Word: heedless
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...that, metaphorically at least, was what film noir was all about. The term was used to describe a slew of films, the likes of Double Indemnity or The Killers. which were stepchildren of earlier gangster movies but which now had a peculiarly fetid air to them--a heedless, languishing cynicism. Noir heroes always talked like they'd been to hell and back and found it was nothing compared to Southern. California. Noir's creed was that we were all small-time punks scheming our way to the top of a garbage pile. L.A. was the setting...
...different form of expectation: not what they expect for themselves in the way of entitlements, but what they are entitled to expect from one another in the way of social behavior. Those expectations include civility, literacy, manners, tolerance, even cleanliness. People from around the world are horrified by the heedless way that Americans scatter trash and garbage, as if making a mess were a reassurance of one's freedom...
Christopher Randolphe plays an excellent Faustus, and is best in this scene as the enthusiastic and heedless seeker of gratification who signs a blood pact with the devil, turning over his soul in return for 24 years of all-power and all-knowledge. Strutting about the stage in a black medieval scholar's cloak over a tuxedo, Randolphe makes a powerful spector, and the audience can immediately grasp the depth of Faustus' commitment to his pact...
...stoic, all triumphs without joy. Movement is glacial, dialogue wooden, characterizations blurred. One has a feeling that this project-brought to fruition without the financial support of the film industry, by three young woman producers who love the Olsen work-is faithful to the letter of the book, but heedless of the need to give the story a freer, less cautious life in a new medium. What sympathy one feels for the attempt to solve difficult problems of translation is soon submerged in a tedium that could be dangerous. A couple more minutes of this stuff could lead to Altered...
...last injunction to Leonard was to burn all her papers. He ignored it, as did most of her correspondents. The posterity of which she was so heedless can only be grateful, since this was what enabled Nicolson and Co-Editor Joanne Trautmann to assemble such a monumental collection. Even Horace Walpole, however perplexed he might have been by its modernity, would have made a deep 18th century bow to its greatness...