Word: aplomb
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Zucker handles all this with a nice, unforced aplomb. And come to think of it, with a nice eye for smaller-scaled idiocies as well. There is, for example, Kathy Bates selling squirrels by the roadside and exacting a terrible revenge on non-buyers. Then there's the Barbie Museum. That would be a roadside attraction devoted not to the immortal doll but to the vicious Nazi Klaus Barbie. Not to worry, though, the befuddled Jewish family (with Jon Lovitz as its addled patriarch and Kathy Najimy his bemused wife) makes its escape in style--in Hitler's onetime touring...
...with having an athlete's awareness of how his body moves through space. Plenty of sighted people walk through life with less poise and grace than Erik, unsure of their steps, second-guessing every move. And certainly most of the blind don't maneuver with Erik's aplomb. As he takes a seat in a crowded restaurant, ordering pizza, spaghetti, ice cream, beer--you work up an appetite climbing Everest--he smiles and nods as other diners ask, "Hey, aren't you the blind...
...with having an athlete's awareness of how his body moves through space. Plenty of sighted people walk through life with less poise and grace than Erik, unsure of their steps, second-guessing every move. And certainly most of the blind don't maneuver with Erik's aplomb. As he takes a seat in a crowded restaurant, ordering pizza, spaghetti, ice cream, beer?you work up an appetite climbing Everest?he smiles and nods as other diners ask, "Hey, aren't you the blind...
It’s exactly that “I just fell off the turnip-truck” mentality that makes the University treat us with great aplomb in front of our faces and great hilarity behind our backs at Faculty Club shindigs...
...well that ends well? In their first serious foreign policy test, the neophyte Bushies have met the Chinese challenge over Hainan with deftness and aplomb - tough on the basics, creative on the fine line between "regret" and "apology." The troops are home; the spy plane that was almost decapitated by a hotshot Chinese pilot will follow - after the Chinese have taken apart every radar, sensor and computer inside. But this was neither the beginning nor the end of the great U.S.-Chinese duel that will dominate 21st century diplomacy as did the Soviet-American contest in the 20th...