| 单词 | smugly |
| 例句 | “Me—my own,” he said, smiling, a little smugly, I thought. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The shreds he let trickle gleefully off his hand onto the ground, then he smugly tipped his cowboy hat to Bernabe with his invisible arm and lurched jubilantly back into the bar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a monstruo, I am an animal,” said Edgar smugly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “We made a deal,” I reminded him smugly, climbing into the driver’s seat, and reaching over to unlock his door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Juanita just sat back and looked at me smugly, a tiny bit of sisterly pride glinted in her brown eyes, but I didn’t acknowledge it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z And I bet the families of those demons are going hungry right now,” Uncle declared smugly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z On small things I was thrifty enough; no expenditures on “carousing,” flashy clothes, or any of the other indulgences that are often smugly believed to undermine the budgets of the poor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Hornet whispered to him, while Barbarossa smugly inspected his rosy fingernails. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z After we all shook hands in Tepper's office he smiled smugly and said, "This is the most airtight case I've ever taken before a judge." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Adelaide smiled smugly at Hazel, and it was the sort of smile that invited her to smile smugly back. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Not now that I’m a Keeper,” Luna said, smugly. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The wizened witch who had flitted into her neighbor’s painting when he had joined the champions downstairs was now sitting smugly beside the Fat Lady. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Pleased by our own cleverness, we’d smugly claim a seat and then talk or study the whole way to school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Neither of us is going,” I would say smugly. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Vasiljevic, also applauding, looked at him approvingly and smiled; Bobby leaned back in his chair, swiveled back and forth, and smugly basked, Mussolini-like, in his courtiers’ adulation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Someone has to spread the good news that we survived,” Edward said smugly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Looks like a beautiful night,” Archie said now, smugly, that know-it-all attitude Carter hated. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “And here you thought you were so smart,” said Boo smugly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I thought he looked familiar,” Hailey says as smugly as she looks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “A report for the Department of International Magical Cooperation,” said Percy smugly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The man kind of resembles Dad, except he wears a smugly satisfied expression that I can’t imagine on Dad’s face. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “You said it, not me,” Rollo said smugly. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing good will come of it” was the phrase she often used, to which Jack would respond smugly that plenty of good had come already. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Mamma, smiling smugly, put two cookies on a plate and handed them to Seema. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “I know my business,” the smith said smugly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Captain Smith nods smugly when he hears this. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I could just imagine my father smiling smugly at my mother. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In other years his father had always stopped at the shooting gallery, where flat yellow ducks cruised smugly until shot in the eye: pop ping...pop ping. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I stood up and stared down at him sitting smugly, and he blew a thin stream of smoke at my face, and I’d had enough. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what an ugh is, but probably not,” said Boo smugly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The Newlyweds chattered smugly of their Bobs and Michaels, of how they had been married to Bob and Michael for four months and Bob and Michael had gained twenty pounds apiece. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “That was for renaming me,” said the pigeon too smugly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I saw no reason to trouble them with the information,” said Griphook smugly, and now Ted and Dean joined in Gornuk and Dirk’s laughter. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “If she doesn’t make carnival queen this year,” Leonard went on smugly, “she’ll never be queen of anything anywhere else for the rest of her life.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Celaena smiled smugly to herself as she nodded to a passing nobleman, who raised his eyebrows at the sight of her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Barbarossa took a step back and smugly inspected his reflection. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The commentary smugly informed us that, "Despite her constant fear, Chantelle does make it home today." Confessions of an Alien Abductee exploited its unfortunate subjects 2013-06-18T06:00:11Z And so I decided to learn about them — if only to be able to judge them more smugly. In the Pandemic Present, a Literary Tour of Greenwich Village’s Past 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z A city smugly in the downward facing dog. My Vancouver: An Ever-Unfolding Story 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Later in court, Milligan smugly reveals the news about the gun to the judge, who orders the whole gang over to Perry’s office to witness the retrieval of the weapon firsthand. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: The Smoking Gun 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z But the show is also determined to confound knee-jerk reactions and stop viewers from being smugly judgmental. "Big Love's" riveting final stretch 2011-03-07T17:15:00Z I liked the associations with both suburbia and enclosure, the Dursleys being so smugly middle class, and so determinedly separate from the wizarding world. Pottermore's Pioneers: Exploring J.K. Rowling's New Site 2011-08-22T10:10:00Z He admits that he’s stolen Frank Irving’s soul and notes, smugly, that there’s a way for the imprisoned former police chief to win it back. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Happy entrails to you 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Observing from a hilltop, André is smugly confident of victory when Lee orders his men to fall back rather than form a defensive line. 'TURN: Washington's Spies' recap: Plot against Patriot army backfires 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z “Girls can’t play the electric guitar,” a music teacher smugly informs Joan; Cherie, who worships David Bowie, is heckled and humiliated when she performs his song “Lady Grinning Soul” at a school talent show. Movie Review | 'The Runaways': Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart as Rock ?n? Roll Idols 2010-03-18T22:06:00Z His progress from smugly assured marital complacency to doubt and despair is powerful. Candida – review 2013-07-13T23:05:35Z “The Dragon and the Wolf” grants an all-too-rare opportunity for Lena Headey to prove she has an emotional range beyond smugly smirking and showing her teeth with noble aggression. “Game of Thrones” recap: “The Dragon and the Wolf” is a satisfying end to an uneven season 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Perfect characters, I smugly imagined, for Joyce himself to excoriate. Bloomsday: a rare chance to feel good about being Irish 2012-06-16T09:59:01Z “This is New York,” the superintendent smugly declares. Review: ‘Shelter’ Focuses on an Addict and an Immigrant, Both Homeless 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z “The Irish economy was most like Humpty Dumpty — bloated, fragile, sitting smugly at a great height and headed for a fall.” His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Miss America had smugly held itself to a higher standard by exalting girl-next-door “natural” beauties. The competition for Miss America 1984 was business as usual — until everyone got a look at Vanessa Williams 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z It is a movie with right on its side, and never was that right proclaimed more shrilly or more smugly, or with a more obtuse insistence on privileging soft-focus personal over political relevance. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z It's this mental image of him, smugly trotting off in his alpha male tracksuit, barking orders, maybe even congratulating himself on how well hBe'd "handled her". Vicky Pryce is not the villain of this piece 2013-03-10T00:06:19Z Each time I opened my eyes, a teenage girl sprawled out on an inflatable sleeping pad stared at me smugly from behind a row of seats. A D.I.Y. Trip Through Alaska’s Inside Passage 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Later, an army officer smugly asserts that the military orchestrated the whole revolution. Egyptian-American Filmmaker Captures Cairo’s Arab Spring 2014-02-07T23:01:46Z After this scare, Cameron might become more careful about her work, he tells Donna smugly. