Staged by Frederic Wake-Walker, it's a disarming, intimate beginning to this most disarming and intimate of scores.
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" The humor is disarming, as her humor has always been, but not disarming enough to mask a basic fact of her identity: Before she was "Dr.
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Governments in the Sahel should start by disarming the militias.
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This role involved disarming any IEDs his brigade came across.
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The security of the world requires disarming Saddam Hussein now.
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We were an oddity and their curiosity was always disarming.
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Disarming the militias is one of Abadi's most delicate challenges.
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The melodies are more earnest, and disarming in their intimacy.
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"For him to apologize was so disarming," Mr. Henry said.
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And he does so with a disarming sense of humor.
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In person, she is tall, twinkling and almost unnervingly disarming.
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At tense moments, his face broke into a disarming smile.
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Iraqi Sunni and Kurdish politicians have called for disarming the PMF.
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She said she's disarming, which is true, which is actually true.
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Far from disarming, North Korea continues to build up its arsenal.
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He had an absolutely winning smile that could be completely disarming.
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His most disarming quality is how chill he seems about everything.
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But dropping her criticism of Sanders could amount to unilaterally disarming.
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" He calls Bridges' Jackson Evans in The Contender "so unbelievably disarming.
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When it catches you off guard, love can be dangerously disarming.
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At the same time, he can be disarming and self-effacing.
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"Disarming the FARC won't resolve all of Colombia's problems," he said.
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Anyway there's something really disarming about 20 Darth Mauls hanging out.
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It displays a disarming honesty, buoyed by a sense of humor.
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But what was especially disarming was Katie Jane's moments of calm.
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It's something that might be disarming or that kind of thing.
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The soprano sings in plaintive phrases of disarming poignancy in parts.
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Seated at his desk at Mount Sinai, Schadt is direct and disarming.
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That sort is often blown up, as disarming it is too risky.
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The nature of real-time, direct chat seems to be especially disarming.
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He is odd and entertaining, vacuous and vain, disarming and terrifyingly dangerous.
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Hamas leaders have said disarming those fighters is not up for discussion.
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When she needed to, she charmed industry gatekeepers with a disarming wit.
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Thus most amazing: recognition, their "sense of mutual engagement," their disarming friendliness.
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The series has earned affection for its characters and its disarming premise.
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Father Colapietro said later that he did not remember disarming Mr. Rourke.
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Grabbing weapons in slow mo, disarming enemies, punching and diving all happened seamlessly.
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He belongs everywhere and nowhere all at once, and that can be disarming.
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And so I am maybe disarming them by just assuming that we're okay.
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And Mooney's performance is perfectly pitched between gormless hilarity and a disarming sweetness.
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But I like the garden because it's a very wholesome and disarming environment.
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It's disarming in its familiarity, and hits you right in the soft bits.
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Other demands include guaranteed housing for students under 21 and disarming campus police.
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She was warm and disarming, and I immediately felt at ease with her.
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Ms. Jakubiak brought a rich, earthy, expressive voice and disarming vulnerability to Julietta.
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But the remark comes with such a disarming smile and so much charm.
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How can disarming women of color ever assist in the struggle against racism?
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"Genital Jousting is largely about disarming masculinity," the designers wrote in a manifesto.
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He was bald, with a bushy, reddish beard and a disarming, contented smile.
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As such, navigating this exhibition feels equally like an exercise in disarming oneself.
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Disarming the PMF is seen as Abadi's greatest challenge after Islamic State's defeat.
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With a disarming smile, he chats about his day job as an interior designer.
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Henson says 35-year-old Robert Highfill tried disarming Urrabazo, which officers advised against.
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He had been disarming an improvised explosive device in Anbar Province when it exploded.
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But he also describes with disarming honesty his ambivalence about the work he did.
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Eventually the British started disarming Americans, seizing gunpowder, and banning guns and ammo imports.
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He was as disarming as he was dangerous, like Yogi Bear with a handgun.
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Outside, where soldiers were previously disarming police officers, police officers were now arresting soldiers.
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The biography lives in Arbus's gnomic utterances, so disarming to friend and foe alike.
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Just as refreshing, they show a disarming candor — including candor about lack of candor.
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Investigators said a man inside the Waffle House confronted the gunman, ultimately disarming him.
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Disarming the PMF is seen as Abadi's most difficult test after Islamic State's defeat.
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It's a negotiating tactic, but signals several serious things: (1) We aren't unilaterally disarming.
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Mr. Nezét-Séguin sat on the podium to listen, a disarming gesture of admiration.
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He is an oddly disarming presence: an oblivious doofus who doesn't know any better.
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Two recent works are disarming because of their off-kilter resemblance to functional objects.
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Robbing, disarming, even killing a cop—these were highly regarded feats in criminal circles.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with either choice, but the former was disarming at first.
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Then he pulled open the screen door with disarming ease and bounded outside, laughing.
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And again, I can see why that disarming tactic might not work for you!
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His very funny sex jokes are told with no mischievousness and a disarming calm.
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"It would mean unilaterally disarming themselves in cyberspace," security expert Robert Graham told VICE News.
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With disarming humility, she admits she is surprised to be getting such good roles again.
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The heat that day was disarming and Lazari was caught off guard by our presence.
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Disarming an officer is a felony, but the other charges are misdemeanors, according to KSTU.
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A text already rooted in our distrust of media, in 3D the experience is disarming.
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It's pure genius, a perfect combination of being disarming and just goofy enough to work.
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Nor should they rely on these armed groups' disarming after the Islamic State is defeated.
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There's such a warmth and folksiness when Parton talks like this that it's totally disarming.
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Smiles are powerful, and Blakely's big flash of straight, white teeth is disarming to us.
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Of course, politically neither party wants to be seen as unilaterally disarming against their rival.
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It was one of those disarming breaches of male etiquette that winds up feeling paternal.
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But in captivity, they have been taught sign language, and their eye contact is disarming.
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He liked an audience, and held forth with aplomb and a disarming sense of humor.
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I also could feel immediately his profound suffering; he is very disarming, and extremely funny.
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"That makes so much sense about the rising calls," she said in a disarming moment.
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In fact, it's one of your most disarming weapons—you can read anyone to filth!
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Columbo was utterly disarming and borderline idiotic in his approach to getting information from people.
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He preached caution about regime change and urged that the focus be on disarming Saddam.
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He is known for his disarming sense of humor, quick wit and skillful cross-examinations.
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We'd been working on disarming a roadside bomb when it detonated and destroyed our robot.
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One thing that I love is this idea of disarming the concept of mental health.
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They adopt the political challenge of disarming stereotypes that, even today, are alive and well.
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When that didn't happen, he and Nettles would acknowledge with disarming candor that they had goofed.
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"In this new year, let's commit to disarming people with unexpected acts of kindness," she said.
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AXELROD: ...you must have run across people who were disarming and... STEWART: Sure, no, I must've.
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He added there were signs that Vona was disarming opponents rather than making an ideological shift.
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But if you turn around, the four latex sculptures are standing behind you with disarming simplicity.
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As played by Reeves without his trademark whoa-ness, the character was once a disarming surprise.
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She is as disarming and funny as ever, but sometimes the gaiety seems a little forced.
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The coach, Keanon Lowe, could be seen in the footage disarming the student and hugging him.
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"I didn't know where I was going," Lukaku said, disarming all our thoughts about great creativity.
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And I think that's more disarming, but it's something I absolutely do for my benefit [too].
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They're both still haunted by their years spent disarming IEDs (Keith) and in the bunker (Kimmy).
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I found myself kind of disarming them and feminizing them and maiming them in a way.
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The day's testimony had consisted largely of a detective's riveting account of disarming a second bomb.
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As a hairdresser, she noticed how touch could be disarming and make the clientele more forthcoming.
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Is that because you're afraid of the monstrous N.R.A. and disarming your big game-hunting sons?
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Klopp's antics, his humour and his disarming honesty have been crucial in buoying the supporters' spirits.
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Her coquettish posture is disarming; protected by her shawl, she meets the viewer on equal terms.
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He was definitely a bully, but he could be really charming, which was disarming and confusing.
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She is a player of rare expressive energy and disarming informality, of whimsy and theatrical ambition.
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The contrast between the poverty of the materials and the gravity of the expressions is disarming.
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Footage appeared to show people tackling the man, wrestling him to the ground, and disarming him.
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She has a disarming charisma, of which she is well aware and even a bit leery.
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Many hope the re-engagment will lead to stepped-up diplomatic efforts on disarming North Korea.
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Though England did not have the most sophisticated draftsmanship skills, the collection is disarming and entrancing.
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That disarming fake smile, persistently bitter conversation and sheer audacity came to form her villain in Fleabag.
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Andi strikes up a conversation with her at an intersection, and he's as disarming as they come.
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It started disarming in 2016 but is still making money from tourists in a more peaceful way.
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Moscow must also introduce a robust disarming and demobilization program for Russian-backed separatists in these regions.
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Most of all, Greenblatt is uniquely humble, which allows him to be an excellent and disarming listener.
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Sulkowicz was disarming and philosophical, despite having spent five hours in the dentist's chair earlier that day.
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He could have let me ask my question and given a quick, terse answer, thus disarming me.
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His side qualified with the best record in Europe and produced halfway exciting football with disarming regularity.
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It's a disarming visual spectacle that reinforces the sense of play implicit in all of Araeen's art.
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Disarming people with domestic violence or related allegations against them is already standard procedure for the police.
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Over time, she developed a more disarming approach that incorporated the most frequent questions into the talks.
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This makes combat much more strategic, as disarming enemies and taking their weapons is key to survival.
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The humor is so disarming that she can slip heavy themes (surveillance, death) past a viewer's defenses.
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Nguyen's transformation of this appealingly accessible image of idealized Western beauty is disarming, coolly precise, and edgy.
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Her podcast is a record of just how smart and disarming Sammy Jaye is as an interviewer.
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I think the best books unlatch something within, and that requires both intellectual provocation and emotional disarming.
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She does not beat the competition she crushes it, all with a disarming smile on her face.
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The speech is disarming, but also, as it extends in awkward silences and tangents, a little disturbing.
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Instead, the candidates seemed to silently acknowledge that disarming the North was all but a lost cause.
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It conditions eventual Palestinian statehood on full demilitarization of a Palestinian state and the disarming of Hamas.
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We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
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That suggests that the nature of contact matters not just for disarming prejudice but for shaping politics.
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Put another way, no one knows exactly where to find nature's instruction manual for disarming deadly infectious organisms.
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"He did it with a way of disarming people, while being right on in his critique," said Chavez.
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Asked about the competition between his CCC, Taiwan's cultural centre and Shen Yun, Mr Luo's disarming smile disappears.
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For now, the prospects of a successful disarming strike remain sufficiently remote to leave the strategic balance intact.
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The result is more disarming than it is enchanting, though, trading in new age impulses for greyscale blankness.
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On the upside there are a lot of people who have devoted their careers to disarming these bastards.
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"He was definitely a bully, but he could be really charming, which was disarming and confusing," she says.
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Other leaders have similarly learned that Merkel's disarming charm and humility count for little at the negotiating table.
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The two sides agreed on an agenda, including terms for disarming the rebels and their participation in politics.
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That hunky, smiley guy who's hoping to be a movie star (embodied with disarming ineptitude by Mr. Hatanaka)?
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It is telling that the Lebanese army, rather than disarming Hezbollah, is instead shielding it from UNIFIL's gaze.
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Christine and Lydia made friends at school, the former thin and awkward and the latter charming, gorgeous, disarming.
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President Trump believes the road to disarming North Korea runs through China, its biggest and most powerful ally.
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"I can do anything I want to do and I have," McQueen said, in one characteristically disarming riff.
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The three-month course covered a lot of ground: mine detection, booby trap disarming, tunnel searching and demolitions.
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In her new memoir, she writes about the trials of immigration with seriousness but also a disarming humor.
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But senators and the American public also got a glimpse this week of Jeffries's disarming sense of humor.
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"Disarming humility," said Mr. Roemer, his former boss, admiring that Mr. Kennedy was "not sprinting" toward any cameras.
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Todd, who had buzzed hair, flushed cheeks, and a disarming smile, said that he still struggled with drugs.
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Dreamily thoughtful, with an angular, blue-blooded elegance, Ms. Howe at 1673 has a disarming liveliness of spirit.
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Critic's NOTEBOOK An interactive art installation turns a live-action game into a disarming demonstration of social inequality.
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With a demeanor that is part charming frat boy, part earnest professor, Mr. Sand is gregarious and disarming.
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Graham was tall and handsome, with a disarming aw-shucks demeanor and a Southern twang to his voice.
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Rayne's first midcareer survey is full of linguistic disruptions and quiet repetitions, bringing to mind the scrivener's disarming resistance.
