Not to be smug, but the Irish need a reason to celebrate this year.
Maybe the Obama campaign mavens drilled their candidate hard on not appearing smug or too self-confident.
Mr. Obama should go after them, not a generation but a type, the smug and entitled.
Coulter's smug rally to become "single-issue voters" smacks of panic she accuses others of experiencing.
Hodgman gets all the laugh lines, and Mr. Mac comes off as the smug little twit.
By contrast, Mr Long's Mac comes across as mildly but increasingly smug and irritating.
For the few lucky hoarders, this is a time to feel both smug and predatory.
"Things are loosening up, " says Paul Stoll, who can be excused a smug smile.
The good news for Democrats is that Obama delivered the goods without looking too snippy or smug.
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Champagne receptions and celebratory speeches were ditched to avoid seeming smug at a time of economic crisis.
And if it does all work out, Ofcom will be entitled to feel just a little smug.
The Lib Dems, though, are rarely smug about the pivotal role they could play at that point.
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Her visit to a smug, shallow man about to be knighted will radically change his selfish, well-ordered world.
She likes her subjects young, beautiful and troubled, not middle-aged, smug or overweight.
Among them: Pets.com (with its crooning sock puppet), Outpost.com (flying gerbils) and Furniture.com (a smug, talking cat named George).
In it, he had the kind of smug smile of someone who feels lucky to be who he is.
There were the demands I had made miraculously granted, looking a bit smug.
It also the smug feeling when your high school rival shows up at the reunion wearing an extra 100 pounds.
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Mr Mankell is obsessed by the way that the smug Swedes respond to disruptive forces like immigration and criminal gangs.
At the much, much higher prices now prevailing, they have no such protection, only the smug knowledge of past returns.
Before McCain-voters get too smug, I should point out that shoppers in right-leaning states indulge in another hedonistic pursuit: overeating.
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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.
Worry is the natural state at one of these affairs, but honestly this region has a lot to be smug about.
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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Admittedly, taking Mr Geneen at his extraordinarily smug evaluation of himself requires an effort at forgetfulness on the part of his readers.
But my own friends weren't poor urban believers or smug God-talking suburbanites.
Clients of banks other than UBS and LGT shouldn't get too 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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His memory was astounding, and his explanations to the jurors, whom he often addressed directly, were so smooth that they came across as almost smug.
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