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We tell very convincing stories, we slightly shrug our shoulders.
But she would often just shrug it off, tell me to eat more meatballs, more pasta, and so I very rarely got any of the history that I wanted to hear about.
And with a shrug of her shoulders she said, "It's gonna grow back."
And then everybody would shrug and go off and have a drink.
So when I talk to people about this problem, I often get a shrug and a statement to the effect of, "Well, you know, Chuck, we've got to die of something."
When asked how I was doing, I would shrug and say, "OK."
A lot of people think Troma's Terror Firmer is a bad-taste masterpiece, for example, but I'm guessing anyone over the age of nineteen will shrug it off as worthless dreck.
Not only do some of the cast just seem to shrug past the zombies (the same ones are recycled over and over but at least they have more then 5 people playing them).
And just watching Jay Adams himself.....the sheer genius of the kid skating and the shrug of the adult remembering.
If the idea of hideous dolls with evil powers and twisted minds don't make you shrug with boredom, reach for the six-pack of beer and enjoy the best "Chucky" film yet.
Oops! Did I forget to mention this sheriff's not only a poor actor but also can shrug off an impalement with a load of antifreeze drenching the exposed flesh?
They shrug and probably never give it another thought.
Michael Douglas in this film is very good and Keither Sutherland is too,but however it is very hard to shrug him off his role as Jack Bauer in 24 but eventually you do and he is very different in The Sentinel than he is in 24.also another person trying to shrug off their TV role but failed.Eva Longeria.She wasn't that good in the film and had a back seat in the entire thing.After i saw the film i had constant dreams about The Sentinel and couldn't sleep.Overall Sentinel is a good film and i would recommend it.
Ask someone what Wayne's best work as an actor was; they look at you strangely, shrug, and walk away.
Dean and Sam come across a strange death in Oklahoma, concerning a construction worker who was found - minus a brain... Doctors shrug it off as Mad Cow Disease, though the brother's decide to do a little more thorough investigation around a new housing development where it seems insects are acting slightly odd.
Some will love it, a few will shrug and say "So What?" I've seen it twice now, I like it even more the second time around.
When the word got out you could hear the movie moguls shrug their shoulders all the way to Malibu.
So whenever I hear of a movie like Mulberry Street, I tend to just shrug and see what good can come out of it.
A lot of people will watch this movie and shrug it off as a simple comedy or even say that it isn't that great, but the fact is this movie does have some new and unique parts to it.
How Sharpe after one beating after another managed to shrug it off when my back puts me out is another stretch of believability.
It shows that Ladd was very good at comedies and its a shame he didn't do more - my favourite line is where his lawyer says he tried to get him out of the army draft as 4F which meant "socially undesirable" - Ladd isn't impressed and with an indignant shrug of his shoulders says "Whadaya mean socially undesirable?
Supporters of the European Constitution in France, on both the left and the right, shrug and say that including the Social Chapter in the draft is a compromise.
Whatever the tribunal’s decision, China will simply shrug it off.
And this is greeted on both sides of the aisle with a shrug, as if intentionally drowning out one’s colleagues with shouted slogans were just another parliamentary maneuver, as valid as a filibuster or an adjournment motion.
After all, Asia has been on such a roll in recent years that far too many believe that the region can shrug off almost anything that the rest of the world dishes out.
If European resentment is inevitable, some US leaders say, then the proper response is to shrug it off.
Some will shrug and say, “War is hell.”
That particular criticism is inevitable, and officials should shrug it off.
The proliferation of security lapses means that people are more likely to shrug their shoulders than to cast the first stone at a company that is breached.
Lacking cyclical vigor in the aftermath of severe recessions, today’s economies are finding it especially difficult to shrug off the impact of shocks and break out of anemic growth trajectories.
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