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Her comedic timing is disarming, and she's at least as expressive and elastic as Easy A-era Emma Stone.
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Causey was a part of the 760th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, a team dedicated to finding and disarming IEDs.
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"I learned that disarming someone's petty bullying can be as simple as learning to laugh," Swift wrote in Elle.
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But the scene evolves into something even more disarming to Arya: an entirely normal moment of camaraderie among strangers.
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But these performances were rendered with a disarming, self-interrupting casualness, suggesting a happy ham at home among friends.
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People don't smile when they talk about their just-deceased parent, or while they are disarming a hostile attacker.
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When I got off the train I witnessed a tender moment between my neighbors and it was instantly disarming.
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PARELES Camille Thurman is going for disarming more than dazzling, as a vocalist as well as a tenor saxophonist.
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My wife was especially good at disarming them, usually by noticing the photo of a pet to comment upon.
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Amy Adams, a five-time Oscar nominee, has evolved from playing disarming ingénues to much darker and introspective characters.
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Your communication style is matter-of-fact and can sometimes be disarming to those who are more emotional communicators.
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Directed with disarming smoothness and military precision by Sarah Benson, "Fairview" begins amicably enough, or so it would appear.
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Mr. Ranganathan's blunt self-deprecation is disarming and the situations he and Mr. Green engineer are simple but amusing.
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What, then, of Mr. Buttigieg — the viral sensation whose charisma can feel like a disarming dearth of traditional charisma?
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The sound is intense and disarming, and during Carnaval it is one of the key rhythms heard across Recife.
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Not knowing what photos will look like right away can be "disarming to big-name talent," Ms. Dimson said.
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But no other Democrat will be able to claim a more surprising, disarming showing in 2020 than Buttigieg can.
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For one thing, an un-picked up room — provided it's not at hoarder-level saturation — is immediately disarming to visitors.
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"Gun control means disarming the revolutionary masses and oppressed classes," a leftist named William Gillis told me in an email.
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The summit collapsed after the two leaders had failed to reach agreements over nuclear disarming and sanctions, according to Trump.
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But in person, Wolfe's refreshing candor and concern for the people around her are disarming, immediately putting you at ease.
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Swenson's creatures may not have literally been alive but their physical presence has a real, jarring, and surprisingly disarming effect.
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One clip showed a group disarming a guard on a motorcycle of his rifle and throwing it off an overpass.
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Las Vegas police arrested another man in June after he tried disarming a police officer during a Trump rally there.
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The images were a disarming counterpoint to the black pain and suffering Americans are constantly inundated with in the media.
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It's not to say that there isn't trauma in your film, but you unpick it with a tenderness that's disarming.
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Yet, for a guy in that club of major international directors at the apex of their careers, he's pretty disarming.
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In person, she is friendly and disarming, with a habit of calling minors "kiddos," even in discussion of criminal cases.
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" Ms. Steinem has a disarming laugh that seems to say, "Can you believe the silly thing Gloria Steinem just said?
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The gun laws in India stem from colonial rule, when the British aimed to quell their subjects by disarming them.
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Both of the de los Reyes brothers dance roughly, Isaac with more bluster, yet their sincerity and passion are disarming.
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They can be quirky, disarming and idiosyncratic, with a vague, hollow message that says little even as it promises much.
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If you are a famous person, think how alluring Colker's combination of concern and warmth and disarming humility would be.
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More egregiously, they've actually created a huge political headache for themselves in New Jersey by not "disarming" unilaterally after Sen.
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Its premiere recording, released this week by Mode Records, shows that Mr. Wolff can still fashion passages of disarming beauty.
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" MS. CLARKSON IS so disarming that when she returned from a bathroom break proclaiming, "Wow, I really had to pee!
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Another actress might have settled there, staking out a comfortable living filling in one shade of disarming ingénue or another.
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In his research on disarming microaggressions, Dr. Sue uses the term "microintervention" to describe the process of confronting a microaggression.
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Without it, America is unilaterally disarming while the rest of the world is heading into the arena with more weaponry.
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It is our way of immediately disarming someone and letting them know that we are one of the good ones.
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The book is disarming in its accurate analysis of the world, quite literally coming a year ahead of its time.
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But North Korea's leadership is believed to regard nuclear weapons as crucial to its survival and has rejected unilaterally disarming.
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Blake Rayne's first midcareer survey is full of linguistic disruptions and quiet repetitions, bringing to mind Bartleby the scrivener's disarming resistance.
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KUDLOW: Well, I think at the end of that process, that&aposs the goal, unilateral denuclearization, disarming them and so forth.
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He appeared to be referring to Jafari's comment that disarming the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was out of the question.
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Disarming the PMF is seen as Abadi's most difficult test as his forces edge closer to declaring victory over Islamic State.
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They're disarming each other in subtle ways, and becoming more public about their (still wholly unacted upon) affections towards each other.
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More Songs About Buildings and Food, a concept album about late capitalism, speaks with disarming directness to the current political moment.
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"The nature of real-time, direct chat seems to be especially disarming," continues ityoclys, in Reddit's summary of the chat experiment.
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The plan could include disarming servers used in attacks and reflects growing concern about the frequency and intensity of such attacks.
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Non-EU member Switzerland's parliament and government back the regulations, but shooting enthusiasts fear a dangerous trend toward disarming them altogether.
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That disarming, pretension-free attitude runs throughout the film, save for a few scenes when problems arise and are soon overcome.
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Since then, Raw Tools has transformed several hundred guns, with help from a "disarming network" of volunteer blacksmiths around the country.
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People from her region have a disarming way of speaking that makes them sound playful even when they are dead serious.
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Kubitschek, however, presents his views with a disarming, Teutonic idealism that recalls a Germany that long preceded the rise of Hitler.
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But if North Korea escalates, the U.S. must be prepared to escalate to massive disarming strikes, including use of nuclear weapons.
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That's clearest on the album standout, "Bloodline," which communicates a cruel sentiment — "don't want you in my bloodline" — with disarming casualness.
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Yet there is a large group of martial arts which devote enormous amounts of time to the disarming of armed opponents.
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It's written in upbeat, skippy second person which makes it read like an email to a friend, and the effect is disarming.
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Security System Integration: Alexa Guard lets you use hands-free voice arming/disarming of Ring, ADT Pulse, and ADT Control security systems.
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The 7th Cavalry were disarming a group of Lakota Native Americans led by Chief Spotted Elk near Wounded Knee Creek in 1890.
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He has a way of disarming even the toughest criminals – like Knuckles (Brendan Gleeson), the surly prison cook who becomes Paddington's pal.
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A neighbor, hearing the fatal shot, ran to Reid's mother's home, quickly disarming the 23-year-old father, the sheriff's department said.
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He greeted visitors with a disarming smile and spoke in an educated voice that dropped in and out of an Irish brogue.
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And in 10 Cloverfield Lane, it's John Goodman's mix of disarming cheer and quiet menace that will leave you trembling with fear.
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Lee Israel's wit is barbed and disarming, designed to keep her isolated in that sordid one-bedroom Manhattan apartment she calls home.
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He looked exactly the way I expected a tenured liberal arts professor to look: gray stubble on his face, a disarming smile.
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Oregon authorities released a video on Friday showing a high-school football coach disarming, then hugging, a distraught student wielding a shotgun.
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"He's probably the last guy you'd expected to be involved with M.M.A., a nice Jewish guy, and that was disarming," he said.
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Local media said the NATO representative was an Ukrainian who monitors the disarming Soviet-era weapons, a process partly financed by NATO.
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According to the release, Gordon had been handcuffed with his hands in front of him before disarming the deputy and firing shots.
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Played by Kirin Kiki, she has a disarming smile, but also a haunted air — it seems to follow two steps behind her.
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By extension, the music within them that erupts to such disarming effect is the manifestation of irrepressible emotions that we all experience.
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Meanwhile the disarming of the movement, promised in the wake of the 2016 shootings, is progressing at a snail's pace, Mihalic says.
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Meghan's status as a feminist who supported women's suffrage in New Zealand a mere 125 years after it appeared is similarly disarming.
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One way of treating an infection could be with a compound that sticks to a certain part of the virus, disarming it.
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A former Democrat who is in his first Senate term, Mr. Kennedy has a disarming, aw-shucks manner that masks tough-mindedness.
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In his speech, he also thanked the Capitol Police for their work disarming the shooter and expressed hope for the victims' recovery.
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Then there are the disarming snapshots, mostly of Coates and his family — "I always had people," he writes — scattered throughout the book.
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A woman purporting to be his girlfriend clearly played a significant role in disarming the victims, making them feel comfortable and safe.
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Nirva works with a soft voice, a bubbling laugh and disarming modesty, covering her face with both hands when receiving a compliment.
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But, like "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and its triple threat of a leading lady, "Younger" has a disarming blend of brass and humility.
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After a half-century of war, Colombia's rebels are disarming, preparing to enter civilian life under the peace accord signed last year.
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Stewart capitalizes on this effect, distorting his electric guitar as the song crescendos, and belting out the vocal line with disarming histrionics.
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Graham and Blumenthal argued that enough due process protections are in place to prevent overreaching by the government in disarming gun owners.
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Tony was able to win most every argument he entered into because he came with more facts, smarter wit and a disarming smile.
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With a sort of disarming aloofness, he artfully consumed such an extreme amount of room that I was in a state of awe.
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The perfect, imprecise night sky under the stairs of "The Classical Mind, Scala Naturae and Cosmic Cabinet" (1994/2017), is similarly quaintly disarming.
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A gift from the GIF-gods, her mix of cheeky hilarity, disarming honesty, and brash behavior charmed viewers and expanded her fanbase further.
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I have a fantastic ass so I'm not mad about it, but it's a disarming fact to be made aware of in retrospect.
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Her handshake is firm enough to be just shy of crushing, and she's an expert at that disarming, straight-in-the-eye engagement.
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The 20-year-old, who grew up in New York and Florida, has Flushing Meadows buzzing about her lethal skills and disarming charm.
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Those roles were nearly all in comedies—30 Rock, Catastrophe, Sex and the City, and others—showcasing Fisher's simultaneously biting and disarming wit.
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It didn't feel like one when I was watching the movie, which is so disarming earnest that I fell completely under its spell.
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The duchess allegedly scaled Gill's ladder waving a silk scarf so that he might perfect the exact shade of her famously disarming eyes.
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A fundraiser for the Indiana middle school teacher labeled a hero for tackling and disarming a school shooter has raised more than $55,000.
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Instead, he joined the Navy, where he served for more than a decade and specialized in disarming explosives, according to his company's website.
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Perhaps the most contentious piece of the agreement is a "transitional justice" system in which former rebels could receive reduced sentences for disarming.
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This doesn't necessarily mean this person never truly cared or felt connected to you, though, says Wendy Behary, author of Disarming the Narcissist.
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The administration should test the possibility that Kim is sincere about disarming without giving away tangible benefits ahead of true demonstrations of commitment.
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It also backs funding for gun violence research and supports universal background checks, disarming domestic abusers and enacting laws to staunch gun trafficking.
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But these are flaws of exuberance, and it's hard to dwell on them while you're rooting for characters as disarming as these two.
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The feeling of being in someone's home also carried with it a bit more of a laissez faire attitude which was also disarming.
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Hamas said nothing about disarming, meaning it will retain the military upper hand in Gaza, even if Mr. Abbas sends in security forces.
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Jeff's a wiry fellow with a disarming smile, and of the four, he seems to throw himself into recovery with the most enthusiasm.
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Colin Angle is the chief executive and co-founder of iRobot, whose products include the robot vacuum Roomba and the bomb-disarming PackBot.
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With teenage self-consciousness and some disarming naivete, Adam studies trans testimonials on YouTube and awkwardly hangs out with his girlfriend's trans friends.
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But Democrats asked whether the preemption push was aimed at disarming California's tough privacy law, which is set to take effect in 85033.
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Others have disarming grammatical errors that invite sympathy: Some people have questioned whether the videos in which Bana speaks were rehearsed or altered.
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That should serve as a humbling reminder of how little we know and what could go wrong in a disarming or warning strike.
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Ms. Persson brought such disarming immediacy to her singing that this familiar work, depicting a young woman's emotional life cycle, seemed remarkably fresh.
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"The comedy is very disarming," said Liam Brown, 19, a student at the University of New South Wales who attended the pub panel.
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" The directors of the documentary, Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, said Mr. Valentine had an "uproarious and droll sense of humor" and "disarming honesty.
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Mutko has survived previous crises, helped by a disarming personality and the fact that Russia's international sporting performances have improved dramatically on his watch.
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The findings also show that eliminating ISIS will be much more complicated than killing its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or disarming his fighters.
