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(Ray guns, phallic-shaped rocket ships, deep-space monsters, jut-jawed heroes, and one mechanical man.)
Dharma and Bert marshallpayne1 2009
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But he loved the game and did a wonderful daily impersonation of jut-jawed joy.
They've Lost That Lovin' Feeling Peggy Noonan 2011
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The pundits and politicians, and most of all the presidential contenders, score points for sounding tough and burly and resolute and iron-fisted and jut-jawed when there's sound of gunfire in the distance.
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The hero, the villain, the other characters are completely unchanged by the action - except for a few bruises on the jut-jawed hero and the inevitable death of the slimy villain.
Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010
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Kinsman is certainly not the stereotypical steely-eyed, jut-jawed hero of adventure fiction, nor is he much like the public image of NASA's astronauts.
Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010
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He joined the Marine Corps out of college and two years later was in Vietnam, a jut-jawed, wiry little first lieutenant flying CH-46 helicopters with enough abandon to earn the radio call sign “Crazy Fred.”
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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He joined the Marine Corps out of college and two years later was in Vietnam, a jut-jawed, wiry little first lieutenant flying CH-46 helicopters with enough abandon to earn the radio call sign “Crazy Fred.”
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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When a writer stocks a story with stereotypes - the brilliant but naive scientist; the jut-jawed, two-fisted hero; the beautiful but helpless young woman; the evil, reptilian aliens-the writer is merely signaling to the editor that he hasn't thought very deeply about his story.
Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010
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After being sworn in as a witness, Barboza sat on the stand jut-jawed.
The Mob and Me John Partington 2010
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He joined the Marine Corps out of college and two years later was in Vietnam, a jut-jawed, wiry little first lieutenant flying CH-46 helicopters with enough abandon to earn the radio call sign “Crazy Fred.”
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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