“Again that smile of exquisite and self-congratulatory piety.”
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 8 (p. 98)
Blushweaver
Warbreaker (2009)
“Again that smile of exquisite and self-congratulatory piety.”
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 8 (p. 98)
“Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism.”
Carl Sagan book Contact
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 11 (p. 181)
Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author
"Why Is This Atheist So Smug?" http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/09/26/why-is-this-atheist-so-smug/62, AOL News.
N. K. Jemisin book The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Source: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), Chapter 22 (p. 299)
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
An imaginary “scandal” http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/may05/dalrymple.htm (May 2005). <br class="br">New Criterion (2000 - 2005)
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Clary to Jace, pg. 253
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)