Word: disregard
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When a play is going to consider the implications of what little boys and girls do at five in the morning when Papa is asleep, it is generally sophisticated or moral. Debut attempts, and fails, to be the former, and has a careless disregard for the latter. The result is an innocuous bit of piddle, diffuse in conception and dull in execution...
...corned-beef sandwich. On this unhappy ship all is misery; she becomes a debating society, with the crew arguing their orders and the time and manner of their death. From stoker to captain, everyone is infected with what the British call "the Nelson touch," i.e., an inspired disregard for orders. There is heroism, and men die well in these brutal waters, but the admiral cracks up and wanders crazed in his pajamas...
...Pete is a pretty nice guy and I love him, but I just can't put up with missing copies for a month or two, and waiting for him to get around to quietly asking you to put our house back on the mailing list. So please, please disregard my husband's order to cancel...
Meanwhile, another FCC official in Washington said that the Commission would seek court injunctions against some college stations "if they continued to disregard Commission orders...
...distinction is made between the Jews of the world and Israel, and not even between the Israeli government and Israel. Israeli statesmen and their policies are assumed to be inviolate and above criticism. There is a frightening intolerance of opinions differing from those of the majority, a complete disregard of reason, and a yielding to the emotions of a stampeding herd...