At one and the same time it's devoid of reality and insufferably full of itself.

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Anthony Lewis, who retired in 2001 and died this March two days shy of his 86th birthday, was insufferably smug too.

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Further complicating matters is the fact that most banks adopted the Basel rules reluctantly in the first place and implementation has been insufferably slow.

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He could be insufferably priggish, but he was not rigid.

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