Word: smug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commendatore and Agnes Moore-head's Dona Ana are all that could be asked. In the title role, Ricardo Montalban is superb, no libertine at all, but Shaw incarnate, with his puritan passion for exposing hypocrisy and cant. If all our minds are freer of the pollution of smug platitudes, it is because Shaw, with his Jovian laughter, helped to clear them. -T.E.Kalem
...embodied the critic. In the late sixties, perhaps influenced by Liv Ullman, his lady at the time. Bergman warmed a bit and granted a few interviews. Even then it seemed he felt an interview was a chore, a quite unpleasant side effect of fame to be conducted with the smug assurance of the true artist...
...America's image has become tarnished in world opinion, the reality behind that image had decayed at home. On the surface, the Eisenhower but accomplishments are meaningless except in relation to needs, and the needs have not been met, despite Mr. Nixon's smug assurances to the contrary...
...Indian reservation, lured there by the promise that he would be allowed to instruct the other children in the old ways-the rich rituals and traditions of the tribe that were Tom's only legacy from his parents. The school supervisor, however, had a different idea, expressed with smug official tolerance: "Let him learn the new ways first...
...shrine unnecessarily because he is sick of the church's tolerance of the Nazis and disgusted by those who care more about the survival of their landmark than about the victims of the war. The Clown concerns the emotional collapse of a fellow who simply cannot accept the smug new prosperity. A new novel, Group Portrait with Lady, about the effects of the war on a very complex woman, will be published in the spring...