And all will be managed mainly by those who pack smug chuckles over the apish credulity of legions of the self-nominated august.
Also, he nurses a smug chuckle over the fact that criminal law, the fundamental office of which is to prevent crime, doesn't prevent.
I'll remember the smug feeling if we were the first of the nearby motels to fill up, or the relieved feeling if we were among the last.
The smug certainty of men in general that men are superior to women in every respect, except possibly motherhood, has always annoyed me.
The smug overcast of unbelief became glacial; in serene security in her husband's impeccability, no matter what the facts might be, she turned toward the house.
But she was little appreciative of this boon; she comprehended her surroundings with just a little languid resentment of their smug cleanliness and their atmosphere impregnated with effluvia of cheap edibles.
Nor is the smug and confident contention: "Medicine is a science, one and indivisible," so impressive and undented as it was.
The thunders of Sinai still roll in Lowell's fiery denunciations of smug conventionalities and wickedness in high places.
Such persons will only see in them blasphemies against their honoured gods; for this author is not suited to the smug self-complacency of Philistinism, 'sanding its sugar and praising its Lord.
But I can't be so very enthusiastic over the smug cits like Jack Elder.
The clatter was a relief to Carol after months of smug houses.
There is no smug Pullman attached to the train, and the day coaches of the East are replaced by free chair cars, with each seat cut into two adjustable plush chairs, the head-rests covered with doubtful linen towels.
This smug in-between town, which had exchanged "Money Musk" for phonographs grinding out ragtime, it was neither the heroic old nor the sophisticated new.
And the smug Puritans who amuse themselves in France with philanthropic experiments fancy that they are making the common people moral!
Then the smug face of Blakeman emerged from a thicket.
At luncheon Blakeman served the Burgundy without a trace upon his round, smug face of the indignation surging within him.
Sweating anxiety would have replaced Stryker's pontifical assurance, dried up his smug pattering of socio-psychological truisms lifted from the Colonial Reclamations Handbook.
You sound as smug as the Reorientation chapter you lifted that bit from," Farrell said.
The smugmeekness which he put on when she attacked him before others was bewildering.
She contorted her own face into smugfolly by way of illustration.
It was no time for the smug hypocrisies under which we people down town usually conduct our business--just as the desperadoes used to patrol the highways disguised as peaceful merchants.
For the diversions of society she had a profound contempt that did not fail to manifest itself in sharp sallies against the smughypocrisy of the times.
I didn't know you were ever anything but sort of smug and superior.
But they're all going right by today with smug expressions on their faces.
We're right up to snuff here on Main Island Creek," he added with a smug smile.
In the meantime settlers in the Valley of Virginia were growing more smug and prosperous.
Greenback Bob andSmug might have spent all their days in prison if they had possessed three lives apiece, so many were the counts against them.
He had left them,' that was all he would say; and by this we knew that Smug was doubtless the decoy who had lulled the suspicions of the victim and made it possible for the bolder spirits to do the deed of death.
Would Mr. Smug direct him to this affable agent upon Midway?
Smug had twisted the story, and made it serve his turn!
And now our smug friend demonstrated his ability to do quick work when occasion required.
It was while making this wild rush that I brought upon myself the attention of one of the very guards who had led me ignominiously away from the presence of Smug and the Camps.
The man in conversation with Smug was tall, and very straight, 'sort of stiff like,' and well dressed.
Delbras she had ever feared and hated, and Smug she despised as the coward decoy of the gang.
I had seen them start slowly on after the woman; but when I got upon the bridge I could just see the hat of your friend Smug in a jam some distance ahead, near the Electricity Building, and Bob, the eel, had vanished once more.
Once there, he knew that he could count upon their smug enjoyment of their own eminence to make them forget to notice whether or not he took his stand beside them.
I'd thin his beard If Heaven had mocked me with his long, smug face For husband!
Continually as she turned the pages from one fat smug Wainwright countenance to another, she saw in a mist the face of another man, with uplifted head and sorrowful eyes.
IX Ruth tried to control her perturbation and meet her guest with an unruffled countenance, but there was something about the bland smug countenance of Lieutenant Wainwright that irritated her.
She's promised to go to church with that smug cousin of hers, and she's busy all the rest of the day.
It seemed to loom before him with a smug triumphal sneer.
These were either of the industrial class, or of that petite bourgeoisie whose husbands, called to the colors, had been small clerks and had made just enough to keep their usually childless wives in a certain smug comfort.
