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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.
When she had finished, the class Brain turned to the questioner and smugly elucidated, “So you see, you're a virgin.”
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.
(Actually, Syd gets it instinctively, another way in which she's smugly annoying.)