Word: fecklessly
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...frequently a young woman from rural Ontario who moves to another life, only to find it unlike what she expected. Yet to make the move is essential, as Munro shows us in the title story, about an unhappy young wife who turns out to be unable to leave her feckless, disappointing husband...
Kiedis' narrative of the funky, feckless Peppers' dues-paying years is vivid and inspiring. Good-natured and up for anything, he ground out those early days drifting from couch to couch, ingesting Costco-size quantities of coke and heroin and touring on the cheap. Success arrives on cue, as do groupies, rehab and relapses. He drinks yaks' milk with the Dalai Lama, makes out with Sinéad O'Connor and opens for the Stones...
...allow him to leave Iraq behind, didn't have to work hard to convince most people that a group that exults in televised decapitation is beyond negotiation. The crisis shows why there are two British Prime Ministers gearing up for the general election expected next May. One faces a feckless and disunited opposition and consistently tops opinion surveys, even when his policies are being cluster bombed in the newspapers. The other faces a much harder task. Polls by MORI show that 61% are dissatisfied with him, and only 32% trust him to tell the truth. Old allies have abandoned...
...shifting tactics. Bush won't change his mind when the French want to avoid a war at all costs, but he is willing to change course if there's a smarter way to get where he wants to go. He still thinks international institutions like the U.N. are feckless and weak, but he now understands they have a role to play...
...season, that means most people - there is a consolation: this Hedda is horrible, and Blanchett's performance is terrible. Horrible in the sense that, 114 years after it was written, Henrik Ibsen's play, about the attempts of a general's daughter to transcend her loveless marriage to a feckless history professor, is as misanthropic as ever. And terrible, in that Blanchett's performance inspires awe from the moment she first rises from her sofa to stretch, as smooth and svelte as a leopard...