Word: heedlessness
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...puff of his cigarette, a heavy foot on the gas pedal, an appreciative glance at a lovely lady as his car draws alongside hers. Then the scene cuts to black and...CRASH!, a sickening fusion of metal and flesh. What begins as comedy, and accelerates toward romance, explodes into heedless tragedy, into death or worse: the souring of the American Dream...
...bubbling away over the country's high unemployment rate, corruption and nonexistent social services, and Arroyo was an obvious target for their rage. Not only had she arrested the poor's favorite politician, former film actor Estrada, but many dispossessed Filipinos considered Arroyo a typical member of the Philippines' heedless aristocracy. That's not a view Arroyo accepts: she considers herself a far more humble person than is popularly imagined, and likes reminding people that her father grew up poor and her paternal grandmother took in laundry...
...Greatest Generation? The superlative has the odor of heedless publicity. They were, surely, the Unluckiest Generation, emerging from Depression into total war without a break. They were, equally, the most dutiful generation. They may have lacked any sophisticated understanding of why they fought. But they stood when they were told to, advanced when they were ordered to and died because, at the time, they were the right age for the killing fields. They were basically democracy's profoundly human champions and, yes, victims. As a beneficiary of their exertions, I'd somehow rather remember them in their griping imperfection than...
...stirs steadily beneath the surface of Faithless. Its largest impact is on Marianne's nine-year-old daughter, devastated by the breakup of a seemingly contented marriage, who then, of all horrendous things, is invited to join her father in suicide. It is her innocent victimhood--her betrayal by heedless adults--that emerges most clearly and movingly in the film...
...everything you want in an epic: sweep, scope, wild reversals of fortune and plenty of bold, basic emotions. It offers a stalwart hero and a sneering villain, bloody battles and daring rescues, tender love, heedless cruelty and, above all, scores of attractive human beings who have pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a desperate but noble cause...