Word: smirking
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...thing itself is so damn hilarious? Why make endless quips about that nice Mr. Quayle when one look at his squidgy visage, writhing with stupidity, outdoes anything a comedian could express. All the way through the Vice-Presidential debate I was doubled up with laughter as cliche rebounded off smirk, off slick quip, off tear-jerking'''real-life'" story. And then that charming Admiral Stockdale (with a passing resemblance to my grandfather) devastated his opponents with a faculty of articulacy as yet unseen in the Western world. Laugh? I positively wet myself...
...pronounced "All-aaay" because of the accent marks. Most American tourists would probably pronounce it as my mother did--"All-eeee," the last two vowels falling flat and eliciting a smirk from any self-respecting French speaker. Most Americans save themselves the embarrassment--they never make it past the walls of the old city...
...nature of Thomas' alleged harassment while she worked for him in government positions from 1981 to 1983. Words like "penis" and "breasts" and "pubic hair" would enter the public record repeatedly in so somber and untitillating a fashion that no one in the hearing room would blanch, let alone smirk or giggle. It was clear that the differences in the Hill and Thomas versions on what transpired a decade ago were not a simple matter of differing sensibilities -- oversqueamishness on her part vs. bad taste on his. If Hill's description of Thomas' words and actions was truthful, then...
...same token, some representatives of the world's largest minority, the humor-impaired, regard the women's response to an oil-tank trucker with whom + they keep playing fender tag as excessive. Every time they encounter him, the guy proves by word, smirk and obscene gesture that he's a chauvinist dinosaur. When he inquires if they're "ready to get serious," they reply encouragingly. What he doesn't know, of course, is that they're thinking metaphorically, with a little help from director Scott, with whose surrealistic reinvention of the West -- one-third desert, one-third industrial wasteland...
...long con" -- the elaborate scheme that takes suckers for big stakes. Roy's mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston) is the con woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room kill, and do it all with a hard smirk. Roy hardly stands a chance with Lilly. He can rebuff her seductions, but he can't duck her wrath...