Word: relax
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...betrayed my disappointment with The Heartbreak Kid by making it sound vaguely amusing. The movie has its moments, like Lila's ring tone (the Wicked Witch broomstick theme from The Wizard of Oz), and Corddry's exasperated description of his secret for a happy marriage ("Sit back, relax and wait for the sweet embrace of death"). I also appreciated Eddie's flailing argument for dumping his bride for another woman. "The heart wants what it wants," he says, quoting Woody Allen's remark to Walter Isaacson of TIME during the 1992 scandal involving the filmmaker's affair with his stepdaughter...
...continue to smoke our pot, liberally, as it were, missing among its innocent curls of smoke the sinister economic system that it sets up. One cannot sneer at the social irresponsibility of a Hummer driver and then return home to relax over a joint whose procurement demanded the subjection of an impoverished underclass on the fringes of society...
...climbed up on the stretcher and looked straight down at him. He was perfectly alert, maybe a little amused at the sight of this doctor standing over him on his bed. I told him I needed him to relax his muscles. And, then, a wonderful light came on in his eyes. He told me he understood this - maybe it was something a wounded Spartan hoplite might have done while being treated on the battlefield. Anyway, he got it. And, by Zeus, he relaxed. So I pulled, lifting Nick and an ER doc off the stretcher, and while Nick waxed...
...defense. “This definitely is a whole new team from last year,” she said. “The defense is amazing. Obviously today I didn’t really have to do much.” While Mann might have been able to relax, the defense was forced to work hard in the first half while the Crimson struggled to get things going offensively. With the exception of two shots fired on goal in the first half by Sheeleigh—one a left-footed rocket that Golding was just barely able to fist over...
...some point, you'd need to relax and get in touch with your "spiritual self...