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One cannot read Public Enemies, this lively, bracing, vibrant correspondence, without remarking the ferocious joy, the playfulness, the nose-thumbing, the childlikeness that characterize it.
Marie-Laure Delorme: Provocation and Silence in Public Enemies Marie-Laure Delorme 2011
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The production is hardly a surprise attack by the nose-thumbing partners.
David Finkle: First Nighter: South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone Cheerfully Commit The Book of Mormon to Broadway David Finkle 2011
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The production is hardly a surprise attack by the nose-thumbing partners.
David Finkle: First Nighter: South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone Cheerfully Commit The Book of Mormon to Broadway David Finkle 2011
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The acting fizzes with outrageous, nose-thumbing vitality—PJ Powers and Terry Hamilton couldn't be better as Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns, Hildy's unscrupulous boss—and the ultrarealistic set, designed by Collette Pollard, is so suitably grubby that you'll want to grab a broom and start sweeping.
The Church on Catfish Row Terry Teachout 2011
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Just days after the Parents Television Council lobbed its latest salvo against Glee, the show risks further wrath from the decency police with a nose-thumbing trip to Transsexual, Transylvania.
So, How Sanitized Is Glee's Version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show? 2010
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But one cannot read Public Enemies, this lively, bracing, vibrant correspondence, without remarking the ferocious joy, the playfulness, the nose-thumbing, the childlikeness that characterize it.
Marie-Laure Delorme: Provocation and Silence in Public Enemies Marie-Laure Delorme 2011
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An army of lobbyists, upwards of 1,500 or more, many former members of Congress and their families, swarming the halls of the peoples 'Congress, warning of apocalypse if they are required to be transparent, even with public money, protecting astronomical bonuses (distributed as a nose-thumbing thank you to those of us who bailed them out), and trading campaign contributions for influence.
Gary Hart: The Only Surprises Are the History We Do Not Know 2010
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It is clear from this film that Banksy, Fairey and the whole gang are not (and never were) in it for the money -- but for the spirit of this contextual, culturally relevant, nose-thumbing populist art movement.
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It is clear from this film that Banksy, Fairey and the whole gang are not (and never were) in it for the money -- but for the spirit of this contextual, culturally relevant, nose-thumbing populist art movement.
Banksy's Film Exit Through the Gift Shop : A Street Art Morality Play Without Morals 2010
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We've all been the victims of the stuff the president didn't want to do over the past year, now, at least in these states, we're saying 'enough.'"wmpowellfan wrote," Specter's party switch was a blatant nose-thumbing at voters.
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