Word: yawningly
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...tried your hand at Thai massage and whipped up green curry at a cooking class. Yawn. How about learning how to take out an opponent with a well-timed kick? Until recently, learning Muay Thai, or Thai kickboxing, in its country of origin has been a strictly no-frills affair-think tin-roofed pavilions with old equipment and nary an electric fan in sight. But looking to tap into Muay Thai's increasing popularity, Thailand's top boxing promoter, Songchai Ratanasuban, has opened the One Songchai Institute of Muay Thai, tel: (66-2) 618 5314, a school attached...
...curators seem to have recognized the yawn-factor inherent in displaying 120 educational panels from a now-defunct museum—established by Francis Greenwood Peabody, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals from 1886-1913—that was once the cornerstone of the now-defunct Department of Social Ethics...
...exacted a real erotic cost. A genuine 17th-century Puritan man who caught a glimpse of a young woman’s bare ankle might have had difficulty controlling himself. Today’s licentious young men watch virtually naked and perfectly sculpted young women gyrate on MTV and yawn.” Similarly, it makes little difference that one’s lithe legs are gloriously exposed to the thigh, or that one’s coiffure is the product of four hours’ labor, or that the day’s maquillage is glowing just right under...
...tennis reputation defined by Nadal. "I understand the point that [fans] think my career might go through him," he says. "I think it goes through titles." But both players understand the benefits of a U.S. Open final that includes them. Nadal serves a sales pitch to Americans who might yawn at a matchup with no Yanks. He cites Sampras-Agassi, the rivalry on which he was reared, which resembles his contrast with Federer. "I am not American, I'm Spanish, and I was following that because there are special moments," he says, through an interpreter. "It doesn't matter what...
...Well, one man's yawn is another's scream of outrage...