Word: jerkingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nancy Weston After months of suspense, thirtysomething's writers let her triumph over cancer and bumped off goldilocks Gary instead. But if the show is renewed, viewers may question whether the oh-so-plucky Nancy was worth the trouble. Why did she marry such a jerk, anyway...
...reality is that courtship involves a series of verbal and non-verbal games and "No" does not always mean "No." "No" can mean "convince me," "not here," "later," "yes, but I need another drink," "it's that time of the month" or "not in a million years, jerk...
...HANDS of conservative critics, the epithet "PC" becomes an eraser, making liberal ideas nothing more than knee-jerk euphemisms and real-life problems nothing more than fictions...
Moreover, if liberals wish to take one superficial glance at me and assume from the color of my skin that I have been "oppressed," they can go ahead and make such a knee-jerk assumption. All they have accomplished is the construction of yet another kind of stereotype--one that maintains that every member of an ethnic group has the same background and mindset...
...LIBERALS like me respond to anti-war marchers with so much caustic intensity because we have decided not to be them. We call them "naive" and "Knee-jerk," and say they "give liberals a bad name." Through harsh words, we highlight our disassociation with them...