Word: dumbness
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...filter of their own experience and try to remember their own instincts and attitudes as kids. It's pretty hard to look back at our adolescent longings and fashion disasters. It's even harder to let our daughters make similar mistakes--to be out in the world looking dumb and thinking they look sooooo good when they really don't. But there are times when mothers must look the other way and let their girls...
...lapped by another skier, taste blood in my mouth that is spraying up from my heaving, overtaxed lungs, and catch a ski tip on a tree, causing me to plow into the underbrush and knock my head on my gun barrel. "This is not fun... this is just dumb... stop... please." Finally, the casual clockings we keep in the time trial reveal that I only need to cut my time in half in order to be competitive. Even my own formidable powers of denial are feeling the strain...
...didn't want to patronize Delmar or turn him into a farcical fool. One day actress Frances McDormand (director Joel Coen's wife) observed that Nelson looked just like his one-year-old son. It was the revelation Nelson required. Instead of thinking "in all those pejoratives" such as "dumb" or "stupid," he began perceiving Delmar as "innocent of knowledge, seeing the world without context...
...hundred crime movies, and bringing them all together in one place does not, finally, constitute an act of originality, no matter how interesting the details sometimes are, no matter how expertly they are presented. It may be that the magnitude of the problem is bound to strike dumb anyone who addresses it. It may also be that a mainstream movie doesn't dare consider more than offhandedly the radical alternatives to an official policy. We win tactical victories of the kind this film chronicles. But we are losing the "war" because its strategies are undiscussible...
...editors of the "Cehisean," the Central High yearbook, had rejected a batch of his drawings. At the age of 53, he made sure that a high school report card was printed in facsimile in a collection of his work "to show my own children that I was not as dumb as everyone has said I was." He sustained the traumas of his adolescence far into adulthood - far enough, in the end, to see them become a crucial element in the universal popularity...