Word: shrug
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Israel, Hussein charged, adamantly refuses to accept such principles of negotiation. Therefore, said the King with a discouraged shrug, even though Sadat had invited Jordan, "there was no room for us to go to the Cairo conference or to Jerusalem." The overall situation leaves the King disappointed and bitter. "We have been rebuilding since 1967, and now there is the possibility of everything going to pieces. How we would like to have peace, so that we can continue raising the standards of our people...
Great amounts of energy are used to combat supposed sexual immorality, while we tolerate other immoralities with a shrug of the shoulders...
...becoming a European commentator for ABC News. Salinger concedes that he might have taken a post in the early Carter Administration if one had been offered, but he now concludes that his new life in Paris is too good to leave. "What the hell," he says with a Gallic shrug, "I have the best job in the world." He is also fond of quoting an earlier American in Paris, Thomas Jefferson, who once remarked: "Every man has two countries-his own and France...
...Women's Room's sense of hopelessness and of dissipated anger would be easy to shrug off in a poorly constructed book. But French is convincing, depressingly so. A reader must make a conscious and deliberate attempt to convince him or herself that French's power is not the only truth. For French ultimately serves the same purpose Val does for her friends. While she does not expect you to accept all of what she perceives, she forces you at least to consider...
Director Joseph Losey (The Boy with Green Hair) conveys menace with every worn-out Hitchcock device except a creaking door. Delon is summoned to a strange country house, where aristocrats he has never met greet him warmly, and the second Klein's mistress, acted with a shrug by Jeanne Moreau, plays word games with him. Even the other fellow's dog unaccountably (and illogically) takes a liking...