Word: effortlessly
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...writing sessions, I learned that B loves to think about psychology. Though his humor appears effortless, it is really the product of constant analysis. He makes hypotheses about what kinds of laughs might be associated with particular brain states. He keeps a running list of what people say about the mind as he watches television. He finds food for thought even in exercise competitions. "Harness your psychic powers to enhance your muscles and annihilate your opponent!" he remembered an overexcited host saying. B wondered why the show would portray the mind as so dominant over the body...
...never understood how people could leave liquor in a glass," says Ameisen, "Now you could give me a sip of champagne and I could leave it. That was impossible in my wildest dreams. And it's effortless. Complete suppression, not reduction of cravings. I'm indifferent...
...guests, to be the buffoon and the butt of jokes when necessary. (They call the job second banana, after all, with all the pratfalls that the risible fruit implies.) Through it all, he kept a bluff good humor, something that must have taken considerable effort to seem as effortless...
...time. Jackson debuted the moonwalk during his performance of "Billie Jean" on the ABC television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and the heavy rotation that the song's video enjoyed on MTV injected it into America's pop-cultural consciousness. The moonwalk is so fluid, so effortless - and yet when amateurs slip on some old gym socks and try to glide across a kitchen floor, it always turns out horribly. How exactly do you moonwalk? TIME finds out. (See the top 10 Michael Jackson moments...
...other in a restaurant or at a bar. I have girlfriends who said, "You've got to give people a chance. You have to go on another date." I don't really agree with that. When I met my husband, and when I started dating him, it was pretty effortless and a lot of fun. I was completely incompatible with everyone I had experienced before. I sweated out these dates, thinking, Am I doing something wrong? Is it me? Should I be dressed differently? Should I be funnier? Should I be telling less jokes? Drinking less? And actually these feelings...