shoulder-shrug

I'm not someone who's easily impressed, mind you -- but the collective shoulder-shrug that often follows E3 tends to make me feel a little sad, because I wonder what people were expecting, and whether those expectations were realistic.

Catch-Catch Up-Up! E3 Is Coming!! SVGL 2009

I'm not someone who's easily impressed, mind you -- but the collective shoulder-shrug that often follows E3 tends to make me feel a little sad, because I wonder what people were expecting, and whether those expectations were realistic.

Archive 2009-05-01 SVGL 2009

That it might include teleological design (possibly by intelligence occupying 'other' dimensions) will remain a better supposition about what we're likely never to know for sure in our lifetimes than the monumental shoulder-shrug that insists 95% of what * is* is actually * not*.

Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds 2008

The shoulder-shrug position will be that Simpson's celebrity attracts trouble, not the other way around.

Diane Dimond: OJ Simpson's Baggage 2008

The "troubled, reclusive artist" angle, the screwed-up family life, the counter-culture celebrities, the intellectual shoulder-shrug in the face of the fantastic -- they're all hallmarks of Bagge.

Alan Moore, Peter Bagge and Kool-Aid Man Brian Hughes 2008

Jordan's best moments — his shot over Craig Ehlo in Cleveland, his shoulder-shrug after hitting all those three-pointers against Portland in the Finals, his switching-hands layup against the Lakers — will be what most people remember most about his career.

USATODAY.com - Jordan says farewell in 107-87 loss to 76ers 2003

Zoe gave an attractive shoulder-shrug that got all of his attention.

Tough Love Eastlake, Amy 2000

Whether he got through, or whether the burst of rifle fire reached the listening ears at the guns, nobody knew; but just as 'Enery did his ear-embracing shoulder-shrug the first shells screamed over, burst and leaped down along the German parapet.

Action Front Boyd Cable 1910

"Five dollar, ten dollar, twenty dollar," the steward answered, with a shoulder-shrug that meant that the sum was immaterial.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

To impress these is far more difficult than to impress the multitude; for they are already surfeited with good writing, and are apt to reject with a shoulder-shrug whatever does not coincide with their own tenor of thought.

Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871