Even the clumsy stealth of jerking off was a matter for shared joking the unsuppressed moan, the vibrating sheet glimpsed in the dawn light.
The president can moan about the Supreme Court if he likes, but he can't campaign for a law they have ruled to be unconstitutional.
Then there's the steady, maddening aero moan as the G-wagon beats a square hole in the air going down a highway.
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In the UK, many people may moan about the treatment they get from the National Health Service, but at the same time, it is not an exaggeration to say it is a much-loved and strongly defended institution.
So, the next time you start to moan about the weird tech support guys and grumble about your internal support costs and how little seems to get done just understand that this stupid Microsoft bug is just one small part of the black hole that sucks away their time.
So complained Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, in a 1714 moan about the Palatine refugees from the Rhineland.
The people who moan about potholes on Johannesburg's radio phone-in programmes have no sense of perspective.
But if these were effective, why would employees feel the need to moan on Facebook?
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Their rules, moan the banks, have forced them to report enormous losses, and it's just not fair.
Still, when the professors saw one another at the staff club or at church or at a faculty meeting, they were careful to moan about the riffraff from town coming onto their sacred campus to steal.
We spent an afternoon talking through the top-ten boss offenders the archetype bad bosses who drive employees around the world to whine and moan and, sometimes, pack up their desk plant and hit the road and turnaround tactics to help even these problem managers succeed.
People moan about the need for marketing, but more and more authors are asked to do marketing.
But while others moan from the sidelines, let's applaud their sheer optimism in giving it a go.
"People gripe and moan about the penny, but they still want to keep it, " says Richard Doty, senior curator of the Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
In America, where the five cities were chosen with help from exile groups, some moan about preferential treatment: the Kurds, for instance, are strong in Nashville, which has a total Iraqi population smaller than, say, the San Francisco Bay area.
The bitch-and-moan club has millions of members, yet creates nothing but anger and frustration.
Let me reassure you at this point that this isn't some sort of extended traffic bulletin or Clarkson-esque moan - but the context is important.
In the meantime, foreign governments moan about his government's corruption, ineptitude and abuses, but he knows they are itching to spend their aid budgets and they lack the guts to turn their tough words into action.
It's very easy to moan about giving from the comfort of your own laptop, having had the luck to be born in the West.
The taxi driver looked at me, looked at the elephant and let out a low moan of terror.
He would often moan to his friends about the difficulties of balancing his day job and his writing.
We moan about libraries while Ireland debates the existence of entire hospitals.
Right away it sighed and lost the troubled look, but then it gave a moan.
Rather than examining in detail the United States' relations with Europe, he prefers to moan about how Britain joined one sort of Europe only to discover that its partners were hell-bent on creating another.
The foghorns that keep sailors and beach house residents up at night moan at a measly 105 decibels.
We are shown the beach, the slate-tiled saltwater pool and the al fresco cocktail shanty phenomena my fellow travelers quietly moan over and photograph with reverent diligence.
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