Word: smugness
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...surprisingly, sexual performance is central to the book. Not all the news is good. Says Spark: "Paradoxically, in an age smug with a sense of heightened sexual enlightenment, the only ones left 'in the closet' are men--impotent men." There are 30 million of them, and there is much they can do to help themselves, he says. "Some modifications in behavior can help minimize risks of sexual dysfunction," he counsels. "Smoking, heavy drinking, obesity, high levels of serum cholesterol and elevated blood-sugar levels, as well as the use of narcotic or other mood-altering drugs, can all contribute...
...failed to move, and can check their unpopularity minute by minute on amazon.com Nor is this just a concern of Internet magazines. TIME publishes magazine articles and original content at time.com other magazines and many newspapers put all their articles online. As more readers find us online, we smug print writers too will have to face...
Like its self-centered protagonist, this sitcom seems born to be hated. It's laden with trendy affectations (the smug voice-over, the meta references to other series and itself). It snipes at young, pretty tube stars yet casts young, pretty Katherine Towne as a teen troublemaker looking for her birth mother after her father has answered her inquiries with "M.Y.O.B." (mind your own business). Still, it's somewhat better than its overfamiliar ingredients. Creator Don Roos has distilled and sanitized the vicious humor of his film The Opposite of Sex for prime time. That which survives the translation makes...
That means more debate. No more mad dash for Super Tuesday, after which the anointed can sit back and indulge the party's remaining primary voters in smug contentment. Every state would count, so even the front-runner would have to dig his heels in till the end--sweating, debating, persuading. Since smaller states are usually cheaper to campaign in, gone too would be the financial blitz in which a big-money candidate splurges early to knock his or her opponent out at the start. The Delaware Plan would make losing the first few primaries, currently an automatic disqualification, politically...
...sounded almost like the good old days on Al Gore's presidential campaign, with lots of dire talk about his opponent's risky schemes and secret plans, arrogant approaches and smug assumptions. Last week Gore managed to parlay what was to have been a simple health-care speech to medical reporters in Chicago into a dissertation on George W. Bush's coziness with the National Rifle Association. (A top N.R.A. official had been videotaped saying of Bush, "We'll have a President...where we work out of their office.") Gore also savaged the Texas Governor's Social Security plan with...