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Anthony Gonzalez is working with the same reference points you'd hear in Todd Terje's music, but he's handling them with an unrelenting, disarming sincerity.
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There's something disarming and wonderful about feeling as though all four of your senses bar sight are suddenly cranked up to a higher volume.
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While most crimes against college students occur off campus, a ban on firearms on campus can have the effect of disarming students off campus.
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Las Vegas police arrested Sandford, 19, on Saturday, when he allegedly tried disarming a police officer at Trump's rally at the Treasure Island Casino.
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But they have not yet succeeded in disarming the militia that many believe organized it, despite pledges by Maiga and Keita to do so.
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The first time that the heroine in the disarming comedy "Hello, My Name Is Doris" sees the kid, they're in a crowded office elevator.
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"We might have gotten lucky here, as it seems that the actions could have assisted in disarming the bomb," Mr. Reynoso said on Sunday.
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The intimacy of the film's images and the surprising candor of its participants are disarming: Whatever your initial response, be prepared to re-evaluate.
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On the surface, he convincingly telegraphs contrition and a deep disgust at his own weaknesses, but disarming self-flagellation has always been his art.
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But it was not clear that the Americans would succeed in extracting a more detailed commitment to disarming than North Korea has already offered.
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She speaks frankly about her personal struggles with loneliness, impostor syndrome, and eating disorders, and demonstrates a disarming self-awareness about her own neediness.
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Earlier this year he released "The Balance," a coolly disarming record featuring Ekaya performing tunes from his catalog, all arranged with a gentle touch.
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Those efforts include disarming and destroying old American bombs from the Vietnam War era that still pose deadly hazards in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
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Aside from disarming the CFPB — which Frank worries has not received enough attention — the GOP has largely backed off talk of repealing financial regulations.
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Writing in the New York Times earlier this month, Ioan Grillo said the best way to disarm Mexican criminal cartels is by disarming Americans.
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Representing the LGBT individuals behind the lawsuit, she got into a tangle with Justice Samuel Alito, disarming him with a Saturday Night Live reference.
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While some in the Iowa crowd might have found Buttigieg's invitation to his protesters to be disarming, several of the students were not charmed.
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Will is less the new "everyboy" (a la Mike) than he is the new Eleven, and he strikes a similar balance between disarming and unsettling.
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The campaign, shot by photographer Colin Dodgson, sees Hedren as a glamorous yet disarming fortune teller, with a subtle nod to Twin Peaks' Log Lady.
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The This Is Us star is so relentlessly charming that when you picture him in your mind, he's probably beaming with his ridiculously disarming smile.
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In Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women, sadly overlooked last year amid all the awards-season clutter, Stewart plays the disarming object of affection for another woman.
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Washington doesn't seem to have a plan for disarming the militias before they start fighting for control of disputed ancestral Kurdish lands held by Turkey.
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Ulgen said Turkey appeared to be pinning its hopes on possible splits among the jihadists, with Syrian fighters more amenable to disarming than the foreigners.
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The three-disc survey reveals a musical landscape which, though thorny for the players, produces music of disarming charm, strange beauty and sometimes dreamlike familiarity.
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Khan believes, for example, that the international community's disarming of 100,000 mujahedeen in his area was a mistake, making the region less secure than ever.
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"We believe he's buried there," Mr. Harris said with a disarming honesty, since so much is really unknown about the bard, including his actual birthday.
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"It's completely disarming to see a band at all these days, or from any era, that's just not trying to be cool," Mr. Chiara said.
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The minister has survived previous crises, helped by his disarming personality, close relationship with Putin and Russia's improved standing in international sports on his watch.
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But he drew admirers in some quarters for taking a hard line with the West, and he could be disarming despite his sometimes harsh demeanor.
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The 24-year-old Chicagoan, who performs understated and spoken world-inflected soul songs as Tasha, sings with a sincerity that's both disarming and inviting.
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The pact made Northern Ireland a part of the United Kingdom and allowed paramilitary groups to participate in the democratic process in exchange for disarming.
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The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that Israel "objects to any reconciliation that does not include" accepting international agreements, recognizing Israel and disarming Hamas.
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She's so charming it's disarming, and she became beloved throughout the internet for telling amazing stories about herself in interviews when she first got famous.
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Often better heard than seen, with his physical antics, Mr. Lang is a disarming presence here in his eagerness to soak up Mr. Harnoncourt's wisdom.
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Not a predictable one, however, which is all to the benefit of this incisive, funny cinematic parable, shot and edited in a disarming, documentarylike style.
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It's obvious to the reader, although not to Graham, that her disarming brand of overshare, her encyclopedic social knowledge, are not an indication of guilelessness.
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She dismisses academics critical of her approach, and she delivers bold pronouncements — particularly to a reporter with a voice recorder — in a disarming Texas drawl.
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If low-yield or non-nuclear warheads are used, Russia could make a disarming first strike cleanly, causing little collateral damage and few civilian casualties.
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Mr. Fairchild, who created his own choreography, morphs into a monster of delicate, disarming beauty, an innocent perambulating through a world he flounders to understand.
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Ms. Liu, 19, an utterly disarming presence in her Snoopy T-shirt, played the melody as beautifully and soulfully as I have ever heard it.
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During a summit meeting in June, Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim signed a joint statement agreeing to take steps toward disarming North Korea's nuclear arsenal.
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The woman holding the camera says "more, more," and he says, "I'll give you more," and crawls over to her, disarming her of the camera.
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They also said officers had disarmed an improvised explosive device (IED), and were on the process of disarming a second device attached to the suspects' vehicle.
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As the NYT put it, Brafman is "known for his disarming sense of humor, quick wit and skillful cross-examinations" and was considered a formidable opponent.
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To her largely white, male investor base, she was a woman they could bring themselves to trust, because she performed a strategic genderlessness they found disarming.
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After a decade of being hated, humiliated, and ostracized because of my body, having it appreciated and viewed as sexy was disarming and somehow felt safe.
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The film explores our responsibility for our actions and for each other, and attempts to do it in a disarming way, using music, comedy, and romance.
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"By disarming the left, peace made the left capable of playing a role in politics," says Eduardo Pizano of the University of the Andes in Bogotá.
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And in a recent sketch on Saturday Night Live, about Totino's Pizza Rolls of all things, the thrust of the joke comes from Stewart's disarming nature.
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Disarming the PMF is seen as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's most difficult test as Iraqi forces edge closer to declaring victory over the Sunni militants.
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That's another kind of disarming factor — as an adult, it feels unusual to watch a PG-13 film outside the context of a big franchise film.
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The warmth of Shogun's presence is disarming; in this get-up, he looks more like Veep's Mike McClintock than he does a rock and roll singer.
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Once you know the rules, it is possible to deploy apologies whether they are needed or not -- disarming everyone from lovers to officers of the law.
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Several students at a Colorado high school attacked by two gunmen on Tuesday tackled one of the shooters, disarming them before police arrived, according to survivors.
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An alchemical blend of quick-witted talent, disarming thoughtfulness, and casual charm, Waithe has the coveted ability of making a character likable just by being herself.
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He's casual, disarming, and in an era where people are highly polarized along Right and Left, Rogan is hard to put into a political, ideological box.
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Yet fledgling singers can bring rejuvenating freshness and disarming sincerity to an opera that is surely presented in major houses too often for its own good.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO Queen Naija's payback anthem "Medicine" has been one of this year's defining R&B songs, a slow seether about infidelity sung with disarming calm.
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During the debate in Richmond, Mason and Henry suggested that the new Constitution gave Congress the power to subvert the slave system by disarming the militias.
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That would provide Mr. Trump with a potent showcase as a peacemaker, but it could distract from the administration's priority of disarming North Korea, experts said.
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All these advances, made during a period when the relationship between Pyongyang and Washington was supposedly never better, show that Kim is not interested in disarming.
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Glenn is a disarming spokesman, a geologist with a canny sense of how the wider world likes to see Eskimos: impoverished and clinging to noble tradition.
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If you acknowledge the sincerity and good intentions of those around you, it's disarming, and they won't be able to help but to do the same.
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While police gave no further details of how the attacker was stopped, social media posts appeared to show members of the public confronting and disarming him.
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So it's disarming to see a relatively cozy Joan Didion in the documentary "Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold," but it should not be surprising.
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To celebrate Monáe, disarming color combinations, bisexuality, and all things beautiful, I've compiled a list of some of pop culture's most memorable bisexual lighting moments. Enjoy!
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In a brain-melting world of endless pain, Aggretsuko is a disarming mirror of our discontent that asks: Are you going to do something about it?
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Espanyol's pressure succeeded in disarming Barcelona's talented attack for most of the match and allowed its fans to celebrate the tie as if it were a victory.
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The U.S. plan would be to "inject a lot of friction into that system," he said, emphasizing the lead role of cyberattacks in disarming China's missile capabilities.
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"Disarming is impossible," said Yawd Serk, flanked by a heavily armed security detail including a man who said he was a former member of U.S. special forces.
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Even after disarming Arya, she still takes a full-force swing at her, clearly knowing the fight isn't over yet, and that alone is a terrific moment.
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Plus, Brad explained that shooting with an iPhone is disarming – the lack of bulky gear allowed his subjects to let their guard down and be more natural.
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"It's really disarming, isn't it?" the former Democratic presidential nominee tells PEOPLE in an interview for this week's issue, pegged to her new campaign memoir, What Happened.
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October 24, 2016 Today, meet up with an explosives expert in Iraq to find out the kinds of risks troops take when disarming bombs and booby traps.
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"I learned that disarming someone's petty bullying can be as simple as learning to laugh," Swift — whose reputation era was dominated by the reptile — wrote in Elle.
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For me this was especially disarming since I didn't realize how much I wanted a child until I was faced with the possibility of never having one.
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I learned to overcome my nervousness and shaky knees by relying on my sense of humor — it's a disarming tool, sure, but it helped me relax, too!
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But people who know Ms. Miller, 53, insist that, besides being brainy, she has always been very, very funny, and in person she is direct and disarming.
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But being occasionally vulnerable has reminded me of the empathy buried in the corporate world — and, in its disarming way, located new paths for collaboration and honesty.
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Facebook also allows campaigns to micro-target receptive groups with ads that opponents are unlikely to see and therefore cannot dispute, disarming the traditional defence against falsehood.
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There are also reconstructions of naked figures in bronze, which have a disarming fleshiness: copper lips and nipples, luxuriant black beards, wiry swirls of dark pubic hair.
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"Glow," his first holiday album, makes the disconnect clear: It turns out Mr. Eldredge is a disarming crooner deeply at home in front of a big band.
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This seemed to me so radical and disarming that I didn't know what to think, but tried to imagine why someone would make such a thing ever.
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These sculptures by the Creative Growth artist are incredibly charged, disarming in their resemblance to a spider's dying prey but beguiling in their suggested warmth and vibrancy.
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While Ashworth can be blunt, he is also disarming and funny, with a self-deprecating sense of humor that appeals to both parents and their cynical children.
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Silly and do-it-yourself, it had the disarming, off-the-cuff, look-what-I-found sense of artistic integrity that is central to the Beastie legacy.
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Their style won't inspire poetry, but it has proved effective at disrupting and disarming opponents, and even belying the statistics that normally augur success in this tournament.
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BUCHANAN That's sort of what I found most disarming and charming about "Endgame" — it feels the least like a war movie of any of the Avengers films.
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In the 1980s, he began solo improvisations to Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations, moving to classical music in often unorthodox ways, and with disarming freshness.
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He has become a public performer over the past three years, cultivating a disarming "aw shucks, lordy, lordy" persona while covering his damaging actions with milky platitudes.
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Ms. Bloch, an admirer of poets like Emily Dickinson, Anna Akhmatova and Elizabeth Bishop, specialized in taut, pared-down verse that fused disarming simplicity with emotional depth.
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With a disarming tranquillity, it materializes the maddening torrent of news and views that can't be adequately comprehended, any more than a teacup can collect a waterfall.
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On a task of the utmost urgency, disarming the militia fighters who had dethroned the dictator but now threatened the nation's unity, Mr. Feltman reported an alarming lassitude.
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As Edith, an aspiring actress who seems blind to her deficits and personal flaws, Ms. Goldstein gives a performance that requires her to swing between disarming and loathsome.
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We're told company honchos have developed a personal relationship with James Shaw Jr. -- the man responsible for disarming the gunman -- and have offered assistance to him as well.
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UNSOM has been in the east African nation since 2013 to advise government on how best to cement peace, be it disarming fighters or bringing rival communities together.
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There are only two sensors — infrared motion detectors ($50) and window/door opening detectors ($40) — as well as a key fob ($30) for setting and disarming the alarm.
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Grace, the "celebrated murderess", has a disarming and unnerving approach to truth; by the series' close, the question of her innocence or guilt has almost ceased to matter.
