Word: hug
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...stunningly; clad in smart business attire, she portrayed Claire as a well-meaning but ignorant sister. Her dialogue with Giuliani was always quick and snappy, both actresses demonstrating their skill with lines delivered clearly and with spunk. Specifically, in their first scene together, the sisters shared a particularly awkward hug that sums up their relationship for the audience and helps set the tone for the upcoming scenes...
...Pinker talks about barbecues at his Cape Cod house, his wife, Rebecca Goldstein, hurries in fresh from the Cape, wearing knee high boots, a leather jacket, and Dior sunglasses. They hug and Goldstein ushers us to her study...
...people, do to get attention. This film also says it's the root of all religions, a placebo for troubled minds. But the oily sadist Gervais played on The Office is not the movie Ricky (seen here and in last year's Ghost Town), who'd rather have a hug than a slap in the face. Mark, getting in deeper before he has to make a public declaration of his sins, may deserve both, but ultimately he could be the hero of a Frank Capra fable, if Capra had been an atheist. The Invention of Lying is likely to leave...
...trust, a mutual guarantee by two people that--at least in one hand--they carry no weapon. But it can also ensure a measure of distance and convey an articulation of reserve, as if its participants are thinking, Thus far and no further. A handshake is not a hug. There was little obvious warmth when Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas met, under the stern gaze of Barack Obama, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. The history of their nations is littered with too many incompatible dreams, too much heartache, for that...
Depressed people often need someone to hug. On occasion, that someone may just be a tree...