Word: fecklessness
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Between that first intimation of mortality and the final acknowledgment of its certainty, Emma grows up to endure marriage with feckless, womanizing Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels) and have more children than they can afford on his itinerant teacher's pay. She manages to ignore the many opportunities life now offers to raise her feminist consciousness to that minimum daily level of awareness required for the modern woman's mental health (having an affair with the nice man down at the bank doesn't really count). This clearly means Terms of Endearment is a cautionary tract...
...claim they have to say that they have not registered on moral grounds. They're just being feckless...
...favorite institution is the Church of England; many of her excellent women live through it, in a round of jumble sales, festivals, parish politics and hopeless crushes on clergymen. If Pym's ecclesiastics tend to be a weak, feckless lot, it is no wonder: they are endlessly cosseted by women. One of her most vibrant characters is Harriet Bede in Some Tame Gazelle, actually an affectionate portrait of the author's sister Hilary. This middle-aged lady is crazy about curates, the younger and more threadbare the better. Any veteran of her bounty-rich food, good sherry, hand...
...Shinefeld, her ex-husband, her friends and her feckless, casually cruel lover are all analysts, occupying a narrow world whose poles are the brownstones bordering Central Park and the beaches of the Hamptons. The doctor is preoccupied by a frequently tedious midlife crisis that seems trifling and ill motivated by comparison with the traumas of her benumbed patient. Dawn was born to a catatonic, who committed suicide when her child was an infant, and a male homosexual, who died in a boating accident a year later. She has been raised by a leathery lesbian aunt and her feminine girlfriend, whom...
...Feckless, flashy Lord Erroll was a leader of the British gentry that had settled in Happy Valley near Nairobi in the 1920s and 1930s seeking the openly hedonistic existence that was denied them at home. Unobserved except by the black servants whom they regarded as subhuman, the nobs did as they pleased. Lord Erroll's specialty was seducing married women. "To hell with husbands," was a favorite saying. "And to cuckold a man carelessly, while slapping him on the back or borrowing a fiver, added to his pleasure," Fox notes. Lord Erroll's first wife, Lady Idina, Countess...