Word: disarmed
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...like a Fendi fur with metaphysical yearnings. Chia can run up a good-looking, hyperactive surface-all those squiggles out of Cy Twombly and the flecks of color applied in an ornamental parody of futurist "divisionism" are cute as kittens. And his parodical reach is so broad as to disarm hostility...
...remain a wolf. I am against war, but if my country is being attacked, it is my duty, not my right, to repel the attack. I see the [nuclear] rearming that they are carrying out in the Soviet Union. It would be an act of weakness for NATO to disarm itself while leaving the Soviet Union armed...
Instead, Hawking thinks nuclear was is "by far our most dangerous worry." He endorses the new disarmament movements in Europe and hopes they'll at least succeed in removing nuclear weapons from Britain and the continent "I thin that we should all disarm now and not wait for the other side to do so first. The survival of the human race is much more important than the difference between capitalism and communism...
...Grady Sutton 40 or 50 years ago, and from the self-tortured gays of The Boys in the Band and the monsters of Cruising, among more recent characterizations. Some observers liken the new gay movies to the Sidney Poitier period pieces about blacks: necessary non-evils designed to disarm the middle-class public by stressing a minority group's similarities to it as a (possible) prelude to more eccentric and individualistic portrayals. For the moment, at least, that is the way gays prefer to see these pictures. Says Lucia Valeska, executive director of the National Gay Task Force...
Neither slick nor glib, they all suit a film that may finally disarm everyone with its full-frontal naturalness, its unsmirking bawdiness, its obvious liking for athletes as people, and its refusal (most of the time) to poeticize sport. Personal Best is likable precisely because it is so unembarrassed...