Word: smugness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rule in Hollywood is there are no rules,” a junior agent says, smiling like a smug demigod...
...That was a rare moment of passion during a soporific day of questioning. Indeed, all of Washington seems buried under a goose-down comforter of complacency these days. The Republicans are smug, the Democrats disconsolate. The news from Iraq grows worse, but the electorate didn't seem to care about the President's Mesopotamian malfeasance in November, so why get all het up about it now? The astounding news that the Bush Administration was involved in reinterpreting the rules for the use of torture-a fact that has been known since the relevant Justice Department memo was leaked last June...
Congratulations to Rutan and his team for privately developing SpaceShipOne. That's American ingenuity at its best. But your article portrayed Rutan as harboring a smug arrogance directed at NASA, an agency whose daring innovations in space flight and exploration long ago provided the coattails that Rutan latched onto. It is true that NASA's ventures have cost lives, but those were lives of pioneers who died while daring to explore. For Rutan to imply that NASA is "an airline that kills 4% of its passengers" not only misses the point but is also graceless. I hope NASA will return...
...right and an excellent teacher; he’s the guy everyone wants to study with. And the buzz among the faculty seems to be equally positive, at least if the casual comments made by other professors to their students—not to mention the smug looks and smiling faces of the faculty members in attendance on Friday night—are any indication...
...feel like my mother just died and you don’t care,” I told her. She did care, and she tried not to be smug, but who could blame her for being happy her man was staying four more years...