Word: jerkingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...white, “with us or against us” ideology of George W. Bush, nor the stubbornness that John McCain and Sarah Palin like to describe as the behavior of “mavericks,” will create the change we need. But the knee-jerk rejection of all things Republican is similarly insufficient...
...hardwood floor you slept on and the cockroach crawling into your nostril, you come to the vague conclusion that you’re in a River House. Your only memory of Halloween is that the hot gypsy you were dancing with all night went off with that jerk in the cow suit and the faint smell of drying permanent marker indicates that there is probably genitalia drawn somewhere on your person.Need a pick-me-up? How about this:Harvard is going to pummel Dartmouth. Seriously, it’s going to be brutal…satisfyingly brutal. I know...
...simply forgotten that the camera is rolling. In an opening scene where Ian accidentally hints at his love for Felicia, actress Amanda Crew delivers a momentary blank stare, as if forgetting to react. The one bright spot is James Marsden’s performance as Ian’s jerk older brother Rex. He delivers lines attacking Ian in a way both brutal and hilarious. Take, for instance, his insight into Ian’s love life: “You’re 18 and you’ve never had a girlfriend. That?...
...Road to Closure, Volume 12.” One of Tris’s best friends, Norah (Kat Dennings), has fallen in love with Nick’s mix CDs, despite never having met their maker. While attending a show by Nick’s band, The Jerk Offs, Norah, feeling lonely, grabs the nearest guy and tells Tris it’s her boyfriend (even though, as we later discover, she already has one). As chance would have it, that guy is Nick, and their relationship springs from there as they attempt to track down the secret show...
...revisits the quotes again and again, seemingly without choice or control over his words. After work, he attempts to find refuge from the haunting accounts in drinking alcohol and dreams of getting laid, but the quotes that have invaded his mind also cut into the mundane; his thoughts jerk without warning into explicit renditions of the testimonies. As accounts of death, cruelty, and violence become an unshakeable, inescapable part of the narrator, wreaking havoc on his psyche, he too shares in the same experience of the Indians who survived the genocide. Just like the witness to genocide, the reader...