Champagne receptions and celebratory speeches were ditched to avoid seeming smug at a time of economic crisis.
And I have to admit to a smug feeling of superiority when we passed a hybrid-electric Toyota Motor (nyse: TM - news - people ) Prius.
"Things are loosening up, " says Paul Stoll, who can be excused a smug smile.
Her visit to a smug, shallow man about to be knighted will radically change his selfish, well-ordered world.
Among them: Pets.com (with its crooning sock puppet), Outpost.com (flying gerbils) and Furniture.com (a smug, talking cat named George).
Still, times are tough, so Steve, do you have a seemingly-cautious statement about the US economy that also doubles as a smug shot at your competitors?
In a sharper movie (and let's shoot for the moon here -- Barbara Stanwyck as the con woman in "The Lady Eve"), Diana would play Bateman's smug executive for a sucker and take him for everything he's got.
The Wicked Witch, Elphaba (originally played by the excellent Idina Menzel), turns out to be good, while Glinda the Good Witch (originally played by Kristen Chenoweth) is exposed as a smug, ambitious, manipulative bitch, with little talent for sorcery.
In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.
And if it does all work out, Ofcom will be entitled to feel just a little smug.
There were the demands I had made miraculously granted, looking a bit smug.
You can afford to feel a little smug about the deal, too.
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For most of the past four years, Europeans have been a little embarrassed, and Americans a little smug, about the performance of their currencies.
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"Skyfall" features all the usual elements -- the chases, the girls, the arch villain -- but recalibrated with intelligence and a less smug, more searching sensibility.
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For the past 30 years, he's done a fine job of spotting smug, listless managements and slamming them around like losers in a pro wrestling match.
The head of Icahn Enterprises has spent decades hunting for smug management teams, taking a stake in their companies, and then browbeating them into selling off assets, firing employees and whatever else it takes to jab a stock upward.
Nearly none of his "music-inspired" efforts get spared some hollering in a show of smug bravado, or foot-stomping, or the clapping of hands or the slapping of thighs, all about as artful and subtle as a jokester's "get it" elbow jab to the ribs.
Not to be smug, but the Irish need a reason to celebrate this year.
Mr. Obama should go after them, not a generation but a type, the smug and entitled.
Worry is the natural state at one of these affairs, but honestly this region has a lot to be smug about.
For the few lucky hoarders, this is a time to feel both smug and predatory.
Still, for the husbands who might be feeling smug about the results of her study, Brines has a bit of advice.
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They are insecure, proud of their freedoms but hungry for contact, anxious, frisky, smug, occasionally scared in short, they experience a mixture of emotions that many people, even those who do not live alone, are apt to recognize.
Starting July 26, the annual Oregon Brewers Festival will serve up more than 80 different craft beers from around the U.S. The ease of living on the cheap and chill can make the town feel smug at times, ripe for the satire of "Portlandia, " which has made the place a poster town for hipsterdom.
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