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I didn’t even know you could get a doctorate in badassitude, I am in the wrong major …
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He lacks Michael Biehn's gravitas and badassitude.
In Which I Catch Up with the Rest of the World--Television wendigomountain 2008
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Timothy Zahn later builds on the badassitude of Star Wars with his Heir to the Empire trilogy in the early nineties, but then the prequel films of the 2000s sadly send the entire franchise down in a fiery death-spiral from which it has little hope of recovery.
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This relentless onslaught of badassitude is guaranteed to get you so pumped up that you will quit your crap job, smash your office desk into splinters with your forehead and start a new career as a professional asskicker.
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But it was definitely worth it; my level of badassitude rose a couple notches that day.
gan_bei: 8/1/2007I'm feeling pretty out of it fro gan_bei 2007
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But it was definitely worth it; my level of badassitude rose a couple notches that day.
August 10th, 2007 gan_bei 2007
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There are lots of signifiers of raunch and edge, words like "freak" and "crazy" and "bad" get a regular airing in her titles and tunes, but it's a tired litany of sexed-up cliches and shopworn ciphers of badassitude.
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BEST COAST Recently a number of acts-most notably Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, and Dum Dum Girls-have been borrowing garage rock's low fidelity and pop nostalgia, but instead of delivering their hooks with the snarling badassitude that garage has relied on since the mid-60s, they go off on dreamy, reverb-laden sonic explorations that show the influence of shoegaze's more lotus eater-y moments.
Chicago Reader Miles Raymer 2010
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BEST COAST Recently a number of acts-most notably Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, and Dum Dum Girls-have been borrowing garage rock's low fidelity and pop nostalgia, but instead of delivering their hooks with the snarling badassitude that garage has relied on since the mid-60s, they go off on dreamy, reverb-laden sonic explorations that show the influence of shoegaze's more lotus eater-y moments.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Recently a number of acts-most notably Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, and Dum Dum Girls-have been borrowing garage rock's low fidelity and pop nostalgia, but instead of delivering their hooks with the snarling badassitude that garage has relied on since the mid-60s, they go off on dreamy, reverb-laden sonic explorations that show the influence of shoegaze's more lotus eater-y moments.
Chicago Reader 2010
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