Sentence examples for smug view from inspiring English sources

Sansom directly confronts the frequent, smug view in the UK that nazism and the Jewish Holocaust were inherently German perversions.

According to this smug, rose-colored view, such art may rarely accomplish anything concrete, but at least it releases the rage of malcontents who make it while validating everyone's personal freedom of expression.

When I talk to Tom and he decides he agrees with me, his opinion is also baseless, but now that the three of us concur we feel that much more smug about our views.

Besides being oddly condescending (especially twinned, as it often is, with accusations that the magazine is elitist, smug, etc)., this view seems wildly alarmist.

This circumspection caused some critics to view Bragg as smug and complacent.

Farage was seen by most as direct, strong and clear – but also as divisive, with many disagreeing strongly with his views and describing him as "smug" and "sleazy".

Their conclusion is that auditors should be regarded "as more like tax collectors than partners or advisers".The view from elsewhereEuropeans began by being rather smug about Enron and its fall-out.

In a wide-ranging interview at the Sheffield Doc/Fest Curtis also attacked Twitter as a "self aggrandising, smug pressure group" which promoted a "narrow non-social view of the world".

We scoff at the stance of our world views back then, feeling wizened and slightly smug as we sip our craft beers in overpriced bars.

It is as vulgar and reductive to view Shostakovich's life and music through a smug lens of post-cold war triumphalism as it is to enshrine him as a dissident.

(One classmate recalled his "look of smug satisfaction," like a man "preparing to hold his future views with great setness and personal appreciation of their importance").