Word: smirk
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...included an expensive pair of dancing shoes that Merrick had bought for her, he demanded indignantly where she was going. "To do a benefit," she explained. "Not in my shoes!" he bellowed. With a sneer, she took them off and started out in her stocking feet. Then, with a smirk, he picked her up and carried her to a taxi. ("Not a word of truth in that story," says Merrick, "but print it anyway. I want people to think I'm strong enough to carry a woman twice my size...
...ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first." The idiot is Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, played by reformed Stand-Up Comic Don Adams. Smart has little piggy eyes, a voice that sounds like a jigsaw on slate, and a perpetual self-satisfied smirk. When challenged, he is too dumb to panic, bluffs fluently: "Would you believe that I can break eight boards with one karate chop? No? Would you believe three boards? Would you believe a loaf of bread...
...cleverness, at the success with which we had suavely maintained the "Christian posture." And then, though we have not talked about it, we both felt a little dirty. Maybe the Incarnate God was truly present in that man's need and asking us for something better than a smirk. (I started to say "More truly human than a smirk..." but I don't know about that. We are beginning to believe deeply in original sin: theirs and ours...
...self-conscious? Why couldnt they play it straight? Light opera is supposed to be foolish--the audience will discover that on its own. The characters aren't supposed to be realistic. But they have to appear to think they are. A deadpan is much funnier than a smirk...
...beginning of the school year most serving ladies taste, figuratively, like grapefruit juice. They all frown or smirk as they dole out small portions. Within a fortnight one can pick out the true grapefruit-juice specimens. They are usually under fifty, and suspect sexual motives in the student's eager smile. Often they try to give the impression that they could beat you up if you tried anything...