Word: slouchingly
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...American good looks that an Eileen Ford talent scout would spot beneath all the pancake powder and lipstick. But Dern plays Connie as a girl who has not yet come into her own. She's tall and thin and leggy, but she walks with a knock-kneed self-conscious slouch. When she tries to be sexy, the worst of Valley Girl fashion comes out of the closet. Too much hairspray, too many jiggly bangles, plastic colorful earrings, a flairy mini-skirt and a push-up satin halter are the usual attire. All the sleazy guys at Frank's Hamburger Joint...
Everything about the show was premeditated--and therefore safe. From the in-the-dark opening of "Ride Across The River" to the detonating of a mushroom cloud in the second-to-last number, "Brothers In Arms," Knopfler could do no wrong. All he had to do was slouch there, look cool, play the same solos as on the albums, mumble the lyrics and let 10,000 rock pilgrims...
Staniar was no slouch--with first singles victories over Penn and Princeton earlier this year--but Scott was too good...
With six assists to his credit. Pawloski is no slouch in the offensive zone. Nevertheless, he is wary of concentrating on his own offensive game over that of his opponents...
...conservative rhetoric, we are left to our own political devices, honest and ordinary as they may be, Freed from nostalgia's extremism, we are asked to begin our "poor but epic battle" vice, Shklar's "liberal government for bad characters" is no sure thing; her virtue is no slouch. It has got to be fought for freely-and in spite of ourselves...