Word: smugness
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Congratulations to Rutan and his team for privately developing SpaceShipOne. That's American ingenuity at its best. But your article portrayed Rutan as harboring a smug arrogance directed at NASA, an agency whose daring innovations in space flight and exploration long ago provided the coattails that Rutan latched onto. It is true that NASA's ventures have cost lives, but those were lives of pioneers who died while daring to explore. For Rutan to imply that NASA is "an airline that kills 4% of its passengers" not only misses the point but is also graceless. I hope NASA will return...
...feel like my mother just died and you don’t care,” I told her. She did care, and she tried not to be smug, but who could blame her for being happy her man was staying four more years...
Feel free to join in while they cackle—the joke deserves a smug smile if only because, in addition to being culturally ignorant, it’s laughably inaccurate...
...clothes are tighter, pop music bears more of a Michael Jackson influence, and I personally no longer get that smug ironic feeling when I sit down to watch Top Gun with my buddies. A final clear—and bed-wettingly hilarious—sign of this return to our roots is the new Trey Parker and Matt Stone production Team America: World Police...
...terrific cast. But it trades on a dated image of ticky-tacky suburbia that Hollywood has been spoofing for decades. (One character makes a batch of ambrosia, the marshmallow-studded salad that is as au courant in today's upscale 'burbs as a beehive hairdo.) And there's something smug and icky about a bunch of TV professionals essentially implying that if their female suburban viewers only realized how empty their Susie Homemaker existences were, they would blow their brains...