Word: smirk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thereupon Malaparte proceeds, with crude but cruel satiric effect, to lead a number of U.S. officers (and indirectly his readers too) on a macabre tour through the gutters of wartime Naples. He shows mothers who sell their children into prostitution; but then, says Malaparte with a smirk, there are also the children who would gladly sell their mothers. He dwells for part of a chapter on a street peopled with twisted female dwarfs, who fed, he asserts gleefully, on the unnatural lusts of the American ranks. Another chapter is concerned with a visit to a shop that sells blonde merkins...
...partner happens to remark during the planning session that "Holland's the boss." Holland leans back in his chair, looks at his companions, and says, "Yes, I am the boss." It's a good line, delivered with a good smirk, and there's no improving on that. In fact, it would be hard to improve on Guiness' performance at any point in the picture...
...donkey (left side of picture), not famous for brains, with the sanctimonious halo above his head, his squint eyes looking down his nose, the self-satisfied smirk, really cinches it with that right fore hoof "kicking...
...first awakening of dishonorable intentions toward Blanche, Stanley's subsequent apelike pursuit now comes as a surprise. Legion attacks on the obvious "carnal" element in Stanley's relationship to his wife were not too successful; short of cutting her out of the picture, they could not wipe that smirk off her face...
...Roman Catholic, I have become rather bored by all the prattle on the part of Protestants for a United Christian Church, but it has also been discomforting to realize that so many Christians are in such desperate confusion. We Catholics all too often have been inclined to smirk at this serious problem, rather than to sympathize with it, and this has worked to the detriment of our own hope-that all men be united in the Mystical Body of Christ...