(1) Pakistan Upset at the possible damage to its badass reputation, sues for appearing too stable in Charlie Wilson's War .
(2) On Thursday her daughter posted a photo on Instagram captioned "Mom's badass new hobby."
(3) The financial regulator is not there to act like a badass new sheriff in town who is going to cleanse it of the riffraff and crack down on loose morals.
(4) She is based on a real-life person, though – and that person is pretty badass."
(5) It is anyone's guess what Murdoch makes of a site that reacted to Lady Thatcher's death last week with an avalanche of stories, a mixture of serious and silly, such as " Margaret Thatcher's 19 Most Badass Moments " and " 16 Cats Interpret 16 Margaret Thatcher Quotes ".
(6) He plays a wisecracking badass called Snow who's tasked to rescue the president's daughter from a giant space prison overrun by its violent inmates.
(7) Badass Digest's report would appear to contradict the widely held assumption that Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, returning to the classic roles of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo from the original trilogy which hit cinemas between 1977 and 1983, will be the obvious leads in Episode VII.
(8) She sent in a response and posed for photos with the creators of the Tumblr parody Texts from Hillary , which featured the secretary running the world and sending badass tweets from behind dark sunglasses.
(9) On the online memorial site forsasoun.com , another circus colleague wrote: "I can't believe I'll never again see your smiling face behind that mask of warrior paint … You were, and always in my heart will be, among the most badass of badasses."
(10) A next generation badass boss bitch that we and Princess Leia can be proud of.
(11) One minute our duo is walking in slow-motion to Isaac Hayes like total badasses, the next an errant sneeze nearly kills the pair of them.
(12) He’s a badass producer from Peckham and I love practically everything he does.
(13) Plants vs Zombies The zombies are coming, and all you have to defend your house with are an array of badass plants, from peashooters to repellent garlic.
(14) The idea that Prince, he was 5ft 3in, with heels on, that he looked – for lack of a better word – fey, and yet he was a complete and total badass, with women lined up behind him, was incredible.
(15) Some years later, he had the idea for a TV show about a female badass who, unlike Buffy or Alias's Sydney Bristow , didn't have awesome martial arts skills.
(16) More than that, though, he is the leader, self-proclaimed "badass" and charismatic mouthpiece of the group.
(17) The towering Scot who plays Sandor "the Hound" Clegane – foremost sword-swinging badass in a series not lacking on that front – is in LA for a Game Of Thrones premiere and goblet-clanging celebratory shindig, along with 23 other stars from the show.
(18) Their slick, violent reinvention of 1980s TV spy drama The Equalizer stars Washington as retired intelligence officer Robert McCall, an enigmatic loner with OCD symptoms and latent badass training.
(19) Photograph: Lucasfilm According to Badass Digest, the narrative sweep of Episode VII intentionally echoes 1977's Star Wars , with the quest for Skywalker replacing the original protagonist's hunt for Obi Wan Kenobi.
(20) Badass gymnast: Louis Smith, 23, from Peterborough.
Jerk
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.
(v. t.) To beat; to strike.
(v. t.) To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.
(v. t.) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.
(v. i.) To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.
(v. i.) To flout with contempt.
(n.) A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.
(n.) A sudden start or spring.
Example Sentences:
(1) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
(2) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
(3) In reflex-induced jerks this negative transient could be recognized as a component of the sensory evoked potential.
(4) A dynamic optimization technique to minimize jerk cost under the constraint on jerk input was applied to interpret the results, assuming that a major goal of skilled movements was to produce optimally smooth movements.
(5) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(6) Results from animal experiments and neuropathological studies suggest that the abolition of jerks in such cases is probably due to loss of facilitating influences from the cerebral cortex and central grey nuclei.
(7) Surgery caused or aggravated unilaterally diminished knee or ankle jerks in 3% and 10% of cases, respectively.
(8) This is a gladiatorial display – that is what people go to see.” Bray added: “The popular knee-jerk reaction will be we should ban airshows, but it’s very rare for such a crash to take place.
(9) High-frequency trading may or may not distort markets, but surely a knee-jerk reaction by banning it is not the answer.
(10) In order to overcome various drawbacks of the conventional polygraphic study of a relationship between myoclonus and EEG, the EEG preceding and following the myoclonic jerk was simultaneously averaged by the CNV program.
(11) Compared with the myoclonic-serotonergic syndrome evoked by 5-hydroxytryptophan in rats with 5.7-dihydroxytryptamine lesions, harmaline+5-hydroxytryptophan-treated rats displayed more continuous and greater axial myoclonic jerks and some postural differences.
(12) The effects of electrical stimulation and microinjection of sodium glutamate (0.5 M) in the sympathetic pressor areas of the dorsal medulla (DM), ventrolateral medulla (VLM), and parvocellular nucleus (PVC) on the knee jerk, crossed extension, and evoked potential of the L5 ventral root produced by intermittent electrical stimulation were studied in 98 adult cats anesthetized with chloralose and urethane.
(13) The knee jerk itself is seen as a "physiological artefact," resulting from a mode of stimulation that does not occur in life, with the normal function of its underlying circuitry still under debate.
(14) The patients did not significantly differ from controls on catch-up saccade amplitude, square wave jerk rate, or anticipatory saccade rate.
(15) It was confirmed that the technique of jerk-locked averaging with a backward averaging program was useful for detecting cortical spikes in association with the spontaneously occurring myoclonus, which are not recognized on the convential polygraph, and for evaluating the temporal and topographical relationship between the spike and the myoclonus.
(16) The typical electrophysiological correlates of myoclonus in Alzheimer's disease are similar to those of cortical reflex myoclonus, with a focal, contralateral negativity in the EEG preceding the myoclonic jerk.
(17) The analgesic effect of morphine in the rat tail jerk assay was enhanced by the serotonin uptake inhibitor, fluoxetine.
(18) In focal epileptic status, the single dose stopped paroxysmal activity and the associated clonic jerks for a few seconds.
(19) The occurrence of horizontal jerks with larger amplitudes than on Earth was observed during vertical optokinetic nystagmus in astronauts tested throughout a 7-day spaceflight.
(20) Only one patient felt his knee to be unstable (he had a positive pivot jerk).