91.   So Larry thumbed his nose at the evils of Compton for the University of Oregon.

92.   Some eBay artists are using the Internet to thumb their noses at the art establishment.

93.   Still the Dadaist, she continues to thumb her nose at the world, an automatic response after nearly a century.

94.   Surely, he, too, will want to thumb his nose at cancer.

95.   Sunday night, Milosevic appeared to be thumbing his nose once again at the West with an extraordinarily long news broadcast on Serbian state-controlled television.

96.   That said, Greylock Partners last week thumbed its nose at the gloom and announced it was expanding its early-stage investing practice into Europe and Israel.

97.   The early shows it housed, by such radicals as Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and Gustav Klimt, likewise thumbed their noses at academic art.

98.   The lure of being a free agent in an uncapped year is so strong that players are thumbing their noses at considerable amounts of money.

99.   The high-tech-looking behemoth, a multidisciplinary arts center, dwarfed the historic buildings nearby and thumbed its nose at their architectural traditions.

100.   The movie gleefully thumbs its nose at anyone who pretends to be grown-up, from the president on down.