Word: swaggering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...band’s enthusiastic energy saved the often-moody material from seeming pretentious. Schiltz and his bandmates joked with each other and audience members throughout the show, almost entirely without the bored irony of their fellow New York hipsters. Six years after forming, Longwave knows how to swagger without sneering...
Penn, on the other hand, will show up to New Haven fresh off a warm up contest against Brown, which after getting swept by the Big Green and Crimson has about as much confidence and swagger as a mediocre intramural team...
...Hope is one word), The Great Destroyer is just as bare and beautiful as the rest of their albums. The music, although not conducive even to foot-tapping, rewards patience and silence with a beautifully austere, wintry texture reminiscent of Duluth, even in a scene saturated with New York swagger and California ennui. The perfect complement to a cold, listless winter day, Low’s music becomes more beautiful as it becomes more familiar, their maudlin, Mormon message piercing to the bone of even the most jaded big city hipster...
...most colorful bloke in the bunch. "For the most part, character roles are more interesting," Cheadle says. "And more mine." Cheadle, 40, doesn't have Washington's looks. His small, lithe body is not built for Smith-like action heroism. A Cheadle character doesn't rely on swagger; he is the yeoman worker who does his job, does it well and doesn't understand why others make such a fuss...
Among Washington elites, Donald Rumsfeld is the undisputed master of the press conference: a dexterous debater who undresses interrogators with a mix of septuagenarian folksiness and alpha-male swagger. That skill has helped Rumsfeld deflect blame for the mismanagement of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and keep his job as Defense Secretary for George W. Bush's second term. But when Rumsfeld fielded questions last week from soldiers preparing to move from Kuwait into Iraq, he finally met his match. Army Specialist Thomas Wilson, 31, asked the Secretary why soldiers are being sent to war in humvees and trucks...