Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decorum that you can hardly compare them to the rowdier figures elsewhere in 17th century Dutch art, coming on with wineglasses and making gestures of sexual insinuation. Vermeer's are seldom marked by experience, and except for maids and servants, they all belong to the same stratum--a class, needless to say, rather above his. Does this make them insipid? Sometimes, yes, but it can also turn them into vessels of lyric innocence, as in the Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-66, with her liquidly painted turban of virginal blue, who turns her shining gaze to meet yours...
...entire nation's child-welfare systems. Instead of presenting a scholarly discussion of the current child-care crisis, with appropriate reference to relevant statistical information, your article plays to the emotions of your readers by re-creating in graphic detail the horrible tragedy of this poor child's needless death...
Though voters voiced discontent with both parties, Republicans took the bigger drubbing in the polls--for now--as the architects of a needless impasse. Speaker Newt Gingrich did not help the party's image when he blurted out that he was taking a hard line partly because of what he perceived to have been President Clinton's lack of courtesy to him on the Air Force One flight to the funeral of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin...
...riding with passengers in the newly-opened "High Occupancy Vehicle" (that's HOV to you) lane on the Southeast Expressway. One reporter stayed with the "rabbit," the car in the fast lane, while another rode shotgun with the "turtle," the car on the regular highway. Contrary to the fable, needless to say, the rabbit won. Cars carrying three or more passengers can ride in the adjustable lane, which changes direction depending on the flow of commuters...
Taking advantage of the Crimson's understandable emotional letdown, the less-talented Rams stormed back, scoring 24 unanswered points in a stunning upset. Needless to say, Harvard has never been the same team after that discouraging defeat, losing each subsequent game by increasingly larger margins...