Word: smugness
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...strikers showed no signs of going back to work and Comrade Williams, smug in his office beside Sydney's harbor, seemed satisfied that everything was going along just fine. Australians set themselves for a long, cold winter...
...Judge Steps Out (RKO Radio) is a smug little film with a dubious message. Escapism, it preaches-some 90 million U.S. moviegoers notwithstanding - does not pay. To prove its point it describes the case of a middle-aged Boston judge (Alexander Knox) who decides one day to "run for his life." Behind him he leaves the responsibilities of his office, a selfish wife and daughter, and the threat of stomach ulcers...
Immigration officials went about their work ostentatiously: in the large, bustling detail which boarded the Batory at Pier 88 on Manhattan's North River were 30 armed border patrolmen rushed from the Canadian border. With a smug smile, the Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, accepted an order to stay aboard and keep his crew there until the Batory departed. Four of his crew were taken ashore briefly and questioned...
Anything but frothy and rarely funny, the film turns a gay dog of an artist (Louis Jourdan) loose in the happy home of a stuffy, successful pediatrician (Dana Andrews) and his wife-receptionist (Lilli Palmer). Stung by the doctor's smug criticism of his art, the tempestuous painter cuts him down to size by trying-almost successfully-to break up his marriage. In the process, the picture tries-and always fails-to palm off drivel as drollery. Sample: a long, witless sequence in which the artist weeps for some lobsters that are boiled alive for the doctor...
...prewar population of some 7,000,000 has now hit the 9,000,000 mark. The new millions, reversing the Teutonic movement that for decades pressed eastwards, come from the once-great pockets of German population in East Europe. Impoverished, rootless, and angry with the world, they present smug, insular Bavaria with a screaming problem of psychological and physical adjustment. They need jobs, housing, security...