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Of medium height, immaculately groomed, clad in dark blue slacks, a striped shirt, and a light blue jacket, Kalugin was congenial and utterly disarming when I met him.
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Of course, Mr. Kasich has long relied on a soft touch to blunt his biting impulses, a disarming and potent combination, according to those who have experienced it.
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Ring's base level alarm kit starts at $199, which includes a keypad (for arming/disarming the system), one door/window sensor, a motion detector and a range extender.
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But Mr. Elbaz has a way of disarming even the frostiest fashion types, and the industry has often broken with its customary hauteur to celebrate him with cheers.
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For that reason, they say, there can be no substantial concessions to the North in the talks over its nuclear weapons until it takes real steps toward disarming.
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Yet industriously reworked and gathered into disarming displays and tableaus, these nothing-special sources limn the biggest themes of love, fear, loss, mourning, childhood and even divine grace.
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She's like a composer whose pieces are best written for her own instrument; she knows just the spaces to add a riff or shoot a disarming, conspiratorial glance.
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So, in a disarming gesture, he welcomed the Munduruku delegation effusively, instructing his cooks to put on a feast of grilled chicken, beans and rice for the guests.
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They have invited some of New York's favorite comedians, including the lovably neurotic Chris Gethard as well as the disarming queen of deadpan, Aparna Nancherla, and many others.
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They have invited some of New York's favorite comedians, including the lovably neurotic Chris Gethard, as well as the disarming queen of deadpan Aparna Nancherla, and many others.
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The photograph has such an informal mood, such disarming warmth, that we might suppose it had been made recently, were it not in antique-looking black and white.
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Asked by CNN on Tuesday about the disarming of the APU and the rise in elephant poaching in Botswana, Otisitswe Tiroyamodimo, director of the DWNP, declined to comment.
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And a few months before the Brooklyn-based editor and writer Josie Rubio died, she published a disarming — and hugely popular — Times essay about dating with terminal cancer.
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And a few months before the Brooklyn-based editor and writer Josie Rubio died, she published a disarming — and hugely popular — Times essay about dating with terminal cancer.
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Mirabile and Mitski had devised strange, disarming gestures keyed to lines of the songs in the show, and the result looked more like performance art than like dance.
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PEN15 leans into that idea with a hysterical and disarming 10-episode first season that maps out Maya and Anna's introduction to the trials and tribulations of seventh grade.
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In effect, the President is unilaterally disarming the United States, surrendering one of the most effective weapons in its arsenal, one of its greatest sources of strength: soft power.
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Most voters don't care about legislative procedure, and those that do are exactly the type to run primary campaigns against members of their party for disarming their biggest weapon.
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Trump's pitch is that China should be more likely to work with the US on disarming Pyongyang if he decides to be kinder on trade than he once threatened.
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"I couldn't shake thinking that I needed to come up with a disarming line to defuse the situation and keep the embarrassment level to a minimum," the book reads.
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Do you and your significant other own matching Gryffindor robes, quiz each other on obscure wizarding world trivia, or practice disarming spells on one another in your spare time?
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When appearing on conservative talk shows, Pratt engages in anti-government rhetoric and gives credence to conspiracy theories supporting the notion that Obama is bent on disarming the populace.
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Gadot, with help from director Patty Jenkins and the screenwriters, get this balance exactly right and gives Diana a disarming warmth that makes it impossible not to love her.
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"I couldn't shake thinking that I needed to come up with a disarming line to defuse the situation and keep the embarrassment level to a minimum," Ms. Trump wrote.
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Wordplay SATURDAY PUZZLE — What is more disarming than facing off against a Saturday crossword, the hardest puzzle of the week, and having it open with a clue about cuddling?
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He speaks in a folksy drawl ("Do you mind if we forgo the whole serial killer thing?" he asks Eddie with disarming friendliness) and smirks with a creepy intensity.
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Renato Schuch gives a terrifying and complex performance as the perpetrator, Reda, investing the character with disarming charisma before exploding in an outburst of brutality mixed with self-loathing.
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Mr. Craig, whom international moviegoers know as the infinitely suave James Bond, lends Iago a disarming, virile charm, through which only we can glimpse the contempt and the calculation.
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"That's you guys' story, not our story," Rivers said, furtively, before adding a disarming compliment about how entertaining the army of local commentators was making the whole Knicks mess.
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" Zimbabwean TV host and producer Vimbai Mutinhiri told CNN: "The Mugabe I knew was a quick-witted man, with an incredible sense of humor and a totally disarming presence.
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" Zimbabwean TV host and producer Vimbai Mutihinri told CNN: "The Mugabe I knew was a quick-witted man, with an incredible sense of humor and a totally disarming presence.
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Still, the injured clerk was able to chase and tackle Joshua before other employees joined in, disarming him and then binding his hands and feet until police reached the scene.
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But I have learned, from experience and then from the experience of others, that it is possible to alleviate the isolation of the ill without condescension and with disarming charm.
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Its cast of characters is not only huge, but varied in personality, which means every human quirk imaginable (SpongeBob's disarming earnestness, Squidward's angsty cynicism) has its moment in the sun.
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Filled with striking imagery and a nagging sense of dread, the series also exhibits a disarming darkly comic streak, as Offred's looks and asides underscore the absurdity of her situation.
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He faces charges of assaulting a peace officer, possession or use of a controlled substance, failure to stop at command of law enforcement and disarming a police officer, KSTU reported.
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The disarming would be done in batches based on compliance with the accord, with the final 40 percent of the guerrillas turning over their weapons once there is full compliance.
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These were boom times for sentimentality in rock, years brimming with Keanes, Frays, and Muses and the disarming well of feelings that issue out from rock radio at the time.
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For someone who gives off a super tough vibe when I first see her walk through the door, it's disarming to find Uchis is open and easy to talk with.
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Citizens will be invited to air their opinions on divisive issues such as the spending of oil revenues, the powers of a future central government and the disarming of militias.
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You have a variety of tools for killing, disarming or destroying alarms, and disguising your movements, most of which is found as you explore the commune and rummage through cabins.
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From banning bump stocks to disarming abusers to reinstating the assault weapons ban, student activists in Florida and across the country put all gun violence prevention legislation on the table.
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Hezbollah thrives on the corruption and dysfunction of the central state to ensure there is no domestic power capable of disarming it or obliging it to deviate from Iran's commands.
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"Jimmy's playful, disarming comedic brilliance makes him the ideal host to enhance and elevate the sense of fun and irreverence," Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, said in a statement.
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"It's not that you can do a disarming first strike and take out all of its nuclear weapons, take out the missiles, and say, 'OK, there you are,'" Clark said.
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After sanctions have been successful, the LAF is the only organization capable of finally disarming Hezbollah in accordance with UN Resolution 1701 and maintain the security and stability of Lebanon.
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Boreland was a member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) whose scrapping of weapons in front of independent monitors in 2010 completed the disarming of Northern Ireland's main militant groups.
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Mr. Brafman, a former Manhattan prosecutor, is regarded as one of the best trial lawyers in the city, known for a disarming sense of humor and wickedly skillful cross-examinations.
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There were self-contained arias here, including one that ended neatly enough to garner applause — a rarity in Prototype-style contemporary opera — as well as moments of disarming pastoral prettiness.
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A high school football coach from Oregon is getting widespread praise after footage recently emerged showing him successfully disarming and hugging a student who brought a loaded shotgun to school.
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An alliance of Turkey-allied rebel groups, the National Front for Liberation, has declared its "complete cooperation" with the Turkish effort, but has also ruled out disarming or yielding territory.
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The disarming appeal of Mark Leckey is in full force at MOMA PS 1 , where the Turner Prize-winning British artist is having the most extensive show of his career.
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"My aim somehow shifted from an expression of anger to a more vivid desire of disarming these figures, (to) picture them outside their positions of power", Omari told Al Jazeera.
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With disarming humour, he described his own spiritual path in a successful book with an almost self-explanatory title, "My Islam: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind and Doubt Freed My Soul".
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His classical training (his father, Jeffrey Kahane, is a pianist and conductor) lends an inventive lushness to his compositions, which he layers with writerly lyrics delivered with a disarming emotional authenticity.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings and Food is a concept album about late capitalism that speaks with disarming directness to the current political moment.
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This is her 11th collaboration with HBO, and she uses a disarming playfulness to gain the cooperation of Republicans, despite being the daughter of one of the nation's most famous Democrats.
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The people screeching about disarming someone like me, a mother trying to protect her family – and make no mistake, that's exactly what they are doing – do not face what I face.
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Whether it was true or not, an important feature of disarming any effort to coerce a public official is to tell the official what the enemy might be doing or saying.
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U.S. National Intelligence Director James Clapper has today determined that disarming North Korea of nuclear weapons is 'probably a lost cause;' tomorrow that could very well be the case with Iran.
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His disarming nature catches the eye of Muggu aka Mandakini (Sara Ali Khan), the tempestuous daughter of the local priest whose rebellious nature keeps her at odds with her conservative parents.
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As Ben disengages, Dorff's disarming, laid-back presence draws attention to the character's ambiguity — he is both a father understandably disturbed by grief and a husband failing to support his wife.
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There is a young man's ease and airiness about Castro, a disarming charm that arrests the attention because of its counterintuitiveness, but I struggle to imagine it in the Oval Office.
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Colonel Jencks sent all of the white women and children to Helena by train, ordered the immediate disarming of everyone and authorized the killing of black insurgents who failed to disarm.
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Also, I should mention I was driving a disarming car: a two-tone (white body with maroon roof) sedan from 1967 — like a big hunk of butter with jam on top.
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The first home run I saw that was an obvious lie was disarming: its queer sound, its confusing flight pattern, and a murmur from an opposing crowd I had never experienced.
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Gwen not only went totally sans cosmetics, but she didn't even bother to de-bedhead her hair, leaving her peroxide blonde mane effortlessly tousled, adding to the disarming effect of this snap.
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He's not a fan of the Green New Deal, which he describes as "unilaterally disarming the American economy," but he hopes that it's a place where some bipartisan legislation could get passed.
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His shouts on the second half of "Lil Haiti Baby" ("I just wanna go back to the Bentley store/ I just wanna go back to the Lamb' store") are guttural and disarming.
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Instead, it has turned into a TV Land success story, breaking channel records for growth, wooing critics (The New Yorker praised its "disarming blend of brass and humility") and drawing new viewers.
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Geng also noted China's role as the six-party Chair — a series of negotiations between the U.S., China, Japan, North Korea, Russia and South Korea, aimed at disarming North Korea's nuclear programme.
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Although the plebiscite did not turn out as Mr Cameron hoped, his defeat may have succeeded in disarming the threat posed to his party by the populist right, at least for now.
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Playfully disarming your lover with comedy is a great way to ease the tension in a text communication, and often presents the shortest distance between a cold call and the end goal.
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After the toy cars started taking off, plastic figurines and dolls also rose in popularity, and Japan's expertise in the kind of disarming cuteness we know today really began to get honed.
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Like watching an old flickering video of a birthday party from 1982, or switching off in front of a schlocky straight-to-tv rom-com, it is totally charming and completely disarming.
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Burling, who won Olympic gold last year in the 49er skiff class with fellow crew member Blair Tuke, has exuded a disarming calm and has now won a place in yachting history.
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The training material will include instructions on protecting bystanders if officers suspect someone has a bomb and guidance on apprehending and disarming suspects with the assistance of the bomb squad, he said.
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I'm just a blogger, sitting in front of a laptop, asking why so many music videos from the mid-00s blew half their budget on one disarming moment of aggressively literal CGI.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron has a reputation for disarming hostile audiences with repartee and humor, but his latest verbal jousting on a trip to Africa has drawn criticism at home.
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The app began in 2011 as a way to send pictures that disappear, a feature that lowered people's inhibitions (sometimes in worrying ways) and created a mind-set of pervasive, disarming goofiness.
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It's fairly simple actually and shouldn't mean we're advocating for "gun control"— which some on the Right view as the first steps in the government's slippery slope advancement to disarming America. 85033.
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Hailing from the heartland of America, Pai, the second-generation son of medical doctors, has a disarming, aw-shucks, demeanor that belies his Harvard education, elite legal pedigree and inside-Washington resume.
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From a relatively safe historical distance, it's possible to appreciate him as an almost literary character, a volatile and fascinating mixture of resentment, intelligence, paranoia and guile, with a disarming sentimental streak.
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"Her style and the way she projects herself in these kind of senior situations is disarming, without showing weakness," said Doug Wise, a former C.I.A. officer who has worked with Ms. Haspel.
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It was Nadal who saved a match point at 7-8 in the fifth set, feathering a backhand drop shot just over the net in a disarming display of delicacy under duress.
