Sentence examples for smug author from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chaplin may just be that person, though his career as a smug author exploiting the lives of serial killers should probably tag him as the personification of Evil.

Adds Stan Kaplan, "Except in Beverly Hills--which still has high levels of smug". A French author has come out with a book called "How to Fool Around Without Getting Caught". Says Steve Voldseth, "How'd you like to come home and find your spouse reading that one?" The movie industry is studying ways to dispose of 15,500 tons of film waste that accumulates every year.

Maya has a suspicion that the smug best-selling crime author Peter Kelson Ben Chaplinn) may be the manifestation of Evil as spelled out in the quotation that starts the film: "A man born of incest will become Satan and the world as we now know it will exist no more".

Apart from authoring the smug manuals Notting Hell and Shire Hell, nobody's quite sure what she's for.

What do you think will happen when the author bumps into the smug critic of his book at a party for another author's book?

By the time she stopped, she was (in all but name) a Smug Married with two children and the author of a novel that was about to be shortlisted for the Booker and made into a film.

Brad Gooch, the author of "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor," forwarded me a smug message he got from a reader well versed in poultry nomenclature: "On Page 7 you report how she bought a pair of peacocks.

The authors are at their most titillating — and, unfortunately, their most smug — when they're playing shrink, attributing quite a number of statistically quantifiable sports phenomena to certain psychological concepts.

But, if sometimes boring or smug, the old New Yorker fiction department had always been efficient, and authors and agents at times complained about Mr. Buford's procrastination in responding to submissions.

Author reviews of war books, plays and Armistice Day shoddy editorial in Times which deprecates in a smug way that there should be no unmanly whimpering about the war which had to be gone through.

Sam Allardyce's smuggest smug face.