Word: smugness
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Mudge's diagnosis has been criticized by local doctors and the press. Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy tore into Mudge in a front page column Wednesday for the doctor's diagnosis and his smug demeanor during a press conference to discuss Lewis' condition...
...three hours it takes on the stage. The action in both centuries unfolds in a stately home, a symbol at once of Britain's continuity and of its decay. The 19th century story focuses on a startlingly gifted 13-year-old girl and her tutor, a seemingly shallow, smug university man a decade older. The 20th century story focuses on the present generation of the girl's landed family and on two biographers who are probing Byron's connections to the house, investigating the story of a mysterious hermit and researching the evolution of the English garden...
...authority in any form, no matter how well-meaning. French radicals demanded "All power to the imagination!" Americans in the civil rights movement envisioned -- not socialism -- but a huge, messy, effervescent process of participatory democracy, from the bottom up. "Power to the people" was to be power subtracted from smug men behind desks -- including, among others, Marxist professors...
...craven thought is that one Bosnia begets another. But Bosnia will happen again and again elsewhere unless this one is stopped. Europe should have undertaken the job. But the Europeans long ago exhausted themselves in sponsoring such projects as colonialism and two world wars. They have ended up smug, fat-bottomed and morally useless...
Michael Stone's rendition of Burton, Anna's smug script-writing boyfriend, is the least subtle acting in the play. He exaggerates the self-satisfied twit in Burton to such an extent that he fails to convince the audience when his character slips into melancholy self-analysis...