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He saw Sweden as a country of smug and narrow provincialism, indifferent to the heroic spirit of its former glory.

He saw the smug eyes of the Home Army chief, Roman, and all the Romans and the faces of the peasants who held only hatred for him.

Julia Buck, the deceased '', Moore said, slipping me his smug, idiot-grin again.

But can we any longer afford the luxury of such smug indigation??

The fact is incontestable: that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened.

Smug, Owen thought, smug and sappy.

Steven Zhang of the Cornell Daily Sun has described the graduates of elite schools, especially those in the Ivy League, of having a " smug sense of success " because they believe " gaining entrance into the Ivy League is an accomplishment unto itself.

Official Nintendo Magazine listed him as the eighth greatest Nintendo moment, describing him as being smug and stating that they loathe him.

It is filled with precisely the kind of shrill hyperbole that Finkelstein rightly deplores in much of the current media hype over the Holocaust ; it is brimming with the same indifference to historical facts, inner contradictions, strident politics and dubious contextualizations ; and it oozes with the same smug sense of moral and intellectual superiority.

The film generated mostly negative reviews, with Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times describing it as " smug and reductive.

* South Park, The town of South park is beset by smug, in the episode Smug Alert !, a satirical reference to both smog and celebrities who wish to prevent environmental degradation.

The Sontarans depicted in the series have detached, smug personalities, and a highly developed sense of honour ; on multiple occasions, the Doctor has used his knowledge of their pride in their species to manipulate them.

NME magazine's Paul Du Noyer called the album " colossally smug and cosmically dull ; an interminable, vacuous and drearily egotistical stab at spirituality: Into the muzak.

An important part of the show's revival was Carvey's breakout character, The Church Lady, the uptight, smug, and pious host of Church Chat.

She initially plans to marry the wealthy, yet smug and self-possessed, Luzhin, to free the family from financial destitution.

Occasionally Moore shows snippets of the gorilla's foil, the Chucklin ' Duck, who is happy-go-lucky and naively optimistic, with smug saying such as " Heh heh!

He even had a Ukrainian girlfriend called Sonja, who was 33 years old — 14 years younger than himself ( a point Alan emphasises with the smug exclamation, " Cashback !").

Granted, that approach can occasionally produce a couple of naggingly catchy songs — particularly their breakthrough hit, ' Lump ' — but it basically results in a series of smug, self-satisfied songs that are neither funny nor catchy.

" Of Rotten Tomatoes ' " top critics ," only Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader disliked Absence of Malice, writing that " the picture has a smug, demoralizing sense of pervasive corruption.

If the US uses its veto at the security council, this will prove the smug windbag Obama to be the puppet of Aipac.

One of the show's few negative reviews came in the Sunday Mercury, which stated: " His whole tone is one of complete, smug condescension ".

Guest stars were conned into taking part in these plays and made to utter such grammatical monstrosities as when Glenda Jackson ( at the time a noted Shakesperian actress ) had to say, " All men are fools and what makes them so is to have beauty, like what I have got ", to the obvious smug satisfaction of the words ' supposed author.

Reassuring gesture, concerned brow, smug smile ").

" Charlie surveyed the classroom but it was really his mother congratulating himself for snatching the higher test grade, the smug smirk on his face growing brighter and brighter as he confirmed the inferiority of his peers.

Characteristically, of course, the " smug smirk " provides a facial imagery of Charlie's pride.