Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...play with his own money so that he stayed within a budget. Under those rules, she says, Jeff and his friends developed the ability to size up other people and deal with them diplomatically. "We need them to work out this Middle East thing!" she says with a laugh. "They're very good in understanding the other side of the situation...
...problem of coddling, pushing and overachieving - but not one of these problems is the public menace it's supposed to be. "A social trend is whatever is happening to a newspaper editor and the editor's friends," Claude Fisher, a professor of Sociology at U.C. Berkeley, says with a laugh...
...bring this up because I sense the media is increasingly ignoring the true American family, and instead is putting the dramas of affluent families on Page One. It would be okay if they delivered these portraits with a sardonic wink, so that we might laugh at the foibles of the well-off. But there is no wink. Instead, we are asked to sympathize with people's self-made problems, and these affluent-family issues are held up as representative...
...adjust your standards (elderly doctors are more receptive to the idea, but they're out of date with everything else) or audition. It took me four tries before I found my present doctor, a brilliant, European-trained woman who has never once promoted a C-section, and doesn't laugh at me when I ask questions like, "Will I need to wear a veil during labor?" (The answer is no, by the way, but that's because men, including one's husband, are banned from delivery rooms...
...button story lines to the characters' arias on the august legacy of their show, Sorkin makes running a comedy program seem like negotiating an arms treaty. Is your beef with sketch shows that they used to be daring social critiques--("Chizzburger! Chizzburger!")--or that they used to make you laugh? Worse, Studio 60 fails to show us that Matt and Danny are actually funny. (Witty, yes, but so was President Bartlet.) In Episode 2, Matt has to come up with a knock-'em-dead opening sketch for his first show. His idea is--wait for it--a Pirates of Penzance...