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But in fact, as dangerous as that work was, most of our casualties were aboveground, when we engaged in the other part of our job: finding and disarming mines and booby traps.
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In "The Privilege of Escape," a new public art project by Risa Puno at Onassis USA, the escape room turns from a high-stakes thriller into a disarming demonstration of social inequality.
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She has an easy stylishness that inspires envy in her female colleagues, and a barking laugh that she unleashes generously—a disarming quality in someone with such an acerbic sense of humor.
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I'll say it right now, any martial artist who devotes a great deal of their time to disarming unresisting knife or gun wielding training partners is essentially a live action role player.
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At its best, "Ask Dr. Ruth" zeroes in on the roots of that appeal, how Westheimer made her improbable move into radio, disarming audiences by speaking about sex in a frank, unflinching way.
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Intel (promoting its Intel 360 Replay technology) gave us the gift of actually seeing LeBron's adult mug transformed into wailing toddler, and it might be best diss disguised as a disarming commercial ever.
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Speaking in low, woodsy tones that belie a rapturous passion for the ocean and its mysteries, the 75-year-old Métis potlach chief for the Kwak'waka'wakw people conducts himself with a disarming beneficence.
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Titus is an exemplar of Shopify guru-hood, with a very compelling rags-to-riches origin story and a strident but disarming candor that sets her apart from her more Stepford-sounding counterparts.
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When agents finally arrived at the entrance to the house — after disarming many more booby traps — they threw an explosive charge through the front door to take out anything that might be waiting.
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Zelensky, who was elected in April, with seventy-three per cent of the vote, is forty-one, with close-cropped brown hair and a disarming ability to adopt whatever persona suits the occasion.
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It's the kind of movie that introduces a potential suitor for Charlie in her neighbor Memo (a disarming Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), but is comfortable not resolving that relationship with a predictable romantic contrivance.
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There's the pairing of dishonesty with earnestness, the disarming candor mixed with secrecy, and an irresistible traction with co-star Stephen Graham (another HBO alum, familiar to audiences as Boardwalk Empire's Al Capone).
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The U.S. embassy in Baghdad had posted a message on Twitter on Tuesday saying Tehran must "respect the sovereignty of the Iraqi government and permit the disarming, demobilization, and reintegration" of Shi'ite militias.
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By raising the rates on Thursday, the commission can argue that it is making it easier for jails and prisons to afford the inmate-calling systems, potentially disarming one industry line of attack.
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"We are unilaterally disarming the Senate Judiciary Committee in a way that will have collateral damage well beyond the immediate goal of packing the courts with these nominees in a great rush," Sen.
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Some critically important lessons have already been learned -- for example, disarming people with restraining orders for domestic violence reduces homicide -- still, gun violence is a large, complex issue with many dimensions, said Webster.
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After six-and-a-half years, Sir John Chilcot concluded that war had not been a "last resort", as peaceful options for disarming Saddam Hussein's regime had not been exhausted at the time.
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But Dolph's disarming straightforwardness takes them in a new direction, and, while his style certainly isn't going to sound weird and foreign, it's also a different, more direct twist on the trap staple.
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"I like to think of robots as the children of humanity, and like children, we are full of potential for good or evil," Erica has said in one of her many disarming quips.
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Some interviews are more interesting than others, and they feel loosely stitched together with random threads of social-science research or Korkki's own observations; here, Korkki's meandering style becomes confusing, rather than disarming.
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His testimony at that trial last spring — which I attended — was a revelation, as with disarming candor he shined a klieg light on the play-for-cash business that is major college hoops.
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He also had a disarming wit and warm demeanor, qualities that later in life attracted a broad circle of friends, including some Democratic lawyers who heartily disagreed with his politics and legal philosophy.
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And her disarming combination of humility and honesty, making light of heavy emotions without concealing their true weight, has much to do with how this affecting film portrait can sneak up on you.
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Mr. Younger's direction is focused and sometimes disarming — scenes that at first seem like slice-of-life digressions, such as a postaccident surprise birthday party for the protagonist, lead to unexpected mini-epiphanies.
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A sneakily intricate rapper whose lyrics are often camouflaged by disarming singsong flows and a gravelly Southern drawl, Lil Baby has largely moved on from the open wounds of his earlier, bittersweet work.
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Seeing that their leader, Y-Bham Enuol, was leaning toward negotiation, young militants engineered a coup in 1968, sending the older leader onward to house arrest in Phnom Penh and disarming his followers.
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But the latest round of failed talks highlights once more that they brought very little in the way of progress towards disarming North Korea, or even slowing the progress of its nuclear programme.
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He's betting that disarming the FARC will be felt as a dramatic improvement in the everyday lives of Colombians, the sort of conclusive evidence that can convince skeptics of the benefits of peace.
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She considers distancing from the party's abortion stance "unilaterally disarming on something that should be our greatest strength" and a tactic that could send the wrong message to women who are mobilizing politically.
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Meet-cutes become the introduction into the characters' most defining personality traits—a disarming moment revealing them at their most shy, quirky, sassy, damaged, cynical, ambitious, fussy, arrogant, or maybe even kind of slutty.
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Titles include: Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed; The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives; and Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life.
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Power: We saw Negan's intimidating physicality in action in a variety of different scenarios in this episode, from his disarming of Gabriel in the trailer to his impressive zombie-fighting skills outside the Sanctuary.
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North Korea's foreign ministry warned in a statement after the December sanctions were announced, that the measures could lead to a return to "exchanges of fire" and North Korea's disarming could be blocked forever.
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But Craig Gillespie's Harding biopic (his follow-up to the sentimental rescue-at-sea thriller The Finest Hours) is playful enough to be disarming, and slick enough to be compelling, if not entirely convincing.
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Prop 603, backed by Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, seeks to add additional gun safety laws, including strengthening of mandatory background checks, disarming of people ineligible to own a firearm, and permits to purchase ammunition.
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Now she needs to articulate her own vision for how to run the country, and she should start by disarming Trump of the lone policy advantage that threatens her path to the White House.
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Donald Glover is too talented to get away with off-the-cuff spontaneity now: his falsetto is too soulful, his songwriting is too natural, his jokes are too funny, his smile is too disarming.
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It's called "Lick," and, like most of the Cardi B tape, it's disarming, a super tough drill track that, by virtue of the gossipy news around it, doubles as proof that love is real.
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With her disarming grin and colorful fashion sense, Ms. Neuwirth also is a regular in the pages of glossy magazines such as Vogue and Elle, often featured in her home on the Venice, Calif.
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"We are unilaterally disarming the Senate Judiciary Committee in a way that will have collateral damage well beyond the immediate goal of packing the courts with these nominees in a great rush," said Sen.
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Brendan Bialy was one of three students who lunged at one of two shooters inside the high school wing of STEM in May of this year, effectively disarming him and potentially saving many lives.
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Kim would win a political cover against future provocations and more time to build the bomb, and Moon would score a political victory by disarming the South Korean public under the illusion of peace.
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"I'm still struck by how disarming it can be, as a reader, to encounter someone who's confronting pain, heartbreak, loss or just confusion and trying to make sense of it all," Mr. Jones said.
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The way Mylan has gone about guaranteeing accessallows the pharmaceutical company to charge sky-high prices while disarming insurers' tools, like charging high co-pays for expensive medications, to keep premium prices at bay.
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The job of managing those expectations falls to the team's coach, Corinne Diacre, and in her prematch news conference on Thursday she used a disarming smile and healthy doses of sarcasm in that effort.
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But the gown becomes subsidiary when you meet Michelle's gaze, which we've glimpsed often since 2008, one of disarming but seriously knowing irony, true to her roots even as she rises to her station.
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This spring, a federal court ordered the C.I.A. to pay The Times $51,000 in a suit we brought to obtain secret documents about how U.S. troops were injured while disarming chemical weapons in Iraq.
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Jeffries, an African American lawmaker from Brooklyn, launched an impeachment charm offensive, disarming senators by quoting rapper Notorious B.I.G. and cracking a Derek Jeter joke that elicited chuckles on both sides of the aisle.
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Written by David Shore ("House"), whom Mr. Yost replaced as showrunner, the first episode deftly sets up a tricky situation and introduces us to the characters with a low-key, disarming sense of humor.
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Telegenic and smooth-talking, he was an eager face of the Trump campaign on television and in the halls of Trump Tower, bringing a brash style and disarming humor to his tussles with reporters.
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Authorities repeatedly delayed Wednesday's election, not least due to violence in the capital Bangui in September, and the new president will face the challenge of disarming militias and convincing their leaders to cede territory.
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But really, that's more potentially dangerous because if he learns how to behave in a more measured, charming way on the surface, he can put a disarming face on harsh policies or duplicitous practices.
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"It's about my love and my fear and about me wanting to be better, but doubting myself a little bit," said Van Etten, who has an easy, disarming manner that quickly brings people close.
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At Home is a disarming and up-close recollection of how Salinger, then 53, poised himself as an intellectual ally and confidante to an 18-year-old girl who felt excluded from her peers.
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North Korea on Sunday condemned the U.S. administration for stepping up sanctions and pressure on the nuclear-armed country, warning of a return to "exchanges of fire" and that disarming Pyongyang could be blocked forever.
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And in the meantime, it is served to us the living — the audience as well as the performers — in a disarming sequence in which Mr. Hicks, Mr. Nadylam and Mr. Thomson address us as themselves.
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Jumblatt also condemned Iranian "dictates", an apparent response to a statement by the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards this week that disarming of the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was out of the question.
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His mission, therefore, was to lead the doubters and internet-oppressors gently into the new territory, disarming them with his cowboy hat and beard and with language which a poet or a cowhand could understand.
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The play makes minimal effort to probe the man's inner life, or question how affected these habits are (the hair-ruffling, it has been reported, is one of his ways of cultivating a disarming charm).
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With his carefully ruffled blond hair and often dishevelled appearance, Johnson's disarming wit and charm have proved popular with the public and helped him to shrug off crises that might have ended others' political careers.
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In this way, Aquarians are also prone to gaffes because, consequences be damned, they will say emotionally insensitive of disarming things that align with whatever forward-thinking philosophy they're trying to shove down everyone's throat.
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With his carefully ruffled blond hair and often disheveled appearance, Johnson's disarming wit and charm have proved popular with the public and helped him to shrug off crises that might have ended others' political careers.
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The army says it is nearing victory, but hostilities will have to be followed by a lengthy cleanup operation – unearthing and disarming unexploded ordnance, and scouring for possible booby traps – before residents can go home.
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The play begins with a disarming, informative ease, with monologues from academics, artists and everyday citizens on the rules, rituals and fashions — particularly those involving hair styles — by which these different tribes of people live.
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All 12 American players scored at least one point, but Reed was the trend setter and, just as important, the tone setter: clamoring for the toughest assignments and disarming the Europeans at their most dangerous.
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And in Washington State, a ballot measure, modeled after a California law, would allow law enforcement officers, family and household members to seek emergency court orders disarming people at risk of harming themselves or others.
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The reason why they're so tricky to navigate is because, at times, narcissists can be really helpful, and seem like they actually do care about you, says Wendy Behary, LCSW, author of Disarming The Narcissist.
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That would be her album "Joanne," which, she tells the writer Darryl Pinckney in a disarming scene here, was inspired by an aunt who died before this artist was born as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.
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The previous film directed by and starring James Franco, "The Disaster Artist" last year, was sufficiently disarming to garner awards buzz; Mr. Franco won the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy.
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First, having 22019 deployed ICBMs across five western states, spread out over tens of thousands square miles, means any adversary will always find it impossible to destroy them all in an attempted disarming first strike.
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By disarming the viewer with unassuming representations of lighthouses or fish, flowers or hillsides, the paintings lure the eye ever closer, as intermingled colors and fine gradations of light both constitute and complicate those objects.
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"I would be happy to disarm the moment I see the other side disarming I'll be happy to show goodwill the moment I see an ounce of goodwill coming from the other side," D'Souza said.
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So long as Republicans view the Senate as legitimate, it's hard to imagine Democrats unilaterally disarming and, say, having a Democrat-controlled Senate approve legislation from a Republican-controlled House as a matter of course.
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With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized.
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Whether it's turning down your Kendrick Lamar when the white woman gets on the elevator or flashing those disarming smiles at white women you pass at night on the sidewalk, black men learn to present safeness.
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As for the impact: the show is much more complex than you might expect, and wades into issues like mental health, the environment, poverty, nationalism, and class in ways that are thoroughly profound and completely disarming.
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Israel viewed the Palestinian accord warily, saying it must abide by previous international agreements and terms set out by the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators - including the recognition of Israel and the disarming of Hamas.
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And while American Jews remember her with pride and fondness (she spent her girlhood in Milwaukee and spoke a disarming Midwestern English of pinched nasal vowels), Meir has remained an object of some scorn in Israel.
