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(Actually, Syd gets it instinctively, another way in which she's smugly annoying.)
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.
When she had finished, the class Brain turned to the questioner and smugly elucidated, “So you see, you're a virgin.”
The universe exists to humiliate Brooks' protagonists, to remind them of the precariousness of everything that they'd smugly assumed was fixed--the steadiness of a job, the permanence of a relationship, the support of a mother, the benign regard of the universe.
, Lucas dramatizes the interrogation so ineptly that you either have to take Yoda's word that there's something wrong with the boy ("Clouded this boy's future is") or to conclude that Yoda, like us, is moving backward through time and has already seen Episodes 4 through 6. Anakin, he says smugly, has fear in him, and fear leads to anger and anger to the dark side--which would mean, as I interpret it, that only people without fear (i.e.