Word: smug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those hard facts haunting you during your trial? The only evidence you want presented against you is the testimony of witnesses who seem inherently untrustworthy and inspire even more animosity than you do, ? la Linda Tripp. It also doesn?t hurt to be pursued by an unbearably smug independent counsel. Now that Cisneros has settled his bill and can get on with his political career, he should stick to the straight and narrow. Anyone who has such a hard time hiding the truth doesn't belong anywhere else...
GENERATION Y Burned and pillaged Woodstock '99, giving boomers one more thing to be smug about...
...pocket novel called The State I Am In. And so I gave myself to God, there was a pregnant pause before he said OK. Now I spend my days turning tables round in Marks & Spencer's, they don't seem to mind." The narrator is less whiny than smug to point out his faults and the faults of others. Further, this album creates a closed circuit of a world. The last track references the first (It finds a young girl reading the book, The State...
...bill on the counter, and so do I--one of those postmodern-ethics moments when neither of us can accept the other's hospitality. He gives me half of his deep-dish pizza, having made the better choice. Sure, he's pleased with himself. But unlike a lot of smug pols, at least he has some reason...
...worried the U.S. may have a distinct advantage at producing superior agricultural and meat products,? he says, ?and that they will lose a big market share.? The latest Agricultural Department move is unlikely to soften European opposition immediately. But at the very least, it promises to expose the smug confidence of many biotech proponents to the fresh air of some independent analysis...