Sentences with phrase «smart alec»

But I'm pretty sure this answer will get me labeled as a smart alec, so let's dig into this question a bit.

There can be no doubt or debate on the excellent sound quality of HomePod, and perhaps this is why people want more from this smart alec.

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The Marshall & Warren saga, among other similar ones, should be a salutary lesson the legions of smart alec consensus freaks who volutarily give up the capacity to think for themselves on the merits of evidence based propositions.

And are you aware that there may be some people who will try and trip you up using smart alec comments and silly religious dogma?

«I don't believe in fairy tales about chakras, or energy,» he scoffs, and the film's success lies in how much pleasure it takes in undermining this self - important smart alec, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Basically, that meant that at a time, Cooper was seen as the nice guy from Alias then the jerk from Wedding Crashers and then the good looking smart alec from The Hangover.

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Then also that he would have some dreamy smart alec comment about it and we'd all giggle.

I'm not trying to make a smart alec comment.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, no smart alec answer?

Go ahead and respond with some smart alec comments, but this argument won't go anywhere until you just get on your knees and pray and ask God to know the truth.

They suddenly become one of those annoying smart alecs back in Primary School, covering up their homework and refusing to let you take a peek at their answers.

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(The cartoon is the picture on the left for all you smart - alecs out there!)

A little more off - kilter is Miles Teller, who has a bit of fun as Willard, a trucker hat - wearing smart - alec with two left feet.

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And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

[2] AEP President, Nicholas K. Akins, spoke on «A Smarter Approach to Improving our Environment: Addressing the Costs of Proposed EPA Regulations on Energy Affordability,» sponsored by the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting.