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They also know what it's like to fall in love with a jerk.)
This one has just become another "sports jerk."
Conley, who'd worked with Gerry since they were in medical school, thought he was a jerk.
At the same time, I wouldn't characterize my own position as reflexively knee jerk against instrumentalization, in that I find every memory, institutional or otherwise, "instrumentalizes" to some degree.
Hughes, though he likes not much of what he has seen lately, at least does not jerk his knees in response to all new cultural production.