| A visitor from California is Diana's brother, Adam, who is running for Congress, accompanied by his young, smarmily solicitous secretary, Jamie. |
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| I don't ignore the fact that many of us, as kids, really did respond to him, but likely with confusion and then wariness at having our expressed pleasure promptly, smarmily congratulated. |
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| The Jets-Patriots game got full entertainment billing Sunday night with its story line of good versus evil, upstart versus faltering powerhouse or loud versus smarmily annoying — depending on your point of view. |
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| Yes, Theroux has an irritiating way of smarmily befriending people while being sickeningly sarcastic and condescending but most of his subjects deserve it. |
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| And she is not as smarmily annoying as Mr Lineker has become, either. |
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| Alfie's to camera commentary is retained, but you never get the same sense of it being a confidante, more of a gimmick that quickly becomes smarmily smug and irritating. |
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