Word: mutteringly
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...restrict the theoretically unfettered press by refusing to publish anything not to their liking-can use the sex explosion as evidence that censorship does not exist. Another is that the people obviously like it. Says one kiosk operator in Lisbon's Restauradores Square: "A few passers-by sometimes mutter, but we are making a lot of money from erotic magazines...
...embarrassed. Her card says simply that "she was taken to Boston Commons," a scrap of information of dubious significance, but you can think on it while you look. A shrewd glance reveals the wrinkles pleated into a brown paper sack which might have given harried passersby the chance to mutter "the old bag" as they bustled through the park...
...Zane Grey. MacLean's tale gleefully highballs along at a brisk, cinematic clip. Funny touches are provided by the English understatements of MacLean's Pinkerton-man hero. He is the sort of chap who, on examining an arrow embedded in the heroine's shoulder, might mutter, "Mmmm, Apache, I shouldn't wonder...
...Senator Buckley used language skillfully to create the image of a President innocent of criminal acts, a man essentially victimized by others. But Buckley's whole performance in the cavernous Senate Caucus Room spoke something quite the opposite, something that members of Congress until now have only dared mutter among themselves. It is the horror of the spectacle of a President of the U.S.-a friend, a Republican, a national figure for three decades-being revealed as a criminal while holding the nation's highest trust. The growing reality of this has made a lot of important people...
Chess players are usually precocious small hairy people who never know what to do with their hands or knees. Unless chained down, a teen-aged tournament player will pinch his nails together, rock back and forth, and in the presence of other players, begin to mutter and giggle about opening variations and to tell juvenile jokes. As far as appearances went, we were golden. Our problem was that we weren't very good at chess...