Word: smug
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...Comeback knows how quickly and badly this story can end. But this HBO sitcom can be self-serving and smug about those awful networks and their barbaric reality shows. When Valerie meets Kim Fields (The Facts of Life) and Marilu Henner (Taxi) playing themselves at an audition, Fields sniffs, "Who is so desperate for a comeback that they actually want cameras to follow them around all day?" Fields, we should note, once did an episode of the E! dating show Star Dates...
...what looks like the inner walls of a 3-D cube, with their reflections on the floor. You can invite PC users with webcams to play, too, but what they see won't be nearly as cool. So there's one more opportunity for Mac owners to practice their smug superiority, up close and personal...
...there was much to fill the void. From the nomads of the powerful Xianbei federation, who came to dominate what is now Inner Mongolia, are exuberant golden hat ornaments?smug-looking antelope or reindeer, with heart-shaped leaves festooning their antlers. From 4th century Datong, in Shanxi province, comes a bronze cup decorated with vines and with the early-Christian motif of a boy carrying a lamb. The cup looks Roman, but is likely an expertly cast copy of an import...
...smug bullshitter, thinking his job is done, sits back...
Towards the end of the book, Keefe describes how previous investigative journalists ran into trouble with the NSA trying to block the publication of their books. Keefe himself describes how he met with only smug disregard when he tried to leverage his own investigative work in order to get interviews with NSA officials. Which begs the question: if the NSA doesn’t care that we read this, how secret can the information in Chatter really...