Word: smirking
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...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...
...because it's fashionable but because it's true." Such a reverence "would work a moral revolution deeper and more helpful than all the shallow artistic and political and economic revolts of our panting apostles of progress. It would be a moral revolution against that inner smirk which prefers cleverness to wisdom...
...Immortal Lovers wipes the paraffin smirk off their faces. As in her past performances (lives of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Oscar Wilde, George Sand, et al.), Biographer Winwar makes the facts highly readable. The true love story of the Brownings is just as exciting as the semi-fictional versions of it, and far more warmly human...