He introduced himself, smiling a
smirky smile borrowed from the courtiers of the stage, extended a fair-skinned talon, and while he gripped my hand in it he bent his body forward three times at the hips, as the stage courtier does, and said in the airiest and most condescending and patronizing way--I quite remember his exact language:
Pritzker signed the recreational marijuana law into effect with the same
smirky grin he signed the abortion law into law.
When I was in Army Basic Training I had a drill sergeant who often said, "The reward for a good job is no punishment." He always said it with a
smirky grin.
You were the reliable slightly balding banker I should have settled down with, but instead I let my attention be stolen by the leather-wearing motorcycle-revving wannabe musician with a hint of facial scruff and a cigarette curling smoke from between a
smirky set of lips.
Only a day earlier, Trump shocked and horrified America and its Western allies by appearing to take at face value Russian President Vladimir Putin's
smirky denial of any involvement in meddling with the 2016 US election cycle.
"When I came back inside, she kind of, you know, in a
smirky way, said, 'You're going to get rid of those and throw those away, right?'And the rebellious side of me was like, 'Sure,' and I kept one of them.
to journalism seniors in UST once upon a time, will fight tooth and nail to deny that
smirky aside, knowing there's more to p.r.
Every president, whatever his virtues, has had his terrible flaws: From Richard Nixon's brooding darkness to Jimmy Carter's dour naivete, from Ronald Reagan's sunny cluelessness to Barack Obama's lightweight self-regard, from George Bush 41's disconnected privilege to his son's
smirky frat-boy mien.
His
smirky grin is replaced by something else, or more accurately, there is something deeper, harder, behind it.
Willis, like his character, remains game for anything, but it's questionable how much fun he's having going through his usual
smirky moves in such bottom-of-the-barrel fare.
Other luminaries admit to working extra hard to be 'different,' but point out that they're simply reflecting their generation's 'penchant for obscure pop cultural references, iconoclasm and
smirky irony.' Just doing what comes unnaturally!
Last year he married his partner of 13 years, make-up artist Lou, and is dad to Milo, seven, and Dixie, four -
smirky smiles (he's a bit shy) creep on his face when he talks about them.