Word: brawne
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...again soon” card.) Ryan’s conflict with that surfer from the bad side of the tracks—Stalin or Voldemort or whatever her name is—ended when Ryan managed to, as Sandy paternalistically put it, “use brains instead of brawn.” Eloquent, no? Never before has a character pulled a complete 180 so much as Ryan’s adversary, as he went from keying the Cohens’ car earlier in the episode to basically placing his tail between his legs and scampering away in tears...
...California, the legislators pick the people, and not the other way around. The Governor’s highest priority this fall is to fix this flawed system. Whether the “Last Action Hero” can use his brawn to make Sacramento a more down-to-earth place is anybody’s guess. But he’s flexing all of his political muscle to make it more democratic...
...great kinetic prose to his labors: "Briody steadied his legs and back and torso and arms and clenched his jaw against the rattle of the pneumatic gun. His muscles were fluid one second with movement, static the next to drive the rivet home, a contracting and easing of his brawn that over the weeks had become as regular as breathing." Work stops only when some poor rivet punk loses his balance and free-falls to his death on the sidewalk below...
Mainstream movie critics from coast to coast have a new thing to complain and muse about this year. Everyone is having trouble predicting the Oscars—that gala of beauty and filmmaking brawn that will have the world talking for weeks in late winter about J. Lo’s Versace gown, which I predict this year will be daring combination of faux buffalo hide and a Bennifer t-shirt. The problem is, in 2004 (insert gasps, fainting, etc.), there are no front-runners. No Lord of the Rings. No American Beauty or biopics starring Russell Crowe. Some...
...sports-delegation handbook as "food"?he had to shed 4 kg in four days to make the qualifying weight in Athens?later apologized for what he modestly considers his underwhelming physique. "I think my muscles are kind of small," says Shi, his compact body rippling with the kind of brawn a pocket Popeye might enjoy after a hefty serving of spinach spanakopita. "Please don't judge my body too much, or I will get embarrassed...