Word: smugness
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...There are, I imagine, people like myself who supported the Kennedy-Johnson ticket of 1960 on the smug assumption that Mr. Johnson couldn't do too much damage as Vice President. Illumination from the harsh light of history would now cause us to take a long, hard look at a Rockefeller-Reagan offering...
...special election to fill the spot Sir Stafford gave up in the General Assembly, his United Bahamian Party hung on to his seat by the simple expedient of running a Negro. Clearly, the party, if not the man, still has considerable power. "The Bahamians need us," said a smug Bahamian Club croupier. "Tourism couldn't survive without us. Why, the beaches ain't as big as these crap tables...
Arrogant & Smug. The burden of Kavanaugh's polemic is that a church founded by Christ upon the primacy of God's love for man has degenerated into a sterile bureaucracy guided by abstract legalism. Echoing charges made by many other contemporary Catholic thinkers, Kavanaugh complains that his church's strictures against marriage for priests, birth control, and divorce have caused untold anguish and suffering to the faithful. Dominated by unBiblical superstition and decadent traditionalism in everything from its sermons to parochial schools, the church, in Kavanaugh's eyes, is pathetically outdated and corrupt...
Launched 15 years ago by Tyrone Guthrie as a wild dramatic dare, Stratford has evolved into a slightly smug civic investment. As a festival it has be come a creature of habit which in theater is not always a loss. Habit decrees the invited guest star-but what if the key actor is as singularly miscast as Alan Bates in the title role of Richard...
...that the end was near. In one of his last letters to Princess Caetani, a sometime patron, he wrote: "It is not enough to presume that once again I shall weave up pardoned, and waddle and gush along the land on my webbed sealegs as musical and wan and smug as an orpheus of the storm: no, I must first defeat any hope I might have of forgiveness by resubmerging the little arisen original monster in a porridge boiling of wrong words and make a song and dance and a mockpoem of all his fishy excuses...