She always felt a smug pride in the clans, compared with the bloated and cumbersome Hansa.

There was no smug pride in her voice, nothing but rueful resignation that people would always remark upon her beauty.

Lady Anne smiled and nodded toward Jack-showing smug pride in the public acknowledgment of the paragon she was trying to foist off on Sherrie.

Shane accepted his favored status with a kind of smug pride.

I said you will be a good mother,' Zainal said with a touch of smug pride when she showed him how she could carry Zane around.

"He will amaze you," Rafik said with smug pride.

Fitch smiled with smug pride.

"Natasha," Alex said with smug pride in his older sister, "is the best."

She could, in fact: I'd spent a lot of hours working depth into the rich paint, but the usual rush of smug pride wasn't available with this go-around of appreciation.