Word: smug
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...hope for such alchemical results may originate in an anti-elitist assumption and an attractively irrational impulse to stick a thumb in the eye of power - the underlying reason, for example, for Jesse Ventura's election as governor of Minnesota, or, again, for Truman's victory over the smug little man on the wedding cake...
...editors of the Boston Globe seem not to have grasped this. The Globe - not only on its editorial page but also in its news columns - is an abscess of smug, unexamined left-wing assumption, which is just as unhealthy as smug, unexamined right-wing assumption. Both are a form of intellectual corruption - or maybe just narcolepsy. The Globe neither challenges itself nor surprises its readers. Its sclerotic liberalism trudges along, like the Volga boatman, dreaming its own dreams...
...course, we have even more reason for our somewhat smug recognition. For, unless you've been living a hermit-like existence in one of those New York subway tunnels, you must know that this weekend sees the release of the fourth Harry Potter book, "The Goblet of Fire." The print run is huge, the hype is sky-high. Amazon.com is dealing with an onslaught of orders...
...surprisingly, sexual performance is central to the book. Not all the news is good. Says Spark: "Paradoxically, in an age smug with a sense of heightened sexual enlightenment, the only ones left 'in the closet' are men--impotent men." There are 30 million of them, and there is much they can do to help themselves, he says. "Some modifications in behavior can help minimize risks of sexual dysfunction," he counsels. "Smoking, heavy drinking, obesity, high levels of serum cholesterol and elevated blood-sugar levels, as well as the use of narcotic or other mood-altering drugs, can all contribute...
...failed to move, and can check their unpopularity minute by minute on amazon.com Nor is this just a concern of Internet magazines. TIME publishes magazine articles and original content at time.com other magazines and many newspapers put all their articles online. As more readers find us online, we smug print writers too will have to face...