Word: aback
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Levin was obviously taken aback that more of his audience wasn't dressed similarly, saying that he felt he had been "snookered...
...Sweatshirt Boy will be taken aback and will coyly suggest that you check out the Playboy collection in the Periodical Room...
...drama, a project Rosow describes as ieMy So Called Lifei meets the movie, eKids,ii focuses on the problems of self-doubt facing a young, female painter, Alex. As a character whose lack of image had made her remain outside the mainstream high school community, Alex is taken aback when the popular, iparty girls,i at her Los Angeles high school attempt to integrate her into their social strata. Thrown into the milieu is Sage, Alexis best friend, a savvy nymphomaniac, and Curtis, the cute new boy who has just left Colorado to escape the haunting memory of his fatheris...
...think Hollywood is really taken aback by Harvard and its programs,i Rosow said as she tucked a blonde wisp of hair behind her ear. iYou can succeed in this industry without being a born writer or educated in the art of producing. Itis just important that youire knowledgeable about a lot of little things and have big ideas that you can bring to life. I think we really get that drive to success and creativity at Harvard.i...
...example, while he was teaching at Harvard, Pottenger says, one day he greeted a student by name in the hall, and she was taken aback and said it was the first time in her three years at the school a professor had said 'hello' or even acknowledged her existence...