Word: mutterances
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ass” and “If your room flooded, I’d buy you a Little Mermaid costume—and then we’d do it.” Upon meeting and spending 30 seconds with a disoriented, hormone-crazed Weaver, Wang was heard muttering, “This is the last time I do any [expletive] favors for the HoCo.” For his part, Weaver was heard to mutter, “I want a sandwich?...
...boomed in the 1990s has ground to a halt (a downturn sparked by the global high-tech blowout, but exacerbated by the crisis in confidence). Tourism is down by half, and likely to fall further. Why would the tourists visit when even some of the locals are starting to mutter publicly about wanting to leave...
...were certain of can change in an instant. We knew that he was a tough man. It took the trauma for us to discover the tenderness, the offscreen, backstage, lowlight kindness he showed to widow after widow, child after child. A man considered incapable of empathy, who could scarcely mutter a word of condolence to the mother of an unarmed man his police force had shot 41 times, somehow knew what to say?and just as important, what not to. Tell me about your son, he would say to a speechless mother, and then he would go quiet...
...With the Star Cup on the line, Mario knocked Bowser out with a red shell Saturday night. “Fucking plumber,” Bowser was heard to mutter...
...Perhaps after the clamor, reflection will slowly take root. Perhaps we'll just distract ourselves with the teary family stories and the umpteenth capital-punishment pro-and-cons. Or switch off Katie, put a CD on the car stereo instead of the news. And either way, mutter afterward about how the parade of talking heads trivialized a moment of national gravity, made it into another meaningless parade, another Survivor finale - how this most intimate and public of moments was stripped of its chilling meaning. Yes, yes. And isn't that exactly what we will have wanted...