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«Some shrugged their shoulders as if to shake off whatever chips of responsibility might have lodged there.»
«Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes-well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.»
Author: James Laver
(Critic, Fashion designer, Writer)
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«A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.»
Author: Leonard L. Levinson
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Optimism,
Pessimism
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«Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.»
«He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
(Author)
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«Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.»
«Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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badge, badges, borne, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, sufferance, tribe
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