Word: swaggeringly
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Brigands seemed to be all the rage in the first half of 2003, between Pirates of the Caribbean and the Decemberists’ first album. Even without Jack Sparrow’s swagger, Castaways and Cutouts won plenty of critical acclaim for its campfire-history trappings—pristine folk arrangements, overwrought theatrics, elaborate lyrics about ghosts and buccaneers...
DIED. CHARLES BRONSON, 81, roughhewn Hollywood B actor turned international movie hero; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Born Charles Buchinsky (a name he worked under until he changed it during the communist-hunting McCarthy era), he brought his low-key macho swagger to such '50s films as Machine-Gun Kelly before becoming a sensation in Europe as the co-star of France's Adieu l'Ami (1968), in which he and Alain Delon played a pair of burglars. In the U.S. he remained a solid, if unheralded, ensemble player in films such as The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape...
...paper's tentative early days helps it maintain an underdog attitude even now. But while modesty is nice, confidence--oh, let's just call it arrogance--is what makes people dream big and reach high. Competent, reliable USA Today may have become a good newspaper by trading off the swagger that makes a great newspaper. Of course, as the Times's recent experience has shown, there's a case to be made for quiet toil. At least in this sense, for one big yet oft overlooked newspaper, no news really is good news. --With reporting by Andrea Sachs/McLean...
...clipped Texas cadence. But after prosecuting violent crime for a quarter-century, Earle doesn't believe capital punishment is so simple. To be sure, he still supports death for those few brutal murderers he believes would never stop killing, even in prison. And Earle can still summon the swagger of your typical TV district attorney. He says executing serial killer Kenneth McDuff, who is thought to have murdered at least 11 people, was "like shooting a rabid...
...that they recognize people they know. The boys would get in trouble if we waved or—God forbid—shouted their names, so we wandered past cautiously. Uniforms and shaved heads make the midshipmen a homogenous mass, but there was no mistaking Adam’s swagger or Brad’s jaw line. I felt a little swell of pride at my friends in their crisp white uniforms...