| Odd how it looks on a screen, free from all its euro-trash smarm slathered all over it. |
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| He plays smarm well, and his is the most interesting character in the film arguably. |
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| I think it's because he has a certain amount of smarm about him, perhaps it is just a reaction to that. |
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| It may be conscious, but it beats the smarm deployed by so many of their colleagues. |
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| Despite their rhetoric, their smarm, their thin veneer of respectability, they are racists by any intelligent definition. |
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| I don't think he would've been very thrilled with life in the no-smoking smarm of the Tofu Era. |
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| A poisson-out-of-water story that strings up Anglo-Franco Canadian tension without any social smarm. |
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| A student of smarm, he roamed the land dispensing jam tins of cash to people who at first glance appeared to be businesslike. |
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| I say to Mr Tamihere that businesses can smell it, and they are smelling that sort of smarm a mile away. |
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| But he did it with a trademark smarm and overpowering obnoxiousness that left Giblets coming back for more! |
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| He lacks style, he lacks smarm, he lacks sureness in his step. |
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| Still, the music moves along smartly and crisply and usually compensates for the smarm. |
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| Howard McGillin, in the role of Honoré, is devoid of Chevalier's twinkly smarm, but also of his pate, his paunch, and his Gallic worldliness. |
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| He could rail and cajole and smarm and pontificate to enthusiastic foreign audiences about the evils of Communism in Angola and then pass the hat. |
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| At moments like this — there are many more to come — Matthew Crawley was dangerously close to stepping from charm across into smarm. |
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| And he's spraying smarm like the worst kind of cornered politician. |
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| Jimmy Fallon's uncontainable glee is a welcome respite from late night's usual smarm and snark, but that's Fallon's thing. |
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| Certainly Hollywood has plenty of wanna-bes who could bring the appropriate amount of cheeky smarm to such a dubious enterprise. |
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| But I'm afraid the king of smarm, Des Lynam, will be the first to greet you, writes Steve Palmer. |
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| His smarm is an acquired taste, but, give him his due, he can at least interview people properly. |
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| Porcelain, moon-faced dandy channelling the smarm, yet none of the likeability of the late Bob Monkhouse, some say. |
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| For such searing, challenging dreams, we have only snark or smarm. |
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| Changing society is reflected in how we went from the pomposity of David Jacobs, through the insipid twitterings of Noel Edmonds to the smarm of Simon Bates. |
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