Word: smugness
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They are professionally ambitious first of all. They are patriotic, athletic, altruistic, inspiring and very good at planning ahead. ROTC upperclassmen don’t seem smug so much as self-assured when thinking about the job market. The recruiting nightmares and vocational anguish of their peers is a foreign notion to them. But Persons puts it in perspective. She says traveling to MIT isn’t really such a hardship at all. “When you consider the kinds of things you’ll have to give up on active duty,” she says...
From a novel by the world's oldest bad boy, Bret Easton Ellis, comes this frenetically chic look at a daisy chain of collegiate craving. The cafeteria girl (Kate Bosworth) loves the scheming stud (James Van Der Beek), who loves the soulful virgin (Shannyn Sossamon), who loves the smug film student (Kip Pardue), while a gorgeous bisexual (Ian Somerhalder) is ready to have them all. Sex, drugs and rack 'n' ruin; pretty people doing nasty things to one another...honestly, what more could you want in a movie? --By Richard Corliss
...lost a finger to a job accident, Lula at times seems uncomfortable with the notion that he's had to move Blair-ward to make himself electable. But even though Lula's high school education doesn't match the Ph.D. milieu of Cardoso and the ruling party's smug technocrats, he seems to be aware enough of one of the root causes of Brazil's (and Latin America's) new economic crisis. The free-market reforms relied too addictively on foreign capital, which in turn kept local interest rates inordinately high - and eventually snuffed out the very economic growth that...
...them a heady ?150,000, more than three times their combined annual salaries. (She's a nuclear safety engineer; he works in local government. Their parents are pitching in on the deposit.) Though it's a bit of a financial squeeze, Holyhead isn't complaining. "We actually feel quite smug," she says. "We put in our offer in January, but the property has gone up in value since then. If we were looking to buy fresh now, we couldn't afford the place...
...backing, the debate about the fringes of the bell curve was no longer at the fringes of the University. This year everyone’s been talking curves and credentials as “C-minus” has happily faded to the background with a smug post-proselytizing grin. Indeed, on April 18, the University waved the bureaucratic equivalent of a giant red flag—an Educational Policy Committee (ECP) report detailing the problems of grade inflation and suggesting ways to ensure that, in the future, every Harvard college student will graduate with a slightly more mediocre...