Word: smugness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...eight successive federal budget surpluses, has given this otherwise modest power an influential voice at the G-8 and international institutions like the United Nations. But those halcyon days are ending. Canada is losing ground - and influence - to competitors overseas, and some worry that the country's safe, even smug society could fall prey to the same ethnic tensions that afflict Europe and the U.S. Meanwhile, the lingering threat of secession from the French-speaking province of Quebec has been given new life by the recent election of a determined young separatist named André Boisclair to lead the province...
...satirically dressed in elaborate garments like the stoic Asian poet. The poetry of these famous poets was entered into competitions at the imperial court; simultaneously portraits were erected to depict the authors in tandem with their writings.In this particular scroll, animals like the snake and tiger, with their smug expressions, extravagant robes, and blinding bling, are skewing the pictorial legacy of the Asian poet. With “Zodiac” animals are not depicted as fearful or inhumane, often the case with Western depictions, but playful. This same nature is epitomized in the working of a two-panel folding...
...record opposing a devout Evangelical whom he trusts completely. Fight him and lose, and they prove how powerless they are to affect much of anything that counts; swallow hard and fall in line, and what good is their access anyway? By contrast, the Democrats--looking smug and convinced they have dodged a bullet with Miers' selection--actually had it easy. Senate minority leader Harry Reid boasted that he had recommended Miers in his chats with Bush, while most Dems just stayed quiet, letting the Republicans eat their young...
...recent fine August day, I had a little bit of a scare. My Air China flight from Ningbo to Beijing was just rolling down the runway for take-off. I was sitting quietly, unopened book in lap and smug thoughts about a certain half-price plane ticket in mind, when my seat started shaking, harder than before...
...Montana. "I don't think I'd have written anything like I did if I didn't live here, if I'd been engaged in a lot of other, scripted activities--soccer and football and whatever else the case might be," he says. Take that, all you smug promgoers...