Sentences with phrase «smug tone»
Detestable characters, smug tone, twee fantasy elements combined with cynical reasoning — nothing about this movie works.
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IT IS three weeks after the end of time, and at the Post-Universe Conference of Cosmology and Other Loose Ends, Professor Adams is standing in front of a restless audience telling them in smug tones what they already know.
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.
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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.
The book's tone reflects the same smug triumphalism that is found in Lewis's better - known works.
The knowing references to basement tinkerers and smug climate activists reinforce McEwan's smart, sardonic tone.
-- and big - picture tone - deafness, such as the film's overall smug «meta» attitude.
At times, the self - congratulatory tone makes for smug viewing and slow going.
His it's - so - obvious tone can seem downright smug too -LSB-...]
These experiences, each cathartic in their own way and each described in Gordon's carefully crafted but emotionally frank language, set the tone for this remarkable book, one that is passionate without self - pity, revealing but not gossipy and never smug.
He always reminds me of the smug and condescending tone of BBC Radio4's «feedback» when a beeber smacks down one of the little people that pays for his salary.