Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bowe's tendency to shrug at life, the way he did when he failed to bring home a gold medal from the 1988 Seoul Olympics -- well, don't be fooled. Bowe is not the latest in the line of adolescents in oversized bodies who have populated boxing. In fact, what distinguishes him is an early, singularly mature decision to be, as he says, "different." In this course he relied in part on his mother Dorothy, who alone ruled an unruly household of 13 children in a New York City war zone with such edifying comments...
...declaimed. Moreover, the Dublin-derived ensemble did not create the illusion of long familiarity that the once-in-a-lifetime Lughnasa troupe did. As a bookie who plays sugar daddy to all the other characters, marvelous Donal McCann brought himself to feckless ruin with a crooked smile and a shrug for Ingrid Craigie as his despondent wife. Worthy on its own terms, Tennessee was bound to be seen on Lughnasa's instead. That was the ill luck of these Irish...
That sucks. Sounds like a case of really bad timing to me. You have two options: a)shrug your shoulders, hold your head up high, and tell yourself "Daryl" picked the wrong person and who cares anyway. Or, b) tell yourself, "Daryl's girlfriend be damned! I'm going after him, `taken' or not! Full speed ahead!" Good luck, dear...
...York society of the 1870s, Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a true romantic gentleman. He is romantic because he wants to shrug off the opera cape of domestic respectability and follow his heart to hell with the Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). He is a gentleman because, having already declared his love to pretty May Welland (Winona Ryder), he is bound to behave honorably. He knows that when passion and propriety collide, only bitter defeat may rise from the wreckage...
...spots that require a minimum of clothing and a maximum of sunscreen. They shop madly and stand in long lines at the cheese counter, are figure conscious and sports crazy, and see their doctors regularly. But if you ask a German how he's doing, the response is a shrug...