Word: smug
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Pfieffer’s sculpture excavates implications of this fight that younger viewers probably do not understand. Ali, the handsome, smug boxer who epitomized the multimillionaire sports figure, opposed America’s colonial involvement in Vietnam. This fight took place in Zaire, where opposition to the country’s own colonialism was overwhelming. Traces of Vietnam, racism, Black Power and colonialism are all evident in this short, repeating one round video. The display, a no larger than eight-inch screen perched away from a wall, does not even have sound. Without anything to listen to, this miniscule view...
...barrister that everyone is trying to set her up with; instead, she finds herself falling for her rakish, yet caddishly womanizing boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). In her romantic and dietary pursuits, she bumbles and humiliates herself in scene after scene, endures the company of officious “smug marrieds” with the help of her singleton friends Shazzer, Jude and Tom, and puts up with her middling and flighty mother before emerging triumphant...
...averted that fiasco and helped the U.S.-Cuba-USSR relationship that eventually led up to the missile crisis. Besides, as much as readers and viewers hate an aggressive media that seems to be stirring up trouble, in the long run - and more deeply - they resent and mistrust a quiet, smug understanding among media and government elites to maintain a united front above simple common sense in reporting. That willingness to straight-facedly repeat nonsense is essential to diplomacy, and it has nothing to do with journalism, which, popular opinion and our own vanity notwithstanding, is not a fourth branch...
...Class of 2005 Hits All-Time Low” (News, April 4), I was amused to notice that The Crimson has continued its long-standing love affair with Harvard’s selective admissions record. I’ve read countless Crimson articles during my three years here smugly alluding Harvard’s “elite” status and its place as the “top university” in the nation, whatever that means. And now an article about admissions, focusing on rejection letters and containing the internal headline “Harvard Rejects More...
...time. Rabid partisanship, an overboil of conviction, damages sight, impairs understanding, and may even ruin the joy of life. You see the world with one eye, peering straight ahead through one stupid, dogmatic lens, and walk through the day, as if it were a tunnel, in a state of smug, inflamed, combative rage...