Word: smugness
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What ensues is not outrage, vituperation or divorce, but smug Shavian homilies on the double standard and the right of women to economic self-determination. Incontestable Constance takes a job as an interior decorator and decamps for a six-week fling with an ardent old beau...
...seven minutes and brings together all the elements in Locke's world. It would be unfair to tell exactly what happens, but watching Antonioni make it happen is a rare sensual pleasure. The Passenger is not a great film, but its very ambition is a reminder of how smug and easy most movies are, and how little they dare...
...peaceable times, a medieval life had more civilized compensations than smug modern man imagines. Until the great castle halls fell into disuse, master and servant ate congenially in common. At table (regularly spread with fresh linen), two people often shared a bowl, helping themselves with fingers. But a strict etiquette governed the sharing, and hands and nails were expected to be scrupulously clean. Plumbing in the larger castles, the authors say, was better than that of 17th century Versailles: every floor had a washing area-some with running water, even baths. Latrines were often conveniently perched out over the castle...
...like no insider ever could. Last week, after only a month on the job, Chairman Scott, 44, took a tradition-shattering step toward revitalizing a company that long ago lost its place as the monarch of U.S. food retailing. He knew that A. & P.'s secretive, sometimes smug management had determinedly followed outmoded policies. It failed to invest in modern suburban supermarkets but held on to too many small, low-profit central city stores that seemed mustily Dickensian compared with the competition. So Scott won the board's preliminary approval to shut down fully one-third...
Pure Chandler. Take, for example, Spenser's reply to a smug and windy college president who wants to emphasize the "delicacy" of his predicament: "Look, I went to college once, I don't wear my hat indoors. And if a clue comes along and bites me on the ankle I grab it. I am not however an Oxford don. I am a private detective. Is there something you'd like me to detect or are you just polishing up your elocution for next year's commencement?" Pure Chandler. So is the president's riposte...