Word: smug
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...requires no great emotional acuity to imagine that, this being America, where we like pretending to be a classless society, that the smug and settled Munros will eventually succumb to the raffish good nature of the Gornickes, who have no permanent address, but roam our highways 24/7/365 in their big red bus. It does, however, require a very high tolerance for scatological humor to find this rather desperate comedy very funny, though to be completely honest, I found myself succumbing to RV, which is also a way of admitting that I?ve been feeling raunch-deprived at the movies...
...SMUG JUSTICE...
With their outrage, ordinary citizens have affirmed their opposition to the abuse of privilege. With their smug satisfaction, they have expressed not their envy but their faith-sustaining belief in merit as the arbiter of success; in a word, fairness...
...mess. He lives in a dark trailer illuminated only by the television screen, eating microwavable meals and drinking spoiled milk. Since their break, he has been reduced to dating a frightening, stocky bowling alley employee and stealing beer ineptly from the local liquor store. Evans watches his mishaps with smug satisfaction. “I’ll be glad to take you back,” she twangs, “just as soon as I stop breathin’.” In the interest of country music, let’s hope this never happens...
...based depictions of a central American story. They also have recognizable movie antecedents. In the horror stories of history, Hollywood picks through the carnage to find heroes, and the makers of the 9/11 films have found a few. Clarke, in Against All Enemies, is the lonely sentinel begging a smug, slow-witted establishment to take al-Qaeda seriously. He's Frank Capra's Mr. Smith after 30 years in Washington, his stubborn zeal intact. Another species of hero is the lucky survivor; and as Schindler's List was not about the nearly 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis...