| Bill's smugness is in full swing here, and thankfully is toned down in later performances. |
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| Watching it, I found myself quietly appalled by the smugness, condescension and bogus rhetoric on display. |
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| If this is the worst trouble we see all tournament, I shall have to fight the feelings of smugness very hard indeedy. |
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| Like a little plumped up raisin, he exudes vanity, smugness and frailty and desolation in equal measure. |
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| Professor Hart disabused me of my addled adolescent liberalism and smugness over the four years I was his student as an undergraduate. |
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| Moretti handles the material with considerable grace and skill, though the smugness and solipsism of his screen persona occasionally grates. |
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| This film has not a trace of smugness, or the superiority of moral virtue which is blind to reality. |
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| Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this astonishing story is the smugness of its tone. |
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| Appalled by smugness and self-satisfaction, he simply could not bear to see an Irish institution go unchallenged. |
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| He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away. |
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| Usually records of this sort are unbearably cutesy or too steeped in ironic smugness to be enjoyable. |
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| If you don't get a handle on that insufferable smugness of yours, you'll grow up to be just like that name-dropping skite on the radio. |
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| Audiences may tire of the early smugness, which is exemplified by the lead character. |
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| His smugness was rooted in the sense that his retreat to the countryside was part of a great cultural project. |
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| The one character resistant to change is the professor, who departs wreathed in pedagogic smugness. |
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| What really galls me about the film is its smugness about its supposed historical knowledge. |
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| The engaging executive can barely conceal a certain smugness about the privacy problems encountered by the New York rival. |
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| The problem is the blind smugness of a society, and a political class, that see teenage violence simultaneously as a canker and an abstraction. |
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| So Cordelia realized how pointless their long one-sided conversations were, Kerowyn thought with the slightest air of smugness. |
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| The occasional humblebrag might fly with your audiences but there's a fine line between sincerity and smugness. |
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| I don't get angry very often, but I got incandescent with rage at their attitude and the smugness of it. |
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| And sometimes announcing the joy of being in a couple isn't about smugness, it's about celebrating that pickiness can sometimes work out. |
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| I would like to see less complacency over crime levels in the area and less smugness on the local environment. |
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| They have endured the Liberal smugness and they now expect the Liberal government, through this budget, to deliver. |
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| Part of that pleasure arose from a sense of smugness in knowing that a reduced carbon footprint accompanied me. |
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| Almost any idea that jolts one out of current smugness is better than none. |
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| Mr. Speaker, Canadians are beginning to recognize and expect this smugness. |
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| Only later was my smugness undercut by the notion that the fly, dropping slowly through the water, could be mistaken by an artless fish for a hatchery pellet. |
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| Amid the gasps from the audience, the senators' faces drained of smugness. |
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| The lyrics are replete with repetition, prosaism, and smugness. |
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| Oh I would never have guessed, I thought, brimming over with smugness. |
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| The marchers' defiant smugness started to make an enemy of me. |
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| His art could be confused for Pop, but it had none of the superciliousness and smugness that makes ninety-nine per cent of Pop so aggravating. |
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| The Jolie dress is an expression of the joy of family, not the smugness of a couple. |
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| The Iranian negotiating team meeting with its Western counterparts in Kazakhstan this week has earned the right to its smugness. |
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| The flavour they bring to a last-minute ragu will be rivalled only by your smugness. |
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| What's more, his genial stiffness and shy self-awareness give him a kind of awkward dignity compared to the preening smugness of Cruz. |
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| It could also do without the smugness that surrounds the Conservative government. |
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| Perhaps it comes from smugness or complacency or the fact that they feel they know everything and what is best for everybody. |
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| Despite the great strides Kazakhstan has made, we must not allow ourselves to be lulled by flattery or smugness. |
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| We may feel we are past the stage of generalized conflict but I fear that that smugness may be false optimism. |
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| Notwithstanding, he exhibits no smugness regarding his impressive grades and the list of accomplishments of his young career. |
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| I instinctively felt that this would become more and more important in Canada and without smugness I can say that I was right. |
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| Education of the liberal sort is opposed to dogmatism, to assurance, to closed-mindedness, to smugness, to intolerance of others' opinions. |
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| Because they challenge our smugness and affirm what we may only dimly grasp to be true, we need our artists. |
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| It was one of sadistic smugness that made Analise 's skin crawl. |
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| Common sense is neither practically nor theoretically sound when it becomes encrusted with smugness, ideophobia, and arrogance, as in the case of the racially bigoted southerner's common sense. |
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| Social media has kept me abreast of many plot twists and turns as firestorms of outrage and smugness come and go. |
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| Not one normally prone to smugness, I couldn't help myself this week when I read that Bulgarian international Hristo Stoichkov is contemplating a move to Airdrie. |
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| Upon them sat antique pots holding ancient plants nobly maintaining their vainglory and smugness as they grew greedily towards the late summer sunshine. |
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| There is no room whatever for smugness or self-satisfaction on their part. |
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| He replaces Moore's smugness with a self-deprecating approach. |
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| You know, the all too familiar signs of smugness, ingratiating habits, or simply the false earnestness and self-satisfaction associated with a testosterone-powered toady. |
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| The self-satisfaction and smugness of the text is toe-curling and its frequent sickening doses of sentimentality are like being forced-fed chopped liver with chicken fat. |
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| One of two movies Stanwyck made for the director Douglas Sirk, both black and white, both sudsy melodramas on the surface, and, just beneath, devastating critiques of societal smugness and conformity. |
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| Conversely, native Francien-speaking poets often displayed a degree of linguistic smugness and superiority. |
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| The rhetoric that we use, however, often smacks of smugness, verging on the sort of narcissism we associate with human rights attitudes in North America. |
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| Bentley owner Willson positioned himself artfully to avoid smugness oversteer, then hit the pedal to cut Jezza up on the inside. |
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| Paul Theroux on how the whole affair reveals our smugness and hypocrisy. |
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| I rant about the smugness, the sanctimony. |
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| But WaterAid's ads should puncture such smugness. |
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| They will ward off dogmatism, smugness, bias, and closemindedness. |
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| Just as it looked like the recovery was on a firmer footing, and a little smugness had even crept in over Britain growing faster than other big economies, we're hit with fresh warnings about a slowdown. |
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| Less smugness please, more practical application. |
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| The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval. |
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| The hypocritical smugness of the English makes my blood boil. |
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| Our disease is not smugness, but the anxiety that bedumbs the singer. |
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