Resting on this achievement alone is an exercise in schoolboy smarm.
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Kasich's hopelessness, like Trump's bluster and Cruz's smarm, was nothing new.
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Not all superhero action films need the MCU's banter or Deadpool's smarm.
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Why, brother Eric, you seem to still have some smarm on your face!
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To begin their statement by mentioning the players is just more Olympic smarm.
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O'Malley, McHale captures the perfect hair, teeth, and smarm of a FOX anchor so
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The force of Han arrives in Ford's mix of knowing, smarm, and self-assured ego.
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White Gold is Westwick's return to Chuck Bass-level lovable smarm you didn't know you needed.
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As 11-year-old Lyra, Dakota Blue Richards was clever and charismatic without approaching precocity or insufferable smarm.
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It gets even worse when Cruz tries to get in on the joke; he's all smarm and no charm.
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The episode "Nosedive" warns that the drive for social media likes will create a society of enforced saccharine smarm.
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That is, a DreamWorks-inflected, pop-culture "savvy," far-side-of-smarm (not too) smart-aleckness, replete with bodily function jokes.
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But this week, the theater will offer a fuller sampling of Mr. Bates's charm and smarm with a career-spanning retrospective.
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Clooney seems to have settled into a comfortable vibe of playing characters balanced on the exact cutting point between charm and smarm.
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In the first Neighbors, Efron's Teddy was a lightning bolt of smarm with a killer smile and a rock-hard set of abs.
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We laughed with tears in our eyes about Gary Cole's smarm-laden request to "go ahead and come in" to work on Saturday.
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Rewarding the poet's fatuousness, the portraitist's flattery and the jeweler's smarm with gold, she believes she is modeling a higher form of love.
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"Viper Club" falters with mawkish flashbacks of the mother and son, and with its ham-fisted, repeated emphasis on the smarm of government officials.
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Glee has a knowingness to it that feels small and campy to me: all those winks at the camera, the overwhelming sense of smarm.
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Such lists are almost guaranteed to fail, given how individualistic people's tastes and desires are, and how forced it sounds to rattle off perfunctory smarm.
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Mr. Buffett's denatured country-calypso ditties and horndog smarm seem awfully lowbrow, even in a Broadway environment debased for decades by singing cats and candlesticks.
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" Hamill quickly hit back, telling Cruz, "Thanks for smarm-spaining it to me," and asking if the senator was "distracted from watching porn at the office again.
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The same is true of Letterman's longtime musical sidekick, Paul Shaffer, whose parody version of Vegas smarm defined "Late Night" as pure showbiz and pure anti-showbiz simultaneously.
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Chris Evans's lack of arrogance is why he is the Hollywood Chris who most often makes the BDE list, while Hemsworth's jock vibes and Pratt's faint smarm disqualify them.
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Hamill called out Cruz for the misspelling, ripped him for "smarm-splaining" net neutrality to him, and then brought up that time Cruz's Twitter account liked some NSFW content.
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There's so much sexual detail here I believe his dick is long and he can go all night, but unlike the usual R&B smarm merchant, he's not smooth.
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"I just wish the protagonist were someone I could imagine shagging," a theater expert (played with ample smarm by the multitalented Jason Veasey) tells Usher during a staged feedback session.
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Ever since Iron Man reminded us that Robert Downey Jr is handsome enough to pull off that beard and playboy smarm and still be fine, audiences have been thirsty for superheroes.
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Tingle and his ilk create smarm almost exclusively from debates that have moved past disagreement, past acrimony, and into drop-to-the-ground-and-howl-at-the-moon apocalyptic crises and rages.
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He then tweeted a conservative meme so obviously dumb and disingenuous that he had to heap on the smarm to try to sell it—in one instance he had to also dictionary.
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So when Josh Lucas' king of smarm Leo Beebe (who in real life wasn't nearly so bad) tells Shelby, with an egregious shoulder pat, to oust Miles, Shelby stands by his man.
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White softens some of Brendan's menace with an inner fragility and sorrow, and Hamilton gets the charm-smarm balance just right as the absent dad whose intermittent attention is so valuable and so unpredictable.
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The CNE is about as close to my idea of hell as any physical place can be—schtick, smarm, and loud, pasty families all watched over by the glistening condos that line the Toronto waterfront.
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If ya missed the fireworks, Hamill slammed the FCC Chairman last week after net neutrality was repealed, but Cruz came to his defense and "smarm-splained" the situation ... which didn't sit well with Mr. Skywalker.
