Word: smirks
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...were condemned after his death, would be appalled at the blind way we shamble in his huge footsteps. The magnificent company of non-Catholic thinkers-Spinoza, Kant, Kierkegaard, Sartre-are too often presented in our texts as straw men to be knocked down with a pat phrase and a smirk for the stupidity of those who don't agree with us." Kreyche's goal was "a classroom in which professor and student can move easily from Socrates to Sartre, from Plato to Planck, from Aristotle to Ayer...
...intent of Artzybasheff to convey the image of a man with a sick mind, he has succeeded admirably. The smirk, the dead color, the vacant eyes-he has painted a most penetrating portrait of Lee Oswald...
...mighty schlemiels from little schlepps grow. Then there was Breathless! Belmondo played an archetypal anomie only to have Jean Seberg rat to the cops and leave him dying. Who but Belmondo could die with a smirk...
...turn things around and become, quite actually, his master's master. Bogarde acts so unassumingly that at times the part seems to be playing itself, but afterward, a viewer realizes that he has seen the whole man in Bogarde's face: deception, cruelty, cunning, cynicism, the smirk of testing self-assertion, the pustular hurt of the man who feels that his rights exceed his definable estate, the essential weakness of the citizen slave...
...been out for a while, Beckwith quit hamming around, sat in tense silence until-22 hours after they had been handed the case for a verdict-the jurors returned to say that they could not agree. Circuit Judge Leon Hendrick declared a mistrial, and Beckwith, with nary a smirk nor a smile, got up and went back to his cell...