Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...guard while young upstart Mormon brothers Virgil and Turk Malloy (Casey Affleck and Scott Caan respectively) bicker constantly throughout and serve as comic foils to the rest of the crew. They are caricatures, but they are also depicted with unabashed glee, a homage to Rat Pack’s brazen, fraternizing spirit...
...she’s quick to add that she’s “the most flirtatious girl ever.” Pausing as she realizes that she’s just revealed intimate details about her life, Kiana gets a look of brazen confidence on her face. “I have secret desires to be a stripper!” she squeals, and then breaks into hysterics at the idea. “But I could never really do it.” And it’s true. Although she doesn’t deny...
...matter that much. I do not have a discerning palate or gourmet ambitions. It is just that for a very long time eating the right kind of food—or, more accurately, my failure to do so—has dominated my life. Every unbalanced meal was brazen rebellion. Every celery stick promised redemption. And my choices were all sort of haphazard, based on what I could rustle up or find or submit to, partially because of four-plus years of high school dining hall subsistence and partially because food preparation itself just seemed so awful...
...self-expression. If it is your misfortune to belong to this marginalized minority, you can forget about a military career unless you hide your true identity in the shadow of the closet. Can we watch unmoved as our compatriots suffer the bitter bite of bias? Can we permit this brazen affront to the Most Holy Ideal of Equality? Nay. We cannot. We must not. Let the military be banned from Harvard forever...
...story is one of a young, brazen and destitute Eric Brockovich (Julia Roberts) who takes the American legal system by the scruff of its neck, moralizes it, defeats a corrupt and malicious business conglomerate and makes no small fortune for herself and others. At the film’s start, Brockovich is combing the classifieds to no particular avail—an image that becomes an important visual trope. Then, after incurring debilitating injuries from a car accident, Brockovich seeks the legal expertise of small claims attorney Ed Masry (Albert Finny), who fails her outright. Holding Masry personally responsible...