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Franco's weaselly smarm works perfectly as rat fink Frankie, and he brings a smear of buttery tenderness to Vince, who opens a seedy new bar near Times Square called the Hi-Hat, which welcomes prostitutes.
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This unstoppable chaotic bastard reminds me of so many men in middle to upper management positions, who—after fucking up—will use privilege, connections, smarm, and sociopathic tendencies to scuttle back to their previous position.
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Matt Czuchry, the Logan from Gilmore Girls, guest-stars as an undercover reporter posing as our Logan's long-lost half-brother, and there's a quality to his presence I can best describe as extremely earnest smarm.
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In a Democratic primary debate that was dominated by Joe Biden's incoherence and Pete Buttigieg's smarm, the two most left-wing candidates, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, for the most part avoided addressing each other directly.
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Where his competitors nibbled in familiar professional shades of smarm and euphemism, Trump lumbered blithely up to deliver what Republican voters actually wanted, which turned out to be the crying-laughing emoji and brutal, racialized authoritarianism.
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Smarm binary — maybe the single best piece of writing ever published on the site — lays out the mandate for Gawker (and the evolution of its tone and purview, and its increasing necessity) better than anyone ever will.
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The Bachelor producers know the potential of good reality television, but respect the ratings power of its trashy first decade, and the byproduct is a surreal rollercoaster ride through snark and smarm, cynical fame-grabbing and emotional unloading.
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Gawker's best articles, like Tom Scocca's "On Smarm," or the reporting on Rob Ford that scooped every newspaper in Canada, or the recent investigation into Donald Trump's hair, are directly in opposition to the triumph of celebrity culture.
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As always, watching Villanelle work a mark is one of the purest pleasures this show offers — her eyes go impossibly round, and her voice oozes with delighted smarm — but in this case, when the mark turns on Villanelle, it's a reversal of power that doesn't quite land.
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It is not what I would call a good book, although its combination of cornball macho grandiosity ("I've always contended that I psychologically beat Jordan") and crocodile-tear smarm—Esquinas said he wrote the book because "it was right for my recovery from my addiction to gambling and the right way to reach out to a friend I perceived had the same problem"—it probably qualifies as ahead of its time.
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The satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image portrayed Burnet as a cringing, fawning royalist ("lick, lick, smarm, smarm"), forever trying to suck up to the nearest available member of the Royal Family; one episode ended with the Burnet puppet singing a song about his love for the Queen Mother (before being pushed aside for Sandy Gall). The satirical magazine Private Eye referred to him as "Arslicker Burnet". Burnet was a supporter of Scottish football clubs Rangers and Partick Thistle.
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Virgin Media's Ian Gittins opined that the song manifested Trainor's vocal prowess. Other critics responded positively to Legend, but had a more mixed response for Trainor and the single itself. The Daily Telegraphs Helen Brown opined that the ballad was formulaic, but complimented Legend's sincerity of tone. Commenting that the track "played to the smarm of Legend", Daily News writer Jim Farber further added, "Trainor can turn earnest—not always in a good way".
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Love the Coopers received negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 19%, based on 111 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The site's consensus reads, "Love the Coopers has a talented cast and a uniquely bittersweet blend of holiday cheer in its better moments, but they're all let down by a script content to settle for cloying smarm". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 31 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
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My Kind of Livin was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipping 500,000 copies, and "Redneck Yacht Club" received a gold single certification for 500,000 music downloads. Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B rating, saying in his review that "Morgan's is an idealized Kind of Americana, to be sure. But at least he provides enough writerly detail to avoid setting off smarm alarms." Country Standard Time reviewer Jeffrey B. Remz was generally favorable in his review, saying that Morgan has "a strong voice" and "a number of quality songs", but his review criticized the album's "big and clean" production.
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The film received lukewarm reviews. Leigh Paatsch, writing in the Melbourne Herald-Sun, felt that the film's strongest point was the banter between the characters, which was funny and engaging, but Paatsch said that Lawson's central performance was marred at times by "an air of self-satisfied smarm" and the character's path to enlightenment was unfocused and unconvincing. He concluded, "And I sense that others who similarly fell hard for the soulful sincerity of The Castle and The Dish will feel a little quizzical about the comparative slickness of Any Questions for Ben? ". Tom Ryan in the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the film was often very funny and singled out Rachael Taylor's performance for praise - "the camera loves her".
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