Sentences with phrase «into smug»

He originally appears as a lazy villager, but he changes into a smug villager in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

And, no, he doesn't sink into the smug mugging of his Moonlighting days.

All New Yorkers who are sick and tired of the way our state government works — or doesn't work — have to hope so and believe that a determined new governor armed with an electoral mandate can at least throw a scare into these smug sovereigns of the Legislature.

So you know he doesn't really go beyond confidence into smug, cocky, bullshit that some guys have that share the same level of confidence.

#AskLineker Gaz, do you put the «UG» into smug or the «ARSE» into class, or both... — Freedom (@FreeThinkingUK) March 18, 2015

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.

T he older fear and resentment toward Protestants now turned into smug, but edgy, aloofness.

It's really easy for me to lapse into smug judgementalism; regardless of whether we're talking about politics, diet or spirituality.

Not exact matches

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.

where god is involved i have no point i am neutral i was mocking christians ~ they are such a smug group, all the other major religions eventually let non-believers into «heaven» ~ but not the christians ~ everyone else burns forever.

Something about the smug look on her face as she looks back at the camera after depositing the pre-chewed food into her child's mouth just really rubbed me the wrong way...

The baby you've been quietly smug about when your friends complained about their bad sleepers, all of a suddenly and without explanation, turns into «one of them» (i.e. up all night or refusing to nap during the day).

And isn't it insanely annoying when you turn into what looks like an empty parking spot, only be confronted with one very smug and misplaced shopping cart?

Kate Taylor, resident relationship expert at Match, comments: «Singletons often stride into Christmas feeling quite smug.

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley do a fine job bringing life into this lifeless film but its supporting characters are overly cartoonish and smug that it's just hard to stay involved when everything around you is falling apart.

Filmmaker Blayne Weaver does a fantastic job of immediately luring the viewer into the proceedings, as the writer / director kicks things off with a fantastically entertaining sequence in which Sylvia launches into a vicious on - air tirade against Harmon's smug character.

Unsurprisingly, the removal project goes terribly awry — and at least some of the aliens» secrets are revealed — but along the way Wikus morphs from a smug, callous, sycophantic moron into one of the more unlikely motion - picture protagonists you'll ever see.

Badged up, with half a cup of coffee in me and the printed press screening guide — rendered mostly useless by a dozen last - minute schedule changes — stuffed into my backpack, I head into my first screening of the day: The Lesson, a contrived, slightly smug little Bulgarian number lightened by fitful bursts of suspense and black comedy, and directed in the kind of serioso handheld style that is traditionally associated with the Dardenne brothers, because they're the only ones who know how to pull it off.

by Walter Chaw Brutally overwritten, smug, and self - indulgent to no discernible point, Jason Reitman's disappointing Juno is an unfortunate attempt to marry Judd Apatow's sleazy morality plays with a Kevin Smith pop - cultural gabber — the result being a ventriloquism tract in which virgin screenwriter (formerly blogger) Diablo Cody crams so many unlikely gluts of verbiage into so many sterile, undeveloped characters that the whole production is the ultimate act of masturbatory puppetry.

Staunton is so smug and prissy, you will quite literally find yourself wishing for her gruesome death ten minutes into the movie.

Well, Brian's Next Big Thing is launching a satellite into the airspace above a sacred Hawaiian island for smug billionaire military contractor Carson Welch (Bill Murray, in a role most will say he phoned in, but looks as if it was cut to pieces in post, like most of the characters).

Yet somehow Roald Dahl's timeless kids - of - all - ages adventure has been transformed into a fatally flawed adult in - joke, hobbled by a smug sensibility that brings out the worst in screenwriter Noah Baumbach and director Wes Anderson.

There's no doubting that for the committed petrolhead there is a great deal of street cred to the humble 200SX, but slide from its shiny leatherette chair and into the cosseting Recaro in the Golf and you can't help but feel smug.

Have shared it in a couple of writing groups on facebook — and feeling slightly smug that I haven't fallen into any of their bugbear categories....

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

The humour still remains strong here, and it's hard not to smile as Anakin looks smug at fixing a ship before hitting the wrong button and sending it hurtling into space.

Being able to guide a boulder with a smug looking face carved into it as you wantonly destroy homes, enemies and innocent bystanders is wonderful fun, especially with the satisfying sounds of collisions and squishes.

Like the Minimalists, he belongs to an era of smug museum institutions, cramped official readings of sculpture's history, museums turning into global empires of the imagination, and office parks, while giving people a chance.

Safety, Yes Anna Rose was smug and her intentions were clear before going into the interview by throwing an ad hom at Jo and David before entering their home!

It quickly degenerated into an all out attack on all cyclists who are «so smug and yet so many of them break all the rules of the road and put themselves, pedestrians and even car drivers at risk.»

It was the weekend that had it all: promiscuous permissions dragged Google into the Facebook privacy row, Facebook apologised again while at the same time denying anything's wrong with its Android apps, and Tim Cook was totally not smug when he chimed into the privacy debate.

At worst, these discussions have devolved into mere gossip and opportunities for smug self - righteousness.

We are fortunate as we can be smug watching the American crash and having the foresight to apply the brakes before we go into a skid.