Word: smirks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...look, longer hours, and navigable chairs (cough, Adams, cough). You never have to worry about overcrowding or the guy who rudely scoops the last of the tater tots in Quincy. Get used to eating in the company of your lone thoughts—or just stroll into Adams and smirk triumphantly when Lucy the card-swiper opens her mouth to enforce interhouse restrictions before realizing that you, in fact, have dining rights as a Pfoho resident...
...attraction.” Regrettably, this topic not only lacks in originality, but it’s ambitions toward the grotesque never outstrip the juvenile. An Extention School alumnus, Holder should have been aware that there is nothing more to give to this poem than an initial flabbergasted smirk quickly followed by dismissal. In “Davis Square, Somerville: Colonial Woman at the Au Bon Pain,” Holder writes, “And Underneath / A bone-white bonnet / Lies the waves and crests / Of luxuriant / Beguiling / Purple Hair.” For once, Holder seems to have...
...their cappuccinos. To those of you who spend your Saturdays in the airy, mostly sweet-smelling spaces of Lamont Café or the Widener Stacks, never needing to elbow anyone more threatening than a group of Weld freshmen in order to secure yourself a spot: Don’t smirk and fold your arms complacently. This could be you sooner than you think...
While Gaylor insists that Dayton locals have gotten more and more backward over the years, Davis says that's not so. "We have a public school system that's accredited by the state," he says with a smirk. "Our kids seem to score appropriately on state tests. We even have some people with college degrees. So the H.L. Mencken attitude is tiresome. It's as ignorant as we're proposed...
...snack taunts him from behind the glass. Climbing up the stairs to his room, he can only think of two things: hunger and revenge. Suddenly, after hours of scheming, he comes up with a plan to outsmart the greedy vending machine schemers. Wearing only his boxers and a knowing smirk, he runs from the dormitory to the nearest convenience store, grabs the first box of Pop Tarts he sees, and pays only 8 dollars for the whole box! What a deal! Cackling madly, he rips open the cardboard container to get to his spoils, only to find that his search...