Word: rude
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Afro-punks, Latino punks. It's about questioning authority. The purpose of it is not to be a jerk, but to talk truth to power." The scene has certainly managed to rankle both Muslim and punk traditionalists. "There are Muslims who think you're not supposed to be rude if you're pious, you're not supposed to be playing music," Majeed says. "Punks have told [Muslim punks] there's no room for God or religion in punk. If there is, it's like, 'You're a fool, you've been co-opted by the Man.' " (Read "Jakarta: Punk...
...girlfriends and I interrupt each other all the time and we never take it as an insult. We're just excited. My best friend, whose name is Franca, we'll be talking at dinner sometimes at the same time. We think its great. I never think, "That's so rude." I think it would be rude if she sat there in silence while I spoke. I'm hoping I'm sparking things in her and she's sparking things in me and pretty soon we are off and running. I love...
...Smith sets her agenda in character dynamics rather than plot. Dialogue explicates characterization well beyond the ability of any narrative description, and Smith’s skill with dialects provides comic relief through amusing background characters. With their delight in vulgar-language, even in salutation, two ancient and impossibly rude Jamaicans, Denzel and Clarence, steal every scene they?...
...Establishment is obligated to roll its eyes. Obama has likened cable news to professional wrestling and said in a recent TV interview, "The media encourages some of the outliers in behavior because, let's face it, the easiest way to get on television right now is to be really rude." But Obama plays the game too: his online fundraising pitches read like populist fairy tales, with the big insurance industry playing the wicked witch of K Street. And at a fundraiser in Miami on Oct. 26, the President called Grayson an "outstanding member of Congress...
Lade has been counseling the children and their families for the past few months, and she says their behavior is often rude. "I would be talking to Rubina, but she will talk to someone else or do something else, her body language making it clear that she has no interest in what I am saying. Azhar will often cut in rudely while I am talking to his mother, trying to get her away from talking to me." Shamim maintains that Azhar's rudeness is just "immaturity." She says, "He is finding it difficult to cope with his father's death...