Word: smugness
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...REPERTORY COMPANY races through Richard Wilbur's lithe translation of Molière's The Misanthrope with a light touch. The best thing about the play is Brian Bedford's smug Acaste...
...REPERTORY COMPANY races through Richard Wilbur's lithe translation of Moliere's The Misanthrope with a light touch. The best thing about the play is Brian Bedford's smug Acaste...
...book is divided into nine chapters, each of which is a rebuttal to an aspect of Fortas' theory of civil disobedience. Zinn's best chapters are those which deal with Fortas' smug complacency over the role of the Supreme Court in contemporary American life...
...with a heavy face and a self-confident, nearly smug air. But he becomes defensive when he talks about Chicago, and it is obvious that he has become sensitive to criticism about his role there...
...more difficult to resolve, and after the French Revolution the curios made for kings descended to commoners. A Jacques-Louis David crayon drawing of Napoleon's mother, done before 1800, is a trenchant comment. Beneath a flashy nouveau riche Empire headdress, the Corsican dowager wears an expression of smug pride...