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Tate Modern even has the carved façade of Maison-du-Jouir, Gauguin's last house in the Marquesas with its lewd, screw-you name intended to affront the local clergy.
Gauguin: Maker of Myth Laura Cumming 2010
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He hit so well at Shea Stadium—a career .313 batting average—that he named his son Shea, which I contend is probably the ultimate screw-you act by any athlete to a rival franchise.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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He hit so well at Shea Stadium—a career .313 batting average—that he named his son Shea, which I contend is probably the ultimate screw-you act by any athlete to a rival franchise.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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He's got an undeniably anti-authority, screw-you streak in him.
Charlie Sheen: What he could learn from his character in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' 2011
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Thomas Scott simply waited and waited until Nikki's next hot plot finally came around and saved her screw-you for the screen.
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That Obama pushes national service and voluntarism even as he works to limit tax breaks for charitable giving that drives all sorts of philanthropy is a classic screw-you, my-way-or-the-highway move.
Notable & Quotable 2009
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One important message that needs to get through is this: Marketing and Sales does not equal sneaky snake oil screw-you tactics.
Are You Afraid of Marketing or Do Sales Just Turn You Off? 2009
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He still has his screw-you money and he isn't overwrought (yet) about the economic slowdown.
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Proud of a country in which a powerful, monopolistic media hate machine is allowed to run amok, peddling fraud and distortion, fostering mean-spiritedness, racism, sexism, ignorance, and a win-at-all-costs/"screw-you" mentality?
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You're a diehard Cubs fan, shelling out the equivalent to a year's tuition to the University of Chicago for your season tickets - tack on a year at DePaul for your playoff seats - and you have to sit behind Mr. Slim Fast, jiggling and jostling as his Dodgers rack up some screw-you runs.
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