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Hmm
interjection
Indicating thinking or pondering.
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You're telling me you don't have hundreds of men popping into your cubicle in the accounting department of your mid-sized, regional dry-goods distributor to inform you that – hmm – you're too fat to rape, but perhaps they'll saw you up with an electric knife?
Hmm, not really – please allow me to explain.
HMM? Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.55am BST05:55 Paul Ryan is doing what I like to call his "crinkly face," when he looks bemused, and needs a good ironing.
Nor were his imperial masters in Vienna.In this section Big Macs A novel eye Politics first Hmm!
While their budgets have declined, the range of tasks they are asked to perform such as policing Haiti, building schools in Bosnia, or rescuing flood victims in Mozambique, as well as old-fashioned bombing has steadily broadened.In this section Big Macs A novel eye Politics first Hmm!
The result is an exploratory, rather than dogmatic, work, which focuses more on human complexity than on abstract ideas in its quest to unravel the consequences of history and to understand the meaning of home.In this section Big Macs A novel eye Politics first Hmm!
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Is she talking about Lady Gaga? "Mmm-hmm.
In one terrific early sketch, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X get caught up competing for praise from an older black audience, throwing in iconic quotes from famous speeches, vying to earn loud "Mmm-hmm s, and finally devolving into a dance-off.
Americans bear the lion's share of R&D costs, subsidising socialised medical systems in the process, while foreigners are classic "free riders".Hmm.Hmm
Although mocked by economists as a prime example of the "lump-of-labour" fallacy the idea that there is only so much work to go around the government claims that it had created 240,000 jobs by the end of 2000.Hmm.
It is a chance for our great grandchildren to pay less than they otherwise would have expected to, because of this government's fiscal credibility".Hmm.Hmm
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