... audacious in the way it portrays a developmentally challenged adult as
an insensitive jerk without seeming insensitive itself.
Not exact matches
Think me
insensitive, call me a
jerk, but some of my dearest companions have ridden on radial tires and many of my best comrades have spoken to me through the muffled tones of a high - performance exhaust system; they have been there when I needed a therapeutic release, gently cradling me in steel, leather, and even vinyl, as they reluctantly accepted my advances.
Everything in the story triggers a host of associations, and the repetition is grating, the volume palpable, the final sentence whip - cracking back to the title (which is both a magazine title and the knee -
jerk insensitive mode of the characters).
In those instances, I accepted at face value the client's description of his or her partner as being
insensitive, lacking empathy, or being just an out - and - out
jerk.