Word: swearing
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...supporting male characters appear as all sweetness and light. Derry Woodhouse milks his honeyed brogue for all its worth, making his character Pato an earnest, lovable womanizer. Matthew Ellis as Pato's brother Ray is less successful. Aside from a few outpourings of the perennially amusing Irish swear word "feck!", his dialect and his mannerisms fail to convey the sense of a bored and insolent Irish...
Homeopathic preparations are hardly dangerous. Even those that use deadly poisons as active ingredients are so diluted that they should cause no harm. Many users swear that their minor ailments have been cured through homeopathy. But scientists argue that the placebo effect--whereby belief in a treatment will provide relief--is probably at work. It's likely that the symptoms would have disappeared anyway with no medical intervention...
...read these stories about me," says Theron, 25, who's actually wearing blue jeans and munching on French fries in a coffee shop on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, "and I think, 'Whoa! I want to be that girl.'" Today, except for the occasional swear word, she's very low-key. She's doing nothing to distract us from her one truly remarkable, and too often ignored, aspect: her admirable versatility as an actress...
...swear I don't get Limp Bizkit (right). "Chocolate starfish" is the kind of phrase that's only funny when...
...immensely popular General Education 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection." The course catalog describes it as "an examination of selected novels, essays, poems, and autobiographical statements which aim at social scrutiny or at a moral critique of a particular society," and devoted students have been known to swear that "this class will change your life." Is Robert Coles really that good? Well, Coles does have a Pulitzer Prize to his credit, not to mention over 50 books. These are books on writers, philosophers and social activists, as well as compilations of literary essays and some very well known works...