Among Granirer's routines is a feigned phone conversation in which he unsettles a smarmy telemarketer.
Will the movie take its smarmy misogyny all the way, or will it pull back in the end?
Bias just comes in 37 different flavors, everything from subtle to smarmy to way off in left or right field.
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They play multiple instruments and sing in harmony about elegant gardens, dystopian futures, striving scientists, a smarmy impresario and much more.
Thenardier , the smarmy and scheming innkeeper and his baleful wife do plenty to influence the plot line of Les Miserables.
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No, it's not some smarmy Hollywood playboy or the same plastic surgeon.
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The joke is on the filmmakers: the disarmingly smarmy Nealon gets the most laughs, possibly because his droll depiction of simmering boredom reflects the feelings of the audience.
Still, it isn't clear that Ro knows how unprincipled she is, or that the Courier knows how disreputable it is, for the movie itself has a smarmy tabloid soul.
But it pulls back from its own brink with infantilizing music, smarmy affection and a sentimentalized climax that puts Chuck and Buck alike on the path of personal growth.
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Chip Zien warmly enacts Nat Danziger, a sincere, longtime father figure to Charlie and Marion, while Reg Rogers wears a smarmy air as ironically-named Smiley Coy, who executes Hoff's every controlling whim.
The Vanger men committed atrocious crimes against women in the past, and Salander, who is a ward of the state, is twice brutalized by a smarmy social worker who controls her money.
The new machines not only let players lose money the traditional way, praying for the right combination of bars, but engage them in a live-action family feud complete with a smarmy digital host.
After a 14-year run exploiting the jet set's "champagne wishes and caviar dreams" as the smarmy and unctuous anchor of TV's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Leach left the celebrity spotlight in 1996.
Without ditching his arsenal of ironic inflections and his nonpareil ability to make knowingness hilarious as well as smarmy, Murray takes Phil all the way through a prolonged winter of discontent and into a pixillated serenity.
That's why one's heart sinks at the banality of Mr. Weitz's screenplay, and the clumsiness of most of the cast: Dennis Quaid as the befuddled president, Marcia Gay Harden as his wife, Hugh Grant as the TV show's smarmy host, Chris Klein as an amorous soldier and Sam Golzari as Omer, the singing assassin.
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