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Example sentences for: smugness

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smugness, until awakened by the hard-working Californians they complain so much about.
"I hear some saying that his friendly outgoing personality on TV is mistaken for a smirk and smugness," a "senior Republican official" was quoted as saying in the Dec. 8 Boston Globe . "A few have said to me, 'He has to make sure that charm is not mistaken for arrogance.
Maslin had a voice: As gung-ho as she is today but more deeply felt, more confident while still refreshingly free of the insider smugness of so much writing on rock.
However--and you may choose to call me a smug foreigner who is also sensitive to "smugness" on the part of the superpower--I thought it self-congratulatory, ill-considered, and decidedly anecdotal.
Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times that although Gates "delineates his characters' predicaments with a pitch-perfect ear," the collection suffers when "a certain authorial smugness creeps into the narration," which leaves the reader "feeling superior to his characters, irritated with their solipsistic mind games and self-inflicted wounds."