Word: clucking
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...again I could see the sorrow of the thousands of victims concentrated in her eyes and the lines on her face. I found myself having to look away, too uncomfortable. It would have been so much easier to read about her in the newspaper the next day, cluck in sympathy for her loss, and turn the page...
...reader with little time or patience, USA Today's brevity is its major asset. Even for those who cluck over the superficial handling of complex issues, the paper has several strengths. USA Today is good at spotting a trend early, whether it is the growing popularity of Tofutti or the rising demand for automobile sunroofs. Its emphasis on American popular culture leads its reporters to explore in telling detail, day after day, such events as Coca-Cola's switches in formula and just about anything to do with Hollywood. The writing style, once derided as pale and plodding, has grown...
Each group was assigned a conductor (a student member of the wind ensemble) and given a list of noises to be produced, as directed by the conductor. Among the requests to snap, stomp, and cluck, was one particularly challenging assignment: “With mouth closed, project the highest and loudest sound you can, very sharply. This should sound like the squeak of a gigantic mouse...
...From this jumble of rehashed prejudices, Americans might learn why much of the rest of the world—not just neo-medievalist Muslims—fear and cluck disapproval at the country’s headstrong populace. The modern Western world believes that the United States is a cultureless, violent, under-educated juggernaut whose two primary activities (both carried out at McDonald’s) are eating hamburgers and shooting people. This rash generalization is one that Laxer’s book bears out and that Americans would do well to understand, whether to mend their habits...
From this jumble of rehashed prejudices, Americans might learn why much of the rest of the world—not just neo-medievalist Muslims—fear and cluck disapproval at the country’s headstrong populace. The modern Western world believes that the United States is a cultureless, violent, under-educated juggernaut whose two primary activities (both carried out at McDonald’s) are eating hamburgers and shooting people. This rash generalization is one that Laxer’s book bears out and that Americans would do well to understand, whether to mend their habits...