Word: impressively
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...She’d be like, ‘Go on! Smack on another 45,’ and I’d be trying to impress the big Olympian going ‘Yeah! Woo! I’m hardcore,’” Corriero says. “And like I can’t fit into any of my jeans anymore, I’m like dammit...
...next track. Best of all, the phone's "beat box" function lets you build grooves by shaking the phone, air-drum style. Each time you play, you can pick a different sound such as tambourine, clap or scratch, and you can save your most excellent beats to impress friends later on. The SCH-S310 is scheduled to go on sale in South Korea later this year, but if applications for the technology develop, it's likely that motion sensing will show up in Samsung's U.S. phones too. --By Wilson Rothman
...like many an American reality-show subject, he's really a boor trying to impress the cameras. Introducing receptionist Pam (Jenna Fischer), Scott compliments her thusly: "Pam has been with us for--forever. Righty, Pam? You think she's cute now, you should have seen her a couple years ago! Rrawrr!" Her response--a fleeting "Wha?"--is one of many priceless moments in a comedy of subtle background reactions and self-delusions. In his office, Scott shows the off-camera interviewer his World's Best Boss coffee mug. "I think that pretty much sums it up. [Pause.] I found...
...flows forced the country's largest power station, at Huntly, to switch to coal last year, there were noisy protests. Once the old station at Marsden Point is modernized, it will be the cleanest coal-fired plant in Australasia, says its owner, Mighty River Power. But that doesn't impress critics, who say getting electricity from coal is a betrayal of New Zealand's Kyoto Protocol obligations. "It's a backward step for us to start using coal," says Fitzsimons...
...better or for worse, few would argue The Birth of a Nation’s extraordinary power to move, impress, and enrage its viewers. Its technical virtuosity and sweeping scope, along with its controversial, at times patently untrue historical message makes The Birth of a Nation perennially relevant in debates over artistic freedom, aesthetic judgment, and historical responsibility...