Word: shrug
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...team is relishing its present role as resident darkhorse of the league. The team went an unexceptional 6-7-1 last season and lost several key players to graduation, giving cause for many to expect next to nothing from it this season. But rather than lament, cry or even shrug off these low expectations, the team seems to bear them gladly. In fact, it seems to be thriving on them...
...real reason for refusing to engage in any broad negotiation is emotional. The weight of 35 years of demonizing Castro is not easy to shrug off. Clinton is afraid that Republicans -- and plenty of Democrats -- will scorch him for cozying up to a communist devil. Yet that fear may be exaggerated: the Wall Street Journal editorial page, a powerful voice of conservatives, came out last week in favor of lifting the embargo, arguing that the best way to undermine communist regimes is to open them up to outside goods, exchanges of people and ideas. It worked with the Soviet empire...
Loss after loss would be met with a shrug and that phrase, as if a positive attitude could compensate for a lack of size inside and an inability to run a tight, clean-working offense...
...jury. Even the weather, which brings more folks to this Cote d'Azur playground than cinephiles would care to admit, was only moderately fabulous. It appeared as if the 47th edition of the movie industry's biggest annual deal-fest would tiptoe into history with a sigh and a shrug...
Rose partners shrug off the story, insisting, plausibly, that if they had anything to hide, they would not have gotten two lower-rung employees to do their dirty work. Hedges says senior partners would be just as unlikely to risk attracting suspicion by doing something out of the ordinary -- like their own shredding. "People get suspicious...