Sentences with phrase «as smug»

Is Gavin Schmidt as smug and arrogant in person as he appears to be in all of his written and spoken communications that I have seen or read?

It's not the pieces that I despise as much as the smug tones of the descriptions given by the critics that wind me up.

Still, performing a «Proud Hero» pose as you cross a track's finish line makes for a great rub - it - in - your - friends - faces replay, and as a smug human being I'm glad for the option to do so.

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As smug as you might feel about being one of the few who has been able to use up their allowable RRSP limit, you really don't want to have to pay the penalty tax.

As that is the case, the argument just comes off as smug and absurd.

None of the Big Five started out as the smug, provincial, insular little clubs they have become, and when the day comes that Bezos and his corporate ethos are gone, Amazon will be headed up by the products of the same cultural, educational and business machines that gave us the mess at TOR.

To all those who would characterize the Coens as smug misanthropes: Enjoy this bounty of ammunition.

One by one, the supporting players step to the plate and clean up, whether it's William Hurt as the statesmanlike yet menacing Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross, Daniel Brühl as the haunted, enigmatic villain Helmut Zemo, or Martin Freeman as the smug counter-terrorism expert Everett K. Ross.

The main reason it does not work is because the audience is never really forced to care about or relate to Gyllenhaal's character, instead he just comes off as a smug, rich jerk who never loved his wife.

His ability to toss off bon mots is less smooth as smug, often peppered with some ill - advised mugging and other sorts of physical gags.

Gillian Anderson comes off as smug and her unimaginative performance doesn't digress in any logical manner.

No, Keeping Mum is best regarded as a smug, self - satisfied bit of ugliness perpetrated by guys who should know better and, at the end of a long piece about Patrick Swayze, this is as good a place as any to stop: with his corpse wrapped in a tarp in the back of his truck, the victim of the business end of irony.

When I first saw the film at SXSW in 2012, it quickly struck me as smug and inauthentic, an impression that lasted throughout the movie and made it difficult to resist the urge to walk out, so much so that I had no desire to write about it.

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis are ideal as a smug but stupid Congressman from North Carolina and his dark - horse competitor, who is utterly unequipped for the job, let alone the down - and - dirty campaign it requires.

Lovelace comes across as smug and condemnatory, both of pornography and of its own audience.

«American Beauty» not as the rose varietal, but as the smug irony attached to a repugnant diatribe) in more than mere year of release, with digital video coming of age in 1999 as the vehicle of Truth.

Still, it must be said that Bill Murray is perfectly cast as a smug corporate TV exec in store for some ghostly comeuppance.

First, I try to help out Karson, a guy who's trying to convince his osteoporotic, sun - starved mother to try a few lifestyle interventions that may improve her condition without coming off as smug.

In fact, the patent - official story is purely apocryphal, and the description of 19th - century physicists as smug know - it - alls is greatly exaggerated.

By putting their family on such a high moral pedestal, they now have horrible people like me slavering for «scandals» to pop up because a fall from grace is pretty entertaining when it's someone as smug and douchey as Jim Bob Duggar.

All three of our big rivals for the Premier League title have got off to the start we all hoped they wouldn't, so Jose Mourinho at Manchester United is looking as smug as possible and Antonio Conte is looking well suited to Chelsea while Pep Guardiola has hit the ground running at Man City.

I can't speak for atheists or anyone else but myself but perhaps it's because so many Christians come off as smug, holier than thou types who shake their heads condescendingly in pity for us others who actually are crazy enough to think for ourselves.

Simply stating a fact can be viewed as smug only if you are a child who hates being proven wrong over and over without a clue on how to get any facts on your side — which is a side of lies and falseness.

Just as self righteous, just as smug, just as hostile, just as intolerant and bigoted.

I believe you have no intention of ever engaging in respectful two way dialogue and will do nothing more than belligerently continue to spout your extremist views in as smug and condescending a fashion as possible.

When he veers off into bodybuilding (you're doing it wrong) or medicine, he comes off as a smug know - it - all who doesn't actually know that much.

Not exact matches

When you're looking across a boardroom table at whatever collection of rumpled dreamers and smug hipsters made it this far, fall in love with who they are together, not what you think you as a business leader can make them do.

«As someone who has worked for a temp job working for Google, the worst part is the smug attitude of those who work for the REAL Google.

It's hard for Querétanos not to be smug, even as they worry about whether they'll be next.

Before, during, and after the trial, Shkreli has cultivated a reputation as America's most hated man, increasing the price of a life - saving drug by 5,000 %, holding an anticipated Wu - Tang album hostage, harassing women on Twitter, and for his smug court appearances.

All in all, Kaz Hirai can feel rightly smug that most of his gambles have paid off, and Sony's in a much better position as a consequence.

I pay my ticket price, in part, to enjoy the smug feeling of superiority I get in condemning the heroes» cowardliness, a cowardliness you would never see me guilty of in a similar circumstance» which is what I tell my buddies as we leave the theater.

What right does that give us to denigrate believers, to treat them as lesser people, and to act smug and «holier than thou».

Those who are pushing gay marriage down everyone's throat as far as the world is concerned are a TINY minority — and they are so arrogant and smug to «push this down everyone's throat.»

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Pierre Berton, The Smug Minority (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968), reported in William A. Sadler, Jr., «Creative Existence: Play as a Pathway to Personal Freedom and Community,» Humanitas, 5 (Spring 1969), 58.

Lewis frequently used «humanism» and «humanitarian» as pejoratives, but only because in common usage those terms reflected smug liberal prejudices that were not nearly humanistic enough.

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

But just as her salvation gospels can not be entirely dismissed, his critique of her can not be written off merely as rooted in his personal bitterness and his misogynist jealousy of her «boundless female strength,» There is something smug in her existence on a «special plane reserved for women with a privileged emotional life and a happier, more mundane adjustment to the mysteries of life.»

As, for being smug that I had total silence to your posts.

All too often Protestants have retreated into a smug self - righteousness because they have seen themselves as cultural insiders without whom the great American experiment would have failed.

That conversation is not advanced when, as happened after the CNN broadcast, smug partisans attack a serious Catholic public official by suggesting that he's deficient in both his moral commitment to the poor and his understanding of Catholic social doctrine.

Writes Timothy Lynch in the Washington - based Legal Times, «One can almost see the smug bureaucratic smiles as the court upheld this bizarre form of secular contrition....

Farrell comments: «In this famous passage, Faust again reenacts the Enlightenment's annihilation of traditional, religious, and metaphysical culture and at the same time curses the results: the mind recognizes itself as a slave of «make - belief,» of «smug» self - delusion; it recognizes the phenomena of the natural world as no more than a source of distraction and confusion; and, given these recognitions, heroism, family life, love, even greed and intoxication lose their allure, nor can the Christian virtues offer consolation.

It is not supreme and never will be as long as I have breath to defend the Const!tution of these United States, which you spit upon and disrespect and violate over and over, smug in your religious delusion and hateful to other Americans.

No, the Republicans are now like a smug sibling pointing out that the other guy is every bit as guilty and therefore anything flies.

I was even denied the chance to be smug: I knew all along that I had tried very hard to get other people to take over the job and felt some glee in the fact that no one was willing to consider our ward as someone worthy of rescue.

Assuming that such arguments are inherently morally smug shuts down legitimate moral - policy debates as much as lefty smugness itself does.

So many atheists, as constantly seen on these boards, have taken intolerance and smug mockery to a new level.