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: Enter Donna, for Sanity's Sake 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Seen before he speaks, Daniels circles the perimeter of the auditorium in silent slow-motion before stepping into the space to play a smugly dismissive Jason, or any of the other roles. On London Stages, Finding Something Fresh in Tragedy 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Bruce says this smugly from his perch in prison, where he is serving two to four years for charges related to a burglary. Is time finally up for R. Kelly? "Surviving" series shows why he's been protected for so long 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z But, as the sun set, I smugly pulled out a half-bottle of wine as well as the Swiss army knife needed to open it. Skipping the airport, saving the planet: My 19-hour carbon-saving jaunt across America 2014-02-18T23:59:00Z When it was announced a couple of weeks ago that Flickr, the photo-hosting site, had hosted its five billionth picture, someone pointed out smugly that Facebook already has over three times that number. Are the best pictures on Facebook or Flickr? 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z Joan's cool exterior and smooth manipulations haven't worked for her at SCDP; she doesn't smile smugly and wink anymore so much as stomp around telling those crazy kids to get off her lawn. "Mad Men" recap: I was blind, but now I see 2010-09-13T12:40:00Z If he errs, it is on the side of over-involvement; he suffers, too smugly, from a savior complex. Review: In ‘Good for Otto,’ a Case of Psychiatrist, Shrink Thyself 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z While I am abashed at this honour, Kevin himself is smugly self-satisfied. We Need To Talk About Kevin is UK's favourite Orange prize winner ? ever 2010-06-09T08:21:00Z The agnostics and Christians are perplexed and doubtful, while the pagans and satanists are smugly knowing. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z And Holmes — rendered here as something of a preening buffoon — sashays smugly around one crime scene only to fall splat onto key evidence. David Arquette falls flat as Sherlock Holmes at the Warner Theatre 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Then we see clips of various politicians and celebrities, who all smugly claim that Donald Trump is never going to win. Michael Moore’s terrifying “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Trump is the symptom, not the disease 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The Musical” rests a little too smugly on the sheer absurdity of its conceit, which is itself a little shopworn at this point. | 'Silence! The Musical': The Knives, and Forks, Are Out 2011-07-12T02:01:43Z The narrator refrains, recognizing mockery won’t help, a reminder to those of us on the left who smugly caricature all Trump supporters as ignorant rubes. Donald Trump should read Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z They are smugly in sync, at times nauseatingly so, until they aren’t. The TV Watch: Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ Returns to HBO 2013-01-10T19:50:36Z But the younger brother had the intellectual edge and was smugly proud of that. Books Of the Times: ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s Memoir 2014-02-23T22:48:06Z Bobbi’s feelings of being odd woman out in the land the smugly married is externalized in rooms that keep changing shape and size — making her look grotesquely large, crushably small and even invisible. In Revelatory Revivals, Women Sing Through the Pain 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The information disparity between the two characters has been a driving source of intrigue, allowing the audience to crave Hannah’s leads while smugly watching Kirkman bark up the wrong tree. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 9: The Whistle-Blower 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z I knocked out the interview and posted the story, and was smugly strolling back to the kitchen thinking aloud, "I can have it all," when I came upon a piteous sight. Take back your lunch hour (all of it!) 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Well acted and sporadically amusing — especially when Olivia Wilde’s profanity-spewing stripper is around — “Butter” alternates between looking down its nose at Midwestern passions and cooing over smugly liberal values. Movie Review: ‘Butter’ With Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Garner 2012-10-05T15:47:00Z “A humanitarian is always a hypocrite,” said old George, and I smiled smugly for agreeing with him and recognizing the irony. I went on a freaking cruise 2012-12-09T13:00:00Z I kept thinking smugly: “Now this is how you welcome someone into your family.” Motherless, but Growing Toward the Light 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The actress/filmmaker smugly displays her fit body in a crop top as well as a shower scene as if to troll haters. With "Me You Madness," Steve Mnuchin's wife creates a bold, bipartisan comedy to annoy us all 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Even at its most endearing, the Saint-Exupéry story is far from the kind of smugly reassuring children’s fable manufactured by Hollywood nowadays. Review: Fanciful Classic ‘The Little Prince’ Is Turned Into Modernist Fable 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Jones, smugly: “That sounds like something a terrorist would say.” Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The music of “Diary” is often passionate, but this melodrama — the kind of needlessly heightened, smugly visceral stage action that’s characteristically van Hove-ian — feels out of place, false. Review: Ivo van Hove Fills His ‘Diary’ With Muddled Melodrama 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The angry customer continues to demand answers from the male employee before leaving a few seconds later, smugly saying that the female employee is "going to jail." Angry McDonald's customer rips off employee's mask after alleged problem with order, video shows 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Criminals in China, Russia and other countries "who do nothing but peddle in counterfeit products and stolen American content are smugly watching how the United States Senate decided" it was not worth debating the bill. Reid postpones vote on anti-piracy bill 2012-01-20T15:52:08Z Ed Sheeran, not content with being all over the radio and smugly taking up every position in the charts, is appearing on Game of Thrones’ next series, serenading Ayra Stark. The weirdest musical TV cameos: from Bob Dylan to the Purple One 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z "I see a few faces – "He pulls a dazed stare and then laughs smugly. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z It lost by arguing, so often and so smugly, about everything. ‘The Newsroom’ Ends Its Final Season on HBO 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z But upon closer examination, the map showed an intriguingly spindly state highway with a smugly self-confident name, A1A. Frugal Traveler: A Post-Spring Break Jaunt to Florida's Beaches 2011-04-19T21:52:22Z A far cry from the deeply conflicted protagonists of today’s TV dramas — Don Draper, Walter White, Tony Soprano — J. R. was always smugly satisfied with his bad behavior. Riff: When ‘Dallas’ Was the Capital of America 2012-06-02T04:00:06Z And Richard Barnett found a desk that he believed belonged to the most powerful woman in the country and smugly kicked up his boots between her coffee mug and her bowl of paper clips. Perspective | Many of the images from the Capitol riot showed the terror. One highlighted the smugness. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Then I smugly polished off the chocolate on my pillow. T Magazine: Get Stuffed 2011-11-10T18:40:07Z Most of all, I don’t want to smugly make a list of my deal breakers and grade potential partners like they’re a naughty student or a faulty appliance. Are fibs deal breakers? 2013-05-13T00:00:00Z “When all this is over, elves will take orders from us,” he says, smugly. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,’ Season 1, Episode 5: Misty Mountain Hop 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Music critics are infamous for these sorts of overbearing displays—smugly dropping a needle to a record and then staring, expectantly. The Weird and Vast and Periodically Devastating Music of Scott Walker 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s the backlash that coalesces whenever everyone is violently and loudly agreeing with each other about how one specific terrible person is terrible, so we have a nice prepackaged way to feel smugly superior. The easy morality of Cecil the Lion: Our problem isn’t too much outrage — it’s that we can’t summon enough 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z I would respond smugly with a shrug, like "You can have it." How my dad's sugary East Baltimore spaghetti made me want to abolish the pasta shape 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z There is no mythical antecedent to David smugly carrying his beer gut like a womb. Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z “It makes a difference to these people,” a charity worker says a bit too smugly after an early visit to a family. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z As Maggie, a widow living smugly on inherited land in rural Vermont, Ms. Huston doesn’t walk and talk so much as stride and yell. Review: ‘Trouble’ in Vermont, as Two Siblings Fight for Land 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Well done me for making the big decision, I thought smugly. Hadley Freeman on the horror of eating fish: ‘Weird – get this out of my mouth now’ 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z But as he smugly floats through the crowd of humans and androids, it’s clear that we’re only waiting for the other boot to drop. “Westworld” Season One Finale: Violent Ends 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z I so dislike that company – largely from my experience of one of its existing franchises, First Great Western, which smugly occupies Brunel's line, has appropriated two-thirds of its historic name and doesn't have Wi-Fi. Fast food: the reason behind our national incompetence 2012-10-06T23:06:03Z I’m great at seeing flaws in others and propping myself up above them by smugly observing my character strengths. When my therapist dared me to sleep with her 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z “Because,” Mr. Stern replied smugly, “the caption begins on the left.” The Most Awkward Dinner Party of the Year 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But is being smugly single any different from being smugly coupled? In the New Year, More Cuddling 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Ali is ambitious, hard-working and determined, but her boss still smugly advises her to "stay in her lane" and flat out complains he can't fire her because of her gender and race. The cosmic joke's on her: The antiheroine's journey through a cursed universe 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Annoyed, our lady sets down the phone, whips up a Tassimo coffee and slurps smugly as insulation-blab is blabbed, before suggesting that the salesman calls back tomorrow. The new Tassimo advert 2012-12-01T00:05:50Z Albie, however, moves through life smugly impressed by how enlightened and considerate he is of women. How "The White Lotus" blurs the cinematic meaning of gaze through the lens of Valentina 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Philip and Elizabeth broached the idea with Claudia, who was encouraging and said, smiling smugly and cluelessly, that Paige and Henry would have “very interesting lives.” ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 12: Suffer the Children 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Many doctors “will say smugly, We don’t do that here,” which “allows them to present themselves as noble caregivers while they send their most desperate patients out to fend for themselves,” he writes. Weekend Reading: Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic, Airbnb Battles, and More 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z In Bergman’s version, the husband holds forth smugly while Ullmann’s character is reticent. Review: In ‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ a Couple Unhappy in the Same Way 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z For apart from Ms. Mirren’s performance, “Woman in Gold” smugly and shamelessly pushes familiar buttons. Review: ‘Woman in Gold’ Stars Helen Mirren in Tug of War Over Artwork 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z In a smugly disingenuous bit of showmanship, he challenges the defense to find holes in the collapsed roof of the gas chambers at Auschwitz through which cyanide pellets were pumped. Review: In ‘Denial,’ Confronting a Holocaust Revisionist in Court 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z This is not one of those reinterpretations that smugly seek to expose the rot in Western classics. Review: Dada Masilo’s ‘Swan Lake’ Offers Ill-Fated Love With a Twist 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z One big upside of being told I have incurable cancer is that after all these years, my husband has finally stopped smugly saying, “It’s your funeral,” when I make a decision he doesn’t agree with. When a Couch Is More Than a Couch 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z I’ve always resisted the maxim, because it seemed deterministic, almost smugly confident that the lively, charming boys and girls in the original film were already fatalistically locked in a class box. ‘63 Up’ Review: Time Keeps on Slippin’, Slippin’, Slippin’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Between songs she would sometimes pause, let her eyes sweep smugly across the packed arena, then soften the pride with an equally deliberate smile. Music Review: Her Fans, Squealing, Won?t Hold Their Peace 2011-07-21T22:00:06Z On the other panel, a dragon smiles smugly while a courtesan sits on the ground and a sketchy horse — composed of a few simple, perfectly placed brushstrokes — gallops into the background. Review | Even a year’s worth of Hokusai may not be enough to display his genius 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z If you can’t relate, perhaps it is because you are so smugly privileged that you can pay other women to perform the drudgery of motherhood for you. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z In the former instance, she is embarrassed, but in the latter, it is her choice to make a scene, and smugly teach him a lesson. The best scene in "When Harry Met Sally..." – the fake orgasm – was a group effort 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Every so often he bursts into song, easing the noose of his unrelenting and smugly clever monologues, invariably declaimed in plummy, self-satisfied tones. | 'The Living Wake': Life, Death and Other Subjects 2010-05-13T23:32:00Z We comment smugly from the sofa that all those state dinners have certainly filled out Hillary Clinton's cheeks. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z Two landmarks down, zero kroner spent, I smugly set off for the flurry of museums located a few miles away by train, in the forested peninsula of Bygdøy. How to do Norway on a shoestring? Take a 12-hour trip to Oslo 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z While festival neophytes fish disconsolately for their flip-flops in the mud, you stride smugly past in your Fellmasters and gaiters. The new festival tribes – a fashion guide to summer 2013 2013-05-10T23:00:08Z The two men grinned smugly, danced stiffly and mouthed along with the songs they were playing. Music Review: The Chainsmokers Perform ‘#SELFIE’ at Highline Ballroom 2014-04-15T21:37:24Z The secretaries of the three branches of the service made a rare public plea to end this madness and he smugly retorted that he was going to hold out until he gets what he wants. Tuberville proves Republicans picks MAGA over the military 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Sinclair — more than a bit smugly — in the prologue to “The Lesson.” Review: Literary scheming will only get you so far. So endeth 'The Lesson' 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z “Better come early,” the “Bear Book” smugly advises those interested in relocating, “and avoid disappointment. “ A guide to the guidebooks that told the world Los Angeles was a paradise 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z At the time, I smugly demurred, but eventually there was no denying she had been right. Divorce Can Wreck a Woman’s Financial Future. Here’s How to Rebuild. 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z When he smugly assures you that you can’t lose, check your wallet. Column: Mike Pence, would-be president, has a plan to kill Social Security. It will cost you 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Or smugly apologizing about ruining the NFL’s proposal for a conference championship game in Atlanta had the Bills won. Perspective | The Bengals are very good. When did they get to be so annoying? 