Word: bothering
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This is naturalism bent into ferocious misanthropy. The characters practice traditional English courtesy as if it is a vaguely remembered religious rite observed in the letter but not the spirit. And often they don't bother. Leigh's first TV film, the 1973 Hard Labour, has barely a kind word in its 73 minutes; even the nun to whom the saintly lead character offers charity is snarky and ungrateful...
...love] what binds all these couples we know together--the ones who even bother to let themselves be bound? ...Please, let us not bull__ one another about "love" and its duration. --Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint...
...doesn't bother me at all," said Stacey L. Serafini '97, a student in "Warren Court...
...Standing confused and perturbed in front of the bus, I'm attacked by a horde of "Rock the Vote" volunteers, and I shoo them off rather impolitely. I harbor unnatural hostility for the Rock the Vote campaign, and for the idea of activist voter registration in general. They bother me in much the same way it bother me when playoff ticket land in the laps of casual fans. I have no real grounds to be annoyed, but still, there's an undeniable elitist suspicion that if people don't have to work hard for precious things, they won't appreciate...
Keith E. Bernard '99, who is beginning his first year in the Quad and said he visits Currier one or two times a week, said the new policy doesn't bother...