Word: swaggering
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...glimpse what that picture might feel like as, to the throb of We Will Rock You, another cowboy comes in from the ring. He's not whooping or punching the air. He's not even smiling. But his eyes are bright and he walks with a special swagger that says, "I have contended with every natural force: the centrifugal, the centripetal, the gravitational, the brute and the psychological. And for eight seconds, I have triumphed...
...shape their character and reflexes more than a whole winter's worth of lessons? When they are melted in the high heat of summer freedom, they find out just how flexible they can be, how bold, how resourceful; so that when the air cools and school resumes they swagger back into their orderly lines, with a secret, and another mark on the wall...
...other tough guys go soft, Hammer is also an adolescent boy's dream of the total he-man package. He's also a magnet for all comers. Gangsters and glamorous women fall at Mike's feet, from the impact of his blows or the surly machismo of his swagger. Of course there's a darker view of this unchecked brutality, this out-lawman with a feudal ethical code. That's that Hammer is a bully with a grudge - a one-man fascist state, and I don't mean Italy...
Tight snare-drum marching beats play off the syncopated swagger of a clarinet, creating a theme that runs from “Integrity” straight through “Credits.” Unlike “Eugene,” the music makes you want to see the accompanying show out of curiosity, not confusion...
...only moment of apparent disconnect came during "You and Whose Army?" As Yorke eyed the crowd through the oversized projector screens like a scientist peering at bugs through a microscope, he mocked superpower military swagger, singing "Come on, come on, Holy Roman Empire/ C'mon, if you think you can take us all." The ensuing laughter was more nervous than knowing. There was also a bit of a slump at the end of the elegiac "How to Disappear Completely," when the audience stood in near silence for a couple of minutes before realizing that the set was over. Eventually, though...