Word: smugness
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...Miss Manners" (syndicated, 1/29/92) Snide, but well-mannered Judith Martin seems at first glance unnecessary, since anyone etiquette-conscious enough to want to shovel through Martin's prose ought to know this stuff already. Besides, few columnists as smug as Martin--she refers to herself in sentences as "Miss Manners"--can claim as wide an audience...
...compared Paglia with Phyllis Schlafly, and she was appalled. Despite all the brickbats, Paglia considers herself a lifelong feminist; Personae took shape when she read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and resolved "to do something massive for women." But Paglia believes the current movement has declined into smug formulas and codes of political correctness. "What began as a movement of eccentric individualists has turned into an ideology that attracts weak personalities who are looking for something to believe in." Or, she adds, someone to blame: to her, rape is a dreadful crime, but women who make their accusations...
...Kasdan -- has a nice, unforced wit, and Lawrence Kasdan's direction has its jagged edges. If sometimes this loose and anecdotal film loses dramatic pace, it always rights itself. And it remains steadily in touch with its best qualities -- generosity, common sense and a mature decency that is neither smug nor sentimental...
Will he blow his lead by being smug...
...from the English, the ivory (mostly opaque plastic) figurines from the Chinese, and the vineyards from northern Italy. There's no homegrown movie business; in fact the town has missed the video age, focused instead on grainy foreign films, which seem to be unreeling in every theater. Although the smug intelligentsia of Stanford and Berkeley blanch at the mention of her name, the area's best-selling author is Danielle Steel. To be sure, Los Angeles is no stranger to mass-market novelists, but that kind of pedestrian vulgarity is increasingly overwhelmed by the energy, quality and variety...