Word: smug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film also lacks coherency. It wavers between being blatantly smug and jibing at pop culture, never quite hitting its stride. The ending, unfortunately, is particularly unsatisfying--it sinks to triteness in an effort to find a quick resolution...
...ages, is wonderfully likeable in the antihero role. We should hate, loath, despise Brean for his shameless dishonesty--but we don't. Instead, we welcome his machinations and feel strangely vindicated by the possibility of his pulling off the scheme. Hoffman is the perfect counterpart to De Niro's smug political monster. He vamps and raves about how 'producers get no respect,' and we get the strange sensation that he is himself a unabashed politician...
...reasons why rollerblading has become so popular in the past several years is because people have finally discovered a sport that is enjoyable, easy to do and gives you a great work-out all at the same time. I used to think rollerbladers had a certain smug, content look about them, and now, after trying rollerblading myself, I realize why. Anyone who hasn't given rollerblading a test is missing out big time...
...that end, we compiled a short list of the only classes worthy of your attention in the coming year, and honored them appropriately. Following are the Smug Editorialist's Awards for CUEmmunity Service...
Then Gates' smug smile blossomed on that vast Orwellian screen (a Stalinesque edifice uncannily resembling the one that got shattered in the famous first Mac ad in 1984), and the Microsoft leader regaled the Apple masses with his boundless affection for the operating system (OS) whose commercial viability he had spent much of his adult life systematically undermining. "We think Apple makes a huge contribution to the computer industry," Gates assured the room, respectfully observing the taboo against speaking ill of the dead--or, ahem, the gravely ailing. Let's put it this way: you sure didn't hear...