There was neither disappointment in loss nor smugness in victory, just a silent, respectful return to their positions.

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But that amounts to the sin of smugness, not dreams of playing Athens to America's Rome.

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Oh the smugness that inspired in me as I waltzed across the ramparts.

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Any smugness in Europe about Enron, however, has not lasted long.

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Mac users demonstrate an indefensible smugness when it comes to the dangers of having their systems compromised by malicious software and opened up to exploitation by others.

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Yet beware of smugness: Sembene is a dialectician.

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Shawn McBride, vice president of sports marketing at Ketchum Public Relations, says Rodriguez emits an image of smugness and ego, making him a target for a public that takes a certain amount of joy in knocking someone like that down a peg.

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