Sentence examples for without being smug from inspiring English sources
Bond is deployed well: Connery is relaxed and at home, the whole thing is confident without being smug.
Perhaps the best is William Parry as Nat Miller, Richard's father, who manages to be warmly paternal without being smug.
Efron draws on his confident good looks (from certain angles, this Jewish hoofer from California looks like, of all people, Tyrone Power) without being smug.
She could be real without dragging humanity in the gutter, she could be angry without bullying, she could be serious without being smug.
His dialogue, peppered with Shaw's own sayings, is smart without being pretentious, and witty without being smug; in plot and tone there are also hints of Oscar Wilde, Shaw's contemporary.
Upbraiding Martin Shkreli for being smug is easy.
I don't like being smug but... ;-).
It is not denying it but not being smug.
We just have to absorb atrocious information as best we can, without being too smug about our ability at a glance to divide the past into its areas of light and dark.
Without that, without being a smug cunt, what will be left?
