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...personal ATM--came a shift in home shows' focus. Out of fashion went renovation programs like This Old House, about restoring details and loving a home for its character. In came playing the real estate market. Sell This House!, My House Is Worth What? and many more flattered the smug certainty of homeowners and speculators that their home equity would shoot endlessly up like shares of Google. HGTV, TLC and their ilk may not have created the real estate bubble, but they certainly supplied some...
...Some of Sadr's supporters are smug in the face of the Prime Minister's warning. "Maliki couldn't even stop the renewal of the Blackwater contract. How could he disband all the militias?" Fawze Akram, an MP from the Sadrist block, told TIME...
...point purporting to parody. The ensemble was a little too self-satisfied with the clunky, unconvincing symbolism.But while the apparent eagerness of the actors was admirable, the choreography of their collective movement topped off at approximately elementary school Christmas pageant quality. Some of the actors even came off as smug: during a dramatic tribute to political detainees, one actor grinned upon flubbing a line.Paradise boiled down to a jejune rant against commercialism. It was in Dante’s Purgatory that the play became overtly politically charged. In Hell, a series of perplexing, abstract torture sequences involving puppets...
...taping," a person with the tag OreganoO posted on an Austin American Statesman blog. "Why couldn't they have picked a larger venue? Answer: the elite want it to feel intimate and clubby. When we see the televised debate, the seats will be full of pols, fat cats, and smug insiders who earned their seats Lord knows how, while the hoi polloi - the people this party once claimed to serve - clamor on the sidewalk for a glimpse of the candidates...
...point purporting to parody. The ensemble was a little too self-satisfied with the clunky, unconvincing symbolism.But while the apparent eagerness of the actors was admirable, the choreography of their collective movement topped off at approximately elementary school Christmas pageant quality. Some of the actors even came off as smug: during a dramatic tribute to political detainees, one actor grinned upon flubbing a line.Paradise boiled down to a jejune rant against commercialism. It was in Dante’s Purgatory that the play became overtly politically charged. In Hell, a series of perplexing, abstract torture sequences involving puppets...