Word: devoide
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...ridicule of being traitors. This sense of being at war has carried over to the inner cities, only it has been heightened to the nth degree. Brought about by drugs and gangs, the culture in the inner cities created by racist members of the African-American community is devoid of respect for other people, devoid of any respect for human life and devoid of any sense of community...
...imminent release of 2 million copies of his new novel, The Lost World, the sequel to his 1990 blockbuster Jurassic Park. The remarkable thing is that if not for its length, this particular press release was eminently publishable, without risk of embarrassment. The reason is, it was almost arrogantly devoid of adjectives. It merely listed what Crichton has accomplished in his 52 years. They say it ain't bragging if you did it, and, as it happens, Michael Crichton's resume needs no more elevating than his shoes...
...Space and Strategic Defense Command. Some futurists take it a step further. Countries will have their computers fight simulated wars instead of actual battles to decide who wins. Garner is not willing to go that far. "I have a hard time visualizing that warfare will be a video game devoid of pain...
...equally sodden string of refugees streamed past, the young Serb from the Croatian village of Obrovac explained how she had been tricked by a war profiteer into making the worst deal of her life. "All I had was 200 deutsche marks [$139]," she says in a voice devoid of emotional inflection. "He asked me for 500 deutsche marks to get me to Belgrade, and I told him I would sleep with him for the difference. I did, but he fooled me, so I'm here in the middle of nowhere with no money, my kids...
This is nowhere more evident than in his 1996 budget, a stunning defense of the status quo. It is a document so devoid of change, so wedded to existing programs, so blithely and defiantly bloated-the Congressional Budget Office calculates that by 2000 it will produce a deficit of $276 billion -- that the Senate rejected...