Word: smugness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coronation maids of honor) in London. She was pictured in a chic, form-fitting dress, which stopped some gossips but moved others to talk of the wonders of modern corseting. Just to spite the prattlers, London's Daily Herald ran the photograph with a smug caption: "The Queen with a nipped-in waist...
...House of Commons speech, says, "Britain has a decisive role to play . . . That role is to civilize the power of America. Today Britain is the respected free nation in Southeast Asia, and I am afraid America is the discredited nation." Do they, the British, actually feel so smug? Wait until, God forbid, Hong Kong and Singapore...
...Smug Little Incubus. Author Brophy is Londoner of Irish descent. At 24 she writes clean, cool English prose, shows a perceptive grasp of her material and has turned out a pointed and amusing little satire. Her last chapter, entitled "Soliloquy of an Embryo," follows the brief career of Edwina's "snug, smug self-sufficient little incubus." It is the kind of fantastic literary device that only a very competent and very serene writer could bring off. Author Brophy manages...
Lucky Strike: "They insult my intelligence; too smug...
...distinguished historian charged his colleagues "to avoid acts, or associations that will bring our university into difficulties; to observe a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, even when these opinions of mankind, even when these opinions are erroneous and absurd; and above all, to avoid an attitude of smug superiority--the unforgivable sin in a democratic society...