Sentence examples similar to smug intelligence from inspiring English sources

Yet its single most special effect has gone frustratingly unrewarded: Isaac's brilliant, swaggering send-up of the tech-bro fraternity, which coolly pierces his character's smug social regressiveness without neglecting or denying his cold, crackling intelligence.

Kathy Baker brings a sexy intelligence to the role of the prostitute Punchy, and André Gregory is terrific as Reeve's smug, dryly self-amused editor.

The show could, on occasion, be just a little too clever and smug (and I wasn't a fan of some convenient coincidences), but in those kinds of moments, its narrative intelligence served it very well indeed.

Sam Allardyce's smuggest smug face.

Smug performances.

How smug this sounded.

Brooklyn got smug.

Smug, rude and patronising!

Sherlock is smug.

Gosh, George Osborne looks smug.

Engage smug mode.