Word: smugness
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Greene, now over seventy, is still drifting to the edges of the receding colonial world. Observing the U.S. presence in Panama, he sums up America's smug hypocrisy with his characteristically effortless cynicism. About the last official U.S. visit to review sovereignty over the Canal, Greene writes...
...bikini briefs, narcisstically flexing those grossly overdeveloped muscles. Disgusting? Besides, they're all gay, aren't they? If the general public thinks about bodybuilding at all, it is likely to be in such derisive terms. So besides indifference to the documentary form, Pumping Iron must also overcome smug prejudice about its subject manner as well...
...cannot accept Mr. Steven Schorr's remarks re. Gary Gilmore (Crimson, Nov. 17, 1976). They are reprehensible not only because they suffer from misguided albeit well-intentioned liberalism, but because they are the remarks of a smug guilt-mongerer whose j'accuse of society attempts at once to absolve Gary Gilmore of any and all miscreant deeds and to place the burden of all crimes committed anywhere by anyone, on society...
...still wins out, and the criminals are painted not as dedicated ideological revolutionaries but as the debris of society, turning to terrorism as a last resort. All the people they kill are the good guys, while Harry & Co.'s victims are the bad guys. And Harry still retains that smug irritating demeanor and quick wit that has endeared him to millions...
...Small newspapers don't have the resources, and the big ones are too smug. Middle-sized newspapers are the most alive and concerned about what the future might hold for them," Oettinger said...