Word: smugness
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TOPICCLINTON DOLE BODY LANGUAGE: Smug, self-confident looks: 3 Disdainful snickers: 6. Deep breaths/squaring jaw: 6 Full-blown guffaws: 4. Anxiously awaiting time for rebuttal: 3 Notetaking: 3. Smirks signalling disagreement: 4, including one shake of the head. Almost wandered off stage: 1. Notetaking: 4 STOCK PHRASES: Brink of/bridge to the new/21st century: 7 times. AWOL: 2 References to American families: 8 times, though never mentioned his own. Using panelists' first names: 11 times, including 3 references to Jason. Medicare, Medicaid, environment, education: 7 times California, host state of the debate: At least 7 times. Dole's $550 billion...
...critics find Bennett smug, and his size and forcefulness can make him look bullying. Most of his audiences, though, seem impressed that he speaks to cultural issues with moral confidence and without censoriousness. Virtue, he insists, must be taught to the young by their elders' example and through moral stories. Parents must place the welfare of their children ahead of material success and even marital happiness. Public figures and ordinary citizens alike should speak out on matters of right and wrong, but must make clear they don't mean to muzzle anyone. They should "shame" entertainment companies (including Time Warner...
Schmidt loves his daughter and admires his future son-in-law, but he likes neither. He sees Charlotte as "a smug overworked yuppie" and Riker as an uncultured legal drone. Riker is also a Jew, which puts Schmidt in the awkward position of being branded a bigot because he does not enthusiastically welcome him into his family. To complicate the issue, Schmidt must vigorously fend off Riker's mother, an overzealous psychiatrist who treats him as if he were a repressed Wasp. What she does not know is that Schmidt is having a hell of a good time...
...under FBI suspicion. The test was administered by Dick Rackleff, a former FBI agent now in private practice, who said in a press conference Tuesday that there was no doubt in his mind that Jewell had no knowledge about the bomb. "Jewell's attorneys are growing more and more smug and their rhetoric is getting stronger," says TIME's Greg Fulton. "The FBI continues to say that they are waiting for additional forensic results. But they have been saying that for the past week." Meanwhile, Jewell continues to be the object of media scrutiny and finds himself a virtual prisoner...
...under FBI suspicion. The test was administered by Dick Rackleff, a former FBI agent now in private practice, who said in a press conference Tuesday that there was no doubt in his mind that Jewell had no knowledge about the bomb. "Jewell's attorneys are growing more and more smug and their rhetoric is getting stronger," says TIME's Greg Fulton. "The FBI continues to say that they are waiting for additional forensic results. But they have been saying that for the past week." Meanwhile, Jewell continues to be the object of media scrutiny and finds himself a virtual prisoner...