Word: smugness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true absurdity of the media's analysis can be seen by looking at what they actually said. On Tuesday, as evening anchors traded chit-chat with their Beacon Hill corespondents, they all had a smug sense of satisfaction because they figured out the governor's game. They could see he was attempting to look tough and trying to be seen standing up for his principles...
Noting that he was speaking only for himself, and not as a representative of the clubs, Sears went so far as to call Epps' report "whiny, patently self-serving, smug and patronizing...
...Epps' letter only underscores the failure of club members and their alumni to face the serious problems that make final clubs a scar on the Harvard community. Sears called the clubs the "last socially acceptable group to discriminate against," dismissing Epps' report as, "whiny, patently self-serving, smug and patronizing," and noting that the formation of the clubs reflects "Harvard's [failure]...to provide places for undergraduates to go where people can have as much fun." Content to brush off revelations of sexual harassment and drug dealing by blaming Harvard's social life, Sears has even more gall than...
...Since our 50th reunion is coming up, I've started to think about the fact that 50 years have passed," Niebuhr says. "I don't mean to sound smug, but I don't think that I could have chanced into a better life than teaching here.... It is continual intellectual stimulation...
What makes all these characters so attractive is their very genuine fallibility--even those who can snap their fingers and land instantly in Tahiti. Buffy gets her priorities skewed sometimes; Daria is wise but smug. "She's a role model," notes mtv executive vice president Abby Terkuhle. "But she's not without her problems." Indeed, these characters are not meant to seem superheroic...