Word: carelessly
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...True, I've fallen off the raft, fallen into the raft, been drenched and dunked and dipped so many times I never feel completely dry. But I haven't been wet like this. Maybe the siren-like chattering of the pure waters distracts us - in any case, we're careless on this rapid, too slow and uncoordinated in our approach, and too late to change course when we realize our error. The current of a mighty river doesn't indulge mistakes, which is why I find myself gripping onto the raft as it goes over the rapid sideways and comes...
...error such as the Washington Post’s banner becomes problematic when it is part of a trend of careless mistakes and incorrect reporting. It may be a proofreader’s worst nightmare, but only in the sense that a dropped fly ball in a meaningless game is an outfielder’s worst nightmare. It gave the people at the FleetCenter a reason to laugh, but it’s not all that important...
Brown seemingly spares us nothing, from his difficulty achieving an orgasm to the careless way Allisyn distances herself from his affections. He works in a scratchy, unpolished drawing style that looks like something put down in haste right after the event. The rawness and immediacy may be illusory - even the most crudely crafted comix page takes time to organize and draw - but they make the actions seem more real. Call it comix verite. Similar to the work of such documentary filmmakers as Frederick Wiseman and the Maysles brothers, Brown eschews any sort of narration or insight into what the characters...
...they are not without their particular interest. The very ubiquity of exhortation, the entire absence, even in the admonitions of the more eminent, of proof, renders the American baccalaureat an American manifestation, a double commentary upon American life. In the first place, careless assertion puts the American of today in very much the same light that Dickens saw him. Where in 1842, he was universally boastful, in 1926, having learned self-deprecation, he carries the same spirit into these declamations also. In the second place, the utterances themselves cannot but show what more or less esteemed Americans value for philosophical...
...someone steals it from there, Visa could pay it off,” Ashley said. “It’s still kind of a rash and careless thing to do on Harvard’s part...