Word: shrug
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...convicted in absentia in 1995 by a Haitian court for crimes that include participating in a 1994 massacre of at least 15 people while he helped head a paramilitary death squad that terrorized Aristide supporters after the 1991 coup. "Who hasn't made mistakes?" Philippe says with a shrug. "Now he is fighting for a good cause." Good or bad, it is already a cause soaked in blood. --With reporting by Mark Thompson/Washington
...believes deeply in the future of the People's Republic and is forgiving of its occasional foibles, dismissing malfeasances, such as last year's early cover-up of the outbreak, with a shrug. The many top officials he has met, he believes, will always do what is right if they have the relevant information. The problem is getting that data in front of them...
...believes deeply in the future of the People's Republic and is forgiving of its occasional foibles, dismissing malfeasances such as last year's early cover-up of the SARS outbreak with a shrug. The many top officials he has met, he believes, will always do what is right if they have the relevant information. The problem is getting that data in front of them...
...Ralph was the choleric loser, Ed was the lucky buffoon. Like the Looney Tunes character Pepe Le Pew (another bon vivant blithely ignorant of the way the world saw and smelled him), Norton exuded a sweet assurance that life would treat him as he treated life: with an easy shrug and an eager guffaw. That's how an acute farceur humanized a sewer rat for audiences of the '50s and every TV generation since. --By Richard Corliss
Moseley Braun’s answer was an eloquent shrug of her shoulders in her immaculate gray suit...