Word: bothered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bother to ask. The movie is not going to tell. It will just sail along serenely, trusting in its unfailing good nature to ease us into an eager suspension of disbelief. And you know what? It works. Writer-director Paul Weitz (who with his brother Paul directed the equally agreeable About a Boy) is a clever guy, with an ability to bring his characters to the edge of rotten behavior and then let their better natures rescue them...
...anything, social conservatives don't realize the full depth of blue-state America's condescension. They assume that liberals sit around all day thinking about how much smarter or more sophisticated or more enlightened they are than social conservatives. Truth be told, most of the time liberals don't bother to think about social conservatives at all. Except at election time, when they suddenly become aware of them as some frightening, incomprehensible menace to their otherwise comfortably progressive society...
...Plus there would be the matter of how and when the University should collect such letters. Further, there would be a large sampling bias to these letters, since only the students who have extreme opinions—be they positive or negative—about the professor will likely bother to write...
...alphabetical mass email made me want to vote for Glazer-Capp, or Moore-Nichols, as much as it made me feel like an important, individual part of the Harvard community. I’m surprised campaigns didn’t pick up on this “bother factor,” especially since multiple freshman rooms in Weld Hall had signs promising to vote for the candidates that knocked on their doors the least. Looking at the tallies on the white boards outside these rooms, Moore-Nichols was doing the best, with only one visit. Glazer-Capp...
...Most of the tradespeople worked construction before we came here, and you’d never know where you were going in the morning. They’d call you up and say ‘there’s no work today, don’t bother coming in.’ It’s nice coming in to the same place every...