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z At a rehearsal, Tár smugly likens trying to conduct the players to standing on the podium with “a four-thirty-three trying to sell a car without an engine.” Commentary: Oscar nominee 'Tár' brought conducting into the spotlight. That's not good for classical music 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Those of us with access to The Seattle Times cannot sit smugly by. Free press: ‘Foster small-town journalism’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Trapped in the polarizing mindset of the Cold War — where any effort to de-escalate conflicts through diplomacy is considered appeasement, a perfidious Munich moment — they smugly push the human species closer and closer toward obliteration. Stop worrying and love the bomb: Proxy war with Russia is sliding toward apocalypse 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Dog people like to smugly point out dogs’ long history as humankind’s best friend. How to Tell if Your Cat Loves You, According to Science 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z And once the repeal succeeded, he smugly proclaimed it “a good day in Virginia” for “removing violent criminals’ ability to get off early and reoffend.” Opinion | Gov. Youngkin dashed hopes by reneging on his second-chance promise 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The final four serialized installments converge upon a “Cereal Convention,” where the story’s key players gather amid smugly whimsical murderers that underscore the show’s penchant for derivative gore and anticlimactic resolutions. Review | ‘The Sandman’ suggests some comics are better left off-screen 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z We can ignore their calls and delete their texts and feel smugly street-wise, but we know they will not stop prodding and poking, looking for weaknesses in our defenses. The scourge of cyber scammers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Ditto for my mint-planting debacle, which I smugly thought I could avoid by planting in a container set into the garden bed. Gardening success means avoiding these common mistakes 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The same cabal of warmongering pundits, foreign policy specialists and government officials, year after year, debacle after debacle, smugly dodge responsibility for the military fiascos they orchestrate. Pimps of war: Neocons who fueled 20 years of carnage in the Middle East are back for more 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z If their intentions were sincere, they would be interested in talking to all sides of this particular conflict and they would not have so smugly ignored the government of the Federal Republic of Somalia. Why is the American right waging a stealth neocolonial assault on Somalia? 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z “I’m a C-suite executive by day, but at night I dig out my old leather jacket and stare smugly into the digital horizon.” A closer look at the other stars of Gran Turismo 7 — the people 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z More than anything, it was a way to support a chain of businesses — longstanding parts of many local communities across the country — rather than smugly rooting for failure. Review: Talking-head documentary 'Gamestop: Rise of the Players' focuses on the little guys 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z We natives smile smugly and say yeah, it’s awful. We asked readers to write Valentine’s Day love letters to Seattle. Here are the best, sweetest and most interesting. 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z What sets the intrigue in motion is the discovery made by the farmhouse friends, a circle smugly assured of its enlightened like-mindedness, that a Trump voter is in their midst. No matter who wins the election, artists will called upon to repair a broken nation 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z At the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, he and Linton posed for photographs smiling smugly and holding a sheet of newly minted, uncut dollar bills bearing Mnuchin’s signature. Steven Mnuchin’s Deal Staved Off Catastrophe. Can He Make Another One? 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z “Captain Chain Saw,” as he has smugly nicknamed himself, spent his formative years as an Army paratrooper, idolizing the generals and autocrats of the United States-supported dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Opinion | Captain Chain Saw’s Delusion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z While the smugly inept Clinton campaign responded to this by calling it racism, the majority of Americans, including large numbers of Latino immigrants and African Americans, saw the Trump charge as completely rational. The U.S. presidential election: 2020 is not 2016 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Then he went further by smugly reveling in his own naughtiness. Opinion | ‘We’re Here and They’re Not’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z European states that once looked smugly at Italy are facing new flare-ups. How Italy Turned Around Its Coronavirus Calamity 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z He appeared in a video smiling, smugly referring to covid-19 as the “Wuhan virus” and absurdly blaming his diagnosis on his recent use of a mask. Opinion | No one puts a better face on the GOP’s coronavirus ignorance than Louie Gohmert 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the unprepared athletes fared poorly, and many Americans and Europeans smugly concluded they must be superior. St. Louis Olympics was really World’s Fair with some sports 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z I tiptoed back to my desk and smugly finished my tea in peace. Kids Won’t Stop Fighting? A Bouncer, a Therapist and a Referee Have Advice 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Only last week, as has been much noted, Manchester United’s managing director Richard Arnold was announcing smugly that the loan signing of Odion Ighalo was the top trend worldwide on Twitter. Roll up, roll up for the Premier League Hall of Fame (oh, and let the arguments begin) | Marina Hyde 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z We took notice when he smugly told a black woman who was protesting the death of Eric Logan: “I’m not asking for your vote.” Pete Buttigieg is the embodiment of white privilege – and black voters know it | Benjamin Dixon 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z A whimsically choreographed dance sequence inventively projects Freya’s pregnancy dilemma with a fantasy troupe of smugly complacent mothers bearing cloth-swaddled infants. Review: In 'Earthquakes in London,' climate change shakes a family to its core 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z When my daughter was younger, I smugly judged other parents at playgrounds as their daughters struggled to climb up the stairs to the slide, tripping on the hem of their Elsa dresses. I thought to raise a feminist daughter I needed to raise a tomboy. But now we both love Frozen | Megan Maurice 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z I turned around and caught a glimpse of him, smiling so smugly, his palm resting in his wife’s hands. Commentary: Women were laughing in the theater. Until a man in the audience scolded us 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s just a study, but Tallahassee traditionalists are likely to smugly ignore Rader’s proposal, just as they did when he introduced the same bill during the last lawmaking session. Florida editorial roundup 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z “I think he was wrong in the way most of the country was wrong, which I say smugly because I was right.” How an early Biden crime bill created the sentencing disparity for crack and cocaine trafficking 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z We deflect the comments smugly by saying “If that’s how you feel, don’t move here, more sun and fun for us,” and arguing that the catastrophes on TV are isolated, not where we live. Ridgecrest earthquake shattered California’s cool 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z When asked about the report, McConnell smugly responded, “I was complaining to her just last night, 169 projects and Kentucky got only five. I hope we’ll do a lot better next year.” Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao's empire of corruption: Is this what "normal" looks like, Joe Biden? 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z His manner, for all the structural privilege he enjoys, is the opposite of entitled; he never seems to smugly know anything. Can Beto Bounce Back? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Later, Paul is about to lie down for a nap when he sees his double, dashing out of the depot into the dark of night, smiling smugly. Stream a Twilight Zone episode that inspired Jordan Peele’s Us 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z “Fairest thing in the world,” he smugly tells them. The NFL's settlement with Kaepernick should just be the start of making amends 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z For a moment, I considered myself resistant to this urge: let children be children, I thought smugly. Parenting in Manhattan is a Darwinian struggle | Emma Brockes 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Which of course gives rise to another popular regional expression we smugly love to recite: You hate us because you ain’t us. Editorials from around New England 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z They sit smugly on the Tory backbenches in the House of Commons, exploit the national narrative to the extreme, adding discomfort to Mrs. May. Brexit: A cultural morphology 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z For some of us — I will say smugly — that did not pass the feminism smell test. The Year That Bill de Blasio Became Donald Trump* and 9 Other Improbable Transformations 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z “It’s a group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with the U.S.,” he said smugly. CNN Jim Acosta wrong on migrant caravan ‘invasion’ 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z My conveyance and I managed to glide through the same aisle, steering clear of all grainstuffs, which I smugly chalked up to my magnetic charm. Learning to Love Robots 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Those of use who smugly dismissed the Nations League as an abomination may yet be required to ingest humility in pie form. England v Croatia: Nations League – live! 