Word: sheepishly
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...well-earned whimsy. At a Cleveland Indians' home game against the New York Yankees, Voinovich showed up wearing a garish T shirt under his neat sports coat. NEW YORK'S THE BIG APPLE, proclaimed the shirt, BUT CLEVELAND'S A PLUM. Breaking out in a sheepish grin, he then tossed a real plum to the Indians' catcher...
About a year ago, when the booters trudged off the field for the last time, they were the sheepish owners of an eminently mediocre 6-7-2 record. A quick glance at the game-by-game results showed the problem...
...cool under fire. Shocked by the 8:15:21 bomb, ABC's crew rushed to catch up-and proceeded to call two races wrong. Retracting his prediction of victory for incumbent Governor William Clinton in Arkansas, a slightly sheepish Max Robinson called Clinton's defeat "a stunning upset...
...Neal, Nick Nolte cuts, dives and spins with a clowning sensual appeal that overwhelms John Heard as Jack and Sissy Spacek as Carolyn. He twists his shoulders, rolls his eyes and straightens his collar with a sheepish grin that looks alluringly out of place on a man his size. He can never do anything wrong because he's just having fun. He's the kind of guy who never needs a reason--just...
...angst, plenty of angst. He knew he would be free soon, only to be trapped. All the tutors to see, sheepish explanations to be proffered, books he would have to skim, words he would have to write. More enemies than he had imagined. Brokaw blared, Pauley pouted. In Tehran, they shouted...