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For example, the new books say that it was Israel, not the Arab states, which held the military advantage in the 1948 war for independence, and that Palestinians left their land not because they smugly assumed Israel would lose the war but because they were afraid or forced out by Israeli soldiers.
(Actually, Syd gets it instinctively, another way in which she's smugly annoying.)
Black was also chosen by women who took their cues from those men, by austere, anxious, or smoldering femmes fatales , such as George Sand, who felt alone among their smugly blooming sex.
Once more he's taken an issue which he modeled as a silly yes-or-no question, extended the consequences of this answer to ridiculous lengths, and smugly pronounced the conclusions as the only logical result.
WASP started off with a pejorative nuance, it seems to me, but has been accepted so smugly by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants that the term has been appropriated by some people it doesn't fit, for instance Americans of German or Irish descent who may be agnostics of Catholic background.