Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...laugh. Then the doughy-faced one twists around to face us. Pointing, she says: “Like you!”“Sorry, just joking,” Simon says with an apologetic smile. “Oh,” the woman says, her grin becoming awkward. “We don’t usually do this, we don’t just pick up hitchhikers,” she chuckles quickly. “I just couldn’t bear the thought that some creep might get you. You look so young...
...found for less than a dollar if you’re not choosy. Counterfeit DVDs sell for under a dollar as well, and many other items sell at bewilderingly low prices, provided that you’re willing to bargain. Sellers make a show of being reluctant but grin broadly when you hand over the bills. I recall the first day on our own, when we sat down to 25-yuan plates of food, gloating at what a deal we had found, only later to discover that right next door a large bowl of noodles could be found...
Sure, it's easy to call Seacrest glitzy and vapid. Heck, let's do it: he is perfect for Idol because he so gamely embodies its glitziness and vapidity. Everything about his precision-moussed pate and cliffs-of-Dover grin screams, You are watching a show about show biz! But this is why the man can afford the finest hair gels and dentrifices: the successful host is wise enough to be the fool. There are exceptions, like the beneficent and vengeful god Oprah, but America tends to like its TV hosts risible: fussy Alex Trebek, funny-haired Donald Trump, screwball...
Back at our desks come Tuesday, sunburned and a bit disoriented, we flash a cunning grin when a co-worker asks, "How was your weekend?" We feel as if we've beaten the system. Isn't that what we're really after? > Watch for Po Bronson's frequent columns on time.com
...Administration officials who wasn't smiling. Having learned the hazards of gloating, he maintained a deliberately somber mien as he saluted American troops for the allies' most dramatic victory in Iraq since Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003. He didn't allow himself a public grin until half an hour later, at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. While Washington slept, Iraqis had announced that an American air strike had killed Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who competed only with Osama bin Laden for the title of world's most wanted terrorist. Speaking live for six minutes on the network morning...