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Tag Name "Shrugs" (14)

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Maybe I just don't want another rejection, he shrugs. I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career. Oh, so this is what it's all about. But you're not auditioning for a role, I try to persuade him. Aren't I? he raises his eyebrows.
Alexandra Potter
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As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
John le Carre
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Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.
Larry Eisenberg
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How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break into blossom: as if what exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious
Lisel Mueller
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If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.
Michael Totten
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So, says Lev, as casually as he can, you wanna dance? Do you believe in the end of the world? she responds. Lev shrugs. I don't know. Why? Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.
Neal Shusterman
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If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?I ask him. For time to stop. Why? He shrugs. Cause I could live forever at this moment.
Simone Elkeles
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And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
John Banville
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Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.
John Walford
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.
Leonard Louis Levinson
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When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.
Michael Meade
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How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.
Neal Shusterman
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Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion? Juanita shrugs. What's the difference?
Neal Stephenson
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So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?” asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. “I don’t see that it makes that much difference. They’ll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.
Suzanne Collins