Subsconciously the pelican reminded her of her scientist husband, a greed self satisfied person.
The New Yorker, December 5, 1988 P. 41 Self satisfied, smug narrator delivers a monologue to a prospective friend.
By George W. S. Trow The New Yorker, December 5 , 1988P. 41 Self satisfied, smug narrator delivers a monologue to a prospective friend.
When Cotterill briefly assisted Howard Wilkinson at Sunderland a few years ago he certainly seemed a little smug and self satisfied but, at 45, the former Wimbledon striker appears to be mellowing nicely and now comes across extremely well.
In Mr. Morris's treatment, Mr. Rumsfeld comes across as mischievous, Machiavellian and self satisfied — "I was the youngest secretary of defense in history," he says of his time in the administration of President Gerald Ford.
In your first week, you have shown your star guests to be real and relatable, abrupt and self satisfied, and sometimes fragile.
That's because in attacking both atheism and religious faith, Bugliosi not only makes a passionate (and wildly amusing) argument for agnosticism, but also takes down the preening self satisfied so-called new atheists while also launching an attack on organized religion that can only make people like Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris drool with "wish-I'd-said-that" envy.
There is one fleeting scene at the end of the movie, when Jobs is onstage to unveil the new iMac, where the camera captures, in profile, Jobs' self-satisfied public smile, and does so with perfection.
And she has a brilliant impatience with the Merely Artsy she wants stories to do very high-level moral work (as do I) and she reminds me of this, and forces me to go back this higher-ground when I'm feeling tired and self-satisfied too early.
From the responsible outlook of what was good for the country, great segments of the population have now gone public with their private selves to satisfy that vanity and self-gratification on TV, tattooing themselves, overeating, not reading, cellular chitchatting, tweeting and Facebooking.
