Word: smirking
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...point, Susan Boyle. When she showed up, unpolished and dowdy, and blew the doors off Britain's Got Talent in her singing audition, it was hailed as a sign that we were finally getting sick of the ugly, snarky culture of reality TV. Did you see her wipe the smirk off Simon Cowell's face? The judges were ready to laugh at her, but she showed them that looks aren't everything! Well, yes, except that Boyle's entire "subversion" of reality TV was set up, framed and milked by a reality show...
...miserable until he drinks a glass of spiked lemonade, which not only gets him through the day but also propels him into a night of deliberate, serial offstage sinning. To the impotent consternation of the townsfolk, Albert returns in the morning with a backbone and a smirk...
...that Lehman has spent in and around the U.S. military. The Pentagon report's silence on Islamic extremism "shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become," he told TIME on Tuesday. "It's definitely getting worse, and is now so ingrained that people no longer smirk when it happens." (See pictures of Major Nidal Malik Hasan's apartment...