Sentences with phrase «with smug»

Elder statesmen annoy the crap out of you with their smug homilies when you're battling in the trenches of early childhood — all that «the days are long but the years are short» stuff.

Everyone who wants to sound smart in the real estate community makes this pithy statement with a smug air of worldly knowledge.

We survivors, having lined our bull pens with new faces, face this threat with a smug confidence that our staff won't be lulled by the siren call of being their own boss, corporate relocation, international referrals, exit strategies and peace in the Middle East.

And with a smug, self - satisfied grin on his bloated face, Shamus demures «Oh, but it does Mikey; you see... it was in Mary's hand writing!»

Apparently people have been driving past to see, with a smug look on their face.

Now, climate science denialists have welcomed the paper as a great big serving of «I told you so» with smug sauce and an overbearing garnish of self - satisfied rodomontade.

I suspect you think you've scored a point with your smug drive - by comment, but just in case you would like to learn, I'd suggest you start by reading the article and the many excellent comments above, which are informative and build knowledge (though I'd skip the conspiracy stuff, which is neither useful nor likely).

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.

so don't start with this smug and arrogance that you think only exists on the pc end of things.

Kotick ended with a smug «We have growth and we're making money.

We saturate our humanity with our smug achievements.

Some poets are heavily immersed in a universe of obscure knowledge, writing poems about historical characters or works of art, almost with a smug chal

She would then affix copies of the headline to several pigeons and send them off with smug satisfaction.

«Whenever I see a literary agent sitting in a restaurant with that smug little look of omnipotence as he fussily picks at his food, I just feel an urge to run up to his table and belt him in the face.»

«Catered» food has a bad reputation, but I dare any nursery who wear their «home cooked» badge with smug pride to go up against Healthy Roots.

In New Leaf, she will get along with smug, lazy, peppy, and other normal villagers.

Huffman's performance being the sort of stunt in a minor independent film that plays fast and loose with smug liberal paternalism should guarantee her an Oscar nomination — and it can't hurt that another Leonardo DiCaprio doppelgänger arrives post-Michael Pitt in the form of Kevin Zegers, trailing a little pathos and a little inappropriate titillation on his thin shoulders.

He also gets along easily with smug and uchi villagers, and sometimes cranky villagers as well.

A variety of flashy teams compete, with a smug teenaged opponent (Jesse «Casper» Brown) and farting, urinating old homeless man (Frank C. Turner) thrown in, for good measure.

Hedges» previous outing as writer - director, the Steve Carell Touchstone dramedy Dan in Real Life, disappointed in similar ways, but this one goes much further, outraging with its smug depictions of factory layoffs, young romance, stock villains, and familial strain.

He and his wife visit his brother, Chaz (a delightfully smarmy Joshua Close), where they watch him massage a joint of ham with a smug grin.

Sewell doesn't do so much — just zap us with his smug smile — but it's enough to save «Bless the Child» from mediocrity.

Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara watched with smug satisfaction Thursday as a judge slapped the second of Albany's «three men in a room» with prison time.

The music industry reacted with smug indifference at first and panic later, but the almost - inevitable result has been an explosion of new niches and the gradual decline of mass music brands.

I watched Wenger on SKY Sports and he annoyed me with his smug grin and his I am in charge and you Fans know nothing but keep spending your hard earned money on Arsenal because the shareholders need it.

Now you write an article with a smug retort saying @Twig and myself must be unhappy because you were right, and I again call you out for missing the point....

You bloated Americans with your smug sensibilities and stodgy rules.

No one sympathizes with smug faced Conte and the Chelsea players who are a bunch of mercenaries.

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 playing the gatekeeper with smug, self - righteous pride when it is God who decides who comes to the table, God who makes the guest list, God who opens the doors the Kingdom.

Your comments are based on the worst kind spiritual nonsense, laced with a profound level of ignorance regarding depressive illnesses, and presented with a smug arrogance that reveals a cold heart.

So the character in this cartoon may stay in the church out of fear, under the authority of the sadistic pastor with the smug look in his face while the thinks with glee of the alternative with the character being in a firey torment.

,» and liberals responded with smug salvos of «What is the Question?»

You athiests with your smug hatred towards our loving Jesus will learn the hard way.

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.

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

The politically active groups then point to such cases with smug Schadenfreude.

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.

Actually, he is unpopular with many other Asian leaders, who dislike his smug, undiplomatic manner, though they envy his accomplishments.

Sure, you can be smug about the fact that you're saving money and your friends aren't, but people who proclaim loudly that they never try to keep up with the Joneses sound a lot like a politician loudly denying that he posted that picture on Twitter.

lately I've read and watched a fair amount of athiest literature and while I agree with the basic idea I would like to think the same things without the smug condescending hubris.

Looks like somebody is a smug 1L with no understanding of employment discrimination law.

The very same people who want nothing to do with God, are the very same ones who always submit the smug, sarcastic posts that mock Him.

I agree, and Mike's smug reply was quite predictable... they always counter logic with «I'll pray for you».

I think there's a pretty nice cycle for seminary students: year 1: totally enthusiastic, young idealistic faith year 2: fairly smug, enthralled with knowing and using hip theology terms year 3: tired, disillusioned, a little bitter, anti-something or other year 4: just starting to get over one's self, wanting to «get out there»

This program was presenting a viewpoint with the kind of smug assurance of rightness that simply caricatured the views I hold.

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.

When pragmatic Christians accept this they will become less smug when dealing with Judaism and Islam.

The thesis linking Calvinism with the rise of industrialization reflects this ambivalent world - hating but smug and exploitative attitude.

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.»