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She was bulletproof from the moment she decried "the fictional narrative" that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US election and showed her authority in a way that was somehow steely and disarming at the same time.
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The effect is disarming — but as you stand in the middle of the installation and look from screen to screen, it's hard to not be swayed by the melodies, and feel an urge to waltz yourself.
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The book also chronicles "his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band" with "disarming candor," according to a statement.
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I would guess that Dayne is trying to prove to Ned that he could easily kill him, for example, by disarming him and then sparing his life (which is harder than killing him and takes more time).
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Attallah said his police forces were ready to impose order in Gaza, likening the situation there to the West Bank a decade ago, where the Palestinian Authority set about disarming and dismantling Hamas and other armed factions.
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It's a fantasy adventure, full of action and danger, and as Falk's character says, "fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…" It's also wryly funny enough to be disarming for adult viewers. Why?
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Cameo's Kevin Kendrick's psychedelic robo-funk ode to disarming power of the human silhouette was included on a strange vinyl-only compilation of Atlanta music that McDonald's (yes, the fast food juggernaut) put together in the 80s.
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Ring also doesn't offer a key fob for arming / disarming the system, which is one of the easiest ways to use these types of alarms, especially if you're already out the door and forgot to set it.
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Both China and Russia fear that new American long-range non-nuclear strike capabilities could be used to deliver a disarming attack on a substantial part of their strategic forces or decapitate their nuclear command and control.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Sunday condemned the U.S. administration for stepping up sanctions and pressure on the nuclear-armed country, warning of a return to "exchanges of fire" and that disarming Pyongyang could be blocked forever.
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It's a disarming, earnest, and entertaining read that reimagines and reintroduces Wonder Woman's origin story in a way that appeals to both established fans of the character and readers who are discovering her for the first time.
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"This is the most spontaneous and uninhibited award show on television, and Jimmy's playful, disarming comedic brilliance makes him the ideal host to enhance and elevate the sense of fun and irreverence," Greenblatt said in a statement.
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The show's disarming sweetness and its bracing challenge come down to the same thing: a Whitmanesque idea of what Americanness means not only involving Indians but as a possible solvent of antagonisms past, present, and fated. ♦
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North and South Korea agreed last year to try to reduce tensions along their border by reducing the number of landmines and guard posts, disarming their guards at a truce village, and imposing a no-fly zone.
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The disarming of soldiers in Mexico is very rare, and the incident is an example of how embedded and supported organized crime is in some rural communities, as well as the lack of a rule of law.
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However, the women in the woods have a small arsenal at their disposal, suggesting that Negan took a completely different approach when he first happened upon them than he did when slowly and systematically disarming the Alexandrians.
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In the next month, the command and representatives from both Koreas will discuss erasing the demarcation line at Panmunjom, disarming their military guards there and moving their sentry posts to the perimeters of the zone, officials said.
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He had a playful, rough-edged and disarming way of talking, said Cresencio S. Arcos Jr., an American diplomat who worked closely with him in the early 25s and was ambassador to Honduras from 232 to 1993.
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" Ken Shipley, an owner of the reissue label the Numero Group, which is releasing a boxed set of early Hüsker Dü material in November, remembered Mr. Hart in a statement as "disarming and masterminding all at once.
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The measures also included jointly searching for Korean War dead — including American and French troops — within the DMZ and disarming Panmunjom to turn it into a "peace zone" where tourists from both sides could move around freely.
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"How to Write an Autobiographical Novel" is a disarming title for an essay collection by Alexander Chee, given that he's fresh from the success of a novel that on the face of it was anything but autobiographical.
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" A Florida Supreme Court Justice later explained: "the Act was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers" and "was never intended to apply to the white population and in practice has never been so applied.
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With a soft voice and an aw-shucks grin, Utecht, the son of a Methodist minister, was so disarming and eager to please that it was difficult to imagine that he played a violent game like football.
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Morgan's wry, foul-mouthed Negan also brings disarming humor to the series, in the finale teasing other characters about the soap-opera-like "love quadrangle," as he put it, surrounding Rosita (Christian Serratos) and Gabriel (Seth Gilliam).
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Last year, the site ventured into theatrical distribution, releasing Rachel Lang's "Baden Baden," a disarming French and Belgian comedy of aimless young adulthood, in Britain and the United States after acquiring it at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Sometimes disarming lines will float to the surface: "Daddy was a pastor / Mommy was a pastor / Son, son was a pagan," he sings on "Paigon," one of the only moments on the record that reveals biographical details.
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Naval Base Kitsap in Washington is home to the Navy's West Coast ballistic missile submarines, and there's a small detachment of technicians there who receive special training on disarming the nuclear missiles and warheads those submarines carry.
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Cicero ran to his ice cream truck and returned with the bat, according to a cops, at which point he proceeded to wail on his unnamed opponent, raining down blow after blow until a witness intervened, disarming him.
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One of the least pleasant characters is Laurent Dopalet (a disarming Jochen Noch), a vain and paranoid film producer who will stop at nothing to recover some incriminating video cassettes rumored to be among Vernon's few remaining possessions.
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It is not a perfect comparison, he acknowledges, but if there is a model for how to peacefully rid a hostile dictatorial state of its nuclear program, he points to the disarming of Libya some 15 years ago.
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Like the original film and the Ant-Man scenes in Civil War, Ant-Man and the Wasp depends heavily on Paul Rudd's boyish, disarming performance as Scott, who is, after all, not the most unassailable or upright hero.
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Chosen by the Indianapolis Colts with the first overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft, he projects a folksy charm with a disarming southern drawl that helps mask an off-the-charts football IQ and a fiery competitiveness.
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It was all rather disarming if you were in the room, and though Tomic has done a lot of ill-advised things in his young career (many of them involving motorized vehicles), he also has an endearing side.
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"I have spoken to my Russian colleague about it and told him we're banking on Russia correcting its violations of the treaty and disarming its cruise missiles so that the INF treaty still has a chance," Maas said.
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She also was not shy about the possibility of a female president, disarming a Wellesley College audience at a 1990 appearance protested by some on campus who questioned her credentials to address female graduates aiming for the workplace.
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Here are two disarming alto saxophonists working in different lanes of modern jazz: Tim Berne, a runic experimentalist with a slippery tone, and Caroline Davis, whose own original music takes the form of carefully threaded, fluent post-bop.
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That quandary — and the many other difficulties of disarming a high-rise sniper — have informed how the New York Police Department is preparing for hundreds of thousands of people to gather in Times Square on New Year's Eve.
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A floppy-haired, dimple-chinned political operative with a disarming Southern drawl, Mr. Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, resembles an ambitious "House of Cards" character who wandered onto the set of the Trump reality show.
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The opposing sides were due to form a unity government on May 12 but the president said it could be delayed by up to a year because there were no funds for disarming and integrating the warring factions.
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In their disarming, alluring, and often humorous way, Ibghy and Lemmens map out the dire situation, while inspiring viewers to imagine alternative futures based on care and respect for non-human beings, rather than wanton disregard of them.
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A nationwide manhunt was underway on Tuesday night for two armed prison inmates who the authorities say escaped from a prison bus early that morning in Georgia after disarming and fatally shooting two corrections officers on the bus.
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When a state decides that its citizens can be entrusted to carry firearms in public, the police have no authority to disregard that trust by detaining and disarming law-abiding persons without some evidence of criminality or dangerousness.
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While other examples of this method, or some variant of it, have yielded films that come off as condescending or creepily exploitative, Ms. Covi and Mr. Frimmel's "Mister Universo" is a disarming and humane picture, an unexpected delight.
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Still, Mr. Greenblatt's presence in Egypt on Thursday suggested that the United States sees the Fatah-Hamas talks as a chance, however slim, to at least move Hamas in the direction of disarming and embracing the peace process.
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Critic's Pick Taking on the largest ice field in the Rocky Mountains, a dramatic 125-square-mile sprawl along the border between British Columbia and Alberta, the composer and trumpeter Nate Wooley has created music of disarming intimacy.
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It embodies why it's so fun to watch the show's characters interact with each other in predictable ways; to laugh at its sharp, witty jokes; and to marvel at how its animation is so consistently disarming and funny.
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Since there is no evidence that "disarming all non-violent felons" does much good—and the criminal in question showed no "proclivity for violence"—it is a violation of the Second Amendment to strip all felons of their firearms.
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"With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song 'Born to Run' reveals more than we previously realized," reads the release.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards are ready to help rebuild Syria and bring about a lasting "ceasefire" there, chief commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said, adding that disarming Lebanon's Hezbollah is out of the question, state TV reported on Thursday.
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There's one (Making It Rain...bow) where gdd1 immediately deploys a similar disarming tactic through visuals, making players navigate a mountain of odd-sized rainbow platforms as a steady stream of bullet bills make their way across the screen.
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The film is set up to be every bit as agonizing as that would suggest, but with its cathartic score and Lonergan's habit of underplaying his most dramatic moments, what could be an excruciating journey has a disarming grace.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels took another step toward ending more than a half century of conflict on Friday, agreeing on a U.N.-supervised security protocol, timetable and other details for disarming the estimated 9,000 guerillas.
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But when you do, their form as something refined, bold, and sure — something that quietly hums, something that allows you to traverse them until you are struck by a loaded phrase — is what makes them so unexpected and disarming.
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Returning for its second year, this production, designed and directed by Lake Simons, sets Saint-Saëns's disarming music and Ogden Nash's clever verse in the context of Victorian toy theatre, with the help of a deft troupe of puppeteers.
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Beto O'Rourke, the former Texas Senate candidate, briefly described his session with the former president in an interview with Oprah Winfrey this month, recalling that Mr. Obama spoke with disarming candor about the personal strain of running for president.
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He also responded with disarming bluntness to some queries, saying he does not "support the idea that Muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the United States," and that the law "absolutely" does not allow waterboarding.
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All the wide, softly blunt marks in these two paintings are bristle-brushed, disarming and equally unsentimental, looking like over-sized felt-tipped pens marking up a blotter pad, but more importantly they occupy a territory between line and shape.
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When it finally does, though — as BoJack and Sarah sit beneath a field of stars in the Griffith Observatory's Planetarium — it's done in exactly the type of subtle and disarming way that makes BoJack Horseman such an agonisingly brilliant show.
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Here's what you need to know: • As it prepares for a meeting with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, the Trump administration sees a model for peacefully ending a hostile dictatorial state's nuclear program: the disarming of Libya 0003 years ago.
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To the Editor: Re "Person Who Wrested Rifle Says He Was 'Just Trying to Live' " (news article, April 24): "I'm not a hero," insisted a true hero, James Shaw Jr., after facing and disarming a murderous gunman brandishing an assault rifle.
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Some anti-chaebol types carp that Mr Kim now seems to be more chaebol sympathiser than sniper, and that a disarming approach will get firms to play nice only as long as it takes for the government's reformist fervour to cool.
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The singer bobs and weaves through the record's futuristic pop production, telling stories of infatuation and heartache; some songs pull from pop predecessors like Destiny's Child ("Rebound") and the Backstreet Boys ("Disconnected"), while ballads like "Easy" showcase her disarming vocal range.
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The exchange, which was videotaped and later broadcast in both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., became known as the 'kitchen debate,' and it brought Nixon a reputation as a diplomatic master, capable of disarming Khrushchev's bluster without ever backing down.
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And while the playwright-turned-director goes about setting up a major dilemma for Lee -- who has good reasons for not wanting to go home again -- he manages to plumb painful emotional threads while peppering the script with disarming humor.
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"The EIU expects President Trump to build upon this context by offering economic sweeteners which will include some easing of sanctions against the hermit state, in exchange for a credible plan towards disarming the country of its nuclear weapons," she said.
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The most damning of the inquiry's conclusions is the overarching one that, based on Britain's professed goal of disarming Saddam Hussein (it was never explicitly regime change), military action in March 2003 was not, as Mr Blair claimed, a last resort.
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Richard suspects his pal of sleeping with his girlfriend, Sasha (the disarming Emily Tyra); when the confusion is cleared up, Richie offers to make amends by taking them out on his pleasure yacht for a day of fun and frolic.
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As the writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues in her brilliant new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, America's obsession with guns has roots in a long, bloody legacy of racist vigilantism, militarism, and white nationalism.
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - After some delays, Colombia's FARC rebels could begin disarming in the coming weeks and the laying down of weapons under the historic peace deal could be completed by early June, a UN envoy said Wednesday.
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) — After some delays, Colombia's FARC rebels could begin disarming in the coming weeks and the laying down of weapons under the historic peace deal could be completed by early June, a UN envoy said Wednesday.
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He makes an effort to see everyone around him as a person, resisting the temptation to cast them into easy roles like hero or villain, victim or perpetrator, and it's disarming enough to win over even some of his doubters.
