Word: bloodlessness
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...parliamentary ploy bears the sinister label of Königsmord (murder of a king), but the intent is entirely bloodless. As soon as Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's ruling coalition crumbled two weeks ago, Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl pressed ahead with his plan to become West Germany's first Christian Democratic Chancellor in 13 years. Rebuffing Schmidt's call for elections, Kohl prepared to introduce a rarely used vote of no confidence in the Bundestag to bring down Schmidt's minority government immediately. If his strategy works, Kohl will move into the modern glass-and-steel Chancellery...
...looks were those of a fashion model, and she might have seemed as bloodless as a mannequin if it had not been for a striking coolness of manner, which may have been nothing more than the defensiveness of a young woman so myopic that she could not read the expressions of those around her. She was rich, however, and it showed. Her face was not closed or insolent; it was simply the face of someone who did not need the job and did not need to impress anyone...
...hothouse atmosphere of his social environment he cannot escape this fateful transformation of his character. He feels his claws growing, a furtive and dejected, an impudent and servile look creeps into his eyes. His lips become thin, sharp, Jesuitical, his nose pinched and sharp, his nostrils dilated and bloodless; his knees sag, his arms grow long, and dangle gorilla-like. Those who uphold the Theory of Race and deny the influence of environment on the development of the human being should spend a year in prison and observe themselves daily in a mirror...
...secret that during World War II neither side had an exclusive on betrayal and duplicity. But Findley's purpose is artistic as well as moral, and his characters talk and behave with appalling plausibility. As for Mauberley, the choice could not be more apposite. Ezra Pound's bloodless hero did not merely suffer from the disease of his age; he was the disease of his age, mute until it was too late, sensitive only for No. 1, fatally solipsistic to the end. As catastrophe beckons, the Duchess of Windsor is heard to complain: "We are led into...
Many of the neoliberal proposals, however, have a major drawback: they are too complex and bloodless to be easily translated into catchy campaign themes or stirring slogans. Ask Gary Hart about his plans, and he begins talking about "industrial modernization policy" and "maximum trade potential...