Word: graceless
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Perhaps not. One reason for the affection gap is that in a predominantly urban nation, Johnson palpably does not enjoy cities and has little empathy with the majority of Americans living in them. Also, as shown by the graceless handling of Historian Eric Goldman's resignation as a special presidential consultant this month, Johnson has little or no rapport with the intellectual community. The President's strained relations with Big Labor's top brass were all too evident at his pilgrimage to Detroit on Labor Day -though there was no lack of rank-and-file palms admiringly...
...Gauche, immature, graceless, unable to assimilate its squalling minorities, New York is a sad choice for host city to foreign guests. The Feisal fiasco [July 1] should make it clear that this brash, mannerless city is the last place to demonstrate the U.S. at its best...
...that such spontaneous heroes may be motivated only by suppressed anxiety or a desire for violent action. The soldier who flings himself on a grenade is simply reacting to a "subconscious impulse toward self-destruction" or because "identification with the group supersedes his own ego." It seems a singularly graceless way of defining an impulse that still stirs human hearts: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends...
...Sweat. This inconsistent recital is further weakened by its setting; it is a very careless and graceless book. Its narrative course defies sensible plotting: after opening, for example, with Roosevelt's death, it leaps ahead to Hiroshima, then back to Truman's first faltering steps as President. It is inaccurate and contradictory; having stated that "no President ever entered the White House with a better understanding of Government finance," Phillips later acknowledges Truman's "deficiency" in the same subject. His writing style, furthermore, might grieve even the New York Times's copy desk: "There...
...late Irish playwright Brendan Behan (The Hostage) and his younger, less successful playwright brother Dominic (Posterity Be Damned) were once described as the most alarming combination since assault and battery. In this graceless little memoir Dominic sets out to recount some of the escapades that gave them their reputation. Although he sometimes strikes a rollicking note by writing in an Irish dialect as heavy as Kilkenny dew, all Dominic proves is that 1) Brendan, who died in 1964, was especially unattractive and unmanageable when in his cups; and 2) drunks seldom are very funny except to those who are sharing...