Word: inhumanly
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...have had a "legitimate" aim in "mopping up" (to use that morbid and dehumanizing expression) Palestinian resistance--even though the train of events demonstrated that there was in fact none--and that the Israelis did not intend specifically that the massacres be perpetrated. The use of means with foreseeably inhuman "incidental" effects cannot be justified by reference to some alleged 'legitimate...
...Almost every line demonstrates an affection tempered by careful attention to detail. As Dinesen went into decline, Thurman reports, "she let down her guard, she relaxed her crooked smile, and her eyes-which she still carefully made up with kohl-seemed to stream with light. There was something almost inhuman about her fragility. . . She was, in fact, dying of malnutrition. After the asparagus season was over she lived exclusively on glasses of fruit and vegetable juice, ampules of gelée royale, oysters and dry biscuits...
...police and other authorities did nothing. Civilians watched the beginnings of terror, uncaring. All of these groups had the same attitude: why should we do anything or feel responsible, we are harming no one. Such a parallel in no way equates the inaction of the IDF with the inhuman genocide administered by the Nazis. But it does show that some Israeli officers were guilty of the same indifference that helped destroy an earlier society...
...outside his small (7 ft. 7 in. by 5 ft. 10 in.) cell. He works out with weights, keeping his 155 lbs. (on a 5-ft 9-in. frame) in shape. He complains about his confinement: "Can't take two steps in this cage. It's inhuman. And that dull-ass color blue on the walls in no way brightens my life." He has devised a novel idea about judicial reform: "All this talk about victims' rights and restitution gets me. What about my family? I'm a victim of a crooked criminal system...
Despite his music's careful organization, Reich intends his work to be accessible. Says he: "I am interested in my music's surviving me. Anybody who is a composer and doesn't have any feelings about that would strike me as very odd and very inhuman...