Word: casuality
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...hopeful each time, because for nearly two decades Oprah has brought us nothing but pain and heartache. Oprah is the opiate of the female masses, teaching them to build self-esteem by confronting the past and setting goals instead of feeling good the old-fashioned way: by having casual sex. She encourages women to look inside and "find their passion" without once entertaining the possibility that this passion might be fed with lots of sleeping around. Worse yet, she sets all these ridiculous expectations about reading once a month...
Great Big Sea has a fiercely loyal fan base. With people jumping up and down so much that the floor shook and every person singing every line from every song, it was clear that Great Big Sea does not place its stock in the casual fan, but in the devoted diehard. The number of Newfoundland flags being waved in the crowd reflected the fact that Great Big Sea is possibly the most popular band in eastern Canada. The crowd must have been at leastd three quarters Canadian, with locals in a definite minority...
Here's another example the authors cite: hosting a retirement dinner for the boss at an expensive restaurant, a senior manager was appalled when not one of the young employees bothered to dress up. Although the office dress code is casual, he had assumed employees would know enough to freshen up for the occasion, if only as a sign of respect for their leader...
It’s because there’s a conscious effort to not seem so damn Harvard. So we throw on this thick coat of casual indifference, and start acting like we were back in freshman year of high school wearing a Ben Folds Five T-shirt pretending not to be waiting for the schoolbus. We don’t want to be that guy in the Moral Reasoning section who begins his jabberings with some crap like “I thoroughly doubt people have read this book, but I feel like Richard Rorty, in his seminal work...
...group of people is doing it. The willingness to suffer a punishment as an indication of how strongly you feel is the moral force of this kind of protest. If sit-ins turn into cooperative stunts by officials and students, designed to make breaking the rules as easy and casual as possible, then we would make a mockery of all that civil disobedience stands...