Word: casualize
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...Perhaps it took some extra time for audiences to come to grips with the notion that people in the underground are often morally ambiguous. For example, there's an almost casual anti-Semitism among many of your underground fighters...
...casual, repeated use of the word a__hole--spelled out in full--really necessary? Thousands of old-fashioned parents have a bar of soap waiting with Cullen's name...
...City officials quickly trotted out a list of anti-crime measures such as late-night traffic checkpoints and crime cameras in hot spots. But a skeptical public is increasingly looking at ways to protect themselves. The topic comes up often in casual party chat and on Internet forums; a typical post on nola.com, the New Orleans Times- Picayune Web site, bears the heading "Armed Citizens Rule!" and reads, "would-be predators flee when a legally carried gun is presented instead of a wallet...
...comic strip, Mar. 13) that are not only blatantly unfunny but also offensive and stigmatizing of grave mental health issues. In its depiction of a thesis writer who has hanged himself, presumably due to the stress caused by his impending deadline, the cartoon trivializes suicide and contributes to the casual attitude toward mental illness that is all too widely held in our society. Every time a piece like this is published, in the Crimson or elsewhere, the view that it is acceptable to make light of devastating illnesses is further entrenched in the minds of ignorant readers...
...style pillow book about her 21st century Californian life four years ago, creating a diary of the seasons divided into the 72 five-day segments of an ancient Chinese almanac. She even wrote parts of the book first in Japanese. On its surface, her gardener's journal is a casual, wandering set of two- or three-page mini-essays on mushrooms, ruby-throated hummingbirds and incense-sniffing ceremonies in Berkeley. Deep down, it is proof that attention and precision-savoring the small print of each moment-are no more peculiar to East than to West...