Word: smug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book is divided into nine chapters, each of which is a rebuttal to an aspect of Fortas' theory of civil disobedience. Zinn's best chapters are those which deal with Fortas' smug complacency over the role of the Supreme Court in contemporary American life...
...with a heavy face and a self-confident, nearly smug air. But he becomes defensive when he talks about Chicago, and it is obvious that he has become sensitive to criticism about his role there...
...more difficult to resolve, and after the French Revolution the curios made for kings descended to commoners. A Jacques-Louis David crayon drawing of Napoleon's mother, done before 1800, is a trenchant comment. Beneath a flashy nouveau riche Empire headdress, the Corsican dowager wears an expression of smug pride...
...sympathize. I can understand why someone shot Andy Warhol. Seeing picture of, (or by) that smug silvered hair fairy with his dark eye glasses I've felt the same impulse. That's not art, I want to say, you're not artist. Leonardo is an artist, Dostoyevsky, Michelangelo, Rilke...in a phrase, the Western Tradition of High Seriousness...
...five minutes to a streamlined minute and a half. In his first public appearance since nomination, he was a big hit, wowing a Portuguese-American association in San Francisco with language that will likely be repeated across the nation. It was an odd mixture of sensible patriotism and a smug defense of the status...