Word: smug
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...affair with Emma backward, starting with a wistful coda, then proceeding through breakup, Robert's discovery of what the couple is up to, the rental of a love nest, the first illicit meeting, the initial acknowledgment of mutual attraction, with which the film ends. There is something smug and self-conscious about this conceit, but it is also unbalancing. Since the triangle cliché is so familiar, the only possible way to impart suspense is by focusing on what happened first...
...Crimson has instead ignored these responsibilities with smug censorship disguised as liberal sensitivity...
...over. A cavalryman in the first World War who turned medic and was Regular Army to his jodhpurs, Potter became the stern but sentimental father figure every MASHman needed 7,000 miles from home. Similarly, B.J. Hunnicut was an idealistic Marin County version of Trapper John, and Winchester, however smug he might appear to be about his old-money Bostonian lineage, was a Persian pussycat compared with Frank Burns. Each of these characters and actors fed the M*A*S*H organism without disrupting it. Each helped keep the show alive and healthy without breaking the circle...
...middle-aged householder knew had long since been assaulted or purse-snatched, or broken and entered in one way or another. People rarely bothered to talk about muggings at dinner parties any more. Truth to tell, the householder, who often worked late in the city, had grown a bit smug about being spared so long. He always walked fast and purposefully. He was in pretty good shape. And he liked to think that he had acquired from a boyhood in the country some special alertness, a sharper sense of how to avoid danger than his acquaintances...
...Welch should not feel too smug, because minutes later Chloé Webb, 24, takes her on as well...