same haunting, beautifully shot spectacle, where the players posture and circle around each other, smug in their awareness of their power, youth, and pride, at least until the bloodsucking starts.
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Between that and Amazon announcing free shipping until Christmas, you are primed to spend December enjoying hot chocolate and watching Love, Actually for the millionth time, smug in the knowledge that you've taken care of all the friends and families on your list.
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However, Clinton can't appear to be too cool, either, because that might make her appear too smug and it also might antagonize the Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren supporters who are just as unhappy with the state of the country as Trump's core backers.
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I once wrote about this study on secondhand embarrassment where they found that people who experience this also tend to be empathetic, and I just felt unbearably smug thinking, I'm such a good person and that's why I have this strong reaction.
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As much as we all love complaining about how busy we are — real talk, everyone gets a little bit of smug pleasure from declaring themselves "totally swamped" — burnout is very real and can strike even the most energetic and highly functioning among us.
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If my partner and I have a debate, and the next day I see an article in the newspaper that proves my point, may I send her the article to show that I was right, or does that make me a smug jerk?
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The fact that he's a boastful demigod instead of a smug thief seems almost beside the point: Both Maui (Dwayne Johnson) in Moana and Flynn Rider in Tangled are flashy, arrogant, and headed for breakdowns when they realize the limits of their talents.
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The local bully (Ian Kenny) greets him like an exciting new toy, and so does smug, authoritarian headmaster Father Baxter (Don Wycherley), who seems to be trying out for the brutal teacher role in Pink Floyd—The Wall, a few years too late.
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I remembered these attempts when the tall, beautiful, smoke-free doctor suggested I try this tactic (as though I couldn't have thought of that myself), feeling both smug that she was so naive and embarrassed that I had failed so many times.
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A photo of a very chill dog hit the top of r/aww on Sunday with the title, "He thinks he's pretty cool..." The smug dog (which is actually a girl named Lady) was hanging out at the beach, wearing sunglasses, of course.
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Clifton (John Savage), a white, Celtics-jersey-clad possible yuppie, scuffs the new Air Jordans of the aspiring black activist Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), touching off a confrontation in which the smug Clifton reveals he just bought a brownstone on the block.
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In the 150-page report on the escape by the inspector general's office released on Monday, Mr. Sweat comes off as unrepentant and smug, describing prison guards as lazy and incompetent and his sidekick, Richard W. Matt, as a bumbling, overweight tag-along.
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And President Trump and those who think like him focus on my divorced status, and feel smug about pointing their finger at people like me as a symptom of what's wrong with America, without ever once considering their part in the situation.
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If the Kanye West on Dropout is a cheeky, somewhat infuriatingly smug teenager cracking dumb jokes behind the teacher's back, Chance is his little brother, yelping and snickering in a voice too gruff to be a child's but similarly innocent and unaffected.
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What seems like a harmless scene — a smug chef who underestimates Bertie's skills as a baker — shapes the narrative arc of the show, which slowly illuminates the complexities of harassment in the kitchen and eventually looks back further to Bertie's childhood trauma.
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But it can feel loose and free-associative in some ways, and Moore's injection of his own persona into his films — especially the smug snark of his commentary and the affected cluelessness he uses as an interview technique — can get old very quickly.
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That indifference to the way things have always been done has energized Mr. Trump's core supporters, who cheer his efforts to destroy political correctness, take on smug elites and smash a self-interested system that, in their view, has shafted everyday Americans.
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Their trials, in the grand scheme of things, are manageable enough that they allow easily for comedy, which Sittenfeld is a pro at delivering in the details (the smug academic's cat is named Converse, "not for the shoe but for the political scientist").
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Subsequently dumped by Josie and sickened by his own smug words, Charlie has chucked it all and gone backpacking on an "island nation off the coast of a foreign continent" where he is promptly kidnapped and tossed into the trunk of a car.
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"It seems to be one of those nasty, smug little plays smirking continually at recognition of their own cleverness, as if they had an in-built air of self-satisfaction engulfing them," Clive Barnes wrote in his review in The New York Times.
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Steve Krakauer, a former CNN senior digital producer, flagged the segment in a tweet and slammed the participants for "the arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents," saying the segment was a "perfect encapsulation" of a media disconnect from many Americans.
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In "Get Out," the target was the hypocrisies of smug white liberalism, embodied in the white father who declares that he would have voted for Obama three times, all the while plotting to implant Daniel Kaluuya's character with a white person's brain.
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And while there are few actors on TV today who can match Hayes's physical comedy skills, Mullally comes close, throwing back her head in wicked glee as an increasingly smug Karen gloats about her friend Melania marrying her way into the White House.
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It has become a tradition for the smug, in editorials and essay and confident Facebook boasting, to assume that the presidential debates will feature their candidate, in command of the facts, wiping the floor with the empty huckster ignorance of their Republican opponent.
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Faced with the prospect of an election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the smug will reach a fever pitch: six straight months of a sure thing, an opportunity to mock and scoff and ask, How could anybody vote for this guy?
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But I have to say that I think I have more faith in Chris Rock than you do—I think heavy-handed is fine, as long as it's funny (which I think he'll be) and "smug" is not really a word I associate with him.
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We&aposre going to show you the most contentious, the most revealing moments from the hearing as an incredibly smug, arrogant, narcissistic Peter Strzok suspended every bit of logic lied about his blatant bias and even took yes some veiled cheap shots at yours truly.
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Embattled FBI official Peter Strzok was "smug" and "laughed off" questions during his closed-door congressional interview this week, though also told lawmakers he regrets sending the anti-Trump texts that made him the poster child for bureau bias, congressional sources tell Fox News.
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Like many recent rappers who mean to depict the real terror of ghetto violence, he raps in a higher pitch and a jumpier tone than most of his predecessors — the convention in gangsta rap is to project a smug, relaxed mastery, which Staples markedly avoids.
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For the most part, I loved it — being a part of a community, knowing that no one would dismiss me for a leadership role because I was female in a place that was removed from the smug maleness of the world at that time.
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But the media's obsessive focus on this voting bloc would leave you to believe that Trump's voters largely live in areas hit by the decline in manufacturing, are suffering from economic anxiety, and turned out last Tuesday to voice their disdain for smug urban elitists.
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You slightly prefer him to the short hairy man, but above all you like the zaftig disheveled woman—though, in fact, they are all remarkably similar: efficient, a sad vulnerability offset by an almost smug confidence in their training and knowledge, impersonal yet generous.
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But that doesn't mean we can't give Apple shit for the smug way in which it tried to sell us on the idea that removing compatibility — with headphones, hi-fi systems, and car stereos alike — is a bold and courageous step into the future.
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Geoffrey Rush gives the sun god Ra a humorously smug hauteur: His personal space station, positioned high above the digital masses, and the atomic-powered, Uzi-like automatic weapon that he fires each night at an approaching dragon of darkness epitomize the movie's cheesy grandeur.
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We've heard endless things about Madchester and smug grown-up earth mothers talking about life before mobile phones and being crammed into cars in the middle of the countryside on acid, but for whatever reason the east London rave-revolution is rarely given airtime.
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But at the same time, playing that game and feeling smug about myself underscored some of the problems during the Obama age; it was easy to sign a petition or tweet as part of a hash tag and feel like you were making a difference.
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Weems is also a nimble satirist — a bride with her mouth taped shut in "Thoughts on Marriage" (20113), a mock fashion show for "Afro Chic" (2009) — but her humor is generally of the more unsettlingly pointed kind, aimed directly at our smug aesthetic foundations.
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Between the Patriots' dominance and the Boston Red Sox's long turnaround from being a cursed franchise to experiencing unprecedented levels of victory, Boston sports fans are more than a little smug these days — though the perception of Boston fans as particularly obnoxious spans generations.
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Now, to be clear, this isn't an opportunity for people who have natural inclination toward introversion to be smug (OK, maybe just a little bit), and this definitely isn't directed toward people who cannot financially afford to self-isolate or practice extreme social distancing.
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As smug and clever as I feel when I recognize a writer after solving (or, as proof of genius, once or twice recognizing an actual passage), it's better for me and for all of us to discover new and interesting writers through solving these puzzles.
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But Ms. Poots, to her immense credit, rescues the part from terminal giggliness to communicate a lost soul whose own tragedy is to have been betrayed by a husband who, one gathers from Mr. Treadaway's cunning performance, can be as smug as he is solicitous.
