Word: smugness
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...campaign manager, Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, turned down the Taft offer, issued a smug and cocky statement: "It is never right to compromise with dishonesty. We are in the right, both on the facts and on the law, and will enter into no deals which will disenfranchise the Republicans of Texas. The convention itself will decide the issue and I have no doubt about its decision...
...heroine, Diane Lattimer, 18, has just broken out of a reformatory. She prides herself on being a hip* chick who can deep-breathe on a stick of Tea (marijuana) or leave it alone. For junkies (addicts) who get hooked on Horse (heroin), she has the smug contempt a moderate drinker might feel for an alcoholic. Emotionally, Diane is a D.P. Home, for her, is not her Bible-thumping mother's flat, but a kind of Greenwich Village inferno. The neurotics who crawl across her life and the pages of Novelist Mandel's book have addresses on Bleecker...
...months Winston Churchill's Tories smiled in smug satisfaction at the division in Labor's ranks, and sometimes slyly tried to widen the breach. Last week the Laborites were gazing hopefully at a small rift in the ranks of the Conservatives. It was led by a group of young Tory backbenchers...
...wrote Editor Eugene Rabinowitch, the quality of science in Russia "is clearly on the upgrade ... It is wrong to think of contemporary Soviet science as being largely paralyzed by ... ignorant politicians." In many branches the Russians are turning out brilliant work. Warned the Bulletin: The U.S. should beware of "smug satisfaction with our own superiority . . . a belief that we can leave Soviet competition far behind simply by tightening secrecy and preventing leaks...
...scene in which Cerusier cuckolds himself, and can't decide whether to feel like a smug seducer or an outraged husband, is a very funny one. But there is more than comedy here. Cerusier sees in his wife that afternoon "a woman transformed . . . awakened for the first time," and he feels the same awakening in himself. But he cannot escape "a state of curious despair ... I had seen my place empty under the sun, and I had a feeling that it was always so." He finds that his resistance to sexual temptation, of which he has been proud...