Word: jerkingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those which the movie so savvily spoofs. The movie seems to critique belligerent nationalism and militarism from the inside out; and yet, the jazzy thrill of watching those bugs get picked off is great enough that the audience participates in that very same militarist spirit. Verhoeven torques our knee-jerk impressions of our own political sensibilities and forces us to resolve that conflict ourselves. All this from the man who made Showgirls...
...reactions, on the other hand, tended to run as follows: This guy is a real jerk; why didn't he make the decision earlier, and why didn't he have the manliness to tell the bride about it in person? That was the articulated, official male response. But off in a range of the male psyche audible only to guys and dogs, there vibrated the sneaking thought that the fugitive groom--however big a jerk, nay, slimeball--had made good an escape that men, in the yet undomesticated zones of their hearts, always applaud. Something in every man abhors...
Wide receiver Michael Irvin is a jerk on the field, taunting his opponents and screaming at officials. He's not so good walking off the field either. On a live national-TV interview, he started spewing four-letter words, including ones which have other meanings such as "to copulate" and "manure...
Rereading the Associated Press accounts, I get the eerie feeling that all this time, my faith in the accuracy of its coverage has been a bit too knee-jerk. If they can't nail the stories which I have first-hand knowledge of, what leads me to believe that they've got their act together on the ones that happen far away...
...judicial fallibility and they have accordingly let punishment mean life imprisonment. The House rejected motions to reinstate the death penalty twice in the last four years, but in the wake of the recent string of murders in Cambridge and elsewhere in the state, liberal Massachusetts may in knee-jerk style join the 38 other states in the Union that sanction eye-for-an-eye justice...