| This film has not a trace of smugness, or the superiority of moral virtue which is blind to reality. |
| Moretti handles the material with considerable grace and skill, though the smugness and solipsism of his screen persona occasionally grates. |
| He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away. |
| Professor Hart disabused me of my addled adolescent liberalism and smugness over the four years I was his student as an undergraduate. |
| If this is the worst trouble we see all tournament, I shall have to fight the feelings of smugness very hard indeedy. |
| Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this astonishing story is the smugness of its tone. |
