Word: smugness
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...dinosaur-like qualities: Bobby Neuwirth's beer belly, and his inability to hit the high, or low notes; Ramblin' Jack's memory loss in the middle of songs that seemed never to end. In a way, Rolling Thunder was a cruel joke--Dylan's goodbye to all that, his smug see-how-I've-changed-and-they-haven't-and-aren't-they-pathetic-but-give-them-a-good-hand-and-we'll-do--"Black Diamond Bay." The Moral: While Rolling Thunder was the name of the tour, it was also the codeword for the American bombing of North Vietnam...
...their part, the Communists were smug about the defeat of the leftist coalition. Indeed, their party's strength has remained stable (at about 21 % of the popular vote) for the past 20 years. Many observers thought Marchais had deliberately set out to sabotage the left's alliance rather than risk being dominated by the Socialists in a leftist government. Still, Marchais was hardly prepared to explain what his behind-the-scenes strategy had been. His brash postelection comment was, simply, "We are more than ever convinced that a union of the left is necessary." The party daily...
Harvard is almost barren of active campus politics today; only the brutal racism in southern Africa has rippled our calm academic waters and threatened our smug ivory tower. It is hard for us to appreciate the explosive, polarized atmosphere that existed here less than ten years ago; hard, therefore, for us to understand the forces that gave rise...
...title figure, played irresolutely by Alain Delon, is a smug and fashionable art dealer who victimizes fleeing Jews by paying low prices for their treasures. Then this profitable squeeze comes to an end when he learns that, absurdly, he himself is suspected of being a Jew. A bureaucratic mistake, of course, easily cleared up: obviously there is another man, Jewish, who resembles him and unfortunately has the same name. As happens in thrillers, the Delon character decides to track down the second Mr. Klein, and soon becomes entangled in mysterious coincidences. Or is someone trapping him deliberately...
Anthony Keating's conversion from the smug anti-commerce snobbery of his idle friends (rich and not-so-rich alike) to the property fever of Wincobank occurs while he is reviewing video clips of Austin Jones, the "bright young man" he has sent to interview Wincobank. Suddenly, lightening strikes...