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smugness
1. As he walked past his step-mother he looked at her quizzically, saw nothing but bland middle aged smugness, and trotted down the stairs
2. quizzically, saw nothing but bland middle aged smugness, and
3. Hilderich was smiling with what could only be characterized as smugness
4. Moreover, such misunderstanding of cause and effect should not be used to rationalize one's own smugness, laziness, or apathy
5. was a smugness about him that made Lucy very
6. “If you had been here, you could have done something to save this man, you with your mind-skills and smugness, surely that would not have been too much for you?”
7. smugness of his greater knowledge, his voice fading as Moshe moved away
8. She gazes at Chelsea, a little smugness peeping through the mask of feigned indifference
9. “Perhaps you are correct or perhaps you are not saying anything the oracle wishes to hear,” Xin commented with a hint of pretend smugness
10. “That jerk! He all but told me that he was going to be with you all the time! He probably knew that our schedules don’t collide while we’re in school! Now he rubs it in my face with his stupid magick! And, and… I want to punch the smugness out of his annoying pixie face but I can’t because he’ll probably fry my butt with some type of voodoo crap
11. Not only did Karit say it with such smugness and hate, but he didn’t even bother to look at Marina-instead keeping his gaze at the trees as if he were speaking the fruits and not her
12. His face was a study in smugness
13. ” There was a slight smile that appeared quickly, which could have been mistaken for smugness, but which was intended to ease the tension surrounding attorney-client privilege
14. His expression was one of confident smugness
15. He itemised the names of all who had died as a result of their actions and ticked each name of with smugness, as though he were checking Lotto numbers
16. She didn't want to think about him or his egotistical mission, going as far as to display smugness about his success thus far
17. " He said with smugness
18. She looked up as Matilda entered the room, her face a kaleidoscope of smugness and fear, determined to finish telling Philip what she had witnessed but wary of how Matilda might react to this
19. Her smugness had something to do with me
20. That wiped the smugness off both faces
21. ‘Now you see?’ he said with a touch of smugness
22. I could hear smugness in his voice and Nathaniel’s arms became
23. smugness, instead he looked at both girls as they returned to their seats, his sheepish wonder apparent by his expression
24. The small ego inflated film star, the bodyguard was paid to look after, stood behind his eclipsing bulk and sneered at Byron with the smugness of safety
25. “Your pants are wet,” she said with a hint of what sounded like smugness
26. He looked Therese directly in the eyes, all signs of smugness gone
27. With an air of smugness, Amy smiled and said, “I bet he was out looking for a kill
28. In veiled reference to Novak"s network, she said, “Our smugness in strength is a
29. ” Liam’s face lit up with abject smugness at the partial compliment
30. Even if he couldn't read minds he could see his thoughts were racing with manipulative plans just from the smugness of his smile
31. This one-sided arrogance and one-sided smugness and one-sided blindness is what we as a species must face and admit and deal with if we are to avoid becoming inhuman machines used by tools to maintain them; not living people, and repair them; not living people and create more of them; not living people, and take care of them; not living people, and love them; not living people, and spend out lives with them; not living people
32. On many levels, this perception of separation is encased in its own set views: often there is a total block of arrogance, smugness, denial, avoidance and indifference
33. Arthur saw her smugness and…and what?
34. What will kill them is simple: their pride: the arrogance: their smugness: will be punctures: their egos will be destroyed
35. To the cost of lost human potential and creativity, the cost in loss of choice and diversity, the cost in global environmental destruction, in saddling future generations with the horrific problems of pollution, landfills, polluted groundwater, toxic waste that cannot be recycled, the cost of future recycling, waste cleanup, the cost of all the gradual environmental degradation which takes years to be noticed, the cost of the poverty and misery of billions of human souls, the cost of comfort-addicted arrogance, smugness, the cost of the total indifference and disconnect between the rich and the poor; just to name a few aspects that must be included into the cost of anything that is manufactured and sold on a mass basis in our capitalistic system
36. By showing stories of humans suffering and disasters: this creates a false sense of smugness, arrogance, security and superiority
37. rising levels of arrogance, smugness, and outright criminal behaviour, rising levels of gangsterism as the rising tide of self-indulgence wipes out everything that older generations learned the hard way by earning their learning
38. ’ Until it makes them incapable of being honest about so many things; their selective tool-brain whitewashes, avoids, censors, deflects, changes, manipulates so much of the human psyche; that you get a twisted, stunted, deformed version of reality, of their humanity… until you get pride, arrogance, smugness, blindness, inhumanity
39. What better way of deluding the masses into thinking that these Royal families were on their side, but to go to war? The schizoid split between the familial/clan togetherness of European royal society all being intermarried with each other and related to each other, and each royal family’s nation going to war against the other so millio0ns of the lower class could die in their name as mortal enemies while they retained their fucking personal friendships is a moral ethical filthiness born of pure royal stupidity, royal smugness and royal arrogance
40. The ease and comfort of any repetitive tool-use: whether it is using our bodies, or our minds as tools, indoctrinates people into non-learning smugness, blindness and unawareness
41. By not training and teaching our children hardship and self-sacrifice, by only teaching them the ethic of self-gratification: modern consumer culture has doomed billions to shallow, unhappy lives; poisoned by greed, selfishness, egoism, arrogance, smugness, cowardice, dishonesty, and all the other vices that modern civilization nurtures and promotes
42. They have a smugness an arrogance, and a stupidity about them that is so obscene: it makes you want to vomit
43. The pride and arrogance and smugness we feel from living safely inside this artificial civilization, the pride and arrogance and smugness we have from having the advantage of civilization…is precisely because we are an ‘exception’ to all of these universal laws that all other living things obey and follow… that we are an exception to the very laws of physics which we ourselves use for our own advantage, but never follow ourselves
44. The arrogance and smugness of all the people of Europe, Russia and the British isles; the creation of new machines of death; machines that hated the animal who created these machines of death: creating an animus of hatred against their users
45. disease is your complacency and smugness and inability to deal with life in an adult fashion
46. What he felt like right now was strangling the smugness out of the man sitting opposite him
47. smugness on their faces
48. Larsen was taken aback for a moment, then regained his smugness, “You
49. My moment of smugness fades
50. You wouldn’t call it smugness or self-importance; Claire didn’t run that way