Word: shrug
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...student could only shrug. "Not to worry, not to worry." said the professor." Plenty of my sharpest students just don't have a mind for economics. Suppose I ask you this: How do you think the moral precepts of the Jacobins influenced foreign policy in England...
...tons of canned meat a day. But his workers actually produce less than half that amount. So he lies; he marks down 2½ million tons a day. He has no fear of being caught and punished. "That's my boss's problem," he says with a shrug. "He probably fiddles with his figures...
...himself, his wife Barbara and their three children, just in case Nostradamus' prediction of a world war comes true. The bleak side of the Teutonic soul occasionally stares out uneasily from behind the affable visage. But it is quickly dispelled with the German equivalent of a verbal shrug: "Naja," says Prey, and gloomy Faust retreats. He seems constitutionally incapable of becoming too morose. After all, when pressed, he admits that one role he would really like to sing is neither a villain nor a victim but the dashing hero of Lehar's The Merry Widow: Count Danilo...
...Fassbinder, though, the end-especially his own-must have been more a shrug than a suicide. In a preposterously prolific career (some 40 films, and many theater pieces, in 13 years), he had always viewed the soul's most traumatic ructions as blips on an electrocardiogram. The detachment was not merely ironic. Two mismatched mates could come together and drift apart, as they did in Alt: Fear Eats the Soul; a hard-won life could blow up in its heroine's face, as it did in The Marriage of Maria Braun; a cunning mind could schuss down...
What is clear, however is that minority law students must not shrug off the fact that 59 law students have figuratively crossed the picket line and enrolled in the boycotted class. The latter--who obviously care about civil rights -- is just the sort of group that must be won over for civil rights and affirmative action to press onward...