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With his usual bluntness, Jokic said the Nuggets weren’t a good enough team to win last season based on the results.
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And thanks to his bluntness, something clicked.
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Mackay and Turner are both excellent, two movie stars who seem totally game to be asked to move with real gruffness.
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But then Popper smiled and the arrival of opening day momentarily mellowed his gruffness.
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Lighton presents it all with unvarnished honesty, allowing the tension and humor to bloom in the clash between Skarsgård’s forthright Scandinavian brusqueness, and Melling’s awkward British charm.
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With off-putting brusqueness, the acupuncturist sticks needles into my head and left leg, leaves the room—and appears to forget all about me.
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And in some ways, the abruptness with which American leaders have rescinded their support serves to only further motivate those efforts.
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The abruptness is disconcerting but can be overcome by learning the pedal’s nuances.
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Dani’s surliness has evaporated.
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The Dolphins knew in the spring that Jalen Ramsey’s tardiness and surliness did not fit the culture that the organization wanted to build.
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But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.
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The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.
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The once-vaunted values of public life are now reduced to the lower standards of private life—venality, vulgarity, rudeness, incontinence, and ignorance.
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Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
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League reaction to the Heat’s acquisition of Giannis Antetokounmpo ran the fall gamut, from admiration for the team’s boldness to skepticism about what’s left around him.
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What’s valuable now is having judgment and the boldness to make decisions to act based on that information.
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