Word: smugness
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...learned, were tired of hearing about curses from a team with the second-highest payroll in baseball, or about the quarterback who threw perfect spirals and dated Brazilian übermodels. In fact, they seemed to feel that Boston fans were just a little bit entitled (imagine that!), unbearably smug and boastful when their teams won, and sulky and defensive when they didn’t.It was earth-shattering, to learn that outside my safe, championship-filled Massachusetts bubble my people could be viewed in such a light. But as difficult as it was to learn that not everybody thought...
...America we believe in redemption and even self-reinvention. And we don't usually require stagy Stalinesque recantations. But Dohrn and Ayers test the limits of that generosity. They remain spectacularly unrepentant, self-indulgent, unreflective--still bloated with a sense of entitlement, still smug with certainty. They are dead to irony. Dohrn declared her contempt for the judicial system but wanted into the bar association. The two of them encourage young people to "be outraged...
...nation like Britain, where cynicism is a way of life, that distinction-between faith as a guide to action and faith as an aid to decision-is almost bound to be lost. Blair, the chattering classes of London will say, is the same smug, self-satisfied politician, immune to criticism, that he always...
...wonder how Moyers reacted when he saw the Reverend's smug, disdainful, outrageous-Obama's word-performance a few days later at the National Press Club. Wright refused to back away from his contention that AIDS was a government conspiracy, said that attacking him was an attack on the black church, refused to step away from Louis Farrakhan and again said of Sept. 11, "You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you." Twenty years ago, the response of too many Moyers-era liberals would have been to try to understand Wright...
...arrest I observed back in March. I couldn’t help but silently apologize for being afraid of the ‘trespasser’, for hesitating before I shook his hand, and for regretting making eye contract in the first place. We should never be so smug in our privilege that contact with that unfamiliar Other becomes a source of distaste. And while it may seem futile and even self-indulgent to sit uncomfortably in an armchair in William James feeling guilty, the opportunity for honest confrontation of our privilege as Harvard undergraduates will prove worthwhile as long...