Word: awfulness
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...Aw, look, he's trying to pry them out of your hand...
...reluctant boyfriend in “Bench Seat,” Michael B. Hoagland ’07 brings the same aw-shucks, ingenuous façade to his character that he had in this fall’s Mainstage play, “The Marriage of Bette and Boo.” The HRDC veteran’s somewhat one-dimensional performance, although comical, occasionally falls flat in “Bench Seat”–but Hoagland’s presence becomes exponentially more powerful and direct in his second appearance, in the drama...
...that again?” Hadfield asked. “Aw, well, that’s a shame...
...Republican is incumbent Senator Conrad Burns, a man with the quintessential “aw, shucks” persona. Amidst volunteers who have come to Montana for the final 72 hours of this closely watched campaign, Burns holds an unfathomably large potato above his head and discusses the relative advantage that Montana nematodes—whatever they are—hold over Idaho’s, and how the bountiful seed potatoes they make often go unrecognized. Making the rounds, he jokes that a recent Smith College graduate looks pregnant. (In fairness, she has something lodged in the front pocket...
...McCarthy is the last survivor of a vanished world. He is, essentially, a modernist, miraculously preserved like a literary coelacanth from the age of Hemingway and Faulkner, writers of high style and high purpose without an iota of aw-shucks relatability. The future probably belongs to the Fraziers, the entertainers, who serve up their profundities with humor and sex and fisticuffs so they go down more easily. McCarthy would never stoop to entertain us, but there's a stripped-down intensity to his work that is just awesome. You sense that The Road, with its world empty of values...