Word: blameless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there is a tenderness, a loveliness that outlives our cruelty and stupidity. One can see it in an audience lost in a passage of Mahler's, or in a sudden, gaudy display of sunlight on a field. All the fear and self-absorption are wiped away, and in our blameless, dumb-struck faces lies the better story of the race. This too is who we are. This is who you are, whoever...
Unfortunately, because students rarely have the time to pay attention to the solemn readings, the memorials fade into the background, becoming indiscernible rhetoric. It is an offensive spectacle, hardly fulfilling the readings' intentions, when students tramp through Tercentenary Theater without even registering that the stream of names represent blameless victims or that the stories of domestic violence are authentic and worthy of reflection...
...Charlotte Haze's heads. Ethics become obscured amid scenes filled with sweeping vistas of mountains and green hills. Ennio Morricone's contemplative musical score swells with a "Rhapsody in Blue"-like theme, contributing to the movie's seductive power to flood our ears and eyes with only the most blameless of sense experience...
When students graduate, they move on to 14 days of Sprint in-house training, where the advice gets more refined. Instructor Kelly Marcus tells them they can keep a conversation from getting too heated by using the "blameless apology"--to be sorry a customer's calling card was rejected rather than accuse him of not having paid his bills. And Marcus teaches Sprint-specific skills, like advising trainees with a shaky knowledge of geography to try looking for "Guatemala" in the computer's country listing if they can't find it under cities. She cautions against playing tricks on customers...
Predictably, there are murky areas. Setting up the grill near an obstacle course, for example, could be seen as gross negligence. And don't forget, even if you are blameless, you can be sued and incur legal expenses. So before giving your time to a community board--and especially if you are affluent and perceived to have deep pockets--be sure you are insured. Your biggest risk is that an organization run by volunteers busy with their own lives will simply neglect to renew coverage...