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z She lies about everything, which we know because she tells us, smugly. Gillian Flynn Peers Into the Dark Side of Femininity 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Before you smugly put on your slipper socks, though, there is a disclaimer. Get comfy! How curling up on the sofa became the height of fashion 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z I’m building my own empire of followers, I thought smugly. Against All Odds, Kylie Jenner Taught Me to Embrace Lipstick 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Men, they smugly tell us, are not plotting against you, and only hysterical bimbos would say otherwise. Donald Trump’s lechery and Brett Kavanaugh’s dubious history: Misogyny comes out of the shadows 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z He thinks too much—or perhaps he thinks too little and too smugly. Opinion | Trump, Mrs. Wilson and That ‘Senior Official’ 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z By that time, the blackbirds in the city are already smugly ensconced in their nests. Darwin comes to town: how cities are creating new species 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Second, the USGA, already having a bad day because of the way Shinnecock Hills was set up, embarrassed itself further by not disqualifying Mickelson the instant he smugly told the media his act was intentional. A day later, the USGA still got it wrong when it didn't DQ Phil Mickelson - Golf Digest 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Of this newly humming economy, Mrs. Pelosi smugly dismissed that “strong unemployment numbers mean little.” Stick to Netflix, Barack, and keep up the fiction, Bubba 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z In hindsight, an album that seemed smugly out of touch nearly 40 years ago today sounds like a brave statement of refusal to keep playing the adolescent rock ’n’ roll game. 5 New York Times Writers on What They Got Right and Wrong in the Early ’80s 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Hawking smugly responds: "I wanted to see your utopia, but now I see it is more of a Fruitopia. … You have clearly been corrupted by power." Pop icon Stephen Hawking took on movies, music, 'The Simpsons' and the complexities of the universe 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z As the late, wealthy New York City hotel heiress Leona Helmsley smugly said, when SHE was accused of tax evasion, "Only the Little People pay taxes." Trump Rollbacks Target Offshore Rules ‘Written With Human Blood’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z “I don’t do politics,” he smugly tells a girlfriend. The real resonances, and warnings, of Weimar Germany 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z He sits smugly, legs dangling, and talks with his attorneys while prosecutors play video footage of the Twin Tower attacks in the ultrasecure courtroom. Justice Delayed at Guantanamo Bay 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z When a man instead smugly presents “a spiced honey mead wine that I have really been into lately,” he is shuffled off to the “pit of misery.” How Do You Turn an Ad Into a Meme? Two Words: Dilly Dilly 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Christopher Hitchens called it “an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have found their reason”. The seven rages of David Mamet: genius or symbol of toxic masculinity? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z It must be satisfying to smugly say "go away" to such rich, powerful, successful people, huh? Celebrating a 25-Year-Old Clinton Win, but Still Stung by a Trump Defeat 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Yet we have to pay for the solid gold healthcare of our part time state legislators and the people we have sent to Congress who are smugly trying to destroy us. Senate Plans to End Obamacare Mandate in Revised Tax Proposal 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z When Dani smugly paused, and then said, “2,342 boxes,” her mom smiled so wide I thought maybe her face would get stuck. Cookie Season: The secret shame of being a failed Girl Scout Cookie seller 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z I would glance over the band of gushing enablers surrounding these people and smile smugly to myself: Well, I am not one of those. 5 sensible things to do instead of obsessing about, and enabling Trump’s narcissism 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z A video that surfaced on social media Thursday shows the melee breaking out with Mr. Erdogan smugly watching. Opinion | First, Erdogan’s goons attack protesters. Then, the embassy blames the victims. 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The “Watters World” host and interim panelist on “The Five” smugly said he “really liked” how the first daughter was “speaking into that microphone.” Jesse Watters: My joke about Ivanka Trump holding a microphone wasn’t meant to be a sexual innuendo 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Having sat through a meteor shower of imposingly well-made Marvel products, the too-pleased-with-itself “Guardians” felt to me like an intensely scripted politician trying to smugly crack wise. Review: ‘Guardians’ returns and it’s better than the first 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z My usual audience, the shoppers at Whole Foods and drivers of hybrid cars, the educated left, my people, sat smugly at home while the very pillars of American democracy were being systematically chipped away. Trump: 100 days that shook the world – and the activists fighting back 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z “We were quite satisfied, smugly, with that particular piece.” Trump Turns Kuwait’s ‘Visa Ban’ Into Big News, but It Wasn’t Quite New 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z In 2014, the town passed a resolution supporting diversity and tolerance in the community, a move Spencer showed up at the city council meeting to enthusiastically endorse, noting, smugly, “Real diversity includes thinking differently.” How Richard Spencer's hometown weathered a neo-Nazi 'troll storm' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z It first appeared in a tweet by Farage at 3.38pm on 12 November in which he smugly goaded Britain’s elected politicians with his proximity to the most powerful man on Earth. The unholy power of that Farage-Trump buddy photo | Jonathan Jones 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The diverse coalition of people of color, liberals and women I smugly predicted would win the day yesterday was not enough. A nation gone wrong in a world gone crazy: A first reckoning with how the hell this happened 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z When it finally admitted that the story was false, Donald Trump’s campaign manager smugly remarked, “The damage is done to Hillary Clinton.” How to rig an election 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z It involves drawing a line under the discussion by smugly saying that, “There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Here’s my Halloween confession: maybe I do believe in ghosts | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z “No hierarchy. No offices. Best idea wins,” he smugly explains. 'Pure Genius' is a formulaic medical procedural dressed up in high-tech gear 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Indeed, and all those who smugly and self-righteously do the dirty work for those in power would do well to reflect on the fate of Ms. Kelly. Chris Christie Knew About Bridge Lane Closings as They Happened, Prosecutors Say 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Phil Schiller smugly waved away decades of headphone development as just some analog artifact, denigrating the universality of the 3.5mm connector as some "ancient" concept. Apple killed the headphone jack so it could resurrect the Bluetooth headset 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Some papers even remarked smugly that by the time the disease reached India, the Americans would have found a cure for it. The women who discovered India's first HIV cases - BBC News 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, he smugly predicted that Vladimir Putin had entered a quagmire. The price of powerlessness 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The nominee’s entrance into the hall just as the hecklers were getting going at the smugly grinning Cruz was a cinematic nod — not quite a wink between the combatants, but something awfully close. Ted Cruz Might Be the Only Republican Who Understands Donald Trump 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Before my son was born, I was smugly confident about my ability to resist the new-baby buying frenzy. Swimming in stuff? Join our ‘Buy Nothing Month’ 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The West long perceived the Great Wall to be an emblem of an inward-looking people, a closeted “Middle Kingdom,” smugly aloof. China’s Great Wall of Confrontation 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z “Mika and I certainly understand you’re really angry, because we called this first,” Scarborough smugly stated in March, running a montage of his past vaguely prescient remarks lauding the former reality TV star’s political skills. Donald Trump suddenly turns on Joe Scarborough: “Not much power or insight!” 