If people had gotten the Razr in 2005, when it was popular (I swear, every two-bit jerk had one at my school; I pitied them), by the time the iPhone rolled around in 2007, their two-year contract with whatever wireless carrier they had would have been about to expire.
"Well", he said, "he's a bit of jerk but he's our jerk".
We don't yet know if he was responsible for her demise but as the show has him being a bit of jerk then I'll say he's guilty as hell – this isn't a show that deals in ambiguity.
While that comment may have felt a bit knee jerk, the defiant sentiment was right.
As the question kept coming up, he aimed for a lighter note — "It's far more a movie about human beings and the nature of human beings' responses to crisis" — before deciding on umbrage as the right reaction to questions about possible propaganda purposes: "That would be a bit of a knee jerk reaction," he said.
"It's easy to dull down a bit, to knee-jerk into clichés, when you're raising a family," said Ms. Scialfa, commenting on the opening song, "Looking for Elvis," which is about personal reinvention.
TRINI-GUL Lines form early for the heady wraps of stew known as roti, for bake and shark (fry bread packed with seasoned fried shark bits), for jerk chicken and the whole crazy mash-up of Trinidadian cuisine: Indian, Creole, Chinese, African, Lebanese.
Is mercilessness really something one wants to vow? Doesn't it feel a bit knee-jerk?
"Lifesize" robots were jerking a bit in the background while dramatic music wafted over the throng.
It also captured pictures from a camera focused on people in a hotel conference room here, who jerked a bit like a Charlie Chaplin character, because the system does not run as fast as an ordinary television.
That might sound a bit offputting to knee-jerk hipster-haters, but you should also be aware that he does a lovely cover of Anyone Can Fall in Love by Anita Dobson.