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Social feeds are an endless stream of old faces in new places: a carefree colleague feeding elephants in Thailand; a smug college classmate on a "babymoon" in Tahiti; that awful ex hanging off a cliff in Switzerland; a friend's parents enjoying retirement in New Zealand.
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I can try to be careful that my own unreasonable attitudes don't end up penalizing my patients — but I also embrace my own discomfort and remember my mother whenever I get a particularly bad twinge, and feel somehow smug about not taking pain medicines.
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But in the president's formulation and in the formulation of smug stylists who have embraced some material account of uncool attitudes, the downturn, the jobs lost and the opportunities narrowed, are a force of nature — something that has "been happening" in the passive voice.
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I've been a member of many a unisex co-working spaces and, let me tell you, they're filled with smug business grads yelling on their Airpods to their 'investors' (read: oil fortune-bearing aunts and uncles) about how they need more "startup capital" (read: cocaine money).
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"When I first met Tina Fey — beautiful and brunette, smart and funny, by turns smug and diffident and completely uninterested in me or anything I had to say — I had the same reaction that I'm sure many men and women have: I fell in love," writes Baldwin.
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The latest star of The Bachelor — ABC's 21-seasons-and-counting (not including spinoffs) competitive dating show — has the smile of a smug startup founder, the unsettlingly intimate murmur of a close-talker, and the wardrobe of a J.Crew outlet that only stocks V-neck tees.
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It's a fast-paced fun time of a film that endlessly mocks the basic Batman tropes, portraying Bruce Wayne as a smug loner in love with his dark, broody self-image and the endless praise and validation that comes with being the world's most competent hero.
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In the end, there is only one thing a bully understands — raw power — and unless and until someone is ready to use it against Mr. Trump, he will continue on this Shermanistic path, burning the party and country down while keeping that smug look on his face.
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He is clearly one of the most technically competent filmmakers of our time — probably of all time — but his storytelling frequently strikes me as sophomoric and smug, sometimes interested in taunting the audience for their love of violence and sometimes too seemingly pleased with its own cleverness.
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"When I first met Tina Fey — beautiful and brunette, smart and funny, by turns smug and diffident and completely uninterested in me or anything I had to say — I had the same reaction that I'm sure many men and women have: I fell in love," he writes.
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The smug ghost man plays himself off as the sensible side of Frank's mind, but he acts more like the personification of gnawing paranoia, telling Frank that there's no chance that people would be nice to him unless they wanted to steal his nuclear codes/Facebook login.
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But where Lister had to retreat to her diary, the one place where she can feel safe, Gentleman Jack, gives Lister a marquee, and a forum in which she is undeniably the smartest person in any room, and it runs the risk of making her look smug.
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The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots.
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The player with the most tortured souls wins What is most frustrating about millennial Monopoly is not that it turns the economic realities — earning "experience points" is the game-equivalent of working for a company that offers unlimited free cereal but no benefits — into a smug punchline.
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While he plays the character as a kind of Southern-fried Sherlock Holmes, all smug superiority and casual assumption of his own intellect, one of the many mysteries of the film is whether he's a good investigator or, as Marta says at one point, a terrible one.
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Nine months after her daughter was raped and murdered, the police don't seem to be pursuing the case, and the town's most prominent deputy, the casually racist, smug Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell) is spending more time harassing locals for invented crimes than examining the evidence of a real one.
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Second, this is a good time to admit that after I solved the first theme entry, I sent a smug email to our crossword editor, Will Shortz, to let him know that there is a huge difference between macarons (the French cookies) and 3D's MACAROONS (the coconut-based cookie).
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But we're doing it anyway, because his peculiar brand of trolling often acts as a means of opening up a dialogue – or determinedly individualistic monologue – on complex issues of race, perception, and, as Blunt has outlined in detail, the smug assumptions and "default knowledge of the liberal left".
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For the Ready Player One adaptation, Cline and Penn had the good sense to cut some of Wade's most egregiously smug moments, like the scene where he sneers his way through an impromptu Swordquest trivia-off with another gamer who's out to solve the same puzzle he's on.
