Word: smugness
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...sports interests. Do you care about academics? Those who support a women's studies concentration, like those who supported an Afro-American Studies department two decades ago, are thought to be out of their element. Do you care about investment policy? Again, such students are often ignored with smug complacency...
...indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker. Perhaps the brand of canny moral exuberance that Gung Ho finally prescribes is available these days only to Presidents, evangelists and coaches in the N.C.A.A. Final Four. On the big screen it seems suffocatingly smug...
Washington was comfortable and smug on the night of Oct. 5, 1957, as its scientists gathered in planning sessions for the International Geophysical Year. They were certain they would dominate the global experiments. Along with experts from a dozen other nations, the Americans assembled at the Soviet embassy on 16th Street, sipping vodka. Walter Sullivan of the New York Times was called to the phone, and the news he heard changed the world. Sullivan hurried back to the party and whispered in the ear of Physicist Lloyd Berkner, who rapped on the table for quiet. "I am informed that...
...sweet Perfect Strangers and the plucky Don't Quit While You're Ahead. The show's style calls for singing and charm more than acting. That is just what it gets from Jazz Great Cleo Laine and Broadway Veterans Patti Cohenour, Betty Buckley and especially George Rose as a smug, unflappable...
...enough to say that post-Animal House TSFs have been bad. They have been frightfully horrid. But to stop at that smug conclusion would be snobbish, and Dewitt has been trying for years to understand the culture of kitsch...