Sentences with phrase «smug in»

Whether it's to make you feel smug in your professional security or give you some guidance as to where to look, here's a list of five of the most common English graduate jobs.

You fire the lot over to an exchange where the first coin you purchase shoots up by 10 % before you sell, smug in the knowledge that you've made it.

You seem smug in you ignorance and use that as a weapon to knock down any one trying.

Of course, without data, it is real easy to feel smug in denying that AGW could be remotely correct.

It's easy, in this world of food awareness, to feel a bit smug in our choices.

making home - made soup from scratch is wonderful and easy, and it's nice being smug in a pair of shoes that cost next to nothing.

His extremely vulgar and poorly executed sculpture of himself in the buff lying alongside the Italian porn - star - turned - politician Cicciolina was flanked by laser - painted canvases of the slickly unamorous couple, unveiled and smug in various revealing close - ups — which gave the term «site - specific» a whole other meaning.

The soothsayers had a brief opportunity to be smug in 2013, when rates spiked in the spring and caused bond prices to fall sharply.

I felt very smug in December 2008.

Below our trio sit the big - engined diesel variants of the same cars, so smug in their claims that «in the real world» they're just as quick, while offering lower CO2 and fuel consumption.

It's not infallible — the Bill Conti score is all kinds of wrong, and Pierce overdoes smug in all the ways you probably remember.

Meyers seemed to know that he maybe wasn't the most worthy ambassador for the community just now, but there was also something smug in that knowing.

A bleak journey through an underground tunnel brings to mind one of the finest chapters in Stephen King's The Stand; similar such references are far from being smug in - jokes, but rather uniquely appreciative of previous horror texts.

Luke Wilson's hapless (and literal) average Joe emerges from a 500 - year hibernation to find himself the one - eyed man in the land of the unbelievably stupid: surly, hostile, smug in their self - assurance and utterly clueless about the problems created by the shitheap they're living in.

I thought I was a great packer, sitting in the car / plane all smug in my efficiency, but then I would get out of the shower, and need to sit in a group to discuss plans for the evening and would have to do so in my pj's or fancy maxi dress.

Usually I'm the last one to get it, and I'll sit smug in the knowledge of my superior handwashing protocols until I'm the one who's flattened for days, instead of for about 18 hours.

With # 28 million put away, Mourinho must have been smug in his decision - making as a Premier League and League Cup were secured and accusations of mismanagement over Lukaku were forgotten.

The fight doesn't go too well for the conscientious kid trying to do things the «right way» and he gets pummeled, but he remains smug in the fact that he can take the puritanical high road and can cock a snook at those who rely on external factors to win rather than doing things «the right way».

Smug in their belief they are better than everyone else, but we all see you are mere mortals like the rest of us and have the same problems and issues as anyone.

They are consumed with how dirty sex is in general, and seem smug in their «wisdom» that same - sex attraction is controllable, and a sin against God.

But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians — when they are somber and joyless, when they are self - righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.»

Evangelicals are so self - absorbed, indoctrinated, and smug in their assertion that a god exists, that they can't imagine in their wildest dreams that someone could «really, really» not believe.

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.

The current critique charges the Church and the churches with being part of the Establishment, white, middle - class, tax - free, economically secure, insensitive to the needs of minorities, smug in wealth, sot in structures, bureaucratic in organization.

@martinipaul My goodness, you're not smug in your ignorance at all, are you?

Yeah, he comes off smug in his attack on smug, but it takes one to know one.

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.»

You are smug in your mythology.

I think God intended that — it is a way of making us creative instead of smug in our belief.

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.

And while the debate over the impact of unlimited money in politics may seem like an American problem, we probably shouldn't get too smug.

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 didn't find the character representative of me,» Miller says, saying that he appeared «smug» in the film.

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.

-RRB- is a smug, self - serving, fatuous little how - to tract for successfully pandering to popular taste in the name of communicating the gospel.

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.

End Religion, perhaps you should look in the mirror and wipe that smug look off of your face.

I know that the church has many faithful voices, whose week - in, week - out proclamation of Christ continues courageously in spite of the smug apathy generated by the consumeristic wealth of our culture.

By far the biggest figure in the drawing, shown holding a flaming torch with a smug, crazed look on his face, was Benedict XVI.

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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.

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Neglect does not usually spring from the fact that we are too smug, too complacent, or too engrossed in our own riches to bother with the bereft.

Keep in mind that this smug attack on the Catholic Church first ran in April.

When, in the end, God allows Satan to tear the arms and legs off progressive liberals, I only hope I can watch from above, with a smug grin on my face which I hope those same tools will be able to see, and not be rid of, during their eternal stay.

There is something in that, but for the most part it is smug self - delusion.

I don't think I saw any dancing in the street's but there were more than a few smug smirks and tacit approval from the Christian right and Fox pundit's.

i do not feel in any way smug to offer another human being valuable insight that i gained through personal learning.

Readers might be repelled by the tone of smug self - righteousness in Homosexuality, but that is to miss the underlying urgency in these assertions of self - approval, an urgency that betrays a terrible desperation.