Word: rashness
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...role is that of an oldtime silent-movie villain who relishes his villainy and wants everyone else to relish it. Thus his performance takes the form of a prolonged aside to the audience, missing only the knowing wink. What Kline lacks in gravity, he makes up in charm. His rash, stunning proposal to share the bed of Lady Anne (Madeleine Potter), made over the coffin of her father-in-law, whom Richard has slain after murdering her husband, meets with implausible success partly because Kline makes seduction irresistible...
Mosquitoes can be more than just a nuisance. While there has been no noticeable rise in mosquito-borne diseases so far, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta is worried about the possibility of a rash of encephalitis in the South later this summer. The last major outbreak (2,000 cases) occurred in 1975 when there were similar climatic conditions: a mild winter followed by heavy spring rains...
Late in the afternoon, with the sky the color of diaper rash, you met Barbara Somebody from Tampa. She wasn't Cheryl Tiegs, but she was a woman. You were reminded a little of someone else, but that was in another country. You held her hand. She wore your hat. Then she got too drunk to talk to and you left her at Rick's Place, a saloon where Martinez was about to lose control over Seagram's Seven and Seven...
With a 12% inflation rate and unemployment at a punishing 17%, Spain is by no means without difficulties. But at every turn, González has made it clear that he does not intend to impose rash solutions. For example, he has not considered nationalizing anything more than the country's electric grid system. Nor has he been tempted to push for an expansionary economic policy along the lines of the French Socialists during their first year in power...
...recurring inconvenience which harassed students across campus was an unprecedented rash of false fire alarms, the result of a new city ordinance which was timed badly for Harvard. The mandatory installation of more than 2200 smoke detectors in dormitory hallways at an estimated cost of $1 million started just as the dust from construction was beginning to settle--literally. Officials could only identify a small fraction of the roughly 55 dormitory alarms per month as construction-related, attributable to dust or vibrations...