Word: disregard
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latter. If I wanted to be an athlete, I would have attended a college where I could disregard all that is thought-provoking I if so chose...
...What example will Blair's three teenagers take from a father who passes a law encouraging the family bonding that he would rather distance himself from at home? One would hope that we've reached a time in which male sensitivity is as socially acceptable as workaholism and family disregard...
Equally deplorable as Fujimori's ballot-rigging is the president's troubling disregard for the rule of law. Three years ago, Fujimori resorted to suspicious measures when he fired three judges who refused to abrogate a constitutional prohibition against presidents seeking third terms. Fujimori eventually found a constitutional loophole that rendered his bid admissible: His Congress decided that he could run for not one, but two, extra terms since the original amendment that prohibited three terms was written during Fujimori's first term in office. In the area of civil liberties, the government does no better. Trials are swift...
...Dramatists Guild, the only national union of dramatic writers, encourages its members to stipulate a strict adherence to stage directions whenever they sign a contract for a new production. And more than one major playwright in recent memory has disavowed connection to a particular performance because of a disregard for their written directions, Robert Anderson's criticisms of the London run of his famous Tea and Sympathy being among the most notable...
...condemns the overemphasis on dialogue in modern theater as a means of conveying narrative, opting instead for a more visual form of storytelling. But at the same time, he would have the playwright be little more than a writer of spoken lines, as would any director who chose to disregard a playwright's stage directions...