The care a sports hero or movie star takes to maintain eye-contact and appear humble when expounding on something they know nothing about.
Asked his opinion on the impact of coronavirus on climate change, and also how it felt to see his new action flick streamed instead of released, he looked directly at the host, maintaining icon tact, and began cautiously to espouse his scientific theories.
by Monkey's Dad March 29, 2020
Get the Icon tactmug. You've seen him; the guy who unknowingly manifests the style and philosophy of The Dude, played by Jeff Bridges in the Coen brothers' 1998 film, "The Big Lebowski".
"Check out the Lebowsker."
"Wayfarers, bowling shirt, several years late for work?"
"Certain things have come to light, man."
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"Wayfarers, bowling shirt, several years late for work?"
"Certain things have come to light, man."
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by Monkey's Dad July 29, 2023
Get the Lebowskermug. Something which is in front of us, yet cannot or will not be seen.
The visual equivalent of 'falling on deaf ears'.
The visual equivalent of 'falling on deaf ears'.
Inside the White House, the numbers kept falling on blind eyes, unable to see that infection rates were exploding, that their candidate was massively behind in the polls, that across the country, people were on the march and would not back down.
by Monkey's Dad June 24, 2020
Get the falling on blind eyesmug. Fear of the coming year, as twenty-twenty-three draws to a close and 2024 presents potential for catastrophic damage, with A.I. and a certain former president threatening to overturn the world as we have known it.
He had lived through a great deal, yet the prospect of 2024 was inducing twenty-twenty-phorbia, the deep-seated fear of the year ahead.
by Monkey's Dad December 05, 2023
Get the twenty-twenty-phorbiamug. The 22-year-old poet who spoke with poise and eloquence at the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, reading her poem "The Hill We Climb". Ms. Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in United States history, earned wide praise and admiration for her contribution to an event regarded, by several measures, as historically significant.
Amanda Gorman joins a small group of poets who have graced a presidential inauguration with their words, among them Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco.
From "The Hill We Climb", she read:
"And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished."
From "The Hill We Climb", she read:
"And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished."
by Monkey's Dad January 24, 2021
Get the Amanda Gormanmug. An extraordinary percentage of the American population was infected, if not yet with Covid then demonstrably with vaccophobia. Sitting glassy-eyed and slack-jawed in front of their TVs, vacchophobes listened to paid performers on Fox and Newsmax, all of whom had themselves been quietly vaccinated, tell them that it was nothing but a liberal hoax, that the vaccine would allow the illegitimate Democratic government to monitor their location at every moment. If they didn't believe it, they could look it up on their smartphones.
by Monkey's Dad July 24, 2021
Get the Vaccophobiamug. Disorder created by injustice, inequality and lack of accountability for the suffering of the people. A negative for which no positive - 'social rest' - exists.
The nightly protests and curfews were an outward sign of the social unrest which had been bubbling for years, exacerbated by surging unemployment, poverty and uncontrolled disease.
by Monkey's Dad June 03, 2020
Get the social unrestmug.