Word: smugness
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...have Marcel Cerdan, the French middleweight champion and Piaf's love of loves, being played by a black, and a Marlene Dietrich who is downright frumpy. A medal of merit should be struck for Zoë Wanamaker; as the prostitute pal of Piaf's who later achieves smug respectability, she is a perfect foil for Lapotaire, and their scenes together are wickedly droll...
Perhaps they were just a bit smug, or perhaps they were due to fall after 28 straight victorious meets. In any event, the Crimson aquamen one year ago lost convincingly to Princeton, 65-48, in the friendly waters of Blodgett Pool...
...professor, a good lecture is one in which the subtiest relationships are revealed with wit of the most refined, penetrating sort; where all the points of view are caressed and molded into a unity that hits with a little pop of clarity and he goes away feeling smug...
...tedious or, worse, seem like trolling for compliments. Fortunately, that is not the case here. Greene's guarded, skeptical attitude toward his material (in this case, his own life) is consistent with the one he has shown in his novels, short stories, plays, criticism and travel books. The smug, the self-satisfied, the overblown, even the merely happy are setting themselves up for ridicule and a long fall. Minimal expectations are a hedge against disappointment. In fact, Greene's past has been dashing and colorful beyond the daydreams of most; without the ironic filter of his personality, Ways...
...Bulldogs left the field smug and satisfied, having limited the Crimson's vaunted running attack to negative yardage (that's right, 21 carries for minus 11 yards) and having blanked Harvard in the Stadium for the first Game since...