Word: feckless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing new, in part because its requirement for lifting sanctions up front seemed to require blind faith. "We need an insurance policy in case Milosevic cannot control the Bosnian Serbs," says a senior Administration official. "Milosevic, for his part, is scared to death of what he considers the feckless American political process. He says, 'What happens some day when [what he calls] the German-Muslim lobby on Capitol Hill says let's reimpose sanctions?' Milosevic is dug in on reimposition, and so are we." Milosevic wants reimposition to be in the hands of the Security Council, where...
...starkness of the choice will have an interesting effect. It leaves little room in the center for a serious third-party candidate. Even as unserious a man as Ross Perot could run a serious campaign in 1992, when the feckless Republicanism of George Bush was put up against the mushy liberalism of Bill Clinton. A large opening was left for a pragmatic outsider who promised to get under the hood and fix things...
...tempt you toward the flood?" But full into the flood Hamlet eagerly plunges-and we in the audience with him. It is one of the play's many paradoxes that the character we rely upon to guide us on so long and stormy a journey is himself so feckless and equivocal. Although "most royal" and a "noble heart," Hamlet unwittingly destroys almost everyone dear to him-even while asking us to regard his eventual death not as the farcical passing of a bumbler but as the tragic extinguishing of a hero...
What is it about running for President that often brings out the worst in politicians? Maybe the person best equipped to answer that question is Bill Clinton, whose feckless to-and-froing has caused so many Republicans to seek his job. But now they're embracing the very same tactics, which may guarantee for them the same disaffection that has caused the President to be so widely derided as an easy mark...
...role." As the professor, Werner Klemperer produces a small fool when we long for a big one-there's a panoramic sweep missing in his windy fatuities. James Fox is competent as Astrov, and at times genuinely moving, but here too we hunger for something larger. Astrov is a feckless visionary obsessed with the future; in Fox's controlled performance we miss the simultaneous brightness and vacancy of eye that belong to the incurable schemer and dreamer...