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If you find that someone is becoming rude or pushy, never put your hands on your mouth or make a rude face.
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The hero of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954) pulled rude faces and mocked the official culture of his academic seniors.
If one group makes mean or rude faces to the other or makes fun of them, try to make peace without suggesting you are on one of the sides.
Karl E. Case, co-creator of the Case-Shiller home-price index, wrote recently of the rude awakening faced by those who "think the American dream is owning property that appreciates by 30 percent a year".
He seems in reassuringly rude health - face rosy as an English apple, blue eyes sparky.
They think I'm going to be mean, muggin' all the time, rude, bent-up face, don't come anywhere near me – they're already in defence mode.
"People weren't directly rude to my face, but they would make [homophobic] jokes, assuming I wouldn't be offended although I was".
The woman was not rude to my face.
Having reassured ourselves that we're justified in "holding them to account" and "having robust debates" and "speaking truth to power", we're now just flat-out rude to their faces?
Attenborough set most of the show on Brighton Pier, and achieved at least one superb directorial touch – a young man is seduced into fervently enlisting the vision of a glamorous showgirl (Maggie Smith) singing "I'll Make a Man of You", then as he mounts the music-hall stage he has a rude awakening as he comes face to face with the coarse, heavily made-up performer.
His activists were sometimes quite rude, even to his face, about their party's performance in office, but they were not mutinous.
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