Search Details

Word: carelessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...paths pay for their education. The audience also welcomed his promises to close down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; to tell the U.N. that “America is back”; and to be “as careful getting out [of Iraq] as we were careless getting in.” Samuel B. Novey ’11, who attended the event, praised Obama and Patrick because they came from a younger generation of politicians. “What’s good about both Barack and Deval is that they’re not baby...

Author: By Marina Magloire, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mass. Governor Endorses Obama | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

Parents are free to incentivize their sons and daughters however they choose, but to give money without stipulation of how it can be used is far from a scholarship for excellence; it’s an invitation for careless spending that sends the message that money is the direct reward of learning. But it’s not, and it shouldn’t be. Better opportunities for the future are the prize, not just cash...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: DISSENTING OPINION: Paying the Way Forward | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...group of rather beleaguered soldiers transformed itself into a professional force. A Defense Services Academy modeled after West Point opened its doors. The Defense Services Institute took over colonial-era business concerns like shipping and banking, padding army coffers. In a nation devastated by decades of war and the careless departure of empire, the military emerged as the only force organized and disciplined enough to take over the running of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma's Faceless Leaders | 10/1/2007 | See Source »

...whom William Shakespeare was unfortunately shackled. As the dominant story goes (and it is just a story for, as with so much of Shakespeare's life, there is little primary source material to back up the biographers' narratives), 26-year-old Anne coaxed 18-year-old William into a careless roll in the hay. Her pregnancy forced their marriage and young Will fled the misery of Stratford-upon-Avon for London, where he promptly became the world's greatest playwright. Citing the omission of Anne's name from his will, academics have happily spun tales that she mothered a bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking Anne Hathaway | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

...know," he said. "I already had a lot of children and a lot of women, and money had to be paid out. A good deal of my filmmaking in earlier days came from lack of money." The movies' greatest "woman's director" was also a great lover and careless discarder of women. Rumor had it that the seven lead actresses in his 1964 comedy All These Women were all former Bergman mistresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ingmar Bergman Mattered | 7/30/2007 | See Source »

Previous | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Next