Word: fecklessly
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...write songs that cut several ways, including into his own heart. Missing Persons is a lovely piece of brooding melancholy that seems, almost nakedly, to be about the dissolution of his relationship with Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. The Kinks are still one of the most fearless, feckless bands in rock, and their guitar work, as ever, sounds like short circuits in an electric chair. Word of Mouth also tackles such subjects as gossip, unemployment, sudden death and the decline of the British Empire. The boys may reach a little wide and wild, but when they finally get hold...
...financier Pierre Crozat (whose collection of old-master drawings was said to have completed young Watteau's aesthetic education) and the Flemish artist Nicolas Vleughels. But their memoirs of Watteau tend to be short and sometimes contradictory; they blur when the traits of his possibly rather feckless, prickly character present themselves. He seems to have been solitary and misanthropic, though with flashes of antic gaiety: "A good friend but a difficult one," the dealer Edme-François Gersaint unhelpfully put it. Naturally one would like to know more; probably we never shall...
...worry about the great Washington shout-out over how the U.S. should stand tall in the world is that we could soon produce a feckless breed of political leaders who would spend their time debating how best to do nothing...
...solemn annual duty of film critics to explain why some feckless movie like Animal House or Caddyshack, Stripes or Porky's is, ahem, not really a very distinguished work. And perhaps express concern for the fate of American thought and culture when such films achieve blinding commercial success. The shame of the nation this year is Police Academy...
...October's bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut, when Hart claims he was calling for an American withdrawal from Lebanon, he actually voted to extend their mission for another six months. By feeding these examples to the press, Mondale aides hope to depict Hart as a feckless McGovernite who has learned the "wrong lesson" from Viet Nam. Aides portray Mondale, by contrast, as a steady hand who knows what it is like to have the nuclear-weapons-code briefcase at the ready. A Mondale ad shows a red phone ringing in the night and asks the voters...