Word: painless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most prominently featured quotes painted on the bus, attributed to Ice Cube, illustrates my worst fears: "You might as well pull the lever, what 'Chu afraid of?" He makes voting sound like a painless way to fill up a free afternoon...
...wheel. After the car slowed to a halt on a lonely road near the lake, he motioned to Zamora, who clambered into the passenger compartment screaming at Jones. Graham lunged to try to break Jones' neck with a twisting motion. "I realized too late that all those quick, painless snaps seen in the movies," he wrote in a self-typed confession obtained by the Dallas Morning News, "were just your usual Hollywood stunts...
...would certainly be nice if we could restore monogamous marriage without stiff moral sanction. But on this point the history of the world is not encouraging. It is hard to find a society even roughly comparable to ours that has found a painless formula for keeping divorce rare. Japan has a low divorce rate--and divorce is considered so shameful that it actually harms one's career. Victorian England had a divorce rate close to zero long after divorce was legalized--and men who left their families risked being ostracized. In 1950s America, when the divorce rate was still fairly...
...criminals must nonetheless be punished. Increasingly, pragmatic liberalism may have to deem moral sanction warranted in the same sense. Of course, reasonable liberals can disagree about whether our social ills are really that serious. But they shouldn't talk as if the illness is grave but the cure is painless...
...which accompanies the characters' every move. This is a movie that has to indicate a scene's deep emotion by turning off the music, not turning it on. When Renton's going into withdrawal, you know from the muted, beta-wave techno beat that it'll be a typical, painless cold turkey exercise in fantasy: he'll be fine, whatever the psychedelic hallucinations. It's as if the filmmakers had some quota to fill for the movie's soundtrack album...