Word: fecklessness
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...lives the soporific life of an Asian housewife, raising two daughters (after a son dies in infancy) and attending to her undemanding, if uninspiring, husband. Years - and far too many pages - pass uneventfully before Nazneen shakes off her torpor to conduct an affair with a younger man slightly less feckless than her husband. Eventually, she dumps both men and strikes out on her own, but so timidly that her independence seems doomed. Nazneen's life is contrasted with that of her sister Hasina back in Bangladesh, whose story is told through her letters to Nazneen. This hoary device undermines what...
...When James was in college, he served as Stevie's Big Brother, then sought him out after Hoop Dreams' release. What he found, living in a bleak Illinois hamlet, was a human being about as messed up as it is possible to be. In his 20s, Stevie is jobless, feckless and has a rap sheet. He is also fat, slovenly and utterly unable to explain himself to himself or anyone else. Fairly early in the film he is jailed for sexually abusing his young niece, and though he denies it, everyone we see--even the anguished James--eventually comes...
...Asia and beyond, however, the exported and willfully internalized American dream has been punctured by months of failed and feckless diplomacy, by the Bush Administration's disregard for international opinion and now by sandstorms, alleged errant missiles and the fact that war is rarely quick and never clean. Last month in Yogyakarta, Indonesia's intellectual center, numerous students told me that yes, they would like to work in the U.S.?because there were no jobs at home, not because they admired America. Religious and community leaders expressed anger toward the Bush Administration?not, they stressed, at the American people...
...discover her writerly secrets. Or by enrolling in one of the infamous screenwriting seminars given by Robert McKee (Brian Cox). It is certainly not eased by Kaufman's best invention, a completely fictional twin brother named Donald (also played by Cage), who is everything Charlie is not--chipper, feckless, self-confident. For want of something better to do between dates, Donald starts churning out a totally fatuous action screenplay, which, naturally, he sells for a huge sum of money...
...feckless honor code or some other similar nostrum, then what...