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Some have used these data to argue smugly that there really is no political center in America. Independents Are the Answer 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z "The beautiful thing is women don't like her," Trump smugly announced in closing his victory speech Tuesday night, a reminder of either his chronic mendacity or utter lack of self-awareness. Clinton's Trump 'Card' 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Grandkids: It was not so long ago — oh, say, five, maybe six years — that traditional news organizations like this one could laugh at BuzzFeed’s gag along with everyone else, smugly secure. For News Outlets Squeezed From the Middle, It’s Bend or Bust 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z That’s to be expected, given that its two leading presidential candidates are an orange fascist nightmare and a smugly unlikable ideologue. Paul Ryan looks past Trump: The speaker is preparing for a GOP civil war 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z But that doesn't hold water, given how shallowly and smugly he addresses the issue. The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino at his most sophisticated and sloppy 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z And those elites who smugly dismiss them as disgusting or “insidious” ignore the very important role these places play in our culture and economy. Shut up, food snobs. Chain restaurants are awesome. 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Is it authentic if you don’t upload a picture of it online as the rest of the world is stumbling out of bed, while smugly tucking into a breakfast acai bowl topped with chia seeds? Are yoga classes just bad cultural appropriation? | Nell Frizzell and Reni Eddo-Lodge 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The companies and their lawyers smugly used scorched-earth tactics and maintained their almost perfect record. Will the "Tobacco Strategy" Work Against Big Oil? 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Beijing seems smugly confident in its hegemony over its maritime metropolis. Crowds Gather a Year After Hong Kong's Democracy Protests 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Because you all smugly mock Florida, then retire here anyway. Meet Alan Grayson: the brash Democrat who could help win back the Senate 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The real threat is that even the women who are everything anti-feminists smugly predict — enslaved, fragile, sheltered — can be brave and competent. Misogynists are totally right to be mad at Mad Max 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z “It’s a Warriors hat,” the student smugly replied, referring to the Golden State team, which led the Western Conference in the regular season with 67 wins. Steven A. Ballmer’s Inner Fan Finds Its Voice in a Corner of the N.B.A. 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z In the “Valley People” rundown, a notice laments that the “smugly oppressive dominance” of the Anderson Valley School Board by certain “palsy-walsy” potentates has made it “a kind of self-perpetuating monument to rural nepotism.” The Last (or at Least Looniest) Newspaper in America 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z We will continue having these tragic and cruel episodes of discrimination until the mainstream starts really getting punished for sneak attacks on people who they smugly judge aren't playing to stereotype. A Racy Silicon Valley Lawsuit, and More Subtle Questions About Sex Discrimination 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z These days I tell other people how to do this, too smugly I suspect — a professional “angel of death,” my brother Michael says. The Future, Revisited 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z But I won’t smugly deny an entire population their agency in this world, and their freedom to do as they please with their own bodies. You Don't Have To Kill Prostitutes In 'GTA V' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Once hysterical about the territory’s pro-democracy protests, their commentators are now smugly dismissive and condescending. Clearing up 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z In case after case, the Democrats smugly presumed they could cruise to victory without bothering to seriously address voters’ current anxieties, especially over the economy and taxes. Anthony Brown, other area Democrats get wake-up call from voters on the economy The University of Maryland hired the West Point athletic director, who hired the crew-cut football coach, and all smugly announced that henceforth “character” was going to be returned to the university. A bad move by Maryland’s players and coach “If I swanked around this place smugly suggesting to people they should cross over, it would be obnoxious, counter-productive and it’s not who I am.” Ukip defector Douglas Carswell on leaving the Tories: ‘They think Love Actually is a manual for how to govern the country’ 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z But I insisted, using all the cliches that fell smugly out of the brochures. Yes, I froze my eggs, but am I a victim of a new fertility racket? 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z The idea of buying fancy fitness equipment and smugly installing it in a corner at home may not be just the modern-day craze some would expect. How keep-fit gyms gripped Victorians 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z When people asked how to get in touch, I smugly smirked and suggested ESP. Gadget Lust: How to Make Your Smartphone Even Smarter It seems too smugly self-absorbed to meet the James Foley case. Freelances like James Foley are all we have to face the horror 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Advocates on the Left and Right recite their litany of dogmas, each side smugly assured that God is on their side. 3 Imperfect Ways To Lower Corporate Taxes And Increase American Jobs 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z It’s one of many historical cherry-pickings in The Way Forward, but at least it’s sort of funny, since the word “inalienable” doesn’t appear in the document he’s smugly venerating. Paul Ryan's American Idea is Mad Libs with a thesaurus full of conservative lies 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z As the European golf writers like to type, smugly, "The U.S. Ryder Cup team has won only once in this century." Tiger Woods should give Ryder Cup, and his ego, a rest 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z These days, Copenhagen leads the way in urban open-water swimming, as it does in cycling and many other factors in those quality-of-life surveys, which it smugly tops on a regular basis. Wild swimming in the city: come on in, the river's cleaner! 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z But his nearly 18 months on the job are a lesson in humility — not just for Kerry but for those in Congress who smugly second-guess the officials they oversee. Dana Milbank: John Kerry learns humility I smugly suggested they read it out loud and it would make more sense. Turing test: this little Eugene Goostman was much brighter than I imagined 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z His response was to raise both hands in the air and understandably, smile smugly. Was Rooney lob better than Beckham's? 2014-03-22T23:19:02Z "Now the science fiction writer can smugly point out the LaWs - the US navy laser system - knocking down drones, and then wax lyrical about the X Prize, Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk's SpaceX." Can science fiction ever get the science right 2013-10-14T10:26:42Z Remember how smugly certain so many smart people were, as late as the early evening of November 4, 2008, that America just wasn’t ready for a black president? The Upside of Out 2013-08-29T17:13:48Z Can you see them smugly patting themselves on the back? How to Navigate Insane Facebook Friends 2013-06-26T18:05:27Z For a decade, the Bradford-based firm has sat smugly outside an online party where no supermarket seems to be making a hard bottom-line profit at £5 delivery charges. Divorce from Waitrose now the only risk for Ocado 2013-05-17T17:44:51Z I wanted to believe, and hated the scientists who popped up every time a new sighting was made public, smugly dismissing my irrational belief in a prehistoric survivor. Has the internet killed the Loch Ness monster? 2013-05-02T11:05:58Z These two worlds–smugly complacent Apple users and an iOS apparently riddled with vulnerabilities–will surely collide sooner or later, probably sooner. Hackers Attack Activists Through Their Androids. Is Apple Next? 2013-03-30T19:00:53Z Think of the European prelates who once smugly wrote off the clerical assaults on children and adolescents as an exclusive American problem. Incompetent, Insular, Intolerant 2013-03-08T09:45:00Z He is too chiselled, his eyes too cold and quartz-like, face too composed, legs too smugly crossed. Oprah's Lance Armstrong interview: no point nitpicking – this was TV history 2013-01-18T16:38:18Z My heart dropped - the A.C. was still there, still smugly broken. City Room: Metropolitan Diary: Air-Conditioner Bombs 2013-01-18T13:30:34Z The Mobile Press, in neighboring Alabama, said the school had chosen to “smugly point the finger of scorn” at the entire South. Joshua Morse III, Law School Dean Who Defied Segregation, Dies at 89 2012-09-20T20:07:29Z In the days after van Gogh was murdered, too many prominent Dutch individuals expressed precisely this position, declaring smugly, “Yes, of course killing is wrong, but Theo was a provocateur ...” Islamists’ Final Stand 2012-09-17T05:00:00Z It made for the neighboring office park, where it catapulted across a roof and reappeared, sitting smugly in another tree, only to vanish again. What’s a Monkey to Do in Tampa? 