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As Street Fighter V competitors Bryant "Smug" Huggins and Arturo "Sabin" Sanchez were trading blows in a Next Level Battle Circuit match Wednesday, the game's audio cut out, leaving commentators Michael "IFC Yipes" Mendoza and Francis "Lee Chung" Lee Chong with quite a bit of silence to fill.
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In addition to the usual smug-cool-while-defying death scenes from Kirk, Bones and Spock, we also get a look at newcomer Sofia Boutella (StreetDance 2, Kingsman: The Secret Service) who plays Jaylah, an alien warrior character whose fighting style takes advantage of Boutella's well known dance pedigree.
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The tonal differences go all the way to the top: If Barack Obama's "cling to guns or religion" statement was a perfect distillation of the smug style in liberal politics, Donald Trump is impeccably suited to an increasingly post-ideological Republican landscape where the point-scoring is the prize.
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"What scares me the most is Hillary's smug certainty of her own virtue as she has become greedy and how typical that is of so many chic liberals who seem unaware of their own greed," Charlie Peters, the legendary liberal former editor of The Washington Monthly, told me.
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She nearly kills the smug Charlotte during her raid of the main staging area ("Your chances at eternity will die in that valley, with all the souls you've gathered there"), and she overcomes her emotional attachment to her father in order to mine his overloaded noggin for treasure.
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I felt kinda smug, of course, but also lived on a razor edge of diet and exercise, and I thought about food constantly, and many of the things I didn't like about my body actually did not go away, even weighing essentially as little as I possibly could.
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We hear echoes here of another noir hero, Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe, who is forever mourning a bygone Los Angeles — once "a big dry sunny place … good-hearted and peaceful," as Chandler put it, but now given over to harsh neon, "fast-dollar boys" and a smug suburbia.
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The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots.
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It's a beloved trope because it allows the audience the pleasure of watching a pretty woman in a sexy outfit, while also allowing us to feel smug for recognizing that we are watching her for the correct reasons, unlike the mark, who is watching her for the wrong reasons.
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" The L.A. Times' Justin Chang on this "hallucinatory Razzie-courting mayhem": "Given how often the movies tend to stereotype felines as smug, pampered homebodies, there are certainly worse characters one could spend time with, though I am hard-pressed at the moment to think of many worse movies.
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Then recently, the anti-litter group Ar Vilantsou declared the phones a symbol of plastic pollution on the beach, launching the Garfield phones as the face of their media campaign this year (honestly, I would be pretty fed up too, seeing this smug cat's pupil-less face in the sand everyday).
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Some games that attempt to impart the experience of another person succeed, and make us more complex and open in the process — like The Grizzled, a cooperative game about surviving the trenches of World War I. Others fail by pandering to their audience, inspiring smug satisfaction at engaging with "valuable" culture.
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" The professor wrote back: "And just FYI, July 4th is not the day we tape a sign to a damn stick and go out and march with smug college brats and dysphoric drama queens, it is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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Look right here, page 3, where your young woman's infuriated by a smug, smart-ass emergency-room clerk who assumes that the female in front of him, because she is young and colored, won't own health insurance to pay a doctor to sew up a bloody gash in her daughter's head.
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We had bouncers, but they were pretty old, and the only thing they were good at was vigorously IDing everyone on the off-chance they could refuse a teen entry and get smug about it (they only stopped IDing me on my way into work about seven months into the job).
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All that's left for Bieber to do to gain acceptance in the fine art world is smoke American Spirits, attend gallery shows wearing all black and not speak to anyone or acknowledge that there is art in the space, and develop weirdly smug opinions about good bars in downtown NYC.
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It's comforting, in the way a little smug superiority can feel comforting when it tamps down any nagging inclination to consider our own accountability, to conclude that if only this one woman had behaved a little differently, we would have respected her more, or at least hated her less. Mrs.
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Writing on transhumanism often gets swept away by the inherent drama of its adherents' promises, but O'Connell's eye for small human details—the pistachio dropped down a smug businessman's shirt, "open to the ideally entrepreneurial three-to-four buttons"—keeps the narrative grounded in a way that rigorous scientific debunking wouldn't.
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Whether you believe they are deluded or not, whether you believe this project is worthwhile in any form or not, what I am trying to tell you is that the smug style has fundamentally undermined even the aspiration, that it has made American liberalism into the worst version of itself.