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He stayed in the community center only about half an hour, but without seeming rushed, he blended disarming generosity — he gave two budding cellists his instrument to try out in front of the group — with a kind of subtle social work.
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The verse opens with lyrics that are similarly disarming: "I don't like them innocent, I don't want no face fresh / Want them wearing leather, begging, let me be your taste test," she sings, smirking, simultaneously self-aware and self-excoriating.
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Propelled by crystalline similes — sharp, clear, refracting — the work is disarming, tinged with sly humor or heartbreak, sprouting like a human head from a garden, as occurs in the 1977 piece "A Vegetable Emergency" from a book of the same title.
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Poachers 'have followed' elephants to Botswana Chase attributes the changes to two factors: heavy poaching in Angola and Zambia that has left local populations on the verge of extinction, and the disarming of Botswana's anti-poaching unit (APU) in May.
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"It sounded like they were disarming themselves from liability in a way, saying they would have no idea if Amazon was working or not working on something competitive," said Carlos Herrera, CEO of PetNet, a startup backed by Alexa Fund.
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Because you're never quite sure what she'll do -- and how far she'll go -- the show has a genuine sense of menace, mixed with the disarming humor that comes from Villanelle rolling her eyes and throwing tantrums like a pouty teenager.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Ordinary Londoners who showed "breath-taking heroism" in disarming a knife-wielding attacker were praised by politicians and members of the public alike after they intervened to stop an attack which injured several people at London Bridge on Friday.
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Disarming it and then giving people a better, simple toolkit, and I think there are simple things that can work for a lot of people to make them feel like they're not alone and that they're seen and they're understood.
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After disarming the trio, the head motorcycle dude says that everything they have now belongs to a man named Negan — and maybe the motorcycle gang should head back to wherever Daryl and his pals call home to scope that out, too.
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I don't see any either side sort of unilaterally disarming and saying, "No, we have to go back to the days when it was less political," because their energized base views each of these nine seats as so fundamentally important.
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He brings energy and enthusiasm to every character, with a toothy and disarming grin and a predilection for roles that let him try new things, whether it's acting essentially alone in 127 Hours or parodying himself in This Is the End.
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READ: Kim Jong Un isn't disarming — and Trump knows that The U.S. is demanding a full declaration of North Korea's nuclear assets for future inspections, but North Korea says it won't do anything until the U.S. eases crippling economic sanctions against the country.
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To prevail in any international confrontation—whethr it is disarming North Korea, stifling Russian aggression or fixing trade aggression—the president needs to know the enemy, cultivate allies to bring pressure that compliments U.S. actions and implement a strategy that makes retaliation difficult.
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President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo leader Ossufo Momade smiled broadly and embraced after signing the deal, which encompasses a permanent end to hostilities and constitutional changes, as well as the disarming and reintegration of Renamo fighters into the security forces or civilian life.
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He was taken into custody and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on counts of aggravated battery, disarming a police officer, battery on a police officer, resisting an officer with violence, possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to police.
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Asked about Turkey's threats to open its borders and let migrants transit to Europe - which would end a migration deal that has helped stem a major influx of people to Greece by sea - - Hahn said that disarming of words and emotions was needed.
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The movie concerns a stuffy, joyless lawyer, played by the great Peter Sellers (fresh off doing brownface in Blake Edwards' The Party), who falls for a disarming hippie (Leigh Taylor-Young) and has a total shift in mindset after eating Toklas' weed brownies.
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While ending tariffs is a good idea, others point out potentially serious complications: unilaterally disarming U.S. policy would effectively destroy an efficient domestic industry and all the jobs associated with it, while leaving America wholly dependent on foreign suppliers for a food staple.
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In between coughing fits and sips of water, she spoke with disarming confidence and clarity—not because she wasn't fearful, sad, or angry, but because, it seemed, she had lived with the specter of death long enough to make it her teacher.
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But those early episodes also contain moments of disarming emotional sincerity, like Jules and Rue curling up in bed together on the first night they meet and getting caught up in an intimacy so electric, the air around them seems to glow.
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"He is also a leading proponent of that elusive brand of anti-decoration, high-bohemian taste favored by self-confident Englishmen, a look based on well-worn grandeur, disarming charm and unexpected contrasts," Christopher Mason wrote in The New York Times in 290.
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Even scarier is the disarming jocularity with which the veteran actor Antony Sher, stepping away from the Shakespearean repertory for the first time in a while, infuses "One for the Road," a play from 1984 that speaks absolutely to the here and now.
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Last month two teenagers in London were stabbed to death within 90 minutes of each other, and in the same week the police verified a riveting video that showed a passenger disarming a blade-wielding man on a bus in North London.
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"Mayans" somewhat balances that with disarming humor -- such as the amusing sight of macho club members trafficking in frilly party dresses as contraband -- and incorporates an ambitious subplot that deals with border politics, including elements working against corruption in the Mexican government.
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In his unconventional approach to his equally unconventional subject — Acker was an iconoclastic experimental novelist, poet, essayist and feminist, who died of breast cancer in 1997 — Martin's lyrical criticism blends unmistakable (yet unshowy) erudition and intellectual rigor with disarming intimacy and self-revelation.
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A 2013 report from Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission noted that, under Mr. Moi's rule, security forces killed hundreds of people — possibly thousands — in various massacres in the region with the stated goal of disarming the population and combating cattle rustling.
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But they all turned vague when pressed on how they would accomplish their key goals — preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear capability, stopping the revival of the Islamic State and disarming North Korea — without backing up diplomacy with the threat of military force.
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It was a revelation to hear James Agee's text — evoking an entranced young boy during a cozily magical evening with his family on the back porch and wet grass of his Knoxville home — rendered by Ms. O'Hara with disarming directness and clarity.
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The Minsk agreements mapped out steps to be taken by each side, including elections in rebel-held regions, the return to Ukrainian control of a now-porous border with Russia, greater autonomy for the separatist region, and the disarming of militant groups.
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And in a superficial sense, they do—Shawn especially, with the perfectly puffy mini-fro (think Kobe Bryant's early-career cut, but without the Mamba's receded hairline); the wide, disarming smile; and the thick eyebrows that he uses to great comic effect.
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Nearing the final stages of an armistice negotiation, the two sides asked the Council to set up a mission of international experts to oversee a critical part of the proposed agreement: disarming the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a Marxist-inspired insurgency.
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For one, the Nest Guard acts as the central hub, so all the disarming and arming of the security system is done through that device, which contains a motion sensor, connects to your home network via Wi-Fi, and can communicate with Nest's mobile app.
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HD Wireless Digital Microscope with 1000x Zoom See Details Few gifts will make a recipient yell "THIS IS SO FREAKING COOL" with such disarming gusto as the Nix Pro Color Sensor, a compact gadget that matches the hue of any item you place it upon.
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Picture a steady stream of senators, congressmen and other leaders raising a glass and talking policy in the Oval Office with her and her likely chief of staff, John D. Podesta, as her husband pops in with a quick thought or a disarming compliment.
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Like all ships deployed abroad, the minesweepers operate on a cycle: a planned ship maintenance phase, followed by basic training when the crew practices finding and disarming dummy mines, and finally underway periods, which include shows of force and joint exercises with allied navies.
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After 40 years in the public eye, Mr. Trump decided on Thursday night that he was not interested in revealing himself to America with disarming tales of his upbringing, hard-earned lessons from his tumultuous career or the inner struggles masked by his outward pomposity.
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Most police officers in Scotland don't carry firearms, so they have become expert in combining crisis intervention skills (such as learning how to communicate more effectively with a mentally ill person) with tactics and equipment like sprays and shields for disarming people with knives.
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This whole conversation spawned many other smaller conversation between KD haters and KD lovers alike, but Durant was as efficient and devastating on Twitter as he was in the Finals, effortlessly disarming and throwing the haters aside like a former franchise that went nowhere.
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A Democratic victory, Bateman continued, will impose some new constraints on Trump, but probably not enough to render him a spent force unwilling to run again (or unable to win) in 230, let alone disarming his more dangerous tendencies over the next two years.
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Nowadays, I am inspired by Michael Lewis, who gently hides moral tales of biblical proportion inside disarming narratives of ordinary people, and Brian Greene, who has taken the beautiful brushstrokes of physics and made them accessible to the general public, kids and now even theatergoers.
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Two albums — on Simon Cowell's Syco label in partnership with Epic Records — and six tours followed in a span of five years, during which time Ms. Cabello was, if not officially the group's lead, a consensus favorite, with the biggest voice and those disarming eyes.
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Though the former rebels have largely held up their end of the bargain — disarming and forming a political party — some critics say that the government has fallen short in providing assistance to them, or even providing water and power to areas where they disarmed.
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It's a tender image, and a tribute to what may have been Ms. Sherman's distinctive gift: her ability to create a disarming ambience, one that could bring out, in even the most regal subjects, a warmth and softness they may not have known was there.
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Occupying Iraq and delivering the country in a silver plate to Iran, parallel to disarming the leading organized opposition entity, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), were all gifts provided by the West and U.S. to the leading state sponsor of terrorism.
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Don't get me wrong, Rich had a great eye, and a very sensitive, intuitive understanding of art, but there was a hands-on Midwestern unpretentiousness in his attitude (he grew up in Ohio), and an ability to speak a common language that was disarming.
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Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of training with some asshole who won't wash his gi because it psychs out and/or causes great gastrointestinal distress to his opponents/rolling partners can attest to just how disarming body odor can be when it's weaponized against you.
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Let&aposs put together a process to verify and our ability to oversee your disarming and dismantling that on some kind of a schedule that makes sense, not something that&aposs going to take many years but something that&aposs reasonable and in a couple of years.
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Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service—to be, in his words, "a thousand points of light" illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world.
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Last month, in a disarming sign of disloyalty from within the White House, a Trump official official leaked 51 days of the president's schedules from November to February showing that he spends hours each day in unstructured "executive time," a concept that is distinct to his administration.
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The Waffle House hero tells TMZ ... he's hoping to get an invite to the White House to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the U.S. Shaw's certainly earned it for courageously disarming the Tennessee Waffle House gunman and saving several lives.
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He also provides techniques to break the hand holding a blade, a disarming method that makes the holder stab himself, as well as a maneuver that seems straight out of Hollywood where one kicks the knife out of the hand of the bumbling, would-be assassin.
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Tuesday's meeting followed a North-South summit last month at which the Koreas agreed to hold talks with the U.S.-led UNC, which oversees affairs in the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, to smooth the way to disarming one of the world's most heavily fortified frontiers.
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With 3,85033 strategic weapons, Russia can make a disarming first strike against not only the United States — hitting every target 2-to-1 — but also Britain, France, Israel, Pakistan, India, China, North Korea and still strike the world's other 189 nations with nine nuclear weapons each.
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Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service — to be, in his words, "a thousand points of light" illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world.
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Moved by the youth, diversity and emotion of the congregation — plus the disarming pop songwriting — the director signed on for what would become "Hillsong — Let Hope Rise," a slick, stirring concert film out Friday that details the sound and mission of the most impactful group in evangelicalism.
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Although I now maintain great situational awareness everywhere I go and have self defense training in disarming, and in fighting off, an attacker, there are times where I am legally left without the tool that could best level the playing field in protecting me—my gun.
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Watching Beyoncé's recent video for ''Formation,'' with its set piece showing a black child in a hooded sweatshirt disarming a rank of riot police with his dance moves, most Americans grasped the outfit as a rhetorical device serving a dreamlike declaration about protest and civil rights.
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There's a flattening effect, too: A multitude of ethnicities and cultures, with their own color-coded nuances, get crammed into the initials P.O.C. Among its many virtues, Mira Jacob's graphic memoir, GOOD TALK (One World, $30), helps us think through this term with grace and disarming wit.
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The North Koreans stayed at a hotel outside Philadelphia and were accompanied by a garrulous, disarming owner of a rib joint in Hackensack, N.J. The restaurateur, Robert Egan, was also president of a trade organization seeking to improve relations between the United States and North Korea.
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"Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service — to be, in his words, 'a thousand points of light' illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world," the statement read.
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"Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service – to be, in his words, 'a thousand points of light' illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world," the statement continued.
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"Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service — to be, in his words, 'a thousand points of light' illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world," the statement said.
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"Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service — to be, in his words, 'a thousand points of light' illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world," Trump's statement reads.
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"Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service—to be, in his words, 'a thousand points of light' illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world," Trump continued.
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He never lost his fondness for orange-crate labels, which were re-surfacing as (not inexpensive) collectibles at flea markets; it occurred to him that juxtaposing their imagery of feel-good boosterism with his own editorial commentary would make for a disarming, yet pointed way to express himself.
