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Word: jerkingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...insights into the subtle direction of actors, watch as Larry Wachowski gives cues to star Keanu Reeves, suspended on wires for a fight scene, in a manner Ingmar Bergman may never have considered: "Head jerk. Then thrashing. Then a big thrash. And another one. Then clench. Tighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fellowship of the Matrix | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...seen an order like this,” said Robert Winters, editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal. “Anytime there’s a dispute with Harvard or a property tax issue like we have right now, there’s immediately a knee-jerk reaction to put pressure on the universities to cough up taxes...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Calls For Harvard To Pay Up | 11/23/2004 | See Source »

...Investment in Sudan Part of a Larger Problem,” Nov. 15) regarding Harvard’s investments in companies associated with Sudan take an overly simplistic perspective on the matter. It’s easy to hear about the horrible genocides in Sudan and decide, in knee-jerk fashion, that Harvard is morally obliged to divest from anything that even remotely offers them any support...

Author: By Andrew Lim, | Title: Divestiture from Sudan not as simple as it sounds | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

Laurie, a British actor known for playing comic twits, transforms flawlessly into an American jerk. (In both accent and attitude he's a little like Survivor's Richard Hatch.) His brilliant, arrogant lead is buffered by a likable confidant (Robert Sean Leonard) and three young doctors (Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer) who hold patients' hands for him. The show also sports CGI effects that, CSI-style, bring us nose-to-cell with platelets and parasites. But unlike CSI, House is more interested in ideas than technology: Is the human touch overrated? Are concepts like "death with dignity" just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Scorn Is the Best Medicine | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...relieved that our conversation had retreated from the precipice of candor and had returned to its wanted level of discourse, wherein my brother is a jerk and I reproach him for his jerkiness...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: When We Were One-and-Twenty | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

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