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Generations of agents, therefore, have had to walk a line between bookishness and brutishness.
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But the brutishness has merely relocated, to places far more dangerous.
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The show, with its interest in corporate buffoonery, doesn’t quite manage to hand-wave away the queasy implications.
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Receivers have cratered seasons with me-over-we buffoonery.
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Apologies for any churlishness, but those in and around the club will be relieved to have removed an annoying factoid from Amorim’s 11-month tenure.
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What marks a show of his is the combination of jocularity and generosity.
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That sense of jeopardy will always beat The Hundred jocularity every time.
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The handloom process produces layered, tactile surfaces that celebrate rawness and rusticity.
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At the center of the ranch is a 5,800-square-foot lodge that combines classic Rocky Mountain rusticity with Old World European elegance.
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Or how being late or canceling at the last minute is treated with less flippancy than in America.
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Spaar’s colloquial flippancies only reinforces her fervency.
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That’s how the game should be remembered, not for the rowdiness in the streets from people who use violence to express happiness.
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The Knicks took a 2-0 series lead just days after completing a 22-point comeback in the fourth quarter, which truly began the rowdiness.
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Hair wound into an easy plait and finished with a designer tie communicates a cheeky insouciance.
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This turn was frankly difficult to digest in a show that’s otherwise adopted a stance of irreverent insouciance toward other hot topics.
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“Clownishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clownishness. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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