Word: shrug
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...Catholic, I would much prefer to shrug off a few tasteless jokes about the Pope or the church than to interfere with the right of people to express their opinions or views in private...
Dole has managed to remain unruffled despite occasionally haphazard scheduling. Once he was stranded at a Kentucky horse farm for an hour, talking to a single man-the manager. The candidate tries to shrug it off. Asked if he had a campaign plan, Dole once said, "No, I just have an airplane...
With one final shrug, Bok dismisses Harvard's history of prejudice against women...
Pasqualini notes that some Sinologists shrug off the very idea of labor camps, while others have arrived at an extreme estimate of 20 million detainees. He cites a concession often made by party propagandists that perhaps five per cent of the population is "being forced to build socialism," and notes that if you take two per cent as a reasonable figure for those who undergo "reform through labor" alone, this translates into about 16 million people. According to Pasqualini, no one who defies the government can stay out of jail, but there aren't any firm statistics by which...
Tharp never seems to complete a movement. She cuts short most gestures, pushes one into the next, gives her dancers only fragments. Her company responds with an attitude of posed nonchalance, letting phrases slip by, shaking them off with a shrug...