Word: fecklessly
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...translates either as "dangerous bull" (the animal, not the conversational variety) or as a particularly accommodating woman. Examples of each species are at large in The Honkers, and they cause no end of mischief. Whether of the two-or four-legged variety, they have a habit of throwing the feckless hero, Lew Lathrop (James Coburn), into a ringtail loop...
...sanest men of letters. Pritchett's elegant prose and range of knowledge might suggest that he is a product of a proud public school and Oxford. But in Volume 1, A Cab at the Door, he wrote of a decidedly lower-middle-class upbringing as the child of feckless and eccentric parents...
...Pacino as Michael, the Ivy-educated son who succeeds the Godfather; James Caan as the lusty Sonny, the oldest son whose hot temper betrays him; Robert Duvall as the adopted son Tom Hagen, the lawyer who be comes the family's consigliere; John Cazale as Fredo, the timid, feckless son who is given a Las Vegas casino to play with. For the role of Luca Brasi, the Godfather's muscleman, Ruddy signed Former Wrestler Lenny Mantana, whom he spotted idling among a crowd of bystanders during the early shooting. Several of these actors had distinguished themselves on Broadway...
...Kremlin party for a visiting U.S. delegation in 1941; Americans-including Henry's daughter-in-law-caught in Poland by Hitler's armies, being returned to freedom despite an SS officer who tries to discover which ones are Jews; a dinner party in New York where a feckless and likable young Communist talks blithely about the state withering away...
...grandson, was born into the Rossetti circle. After World War I he changed his Germanic last name to Ford. His achievements included the authorship of 81 books, as well as the more or less legal possession of four wives. Following his grandfather's quixotic instructions, he was feckless about money and generous beyond his means. His life was in some ways as melancholy as that of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Mizener's celebrated previous subject...