(1) It may be conscious, but it beats the smarm deployed by so many of their colleagues.(2) He plays smarm well, and his is the most interesting character in the film arguably.(3) Harry used to smarm round senior management, but he spoke abruptly to our long-in-the-tooth admin guy; directed him, and the trainees like me, to do his photocopying without a please or thank you.(4) I say to Mr Tamihere that businesses can smell it, and they are smelling that sort of smarm a mile away.(5) The smile in your face conceals a darkness in your heart, and there are still some in this green and pleasant land unwilling to let their knees buckle before your rapacious onslaught of smarm and spin.(6) Despite their rhetoric, their smarm , their thin veneer of respectability, they are racists by any intelligent definition.(7) In lesser hands, this film could've been hackneyed smarm .(8) it takes a combination of smarm and confidence to persuade them(9) Odd how it looks on a screen, free from all its euro-trash smarm slathered all over it.(10) And he's spraying smarm like the worst kind of cornered politician.(11) I daren't even speculate on their devilish purposesu2026 begone with your blinding lights and televisual smarm !(12) Did, like, Leno set off the smarm alarm or something?!!!(13) In combination with the dark, bass-heavy production, the performance is a stark contrast from the bubblegum smarm of the original, instead focusing on the song's essence: suicide and its extremes.(14) Others will find the level of smarm suffocating, as every plot twist occasions a self-conscious musical outbreak, with the characters tunelessly expressing every little thought in their heads in song.(15) He could rail and cajole and smarm and pontificate to enthusiastic foreign audiences about the evils of Communism in Angola and then pass the hat.(16) Dang, and then I get back and they've got some pop smarm .
