Word: swagger
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Blending into the pattern of a film's tapestry, surrendering star swagger to teamwork, is a tendency that comes naturally to this native of Pleasantville-like Chelsea, Mich. At New York City's Circle Repertory Theater in the late 1970s and early '80s, Daniels was trained to be "part of an ensemble," not stand out from it. He admits he had to be nudged by Woody Allen to "go on, go on, go on"--be bigger, bolder--in the role of the 1930s actor who literally steps off the screen in The Purple Rose of Cairo, and pushed by Jonathan...
...government into action, but many of his broadcasts since then-most notably, his controversial decision to let 180,000 residents and business owners back into New Orleans this week, before the approaching Hurricane Rita led him to reconsider-haven't been as well received. His tall, movie star-handsome swagger seems rattled as he limits his public appearances and complains, as he did to a group of state legislators this week, that he's "getting more criticism than God knows...
There are two kinds of courage in Table Money. Owney's is physical, as he displayed in Viet Nam by winning a Congressional Medal of Honor. Dolores proves her valor by overcoming generations of inertia and fatalism. She does it by demonstrating that behind the male swagger there is usually an unsteady little boy in need of a firm maternal hand. When a neighborhood Rambo threatens to shoot at police from his window, Dolores arms herself with a basket of wet wash and gets him to help her hang it: "She held her hand out and Ralphie gave...
...defensive secondary that had been torched by the Bears’ passing attack found a swagger in the second half that it wouldn’t lose for the rest of year, and the offense proved that it could perform under the highest-pressure situations...
Both Navy varsity boats entered the weekend with the justified swagger of a No. 1 ranked crew fresh off a solid trouncing of Georgetown—the only boat to have defeated Harvard’s first varsity all season long. The Navy first varsity had not lost a spring race since 2003, and the 2004 Midshipmen rowed to an open-water victory at the national championships. Navy had won the previous three Haines Cups over the Crimson. Only one Harvard boat got the best of the Midshipmen in a dual race during that three-year stretch...