The easiest job in political punditry is to laugh off Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.
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Then again, don't we often laugh off disruptive technologies when they first appear?
It wasn't the kind of embarrassment you can laugh off, as I could so easily when I was in high school show choir.
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It's still giving me the confidence to laugh off sneers about my middle-aged appearance, or - for that matter - to talk happily on the radio about my aging toenails.
The Morley and Outwood MP attempted to laugh off his latest motoring offence, saying he had been going "too far, too fast" - one of his favourite attack lines against the coalition's budget cuts.
Both kindly and belligerent, Wade misses the meaning and rhythm of events, and reacts too much or too little, erupting in anger over what he should laugh off, ridiculing what he should take seriously.
However if liberals actually did laugh off his criticism because it came replete with copious references to science fiction and video games they were being unduly light hearted about important matters of philosophy and statecraft.
Laugh It Off : OK, this one might be universal rather than just Southern.
Many people will laugh this off, chalk it up to those crazy Scots, and move on.
Now I just kind of made it where, I kind of make a joke, I laugh it off, you know?
Of course I'm not denying that there are people in Harare who still support the ruling party who totally believe that headline, but the majority of people would laugh it off as a desperate measure - trying to fill in a void.
Sometimes they've even forgotten altogether how they got home, and just shrug and laugh the whole thing off.
And that is why the White Sox can laugh about his eating habits and shrug off his weight.
Hodgman gets all the laugh lines, and Mr. Mac comes off as the smug little twit.
Adults can typically shrug off sleep-texting with a laugh or an apology, but there could be greater consequences for adolescents.
So it heads off embarrassment by inviting its audience to laugh along with it.
Now, off to Zumba so I can dance and laugh the stress of settling into a new home away!
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But Toyoda shrugged them off, saying with a hearty, perhaps a trifle embarrassed laugh, that he didn't have them memorized.
"After 25 years of working off-Broadway, I can fix a toilet, " she says with a laugh.
Then he laughed that high, rapidfire laugh that sometimes makes its way into the beginnings and ends of his tracks, and sauntered off around a corner.
Rodney Dangerfield also gets off a couple of good lines as Nicky's grandfather, and Henry Winkler generates a quick laugh.
For some people that helps them, it helps them to shrug off the thing, the character, as if it's an overcoat, and have a laugh and joke around, and that gives them a sense of ease when they put the coat back on again.
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