Word: smiley
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...beastly bosses have shaved months off my life" and then defended them as being "some of the most gifted people I've known," as if that excuses their behavior. It is people like Cullen who create an atmosphere of acceptance for these cretins. Give me an office full of smiley faces anytime...
...this foreign American food seems campy fun--bright, sweet, smiley and likable. Even in a world where so many hate and fear us, they still want to be like us. To them, it seems, we're a happy, efficient, fun bunch of guys, even if we act like total jerks when it suits us. They've figured it out: we're frat boys. And we like to eat like them...
...gifted people I've known. This correlation occurs with reason: talented people can get away with much worse behavior. I don't want to enable monsters. In fact, I don't want to interact with them. But neither do I want to work in an office staffed solely with smiley faces. Imagine American Idol without Simon, House without House, Family Guy without Stewie. Colleagues of Steve Jobs bear the scars, but wouldn't you prefer him on your team than theirs...
...more or less ignore the other stuff?” Elena has a point about Max’s would-be film, and her point could just as easily apply to Smiley’s book. With “Ten Days in the Hills,” Smiley gives the reader nine hours of Iraq pillow talk and just one of sex. But all we want is penetration.The time is March 2003, and the scene is a home sprawled on a hill above Hollywood. It’s a fictional return to the birthplace of the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
...patient look at a graphic on her clipboard as he answered. The graphic was a 10cm line with numbers like a ruler, as well as upside down smiley faces depicting progressively greater discomfort - the VAS (visual analog pain scale). Patients are supposed to tell our nurses how much pain they feel by pointing to a spot along the line...