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Perhaps the cumulative achievement of not having been an even bigger jerk?
He may be an even bigger jerk, if a slightly smarter one, than Steve Martin's Navin R. Johnson character, and Mr. Coogan's task in the film is somehow to make him endearing as well.
A variant on the twentysomething jerk theme is the fully grown jerk who pines for the days of his youth when he was probably an even bigger jerk, but misremembers it.
He started the night as an arrogant jerk buried in public scorn, legal woes and a bank account with its rubber stopper about to be pulled, and ended it as perhaps an even bigger jerk who made no headway on the other three.
In 2003, Charles McGrath commented on O'Hara's troublesome behavior: At The New Yorker in the mid-1970's, it was still possible to hear editors debating which of the magazine's illustrious contributors had been the bigger jerk and the more impossible to deal with — James Thurber or John O'Hara.
If all that is not unsavory enough, feel free to revisit the Roger Clemens mess, dredged up by his interview on ESPN Radio, which SI.com's Jon Heyman said has succeeded in making Clemens look like an even bigger jerk than Barry Bonds, which is no small feat.
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Please don't make us look like bigger jerks than we already are.
Clearly, we are bigger jerks than we surmised.
You know, the plucky underdog goes through a period where nothing seems to go right until their larger-than-life coach guides them into the playoffs where they find a way to persevere and beat the big, bad jerks for the championship?
He's the biggest jerk I know.
"I felt like the biggest jerk in town that night," he was saying now.
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