Asking how long the ride will take is likely to be met with a shrug and a laugh.
"People expect us to be open, so we're open, " she said with a shrug.
"Insurance people are naturally conservative in the bad sense of the word, " Goodman says with a shrug.
"You have to take a look at it, " the three-term governor said with a shrug of resignation.
The Brit has a pretty zen approach to those who badmouth her writing: "Somebody likes it, " she said with a shrug.
The truth is, when most women report sexual harassment in India's cities, towns and villages, they are typically met with a shrug.
"Even if someone put a gun to my head and said, 'Ian, shut this down, ' I wouldn't be able to, " he says with a shrug.
Notice how stocks have lately absorbed bad news with a shrug?
This week, as if with a shrug of the shoulders, he let his attorney-general abandon the official investigation into the affairs of Mr Suharto without any kind of charge.
Frank Morrero knows a lot of people will react to yesterday's hearing with a shrug and an attitude of who cares about a rich and famous athlete fighting for his image, and it bothers him.
The royal editor of the News of the World and a private investigator employed by the paper had already been jailed for hacking into phones used by members of the Royal Family, yet it would be fair to say that such occurrences had been met, by the wider public, with a shrug.
At last week's Acker wine auction, he sat at a central table at the Tribeca Grill in downtown Manhattan, raising his paddle frequently, casually, just a little flip of the wrist, confident that his bid would be registered, sometimes lowering it with a shrug when he thought the price had gone too high and sometimes dueling on a particularly choice lot until he won.
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Ms. Barrett shouts as one student steps up with a smile and a shrug.
These days, the noble Lord admitted with a slight shrug, their relative political strength in Scotland was rather different.
But here he was telling me, without much emotion, with almost a shrug, that it might not have happened at all.
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American officials reacted to Andreas Papandreou's speech with a sophisticated shrug.
It is no longer possible in any big, respectable country to insist with a sophisticated shrug that doing deals in some parts of the world always means paying kickbacks.
Inter boosted their hopes with a last-gasp 2-1 win over Udinese on Saturday to shrug off a previous defeat to Sampdoria.
Adults can typically shrug off sleep-texting with a laugh or an apology, but there could be greater consequences for adolescents.
"A lot of people beat up on me every day, " he said with a it-doesn't-bother-me shrug.
Since that day, Jonny Wilkinson has returned to the side at fly-half and formed an effective combination with Mike Catt -- he is expected to shrug off a groin problem -- while the likes of Simon Shaw and Andrew Sheridan have been inspirational up front.
Talking to Canadians, they seem to shrug off those arguments, happy with the results of a more prudent and, some argue, less greedy economic philosophy.
But the levers here he gives a broad-shouldered shrug which suggests to me that he feels the levers may be pulled with the correct vigour, but they are just not attached to anything!
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