Word: smug
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...eighth paintings—which portray a man and a woman drawing blood by pricking the palms of their hands with nails—are by far the best works of the small exhibition. The turbaned man, who has a tiny pager stuck in his belt, has a slightly smug turn of the mouth. His drops create a perfect ring of circles where they fall. By contrast, the drops of the woman, who looks a bit more uncertain, splash in midair and fail to form a pattern. This suggests a subtle statement about the uncertain role of women in society...
...until you e-mail off your response paper and put that one last problem set to rest—and then you’re home free for a weekend of delicious indulgence. That is, until you get that most dreaded pre-holiday email from a smug...
...novice at politics but a master at business, and that sounds good to New Yorkers right now. Green had been a public servant, but his experience was marginally relevant--the public advocate is a gadfly's job, and Green was perfect for it. And he ran a smug, safe campaign that turned ugly. Anonymous, racially charged attacks on his primary opponent led to a bitter rift within the city's Democratic establishment, as black and Latino leaders sat on their hands to punish Green--who denied responsibility. The day before the general election, he unleashed a vile ad accusing Bloomberg...
Witness, for example, MIT economics professor Paul Krugman’s recent rant in The New York Times. Krugman begins with the smug declaration that Bush’s strategy is to treat crises not as “problems to be solved,” but as “opportunities to advance an agenda that [has] nothing to do with the crisis at hand.” He excoriates Republican proposals for economic stimulus as a ploy to “lock in permanent tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, using the Sept. 11 attacks...
...taken aback in reading the president of the College Democrats’ smug characterization of President George W. Bush as “acting like he’s Captain America” in his efforts to rally and unite the nation in recent weeks. When I read the The Crimson’s accounts that the College Democrats declined an offer to co-sponsor the Republican Club’s Rally for Patriotism, my outright anger as a now-former member of the organization became such that I could no longer remain silent...