Word: smugness
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...Boston music underground, I must confess I was enticed, as any mortal must be, by the idea of swooning at the sight of Boston's hometown celebs. Flipping through the awards booklet, I began to get excited as I glimpsed a teaser promo on the inside cover, showing the smug faces of LFO along with the boast of the "Power of 3Times 5," LFO's label's commendation of the boys' five nominations, including...
Hollywood has been making the same teen movies over and over, and in his last three films, She's All That, Varsity Blues and most recently The Skulls, actor Paul Walker has essentially played the smug, arrogant, big man on campus. But make no mistake: in these films, laid-back and very Californian Paul Walker is not playing himself...
What's most troubling in all this, though, is not the French mindset, but the American - the insularity of Americans in their role as the smug, sole superpower, and even worse (because it is potentially dangerous), their apparent lack of curiosity about what goes on in the rest of the world. The stupid side of the American exceptionalism has always been the American narcissism. It's a paradox that globalization seems to make the narcissism worse...
Adams House residents uphold a long tradition of smug confidence in the superiority of their House...
...Thanks to Joel Stein's smug report on DiCaprio, I have more compassion for celebrities and less for the paparazzi." DON AVIROM Peace River, Alta...