Word: smiling
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...sake brewmaster, a proud member of a dwindling breed. "In the olden days, the eldest sons of farmers made sake after the harvest," explains Doi, 63. He had followed his father into his vocation straight out of high school. "But my son," he says with a rueful, gap-toothed smile, "he's a salaryman...
...likes his chances. "As a Japanese artist whose art is born in the chaos of an art scene without rules or distinctions, maybe I am able to break boundaries in ways that a Western artist cannot," he says. "In some ways, I do all this," and here comes another smile, "because...
...hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence...
...ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile." RETIRED LIEUT. GENERAL JAY GARNER, head of the reconstruction effort in Iraq...
...must understand," says Mony, my guide, with an ominous little smile, "that the roads in my country are, ahem, less than excellent...