Word: senselessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet side has rigidly resisted verification. There are many reasons: the traditional, and today senseless, spy-mania, the tendency to bluff and the desire to gain the advantage of surprise. The West must insist, with great firmness, on a better system of verification, including on-site inspection...
...Emily's past, where she watches her pre-holocaust infancy and childhood: the insensitive mother, the kindly but officious father. Emily's childhood was one of roles, of commands and prohibitions, far closer to our time than to the world of the novel. The morality of our age seems senseless in contrast to the narrator's present: Emily's mother's "don't touch," her anger at the "dirty little girl" seems ridiculous when juxtaposed against a world where four-year-olds live underground, eating rats, and sometimes people. Yet the older world, with its roles and facades, seems idyllic...
...conference described the raid as "the wrong way to try and resolve the difficult problems in the Middle East." In Wales, where he had stopped off at Cardiff for ceremonies honoring British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan's longtime parliamentary service to the city, Kissinger deplored "a random and senseless act which reminds us once more of the tragic dimensions of this conflict." It underlined, he added, "the importance of making progress toward peace...
...killing is as senseless as the method is cruel. If the birds had been permitted to migrate as they soon would have, a serious study could have been made of the humane and effective means of preventing their regrouping. The Army's impact statement reflected a greater interest in killing them than in problem solving...
...unspecified shapes, even if they are carefully conceived, run the risk of seeming flat and dull, not because they fail to give us something to recognize and latch onto, but because they lack a certain attention to organization. Many of Kline's and Pollock's patterns seem repetitive and senseless because they have no apparent structure, even though the artists might have brooded over their drawings for weeks. And the work of these five artists is most captivating when it reveals a consistent, internal structure. One can't help feeling that art, no matter how expressive, isn't arbitrary...