Sentences with phrase «too smug»

Now I don't want to sound too smug, but our real estate market for the past year has been pretty active.

Some people are too modest and others too smug.

As AI fills the spectrum of automation, knowledge workers should not be too smug.

So it's easy to see coal as the biggest loser here, but Big Oil shouldn't feel too smug.

You are too smug.

He doesn't have a smart phone and is probably too smug about it.

But don't get too smug.

But don't get too smug, sun lovers.

Some reviewers feel that Ananka (who narrates the story some years later) is a little too smug for her own good and that Kiki's motivations are not as wholesome as they might be; but, overall, most critics and readers look forward to further adventures from this band of strong, street wise, girls who show that girl power rules and it's cool to be clever.

But the whites of Northwest DC shouldn't be too smug.

warns against: too smug, too smart, and appealing mainly to an audience of jaded sycophants thirsty for blood, dick jokes, and the ability to nail broad call - outs to the most - consumed entertainment products in the history of mankind.

There's a fair whiff of Dawson's Creek Syndrome too — that is, teens sprouting eloquence and witticisms way beyond theirs or anyone's years and it can be a little too smug, smart and self aware.

Jodie Foster's directing comeback — starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — wants to sock it to capitalism, but it's just too smug to take seriously

It's too cerebral and too smug.

Like Road Runner, the masked man in tights can be a little too superior, too smug.

But before we get too smug about our superior intellect and ability to

But if you are congratulating yourself for your lack of fashion knowledge — maybe you're that person who bucked the trend by wearing bright pants — don't be too smug.

Granju and I differ a bit on whether attachment - parenting advocates tend to get too smug and preachy.

I couldn't be too smug as we too had not scored against lowly Sunderland.

Would like to see it --- Lillard and McCollum just too smug for my liking.

Don't get too smug.

led us to disdain the old - style liberals, who for all their declared intention to make the country a more expansive place were in our view too smug of spirit and too banal of mind to be truly open to the new.

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.

You are too smug.

OCTOBER 18, 2006: Acclaimed B.C. writer Terry Glavin begins his Dissent column on The Tyee under the headline: «Is the Left too smug?

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.

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I've often griped about editorial calendars being too complex and have secretly been smug about the simplicity of my own editorial calendar template.

Too bad because otherwise, you'll live what you may think is a full life but is actually vacuous, empty, selfish, smug and small.

I'm able to find something good in the over-the-top excessive prosperity preachers and the smug theologians and the pot - stirring elitists and the overly passionate kids in the stadium light shows and the evangelistic new mothers and the disillusioned bitter cynics, because I'm all of those things, too.

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.

Like a coward he refuses to look at the camera, has a smug, holier - than - thou expression, hates how he was born so he has mutilated his ears, too lazy to shave and get a real job he makes money from preaching his religious beliefs to others, gets his «opinion» published SOLELY because he steals Stedman Graham's name to try to validate himself.

You could be eating one in 5 minutes and enjoying a taste of pure Christmas along with the smug knowledge that what you're eating is super healthy too!

It's still way too early in the season to know if they'll actually win the World Series — hell, the Indians were literally one game away from being champs last year and couldn't pull it off — but you can forgive if any SI editors feel a little smug about their mag's prediction this summer.

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».

And the story, which Ariel Dorfman adapted from his radical - chic play, is too contrived and smug to really hold.

Some will find it touching, some will be too weary of the plot contrivances and the smug Stone family to care.

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Robbins is almost too blatantly smug and insincere as husband Bill but Lane is superb as a smart, engaged, seemingly - empowered wife and mother who only begins to acknowledge how unhappy she really is under the pressure of the TV surveillance crew.

She experiences an all - too - rare moment of deflation when her smug knitwear - loving boyfriend Warner (Matthew Davis) dumps her to head for Harvard Law School and find a partner who's «a Jackie, not a Marilyn».

Michael Sheen makes a lovely cameo as Brad's smug friend, but this is Stiller's film, and while his character's envy of his son's accomplishments is reprehensible, it's all too believably human.

The pair of conquering tyros almost manage not to sound too ecstatically smug.

«Deadpool 2» will be arriving this summer too, thirsty to please its adolescent - minded male audience with its exhaustive (and exhausting) brand of smug lewdness.

But this moderately progressive noodle - scratching is never as radical or original as the film seems to think it is, and its build - up to a literal retelling of the Bluebeard myth it had only teased earlier is too self - satisfied and smug to have the impact Garland obviously intends.

Though his marriage to Sherrie (Kyra Sedgwick) is comfortable, he finds himself drowning in discontent — stuffy departmental dinners at which he drinks too much, smug colleagues whom he dislikes yet fears he resembles, and an endless stream of untalented students.

She too was at Voyeur looking smug as sh-t that night because there are reports that they were all partying together.

I liked Headlead's last film, Bachelorette, but this, with name - checks for Aaron Sorkin and Game of Thrones, seems smug and overindulged, with several scenes feeling like they've been improvised way past a point when that's a good thing, while Sudeikis looks at least five years too old.

Barton was so smug, it was a little too easy to tell he was a corrupt cop.

We don't get enough of him, but see too much of Ben Mendelsohn's smug, cartoonish villain.

Despite DeHaan's appropriately smug performance, Lockhart is an inconsistent protagonist, too.

Indeed, John Wick holds up years later as a straightforward yet savoury revenge drama with tragedy to spare (our protagonist is spurred to action by not only a dead wife and a stolen car but a murdered puppy, too), backstory that knows not to overstay its welcome (Wick is an erstwhile member of an international assassin class that gathers for respite in plush underground lodgings and abides by a strict professional code), and action that doesn't quit, all sauced up with a just - slightly smug sense of self - awareness.