Word: smirked
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...matter the appeal of an eight-year-old's energy and cocky smirk, that child doesn't live in a world dominated by volunteer big siblings. She doesn't go to sleep, wake up and get fed in my dorm; I don't take care of her seven days a week--and at this moment in my life I couldn't do so no matter how much I might want to. We, and they, need the adults in their lives to promote their healthy long-term development in the six and a half days a week when...
...another security guard and manage to dodge him without having to decode his accent. A row of ten or twelve elevators suddenly makes us feel very small. Kurt Loder steps out of one. We smirk, pretend we're not impressed, step on. Twenty-fifth floor please...
...Bush, on the other hand, must subdue the frat boy Caliban who lives inside him, the airhead who expresses himself in the famous smirk that makes W. look, at times, like Mel Brooks as Governor Lepetomane in "Blazing Saddles...
...actually closer to $440 million, but why quibble? The point is that Forbes, pretty much forgotten by the national media, has not gone away. He has been quietly pouring millions into Iowa, plotting to wipe that smirk off Republican front runner George W. Bush's face...
...film's off-kilter start, recounting the occurrence of several supremely bizarre deaths so coincidentally staged they seem sure to be the stuff of urban legend. And yet, as the unidentified narrator assures, they are absolute fact. "These strange things happen all the time," he offers with an invisible smirk. Inventive and charmingly frank as this introduction is, what's even craftier is that no such odd confluence of circumstance proceeds to occur in any one of the eight intersecting storylines that make up the rest of the film. In fact, in all three, thoroughly engaging hours, it's amazing...