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Image: GettyIf it weren't already vomit-inducing to see your social feeds taken over by newly married friends' smug selfies and declarations of love, a pair of new studies released this week will only add to the resentment: Married couples who stay together ultimately end up happier and healthier than everyone else.
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This guy, Peter Strzok, goes before Congress, and in an unapologetic, defiant, sarcastic, smug way, says none of you Congressmen and women, you can&apost believe your lying eyes, just because I said it, I didn&apost mean what I said, when in truth, what he said as the textbook definition of bias.
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Making it harder for the poor to get housing vouchers and denying people the right to pick the food they want to eat by switching from EBT cards to commodity delivery does little to address poverty but it does send a powerful, morally smug message to those who do not need assistance.
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So for the people who won't be eating any heart-shaped chocolates today or watching smug co-workers receive Hallmark Cards and Precious Moments Dolls from their uncreative partners, we hope to ease the pain by offering up a gallery of alternative gifts and floral arrangements courtesy of visual artist Jessica Pettway.
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The website features a dramatic tale of the fictional tragedy (which supposedly occurred in the early morning hours on the day of President John F. Kennedy's assassination), fabricated newspaper clippings from decades ago, memorial T-shirts and the museum's hours, admission prices and transit directions (including getting off a bus at "Smug Harbor").
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It is a rightist, nativist, nationalist and, yes, "völkisch" reaction against globalization, against migration, against miscegenation, against the disappearance of borders and the blurring of genders, against the half-tones of political correctness, against Babel, against the stranger and the other, against the smug self-interested consensus of the urban, global elite.
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Last year, the young (and left-leaning) writer Emmett Rensin published a widely read piece on Vox deriding liberals for their ''smug style''; soon enough, one longtime adept of the right, National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru, was expressing his partial approval, writing in Bloomberg View that what contemporary liberalism lacked most was humility.
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"Something will crack," he wrote: The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for—someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots. . . .
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That disdain for political combat is all on display at the Rally to Restore Sanity, but coated with smug condescension: It's elaborate political theater that nominally appeals to better angels but really signals that liberals are smarter and gentler than conservatives and that, deep down, the rest of the country agrees with them.
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The knowing, boisterous humour comes off as irredeemably smug and the A-list cast can't disguise the fact that they are portraying points of view, rather than characters Brooklyn (98%) from AllMovie: [The director and screenwriter were] suffusing it with an amber glow of nostalgia so relentlessly luminous it could set off a Geiger counter.
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The tool also doesn't seem to be too focused on making sure the person in the outfit is the same, judging me in a suit against a photo of Ryan Gosling with no errors (Gosling won — though I'll point out that we have the same number of Academy Awards, lest he become too smug).
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Or maybe it'd be easier to tolerate the smug self-referentiality if Glass had anything much else to offer – some larger thesis about the state of superhero cinema or the purpose of comic books, or some compelling characters, or some really cool-looking action, or at the very least a watercooler-worthy final twist.
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Young used the term pejoratively on the grounds that meritocracy was dividing society into two polarised groups: exam-passers, who would become intolerably smug because they knew that they were the authors of their success, and exam-flunkers, who would become dangerously embittered because they had nobody to blame for their failure but themselves.
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Driven by a misguided sense of virtue, they will be lifting dumbbells with smug sadness, while back at Thanksgiving HQ, their happy families will be bathing in the sweet, delicious aroma of burbling turkey juices and browning pie crusts, toasty in a home that's warm with extended family and hours of continuous oven use.
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Despite being set in early February, "Groundhog Day" is an existential holiday movie in the same vein as "A Christmas Carol" or "It's a Wonderful Life": A smug protagonist is compelled to rethink his mortal sojourn — how he has spent his days, how he has treated people — and to realize the error of his ways.
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The sort of guy who opens the Monday morning meeting with a misguided, greasy lipped sexual innuendo, who props up the bar in a blazer/T-shirt combo, who gets VIP tickets for big Hyde Park concerts in the summer, who's all over your Facebook feed with his smug wife and unbearable jokes and endless LAD Bible links. Nate.
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Naked women would still be titillating to heterosexual men, sure, but there would be no naughty secret, no group bonding over the power to secretly humiliate the women you know and work with, no smug sense that when you see a female Marine in your workplace that you've got something on her and she doesn't even know it.
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