Word: jocularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from behind Ned's stubble, she was surprised at how much sexual power women have over men, even when women may feel disempowered in other ways, and how icily they wield it. She was also surprised how tough it was to keep up the façade of bluff, jocular arrogance that both sexes demand from men at all times. "Every man's armor is borrowed and 10 sizes too big," she writes in Self-Made Man, "and beneath it, he's naked and insecure and hoping...
...leader. But they bring out different sides of his personality. Have No Fear's Wojtyla (Thomas Kretschmann) is starchy and principled, more a paragon than a person. CBS's mini-series presents a soft-focus, avuncular Wojtyla, dividing the role in two: the young priest (Cary Elwes) is a jocular guy who talks sex (within marriage, don't worry) with his young parishioners; the Pontiff (Jon Voight) is a self-deprecating wit whose career is unified by a belief in the dignity of life...
...Despite the jocular tone of the exchange, Bush?s comments could have immense fallout. The president has gone farther in questioning the widely-taught theories of evolution and natural selection than any president since Ronald Reagan, who advocated teaching creationism in public schools alongside evolution. ?Intelligent design? is not pure creationism. Its proponents tend not to believe, for instance, the Biblical claim that the Earth is less than 6,000 years old. But they do suggest that the complex array of species on Earth could not have evolved on the basis of natural selection, and instead suggest the it reflects...
...elder generation. President Lowell remarks that such "changes in customs, and even in aims and purposes, come not so much from a reversal of principle as from a difference in emphasis." It is quite true that what, in the eyes of Deap Briggs, received the emphasis of the twinkle jocular has now become a commencement oration deeply serious. Yet the orator leaves us no doubt that a great dogma is involved that of our democracy. He is quite consciously subversive. He even protests against the old system as tending to turn there out all of one pattern, like Waltham watches...
...wave of punditry debating whether the country is sliding inexorably into insignificance. Is Raffarin the man to turn the economy around, bring unruly unions and public sector workers into line, and create what he calls "a new France in a new Europe?" The Prime Minister, by turns jocular and combative as he juggled a rugby ball during the Time interview, betrays no doubts. The son of a politician himself, the marketing executive-turned-provincial legislator says his grass-roots mentality and everyday tastes - including an unabashed admiration for French rock dinosaur Johnny Hallyday - give him a common touch as Prime...