Word: swaggerings
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...clock (which by the way is set to Love Central Time all year long!). That's right, I...I...oh, who am I trying to kid? Norma, I'm living in a personal hell. Sure I bed beauties left and right but I don't like it. My swagger and strut, that enticing "let's get natural" gleam in my eye, it's all a facade. I've been writing to you for weeks trying to find some purpose in it all. It isn't there, Norma. I don't want help or anything. Just thought you'd like...
...right in one's living room, banging away in his fluid song-plugger style. "Gershwin never played soft," observes Wodehouse. But he did have a consummate technical command of his instrument, which, coupled with the tremendous rhythmic vitality of his playing, gives his performances an irresistible strut and swagger. Two more Gershwin albums are on the way from Wodehouse. 'S Wonderful...
...tyrant trifecta. Stalin sent her a note praising her film Olympia. Mussolini asked her to make a documentary about the Pontine marshes. And Hitler was her patron for three documentaries about his party, especially Triumph of the Will, which helped define Nazi swagger...
Dwight cloaks social insecurity and class resentments under a manner that combines masculine swagger, noisy politesse and a need to ape -- and impose on Toby -- a poorly observed version of middle-class morality. Toby must have a paper route, but it is Dwight who pockets the profits. Toby must learn the manly art of self-defense, but mostly Dwight teaches him sucker punches and uses the lessons as an excuse to beat on the boy. De Niro's is a domineering performance, a star turn that is both comic and menacing, but it unbalances Wolff's story...
...conduct a poll of city residents and ask them whether they felt more whimsical than other Spaniards, but I'm convinced that Barcelona's smirky attitude is more than mere packaging. Yet it's mixed in with something ugly, and nothing! observed gave me any means of teasing the swagger apart from the dark cloud...