Word: smugness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...matter of character, not substance. Edwards hinted at it with his "longest answer" line: not only does Kerry have a flannel-mouthed inability to utter a simple sentence, but his orotundities also serve to reinforce the notion that the Senator from Massachusetts is a patrician stiff, too smug to speak in a manner decipherable by ordinary Americans. In fairness, John Kerry has been as sick as a dog these past few weeks and duller than he might ordinarily be--but there was a real sense last week that Kerry, assuming victory, had lapsed into flabby aristocratic entitlement, a persona...
...corner or the other--is the words he doesn't stumble over. Dead or alive. Bring 'em on. And then there's the phrase that comes up so often in his public pronouncements, the one that some hear as a measure of confidence and others as one of smug disdain: "I expect." He expects the Congress to act, he expects the U.N. to show some backbone, he expects Arab nations to be his partners in making peace in the Middle East...
...Secretary of State, Albright was a disaster. Every crucial issue that faces us today, from North Korea to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to terrorism, was dealt with during her tenure with a stunning naivete and timidity. It is not a record to be proud of, and yet she seems smug. Perhaps if she had done her job properly, she wouldn't need to take issue with the Bush Administration's policies. MARK LEE Racine...
...wonder John Harvard looks just a tiny bit smug as he gazes out over Harvard Yard. Tourists travel from all over the world to rub his burnished foot. FM reports on a day in the life of Harvard’s most “decorated” celebrity...
...away, the most addictive programming on C-SPAN was the FCC hearings. I watched Lewis Dickey, chair of Cumulus Entertainment—a villain in the classical mold, clear blue eyes and smug jaw—say that he did not force his local affiliates to ban the Dixie Chicks, that he called them and told them to do it, but it was something that they would have wanted to do anyway. I, of course, at 1:30 in a pitch black night, dressed in an oversized striped T-shirt and lounging on the couch drinking cranberry juice, heckle...