Word: canting
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...Planck Institute in Germany, filmed African tribes in the 1960s and found that the women there did the exact same prolonged stare followed by a head tilt away with a little smile that he saw in America. (The technical name for the head movement is a "cant." Except in this case it's more like...
...comedienne as much as she is a political commentator. This is obvious if you watch her speak with the sound off - she is smiling or even giggling most of the time; she theatrically rolls her eyes; you can see her pause and toss her hair into a jaunty cant before delivering a punch line. We don't read her body language the way we normally do because the words she is uttering are so peremptory and shocking. If we did, we would put her in the same league as Bill Maher or Jackie Mason, not the dry policy analysts...
...among other masterpieces, A Jerk on One End, a charming volume about his lifelong passion for fishing. Clearly, another memoir is required. But first Hughes may have to finish the book on Leonardo and wrestle further with the demons that drove him to become such an implacable enemy of cant, mediocrity and the quiet life. Not even his near-death experience on that road in Western Australia could return Hughes to the faith of his childhood. But the rest of us can thank the God of St. Ignatius, Parmigianino and medieval art that, at a crucial point in the line...
...elevate their BACs before watching I-AA college football. “All that will happen is that people will pregame more heavily and then possibly try to sneak alcohol in to the stadium,” says Kevin E. Brown, a Yale freshman. “I just cant see this helping in any way.” But in spite of their bitching and moaning, some Yale students remain optimistic. “Yale kids are going to have fun no matter what,” says Smith. After all, they have plenty of experience making the best...
...Cheer up, Ahmad," she teases him. "Things cant be so bad." She rolls her half-bare shoulder, lifting it as if to shrug, to show she is being playful...