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...most powerful moment. “I looked up at the strong metal hinge in the bathroom and saw nothing but relief,” he writes. “I wrapped the leather around my neck. It felt cold and slightly sticky, but I did not jerk from it. I felt out of my body.” Given the strident title of Blair’s memoir, it’s hard not to view this scene as a potent self-lynching. Indeed, while the veracity of Blair’s account is necessarily dubious, he is still...
...long-suffering girlfriend of six years, Sally, Maura Tierney does a great impression of Patricia Heaton, Romano’s similarly impatient TV wife. Mooseport and Handy’s relationship are shaken up by the tumultuous arrival of the recently retired U.S. President, a Clinton-hating, Yale-loving jerk named Monroe “Eagle” Cole (Gene Hackman). Through a series of mind-numbing mix-ups (the less said, the better), Handy and the ex-president end up running against each other in the town’s mayoral race. Soon they’re playing...
Animal rights isn’t the first cause to encounter knee-jerk resistance. For example, while it is clearly wrong to oppress women—and always has been wrong—this has only recently become the consensus. In response to Mary Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, eighteenth-century philosopher Thomas Taylor published the dismissive satire A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, sneering that the arguments for women’s rights were also applicable to animals and that this amounted to a reductio ad absurdum of Wollstonecraft?...
...Southwest Airlines, chosen for its reputation of good worker relations. "The customer doesn't always come first at Southwest," says executive producer Charles Tremayne. "The staff comes first." On Airline, not only is the customer not always right, but the customer is often a drunk, a liar or a jerk. While Tremayne says Southwest had no editorial control, it gets the better of most conflicts here. One passenger berates a desk clerk for "losing" her bag, although it has been on a baggage carousel 30 ft. away from her the whole time. Don't believe your lying eyes and your...
Just yesterday, David Weinfeld wrote a little ditty about why it feels good to hate ‘that jerk in section’ and why it’s OK to foster fun, conspiratorial enmities. Maybe he’s right, and these minor maledicent habits are basically harmless. I guess when it comes down to it, hate doesn’t bother me. Intransigence does. Here’s where David and I part company. Forming and maintaining intractable opinions of other people—good or bad—doesn’t make life interesting...