Word: smirk
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...Hillary, people's growing dislike of Bush, his horrible war, his crumbling economy, his tiresome smirk, will help McCain. Even though McCain is the candidate of the President's party and even though he is the biggest supporter of the Iraq war outside of the Administration, McCain is the one who will seem like a new broom that sweeps clean. Hillary, meanwhile, has been transformed by the Washington press corps in the past few weeks from the first woman with a serious chance of becoming President into a two-headed monster always referred to as "the Clintons...
...when black entertainment baron and Clinton supporter Robert Johnson obliquely reminded a South Carolina audience that Obama has admitted using drugs. "Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won't say what he was doing--but he said it in his book," Johnson said with a smirk. (He later claimed, unconvincingly, that he was referring to Obama's "time spent as a community organizer...
...five years with a bit of a smirk,” she said. “You know you’re going to have some problems when you have so many plates and you need so much accuracy...
That's the thing about watching Bruce Willis act: it's not just that he's so incredibly cool--it's that he makes you feel like you're cool too. Unlike George Bush's, his smirk is inclusive, a charming plea for forgiveness for being a tough guy. He is the bouncer who listens to you and smiles as he's tossing you from...
...fertile market for peddling prejudice—the more bilious, the better. Every day, millions of Americans gather with guilty grins around the speaker, waiting for the next slur to slide out. The audience doesn’t ever have to echo these views in civil society, only to smirk in silent complicity when they are voiced in the comfort of their sedan...