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1 What makes Pearson’s story so unique is his starting point: the harsh biblical literalism of Pentecostal faith, and the smarmy world of American televangelism.

2 In the film's prologue, a doctor tells him, "I don't love your EKG" – a wonderfully smarmy preface to everyone's worst nightmare – and he flees the office rather than hear the details.

3 Smarmy might work better, though it is difficult to bring off.

奉承也许会更有用，不过很难奏效。

4 And act the smooth and smarmy cad to perfection.

5 But his portrayal comes to life as soon as Lloyd's Walter saunters into the attic with smarmy designs of understatedly playing the white knight.

6 How is Jack more than just a smarmy sales guy?

7 What could that smarmy letch possibly want?

那个聪明的人更可能需要什么？

8 An actual incident, or just the creeping reach of evil into the life of superficial, smarmy Dad?

9 You wish he had more to do here and, maybe, someone smart will figure out a better use for this smarmy, gimlet-eyed upgrade of Patric's persona.

10 Most kids’ animation is pap: conventions and tropes punched up with smarmy double entendre for the benefit of the adults who bought the tickets.

11 “Let’s say I was acquainted with a lot of different ladies at that time of my life,” the smarmy Nick avers.

12 Simon, a smarmy British artist, is largely absent from the story, appearing mostly in brief flashbacks and, late in the film, at the cottage itself, uninvited after Alice confesses her whereabouts to him over the phone.

13 Yes, he's a smarmy know-it-all with the personality of a hall monitor, the kind of guy everyone hides from at a Christmas party.

14 Between songs at the Borderline in London, the 70-year-old mocks rock critics who apply words such as "smarmy, quirky, idiosyncratic: adjectives that have lost their special charm to me".

15 As Lily, Ferland is far better at suggesting some inner cruelty and bad intent than the smarmy innocent she shows to the social service adults.

16 We first see her walking into a bar, whipping out her baton and physically and verbally assaulting a group of smarmy white men — identified only as “Republicans” — just to mess with them.

17 And two cheers for Patten, who taps the Dickens spirit in his persuasive turns as Magwitch and the comic Jaggers, a smarmy lawyer involved in Pip's fate.

18 Tall, pale, gawky and convinced of his superiority, he’s a caricature of a smarmy liberal white man convinced that he’s blond, blue-eyed Jesus’ gift to an ignorant world.

19 The standard plot — young boy and heroic, smarmy dog confront bad guys — was perfect fodder for children.

20 In a daytime landscape filled with bland, polished hosts and smarmy good cheer, Mr. Philbin was crumpled, nasal and histrionic.

1 讨好

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2 拍马屁

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3 谄媚

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4 虚情假意的

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5 巴结

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6 奉承的

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7 巴结的

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8 逢迎的

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9 谄媚的

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10 讨好的

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11 过于殷勤的

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12 拍马屁的

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13 奉承

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