2012-08-23T10:04:05Z In fact, during pilot testing, when asked to name a card several people smugly asserted, “The Six of Clubs!” Revealing the Psychology of Playing Card Magic 2012-07-31T15:45:04.827Z He is smugly but appropriately satisfied with Cafe 11, and is confident that his vision will further permeate the culture of Sulimani in the future. Cultural oasis in northern Iraq 2012-07-29T00:51:25Z When the euro was introduced 10 years ago, EU elites were smugly predicting their "superior" currency would replace the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. The future of the European Union (part 2): Don't count on a Hamiltonian moment 2012-05-28T22:36:29Z She is a very clever woman, not likely to linger on smugly in any fool's paradise. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z When we read about that, as children, we said smugly: "What a fool Paris was!" Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z His white hair and weak, winking eyes added to his smugly sanctimonious expression. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z I'm thankful that nobody could call me smugly practical. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z I’ll admit it: I’m sometimes smugly entertained by the older generation’s reaction to the fads of the Web. State of the Art: Financing the Stuff of Dreams Through Kickstarter - State of the Art 2012-01-26T00:24:32Z You don't hear those much anymore, but for a few years the columnists and authors seemed smugly confident. Use It Better: The Worst Tech Predictions of All Time 2012-01-18T17:15:00.510Z Suddenly, Driss, the only non-white candidate, barges in, hands smugly stuffed in his jean pockets. Multimillionaire Smokes Pot With Thief in French Movie: Review 2012-01-09T01:23:09Z Her shallow serenity soon returned and she went about her affairs smugly unconscious of what was in store for her. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z Only one day was required to perfect Carrington’s organization, and on Thursday evening, with everything running smoothly, Carrington appeared in the palm-decorated foyer of the Castle, a smugly complacent smile on his face. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Then she confessed to her own micro-campaign to distinguish the two by “going around slightly smugly correcting everybody: ‘It’s not the same decade! Television: British Reporters, Not Ad Men, in ?50s, Not ?60s 2011-08-12T20:00:00Z To many of us plain bread-and-butter persons, praise of open fires sometimes seems a little too warm and comfortable—too smugly contemplative. The Comforts of Home 2011-08-11T02:00:13.980Z However, measurements such as this make it harder to say smugly that photons don't follow any particular trajectory and that it's unreasonable to expect them to. What Does the New Double-Slit Experiment Actually Show? 2011-06-07T19:45:04.303Z Yet, when the horrible thing is done, we find them smugly prospering on the reform. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Their faces, I assured myself smugly, were alight with admiration--although of course I couldn't see their expressions that far away. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z The last thing people want, Dr. Brenner said, is a guy like him in a white coat on TV smugly telling them everything is fine. Scientist at Work: Countering Radiation Fears With Just the Facts 2011-03-26T23:07:27Z Gone are the days when companies could just fill in the technology piece and smugly make money. India Tech to Rebound Bigtime 2011-03-10T23:00:00Z The men who are guilty of that sentimentality, while they smugly enjoy personal immunity and the dear delights of home, deserve to be sold to a Caradeux or a Legree. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z As the dramatic events in North Africa continue to unfold, many observers outside the Arab world smugly tell themselves that it is all about corruption and political repression. Inequality, the new dynamic of history 2011-02-06T16:00:00Z Lovie Smith acknowledged as much in Monday’s season wrap-up, a bit smugly, it seemed — the performance will probably earn Smith a contract extension just five months after his employment prospects seemed less promising than Blago’s. Chicago News Cooperative: Reality Finally Caught Up to the Bears. Now, Moving On. 2011-01-28T03:17:03Z Ask what his veteran teammates told him about the playoffs that might help as he prepares for the Seahawks on Sunday, and Cutler answers smugly, "Nothing." Bears are in for a wild playoff ride with Jay Cutler 2011-01-15T03:41:42Z Nor can the rest of the world look on smugly at Europe’s woes. Can Europe Be Saved? 2011-01-12T16:09:56Z "It's unusual to have a politician thinking about things in the long term," he told Today listeners, a touch smugly, I thought. Want to end house-price rollercoaster? Hit first homes with capital gains tax 2011-01-03T15:06:57Z Called Europe House, the building is the former Tory headquarters where Mrs. Thatcher, Britain’s most senior euro skeptic, celebrated three election wins — a footnote that European officials highlighted smugly during the evening’s festivities. News Analysis: Economic Pain in the Euro Zone Aggravates Old Continental Tensions 2010-12-28T19:27:53Z Its main characters are the members of a proudly, perhaps smugly, right-thinking — which is to say left-leaning — Minnesota family whose veneer of social responsibility and liberal niceness is shattered by external fissures and internal pressures. Film: Hollywood?s Class Warfare 2010-12-22T22:14:17Z Yet that ugly, stigmatizing message is now central to right-wing Christian ideology and Republican political strategy, as one of Bush’s home-state senators smugly explained yesterday. Where is George W. Bush when America needs him? 2010-08-16T20:50:00Z It continued: "The next time you see someone sitting on a train smugly using theirs, take comfort from the fact they are probably not a nice person." Are iPad owners horrible? Shock horror, it depends on your point of view 2010-07-30T12:11:00Z Not the Phil Neal original, alas, but a parcel shelf ornament that instantly supplants Christian fishes and Princess on Board signs as the most smugly idiotic thing to stare at in a motorway tailback. Marina Hyde: Form an orderly queue for World Cup tat 2010-06-02T23:05:00Z And in 2006, Owen Hargreaves was booed against Hungary and England jetted off smugly to Germany on the back of a 6-0 win over Jamaica a few days later. England v Mexico - live! 2010-05-24T17:45:00Z The interior is smugly spacious and complacently comfortable in such a way as almost to demand a well-fed paunch. On the road: Mercedes E 250 BlueEfficiency Avantgarde Estate 2010-04-23T23:17:00Z As the '00s wound down, the Iranian president sat smugly for yet another series of interviews with America’s media big shots. 2010-01-05T19:03:00Z The town itself will have none of these barbaric titles, but exists smugly and contentedly as Port Allan. "Pip" A Romance of Youth Had he come there with the purpose of treating every one present to a bottle of the celebrated Muscat wine, the smile could not have been more smugly servile. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers "Used to be a barber in civilian life," the boy said smugly. Uniform of a Man "It's doing all right," replied the old woman smugly. The Trap As I said," Jorak declared smugly, "when you bring a barbarian to the school you must expect barbarous behavior. Earthsmith "I always knew I'd be appreciated some day," he stated smugly. At the Post "I didn't give you quite all the story," Holt said smugly. Human Error Why was he so smugly sure of it? The Girl in the Mirror But not something you'd be scared to meet in a dark alley, either, he added smugly. Industrial Revolution I couldn't resist it: "That's what took most of the three days," I said, just a little too smugly. The Trouble with Telstar It seemed as though they smugly counted on their business virtue to attract, and their yearly gifts and patronage to allure the fur-hunting tribes. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France He laughed smugly, pleased with his own cleverness. Slaves of Mercury He regardeth not you, He hath swallowed the worlds and the nations, He hath humor, too: disease and death for the smugly prosperous. Dreamers of the Ghetto They smugly argue from the known to the unknown on entirely false premises. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule You are fortunate," they pointed out, a little smugly I thought, "that we, unlike your race, are conservationists in the truest sense. Inside John Barth Not having the Bohemian temperament—I am now the most smugly comfortable painter in Europe—I was perfectly happy. The Belovéd Vagabond "They'll fall faster than any known enemy weapon can track them," he said, smugly. Minor Detail "Nothing to it, my boy," said the Phoenix smugly. David and the Phoenix I make no pretences; I frankly do not care for what you so smugly designate as 'the things of the mind' and 'things worth while.' Athalie To stand smugly with a philanthropic smile while the widow and the orphan weep around my knees, is something I should be forever unable to achieve. