Word: yawningly
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...libraries have begun to accept the material as legitimate reading. In fact in 1984 I did a five-page article in the School Library Journal begging them to include comics as a way of increasing the standards of the medium. Of course I was met with a loud yawn at the time, but since then libraries have begun to pick it up. And recently the Library Journal has been writing glowing remarks about [the medium.] So that prompted my statement that we are almost at the moment where we have become legitimate...
...seems to understand, Asymptote tends to head the to-call list. As a result, most of the firm's architectural projects--it also dabbles in art--are not buildings but acrobatic proposals for buildings that push the limits of architectural theory. After all, in the computer, a building can yawn, swivel its hips and shimmy. No matter how much you subvert the principles of engineering, it won't crumble...
...yawn at the sight of another picture of Reed Krakoff, the executive creative director of Coach. True, the guy gets more press than Demi and Ashton, but he has turned the stodgy American brand favored by New Canaan, Conn., housewives and briefcase-toting free-lance writers into a global fashion status symbol. In fiscal year 2003 alone, Coach profits were up 67%. And while the rest of the retail industry was struggling with the effects of SARS, war in Iraq and unemployment, Krakoff was catapulting Coach from a half-a-billion-dollar company to a projected $1.1 billion company...
Waiting is big in asia at the moment. At poolside lounges, bartenders languidly polish the glasses, ready to mix up a pitcher of Rob Roys if the tourists ever return. At travel agencies and airlines, staff yawn behind idle PCs one week and are ordered to take unpaid leave the next. In homes and offices around Asia, would-be voyagers are wondering when "travel accessories" will once again mean a sun hat and shades, not a face mask and disposable gloves. Some say that's next month, some next year. But until that day, the Asian travel industry is subsisting...
It’s not a yawn so much as a grumble. It’s actually more of a ‘Grrrrmph’—the thing that comes before you thump the snooze bar into oblivion at 8:30 a.m. and decide that the Science Center is too far away for Chem lecture today...