Word: smugness
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Singapore: Raffles Hotel, early 1942. The colonial swells are having a party--black ties, a ricky-ticky dance band lulling them with torpid tunes. As they swill their bubbly, they mutter contempt for the advancing Japanese army in smug racist terms...
...picture in yesterdays papers of Vice President Al Gore '69 with the drug smuggler Jorge Cabrera is one of the most sickening to be printed in recent years. While Gore provides a favorable grin, the fat and smug Cabrera laughs uncontrollably at the big joke that our national leadership has become...
Over entrees a smug Tan hits Kasparov with the news of Deeper Blue's smashing victory over the program that made him sweat last February, and suddenly he focuses, laserlike, on his favorite subject. Before last year's match, he admits, the chess world felt "a computer would have very little chance of beating a top grand master." That myth faded quickly. Halfway through Game 1, faced with daunting circumstances--"an open position, my king is exposed, many weaknesses"--Kasparov undertook a blitzkrieg aimed at Deep Blue's king, the sort of hell-bent gambit that has devastated every pretender...
...failure of the clubs to face the serious problems that make them a destructive force within the Harvard community, offering further reason for the College to watch them carefully. Sears called the clubs the "last socially acceptable group to discriminate against," dismissing Epps' report as, "whiny, patently self-serving, smug and patronizing," and noting that the formation of the clubs reflects "Harvard's [failure]...to provide places for undergraduates to go where people can have as much fun." Content to brush off revelations of sexual harassment and drug dealing by blaming Harvard's social life, Sears has more gall than...
Turning to her ignorant classmate, the girl across from me announced, "I'm in your section and we did cover the prisoner's dilemma. You should know the answer." Satisfied that she had caused harm to another, a smug smile appeared on her face as she awaited the grader's reaction. The student, who genuinely did not recall covering the material, merely sat in silent disbelief...