Word: cussing
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...latter was a once-peaceful farmer whose family was wiped out by Civil War irregulars led by Neeson (shades of the much better outlaw Josie Wales). Gideon will have his vengeance if possible, Carver will defend himself by relentlessly attacking him. But the lone victim is a clever cuss, and succeeds in wiping out all of his pursuers save Carver. The fleeing and fighting is intermittently interesting, but one is more interested, frankly, in why Anjelica Huston suddenly intrudes on the film, selling patent medicine and vague spirituality. Also in why the near-moribund western genre suddenly reappears in this...
...concept behind these events is that restaurants are impersonal, stuffy and not nearly adventurous enough. "What if you could actually cuss and high-five people and lick the plate?" Townsend asks. The answer, of course, is that you would never go to that restaurant again. Still, there is something exciting about sitting on a pillow grabbed from a couch and stuffing steamed white roughy and green-mango salsa into a savory shiitake-mushroom doughnut that I know damn well the Man doesn't want...
...voice perfectly. Her notes are ethereal, lilting; they seem to belong on a plane completely separate from our own. So when she opens this 1991 track with the words “Oh hey Robert / you’re driving much too fucking fast,” her casual cuss strikes me as especially enticing. That the song’s a metapoetic description of a terrible car crash killing all of the members of the band in their Ford Escort (“In heaven there’ll be Heavenly tonight...”) does little to overshadow...
...gets to the point, period, where you can't cuss on TV, I'm moving to a different country." JONATHAN DAVIS, front man of American rock band Korn, commenting on the Federal Communications Commission's crackdown on indecency following February's Super Bowl halftime show, during which one of Janet Jackson's breasts was exposed
...which was borrowed from a collection of maxims that originated in late sixteenth-century France, includes the instruction to “Use no Reproachfull Language against any one neither Curse nor Revile,” Sarokhan’s list says, “Don’t cuss.” And while Washington reminded himself to “Gaze not on the marks or blemishes of Others and ask not how they came,” Sarokhan’s list directs him to “Always remember your honor and your chivalry...