Word: hinting
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...deliberate and unspontaneous. There is no unconsciousness to her; her gestures and her words are always in sync with her thoughts. Even when the focus on stage is away from her, she is always “on” and never abstracted or distracted, never betraying a hint of inner life—in short, never acting like a real person...
...celebrities, cuts the girls some slack. "Sometimes I think Us Weekly should leave them alone," Fey says. "They're just kids. If notes I wrote about some girl in ninth grade were in Us Weekly, I'd be really bummed. Actually, I'd be really psyched." It's that hint of cruelty, that gleeful leaking of darkness that makes Fey so compelling. And she uses it, as Eddie Murphy used racism, to make sharp points about sexism. When touting her film, Fey, winking at how its star is a bit tarted up for a teenager, says, "You don't have...
...often said--sometimes scornfully, sometimes admiringly, but always with a hint of awe--that Rupert Murdoch has exercised more power over a longer tenure than any business leader in the world today. The chairman and CEO of News Corp. is too politic to make such a claim himself, but he tacitly acknowledges its validity. When asked what he has learned about being so powerful in the U.S., he smiles and says, "You make a lot of enemies...
After an uneventful sixth, Michnikov recorded the first out before allowing two runners aboard courtesy of fielding difficulties. But without even the slightest hint of fear in his stride, Michnikov mowed down the next hitter, before employing his patented triple deke to induce a feeble pop up to third for the final...
...first glance, I thought Harvard’s internationals were at fault for this gap. In the Woodbridge Society, an international students’ group that claims to be open to all, one very important nationality is conspicuous by its low representation. (Hint: it shares a name with two continents in the Western Hemisphere.) Was there something in the air of one of the Woodbridge get-togethers in the Straus Hall common room that smelled foul to the locals? It seemed that there must have been—I was a witness to fellow internationals’ inside jokes about...