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Перевод: smugness

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1. We find the British army officer struggling to help the Arabs achieve independence and freedom from colonial interference against fierce opposition by the superpowers, and having to face arrogance, smugness and suppressed venom from those allies who considered the indigenous races a minor detail.
2. What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness, a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre .
3. The emetic smugness of your comments on the Kurds ("Want another war?",
4. Imbued with such smugness, British filmmakers inevitably fell behind.
5. As Hannah Arendt has shown, in times of crisis the existence of a formless mass can become the basis for a totalitarian dictatorship; in times of prosperity it can lead to an all-encompassing smugness and self-satisfaction and to the existence of a regime which knows no criticism, no control and, above all, no real opposition and thus no arguments which contain alternatives.
6. "There was, however, an irritating smugness about the statements being issued from the British Labour Party yesterday.
7. But something about Mr Gummer's face - like the look of insufferable smugness - should have warned Dr Clark that it was all about to go horribly wrong for him.
8. She had walked down through suburban Summertown, taking her time but without reluctance; watching the tidiness of the shoppers and the smartness of the shops with something akin to smugness - how little energy and vitality they had, compared to her own shopping street, with its untidy market atmosphere permeating even the Safeways and Boots which had tried to raise their modern, never-had-it-so-good faades in challenge to the poverty and squalor, and had failed.
9. It made him angry; Jean-Paul's smugness, and that of his friends, made him angrier still.
10. This smugness seems part of the moral message of Madeleine L'Engle's books, and the message is forced upon the reader.
11. It was a charming letter, a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness, and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness.
12. In this elegant, compassionate, deeply researched book, the tremendously caring Geoffrey Moorhouse sets before us the facts and figures, the jingoism, pride, pain, as well as the hideous smugness, the cock-ups, the arrogance, and the disasters made by "those who know better".
13. "The dog belongs to my brother here," said Dorothy, with a hint of smugness in her tone.