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty The antipollsters, as usual, simply smiled smugly and said: "Remember Dewey in '48?" Hail to the Chief And, Shannon thought smugly, he couldn't possibly be faulted for being an innocent victim. The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel On the way he resolved to lie—not as the pinching tradesman lies, smugly and unconsciously, but desperately, to save Mother. The Innocents A Story for Lovers It doesn't," the Senator argued smugly, still rankling from Wade's arraignment of him the day before, "because even hospitality has its limits of obligation. Hidden Gold Feldstein's jaw muscles had tightened at Porter's tone when he began, but he had relaxed by the time the millionaire had finished, and was even managing to look smugly tolerant. By Proxy A conscience, sir," said Bones, smugly, "is a pretty rotten thing for a feller to have. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Though, she thought a bit smugly, they weren't likely to be quite so blatant with a reporter! The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel "I knew your uncle would remember his friends and his charities," he said smugly. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play What help is it for F to rub her hands smugly and say, "We're on the right track, all right"? Greener Than You Think Done nothing but succeed smugly in keeping myself in comfort outside the modern economic treadmill! The Squirrel-Cage He sat back smugly, his cheeks quivering with emotion. Meeting of the Board His momentary anger had passed as swiftly as it had come, and, ignoring my epithet, he rocked smugly on the balls and heels of his feet and smiled. The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette He smiles smugly as he turns his face towards the pulpit. De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts I owe my readers," he makes her say smugly, "the exact truth. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert And he smiled smugly while he buzzed louder than ever. The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales Assuming women unable to bear arms for their country, the delegates smugly linked the ballot and the bullet together, and Horace Greeley gleefully asked the two women, "If you vote, are you ready to fight?" Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian I should have known it at once, even without the hideous sign, for its smugly dreary look of good works! Jane Journeys On "I was right," he told himself almost smugly. Man of Many Minds "I told you not to stop at that tourist place," began Ricky smugly. Ralestone Luck The middle classes of England were thoroughly and smugly satisfied with social conditions that were intolerable for the great mass of their fellow countrymen. Gilbert Keith Chesterton On the other hand the death-rate at Sennelager is strikingly low, and the German officials smile contentedly while the Press comforts itself smugly. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Though no century was more thoroughly pleased with itself, I might almost say smugly self-satisfied, the men of that century were always lamenting the decline of the age. Masques & Phases He was smiling smugly and tetering back and forth on his feet. Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old He had quickened at sight of Tommy's familiar face, albeit that face was a trifle grosser, more smugly complacent than he had ever expected to behold it. Burned Bridges But the world must always smugly rail at the moat in its neighbor's eye, and forget the beam in its own eye. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation I cannot drive away smugly from these gates with the simple feelings of a woman who has been paying a mere visit—I cannot! The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts The real hundred-cent-to-the-dollar treasures of Life, you know, aren't apt to be found labeled as such and lying round very loose on the smugly paved general highway! Little Eve Edgarton For the rest of the day he was in thought, now waggling his head smugly over some dark, unutterable design and again looking a little scared. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood These people had covered all his ground—and they had gone exploring further in fields of general knowledge while he sat gazing smugly at his own reflection in a theological mirror. Burned Bridges The long billows of the Bay of Biscay roll smugly in, hypocritical and placid, with nothing to betray the unenviable reputation they sustain in mediis aquis. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees Bill Brown came up smugly complacent and smiling. A Daughter of the Snows This is war, glorious war, which those who stay at home say smugly is good for a nation. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front The people smugly regarded themselves as safe in the hands of the miserly but honest old financier. Truxton King A Story of Graustark How perfectly and smugly he had played the Pharisee for his own delight and satisfaction! Broken to the Plow "Monument to the stupidity of modern education, probably full this minute of provincials from Harvard and Yale, all smugly resting in the assurance that they are men of culture." Bambi Also, it was perfectly plain to Carroll that at the outset of his conversation Lawrence had been smugly satisfied that he was possessed of a perfect alibi. Midnight "Well," Scott said smugly, "someone is building them and setting them off." Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel There are those, of course, in every city who could think fondly and smugly of themselves as doing, in this way, preeminently the will of God; and such deeds not infrequently make men self-righteous. Stories from Everybody's Magazine "The county doesn't think of him as it did even a year ago, miss," said Tewson rather smugly. The Shuttle "Obviously you wanted to cause harm to the two other instructors in the course," he replied smugly. Wild Justice Without taking oneself too smugly or too seriously one finds it the only way of reproducing the thing that has happened in one's own life and which one actually knows. The Conquest of Fear Even then the battle would be hard, against temptation; but they were too smugly sure that his downfall was certain. Black Jack The smugly pacific aspect of the place irritated him. The Far Horizon The future smugly secure on six thousand a year and an inviolate social position…a good dull husband…not even the prospect of travel…. The Sisters-In-Law Envied in prosperity, she was smugly pitied in her distress. Alone A Sara Lane was announced by Helena to be the object of Gregory's affection, and Gregory smugly admitted this to be true. Cytherea Those of us who are smugly satisfied at belonging to the twentieth century must remind ourselves that there were great men in the thirteenth, and that many among our contemporaries are still listening to them. A Handbook of Ethical Theory People thought he was buying up town-sites and smiled smugly among themselves as they discussed the dreadful shock he was to have when the time came for him to begin clearing away the timber! Mr. Bingle And when they have crept into their own little holes, and smugly laid themselves down in their last long sleep, the future centuries will roll the stone away and he will come forth again. Revolution, and Other Essays Thus, too, he had let himself be lured into this storeroom, still smugly confident that he held the whip hand of the situation. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story As she passed out of the door she said smugly to her companion—"I don't see anything so wonderful here." Vignettes of San Francisco The bill was adorned with a portrait of Benjamin Harrison smugly radiating prosperity from every hair in his beard. Merton of the Movies He spoke smugly; his lore on the subject being bounded by his experiences in teaching Lad the simple Law of the Place. Further Adventures of Lad I was waiting for him—And, oh joy! it was the “Repeater” himself, smugly complacent with knowledge of past success. Revolution, and Other Essays Plumper than they, Three Star Hennessey sat smugly waiting until the joke was turned upon its victim. The Trail of the White Mule Fearful of an encounter, he chooses for the fields of his enterprise the byways of the City, and the advertisement columns of the smugly Christian Press. A Book of Scoundrels He was feeling extremely gentle toward Nina those days and rather smugly virtuous. The Breaking Point Then Lad let go; and settled himself back smugly in the seat. Further Adventures of Lad His fault it was—No! not his, but this villain's who sat there smugly taking his ease and pulling at his pipe. Mistress Wilding There were times when she wondered how in the world she could “put up with” him, how she could put up with any man so smugly unconscious of the immensity of her difference. In the Cage The cook drew himself up in a smugly humble fashion, a deprecating smirk on his face. The Sea Wolf On the instant those at the table were keyed up and expectant, the servant was smugly pleased, and he was wallowing in mortification. Martin Eden |
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