Word: smug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michael Stone's rendition of Burton, Anna's smug script-writing boyfriend, is the least subtle acting in the play. He exaggerates the self-satisfied twit in Burton to such an extent that he fails to convince the audience when his character slips into melancholy self-analysis...
Last year, Rafsky found the ultimate opportunity to use his strategy. The frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, a Southern governor named Bill Clinton, was campaigning desperately to save his political life in the New York primary. Clinton was just the sort of smug, shallow politician a desperate man seeking action hates...
Later, Ryan added, "In his smug silence, Demjanjuk is the Nazi mind, telling us something: I did it once, and got away with it. I won't explain how or why, for if I did, you might understand it a little better than you did before, and learn to recognize it when it rears its head again...
Snug -- and smug -- in their manicured garden, Singaporeans are unprepared for the jungle of the outside world. "They generally don't transplant well," says a Hong Kong-based executive of an international firm. "When faced with difficulties, they wilt...
...especially talented cast is the main attraction of this production. As the hilariously affected Natasha Navratilova, Janine Poreba is a marvelous Russian femme fatale. Her performance is just overdone enough to maintain the farcical edge, never lapsing into cliched corn. Chip Rossetti gives a pat, almost smug performance as playwright Sandor Turai. Turai is almost a straight parody of the Author in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of the Character and while studied, Rossetti is more than amusing enough to keep us engaged...