Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Albright has long believed that the only things Milosevic understands are blunt words and brute force. She's been contemptuous of the Serb strongman ever since her first visit as Secretary of State to Belgrade in 1997, when he patronizingly told her she was a neophyte in Balkan politics. Albright, who spent three years in Belgrade as the daughter of a Czech ambassador, shot back, "Don't tell me I'm uninformed. I've lived here...
...times during the show, it seemed as though every line out of someone's mouth concerned genitalia and/or having sexual intercourse. The majority of the lines of Newt Erd (Bryan Leach), for example, the castrated detective bull-dog, revolve around his conspicuous lack of testicles. Typical of his blunt retorts, Newt responds to one of the characters in Act II, "Actually, I have no sack." But that was clear by the bandage sewn onto his costume (and his lines throughout...
Ultimately, no new ground is really broken byJawbreaker. It's not a terrible movie, butits frankness, blunt honesty and morbid subjectmatter render it a movie for those with strongstomachs and an even darker sense of humor. Itsone triumph is its success in pinpointing the oneuniversal truth of high school. Forget Satan andall of his minions; the embodiment of pure evil inhigh school wears dark lipstick and miniskirts...
...stood by her insistence that no one asked her to lie or offered her a job in exchange for her false affidavit, and refused to agree that the President was lying when his testimony contradicted hers, conceding only that her memory or interpretation differed from his. And she was blunt about why she was such an unhelpful witness. She said she still has "mixed feelings" about Clinton. When Bryant asked, "Do you still, uh, respect the President, still admire the President?" Lewinsky's answer was simple--"Yes." Prosecutors didn't fare much better with Jordan or Blumenthal...
Learn new coping skills. Stress is the No. 1 reason that ex-smokers relapse. Stress is inevitable. But you can blunt its effects by meditating, exercising or rehearsing ahead of time your ideal response to an anxious situation...