And so, men, drive your wives, beat them out of their self-consciousness and their soft smarminess and good, lovely idea of themselves.

They are stalked by a jigsaw-faced man who calls himself Stuntman Mike, played with grizzled smarminess by John Carpenter veteran Kurt Russell.

The thought of being subjected to his smarminess was simply too much to bear -and I lived here when Giuliani was mayor.

We have a vice of love, of softness and sweetness and smarminess and intimacy and promiscuous kindness and all that sort of thing.

'Ah, but you're not familiar with my background, James, my curriculum vitae.' The smile and the smarminess vanished.