We smugly headed for disaster, confident in our abilities and worry-free because nothing had ever gone wrong before. |
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While I waited for him, slightly smugly, I found myself glancing once more at a notice board. |
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He somewhat smugly notes that 96 per cent of those polled believe in God or some other higher power. |
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Defenders of cognitive behaviour therapy are sitting smugly on a mountain of their own evidence. |
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When I told my friend about our good luck, she smugly told me it wasn't luck. |
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He examined his flat, slenderly muscled stomach, noted the distinct absence of red and green from his wardrobe, and scowled smugly. |
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In one of the many smugly tended, overpriced noodle shops we met Bob, a guide as sure-footed as a mountain goat. |
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It's ironic that a conservationist should so smugly place his own interests above the lives of the animals he destroys. |
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I heard the buzz that signaled for me to open the door and I smiled smugly as I walked in. |
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It's a saying that makes women livid with frustration and anger at the unfairness of life, while men can remain smugly secure in their bald spot. |
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Sooner, rather than later, library writers smugly mention their object-oriented approach. |
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Soaking in the sun amidst the abundant culture around, I sat back on a bench, smugly pleased with myself. |
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The machinations of Booker juries are a smugly guarded secret, but one senses a good few compromises and second-bests here. |
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An email follows asking you to attend, smugly knowing that you have no conflicting commitments. |
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With our unrefined ways and backwoods Malayali attire, we would sit coyly, yet smugly, as the juke-box sang at our command. |
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I swear he gets more smugly punchable with every appearance. |
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In our rush to judgment, we paint all welfare recipients with the same brush to smugly justify our inaction. |
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The Bloc talks for the sake of talking, but when it is time for action, it smugly rests on its laurels. |
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Rather, these grown-ups smugly go about their business, sipping drinks and schmoozing one another in hopes of earning a big return on their initial investments. |
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Yet, despite his shortcomings, he presides smugly over a programme in which young couples pit their attractiveness against that of their friends to win cash. |
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It is the kind of story about America that makes secular Europeans chortle smugly before turning to the horoscope page. |
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It happened when, having become smugly satisfied with my rendering of mickey mouse, I turned to Donald Duck. |
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Only a Liberal could sit back smugly and say that only Liberals know best when it comes to day care and one Liberal size fits all. |
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They learned that they could not sit smugly on the sidelines avoiding difficult moral choices that their friends had to make in a troubled world. |
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That said, we should beware of remaining smugly optimistic about what science and technology can achieve. |
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Lutherans may remain indifferent to this, smugly resting on our confessional history or the prestige achieved by our present dialogues. |
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Until this campaign, as Jonathan Rose observes, Canadians argued smugly that our politics was different. |
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So says Thomas Hobbes, whose definition of all laughter illuminates those moments when we smugly parade past the shrunken giants. |
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It makes me seethe with anger, the image of these people smugly congratulating themselves for their self-righteousness while hurting so many good and decent people. |
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Looking out of the viewports located at the front of the bridge, each ship sat silently, almost smugly, several kilometres away from the Levianthannic's bow. |
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We smugly watched and claimed victory at the end of the cold war not realizing the pent up ethnic nationalistic tensions that were just below the surface. |
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The opposition is sitting there very smugly right now. |
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The company used to say, a little smugly, that it pursued policyholders' long-term interests more assiduously than listed insurers because it did not have to worry about dividends. |
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Then I smugly polished off the chocolate on my pillow. |
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The more we give the more we receive,' she added smugly. |
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If I swanked around this place smugly suggesting to people they should cross over, it would be obnoxious, counter-productive and it's not who I am. |
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Above all, no one can be a business development leader who is a complacent person, satisfied to drift without aim, avoiding whatever hints at risk, smugly self-satisfied. |
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Congratulate Self smugly for installing wood stove. |
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Every time the federal government invests money in Quebec, the ministers strut about smugly, make wonderful announcements and sign fat cheques, but we must not forget that the money comes from taxpayers. |
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We could all sign up to it, and smugly walk away. |
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Because the details of the violent row between him and Celine Cawley were shrouded in ambiguity, he may smugly feel he has won the day and beaten the system. |
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A picture of Smug George is passed around, smiling smugly and chubbily. |
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