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In a 3-0 decision on Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the law advanced California's interest in disarming people who are forbidden from possessing guns and rifles, while imposing only a "minimal" burden on core constitutional rights under the Second Amendment.
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She brought disarming vulnerability to the moments when this feisty Brünnhilde was caught up in emotional confusion, especially the long scene in Act II when Wotan unburdens himself to his favorite child and tells the whole sorry saga of the mistakes he made trying to gain more power.
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Feldstein brings a disarming guilelessness to Johanna, so that even at her hardest, cruelest, and most self-loathing, we never lose sight of the eager young fangirl she used to be — but the storytelling is such that Johanna's ups and downs always seem one step ahead of our comprehension.
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He also has a streak of showmanship, an instinct for virality and a desire to connect with people that could serve him well in public office, but which have so far manifested in a series of increasingly bold and disarming public actions, beginning with his long-distance trek.
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You know President Trump started out by saying his number one foreign policy goal was disarming North Korea, and we hadn&apost heard a President say that before and because of that, we have seen over the course of is 230 and so days, essentially a focus of North Korea.
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As an Indiana middle school was set to resume classes Wednesday -- five days after a male student allegedly shot and wounded a 13-year-old classmate and a teacher hailed for heroically disarming the attacker -- community members gathered to write inspirational chalk messages on sidewalks leading up to the school building.
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Instead, Fleischer's zippy pace and Rheese and Wernick's clever story-structure — which starts in the middle of the action, then fills in key details later, often via amusing little digressions — proves both disarming and ingratiating, if only because it shows how the filmmakers respect the audience's savviness about zombie conventions.
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Putin exhibited a disarming manner in a recent set of interviews with Germany's Bild magazine, saying among other things that he would like to see Russia take part again in meetings of the G-8, the Western-dominated political bloc whose members account for almost half of the global economy.
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The zones were created with the objective of disarming gangs in the most dangerous places in Venezuela; the basic premise is that police aren't allowed to enter these peace zones in the hopes that their absence will encourage criminal gangs to stop enacting violence on innocent civilians who live there.
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McPherson wrote "Marvin's Room" three years before he died, of complications from AIDS , and it's disarming in its conventions, including the "healing" that takes place in the second act, as Bessie starts to let go, or, more accurately, to let Lee see the woman she's becoming as her disease progresses.
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Bearing costs shows Beijing we are serious about disarming Kim Jong Un. Many American presidents, including the current one, have talked about the nuclear threat Kim and predecessors — his father and grandfather — have posed, but none of them has been willing to take actions that would also cost the United States.
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The changes to the agreement with the rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or the FARC, were announced in Havana and addressed a range of topics — such as where rebels would be confined after disarming and how courts might address drug trafficking offenses — that negotiators said had troubled voters.
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To judge from the genial, disarming tone of his memoir, "A Life in Parts" (new at No. 9 on the hardcover nonfiction list), that journeyman experience has given him the perspective to stay humble in the face of fame — or at least to maintain a sense of humor about it.
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To be fair, writer-director Rian Johnson delivers some genuine surprises, and has dotted the movie with its share of pleasurable moments, from disarming humor to the first space battle to callbacks to earlier films -- practically flashing a sign to ensure opening-night audiences will have opportunities to whoop and holler.
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"Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service—to be, in his words, 'a thousand points of light' illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world," Trump said in the statement.
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In songs about yearning and loss, youthful confusion and feeling adrift (the latter two being key to the album's mood), Khalid inhabits the eternal Ache — that simulated intensity of feeling that singers of sad love songs know too well — with sweetly lyrical vulnerability, disarming in how he twinges the heartstrings.
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She wears leather pants and a bustier while he is clad in a disarming, comic book–like ensemble: skater pants with a metal chain, a neon green button-up that's barely buttoned at all, a Graffiti-patterned, multi-colored trench coat, and a Clockwork Orange bowler hat and eye makeup.
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" But Mr. Tommasini was more favorably impressed by a 2008 concert when Mr. Lang played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic in Central Park: "He vanquished the technical challenges, playing with utter command and disarming joy, bringing out inner voices and rhythmic syncopations that caught his ear.
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As a kind of pied piper for the blog crowd, Mr. DeMarco, with his trademark gaptoothed smile and disarming baby blues, has tended to his flock not so much with the dubiously revealing gimmicks of social media, but on-the-ground, grass-roots outreach via nonstop touring and direct human connection.
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Its disarming heroine, 23-year-old Penny Baker, was brought up around sweat lodges and drum circles, the daughter of "animist drug freaks"; when we catch up with her in 2016 she's in possession of a business degree and tending her father, Norm, an aging healer-guru, in a hospice.
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The United States to protect itself and maintain international credibility has little choice but to make a disarming strike, at least against the two North Korean satellites, that might be nuclear-armed for EMP attack, orbiting over the U.S., and against the dozen North Korean road-mobile ICBMs currently deployed.
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And, while Israel gets to front-load annexation and its security needs are understandably addressed, Palestinians don't receive what Israel's Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz calls the "broad autonomy" provided in the plan until the Palestinians have fulfilled all their obligations, including disarming Hamas in Gaza — something that even Israel has avoided.
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"It's just an idea I've always had that if somebody's disarming against me for being gay and if people do believe that you can change your sexuality, then I thought it'd be funny to just go ahead and decide that I don't like women, right in the moment," Notaro said of the scene.
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" He notices that the Soviet physicist and Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov, who spent years in internal exile for speaking out against human rights abuses, smiles a lot, and wonders "whether that was always natural to him, or whether smiling was something he taught himself to do as a way of disarming his interrogators.
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She is part of an academic consortium that has received a large grant from Europe's Innovative Medicines Initiative to help establish a set of measurable biological signs that can be used to ascertain whether new drugs are effective at disarming known pain mechanisms, regardless of whether the person taking them experiences any relief.
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Nest's competing security system packs a few tricks that Ring's doesn't (Nest combined the door/motion sensors into one, for example, and it's got a fancy RFID system for PIN-free disarming), but it also costs $200 more… and that's after a $100 price drop that, presumably not by coincidence, just happened yesterday.
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"What is most concerning about this latest development is that we've raised the prospects of a Nobel peace prize and a disarming of South Korea's defense without actually signing anything away for the North," John Hemmings, Asia Director at the Henry Jackson Society, a British foreign policy think tank, told VICE News.
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"We have to stop this politically correct thing, saying that disarming everyone will make Brazil a better place — it won't," Mr. Bolsonaro said in his first post-election television interview, pointing out that the strict regulations now in place have failed to stem the flow of firearms into the hands of criminals.
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BEIJING — After more than a year of frosty relations bordering on hostile, South Korea's leader, Moon Jae-in, pledged a "new start" on Thursday in his country's dealings with China as he met with President Xi Jinping, a re-engagement that China hopes will lead to stepped-up diplomacy on disarming North Korea.
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On the album, the likes of "You Seemed So Happy" and "Maybe You're The Reason" pitch her un-affected vocal right atop the mix, while "We Talk All The Time" and "Marika Is Sleeping" find her presenting that break-up with disarming honesty – "we don't fuck anymore" goes an unlikely hook in the former.
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I couldn't help but think of Bach's practice of creating counterpoint by turning a melody upside-down or running it backwards (the artist later expressed his love for Bach in a sculptural series from the late 1960s/early '70s called Contrappunto); the disarming purity of the conjoined, heterogeneous elements offers an analogous subliminal kick.
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Mr. Biden's appeal to what some might call the "reasonable Republican dad" vote goes like this: He shuns far-reaching proposals like "Medicare for all"; he has a history of working with Republicans; his warm personal style is disarming; and he represents a return to what some moderates view as a more stable era.
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Despite all of the bits in 100% Fresh that may come off as stereotypical Sandler (despite a large fanbase, he is not universally beloved, as emphasized by the special's title, which refers to the low scores his work has received on Rotten Tomatoes), it's impossible not to admit that 100% Fresh is a disarming piece of work.
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But it's also a dig at how many chances Holly herself has given her son — out of love, but also because he still looks like any clean-cut college student home for the holidays (Hedges' disarming appeal goes a long way), and not like her idea of an addict with an obviously shaky hold on his sobriety.
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"This is the most spontaneous and uninhibited award show on television, and Jimmy's playful, disarming comedic brilliance makes him the ideal host to enhance and elevate the sense of fun and irreverence that's made the Golden Globes one of the premier events of the entire broadcast year," NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said in a statement.
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"This is the most spontaneous and uninhibited award show on television, and Jimmy's playful, disarming comedic brilliance makes him the ideal host to enhance and elevate the sense of fun and irreverence that's made the Golden Globes one of the premier events of the entire broadcast year," wrote NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt in a statement.
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And what many supporters see as O'Rourke's best skill -- engaging with and often disarming those who challenge him from the right -- isn't on display when O'Rourke is under siege from the left, as he was in the first debate during exchanges with former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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" I hesitate to say anything about who sings that notorious anthem to self-reliance or under what circumstances, but I will note that one line stands out, capturing with an impossible blend of excruciating irony and disarming sincerity one of the movie's great themes: "No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Don't you wish that every piece of art criticism could begin with a line as specific and disarming as "Take a young man of modest means and artistic inclinations, sitting in his dining room at that banal, dismal moment when the midday meal has just finished and the table is only partly cleared"?
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Some of the applications we use the Series 3 for include: Paying for a subway ride, withdrawing cash from an ATM, remotely triggering the shutter button on our iPhone, arming and disarming a home's alarm system, choosing a Spotify playlist, getting directions, controlling smart home devices, waking us up each morning by vibrating on our wrist, and much more.
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He is an exemplary husband and father; he treats others with respect; he pursues the greater good over personal gain; his actions are guided by strong ethical and moral convictions; he receives criticism with grace and equanimity; he has a disarming sense of humor; he is resilient; he finds joy in living; he is stubbornly hopeful and optimistic.
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Nest is including a feature it calls Quiet Open, that lets you tap a button on the Detect itself to disarm just a single door, in the event you'd like to leave the house early in the morning for, say, taking a jog or running a quick errand and you don't want to wake the house by disarming the whole system.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE praised an Indiana middle school teacher on Saturday who is credited with disarming a school shooter earlier this week.
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Whether you classify her as an investigative humorist or a funny reporter, Mary Roach is an author with a formula: She tackles a subject that, to many a layperson, is forbiddingly icky (to use the clinical term), conducts loads of research and interviews, and then relates her findings in a series of conversational, disarming dispatches that don't read like typical, stock-serious science writing.
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They beamed energy and care at everyone: at Jean-Louis, who's 76 and straight, with an irreverent and disarming flirtatiousness; and at a Native couple struggling to change their two small children out of wet clothes, by handing them extra mittens and a hundred-dollar bill, and promising to find them space in a room for the night, which Hey straightaway dropped everything to fulfill.
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This time around, Hamas has so far refused to consider disarming its fighters and has insisted that it remains dedicated to liberating Palestine, not embracing Mr. Abbas's project of a two-state solution — despite a new document of principles it released in the spring that accepted the idea of a provisional Palestinian state, without renouncing future claims to the land that is now Israel.
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Ring, maker of one of the original (and still likely the best) connected video doorbell, has launched a comprehensive home security system called Protect, which retails for $210 and includes a base station, keypad (for arming and disarming) a contact sensor for a window or door, a passive infrared sensor for detecting motion and a Z-Wave extender for adding range to smart home devices that use the standard.
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When examining an anxious young patient, he is able to call not only on large swaths of medical knowledge but on a disarming command of pop-cultural information that helps put both children and their parents at ease: he knows the name of Underdog's archenemy (Simon Bar Sinister) and of Barbie's little sister (Skipper); he keeps up with the intricacies of daytime soap operas and baseball box scores.
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They have done so by talking with raw, disarming vulnerability and eloquence to a series of interviewers about the wrenching loss of their mother, their stoic if damaging attempts to ignore their own sorrow, and their realization that people everywhere are struggling with sadness: from the wounded soldiers with whom Harry served in Afghanistan to the injured people whom William airlifted in the ambulance service to the young mothers Catherine meets.
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His candor was disarming; he was prepared to talk about all aspects of his life — "You can ask me anything," he said — which made me wonder if he had given too many interviews, or whether, beneath his air of nightclubs and after-parties, hotel rooms and private planes, he had developed rich inner resources, the kind that have insulated him from the overexposure of being famous virtually all his adult life.
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His face seemed to be swimming before my eyes, his disarming smile, the gap between his front teeth that we sometimes made fun of, the memory of him running toward me at news conferences and insisting I tell him a joke and his texts from Afghanistan in 2016, asking me to record a joke and send it to him via WhatsApp so that he could play it for his friends at a party.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE lauded Bush's "essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country" as the White House lowered its flag to half-staff to honor the 41st president.
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