Sentences with phrase «like doffing»
Velez and his teammates, most of them either too young or too old for other teams» tastes, had been prepared to accept adversity graciously and entertain their fans in ways other than winning, like doffing their caps after homers or dandling infant spectators on their knees.
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His mother (Anne - Marie Duff) was brain - damaged by an accident (she was struck by the door of a moving train), and now she's a mentally ill free spirit who sits around, doffing her clothes, painting and cooking and babbling — not quite there, yet she's like a hippie ahead of her time.
A couple of scenes (Ana doffing her top outside at a resort and some risky public car sex) indicate that the plucky heroine might have a thing for exhibitionism but, rather than explore that avenue, the movie falls back on trysts in the red room and stale drama like (SPOILER!)
Several of us, myself included, left your world to become Indies purely because we were not prepared to doff our metaphoric caps in your presence, or be treated like low paid minions who should know their place within your writer stables any longer.