Word: callow
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...version had been grooved into my brain. I mistrusted the addition of under God first of all on unconscious aesthetic grounds. The new phrase, set off by tendentious commas, was a hiccup in the flow of the drone, the mumbled civic music, the school kids' om. Even as a callow youth, I sensed that someone had intruded an alien and politicized bromide into the pledge. Again, the adjacent word indivisible banged up against a new divisive irrelevance, a phrase that seemed to demand, somewhere below the surface, "What God - if any - do you worship? Is he the God of America...
...chickens—is our consciousness, not the mere fact of our biological existence. A fetus in its first trimester is not a conscious being. It will never know that it might have lived. Its mother, however, is conscious. The characterization of those who have abortions as cold, callow murderers is an unfair rhetorical ploy. The great majority of those who elect to have abortions do so not out of a joy of slaughtering unborn babies, but out of necessity. They inevitably agonize over the decision, both before and for many years afterwards. Yet, for many reasons, they simply cannot...
Scott dismisses it as “callow and coy,” and as the discussion comes to a head, Vi yells out that it really happened. Scott answers that “once you start writing it all becomes fiction.” The whole of Fiction clocks in at around half an hour, and with the short running time, it suffers from a lack of character development, a wooden plot construct and bland cinematography. The students in the class never become more than voiceboxes for criticism of Solondz’s previous work, and the provocative questions...
...peacekeepers are called. The blue helmet closest to the scene, an earnest Frenchman (Georges Siatidis), wants to do something and disobeys orders and moves in. His superior (Simon Callow) prefers to play chess and dally with his mistress at headquarters. Meanwhile, a TV journalist (Katrin Cartlidge) hustles out to the trench and starts broadcasting live reports to the world about the anguish she finds there. Naturally, many of her competitors join...
...title refers to a comment from Henry James that fairly summed up his autocratic style of leadership as he tore through opposition—foreign and domestic—to achieve what he considered the only moral outcomes. Opposition, such as he saw at Harvard, was lazy and callow: “Those who remain on the sidelines he saw as cowards, and consequently as personal enemies...