Word: senselessly
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...that we respond to it, it is us too. Liking a Mel Gibson movie (or a T.S. Eliot poem) does not make you an anti-Semite. But it does require that you ask just what you do and don't identify with in it. Apocalypto shows a rage against senseless war and bloodlust, but it also seems to revel in them, and it raises the question of when purity of belief can shade into intolerance. Borat is the funniest movie of the year, but it's reasonable to ask whether our culture has become so anti-p.c. that...
...watch Chris Matthews’ two-hour pre-game show for each presidential debate as though it were the Super Bowl before booting up the computer to play “Fantasy Congress”; turn on the AM radio and you’re likely hear the same senseless, partisan ranting whether listening to sports-talk or news-talk...
...journalist with the New York-based Indymedia, was shot in the abdomen in a rough neighborhood of Oaxaca City. Will had been filming an armed clash between protesters and pro-government men tearing down street barricades. In a statement, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said, "Mr. Will's senseless death, of course, underscores the critical need for a return to lawfulness and order in Oaxaca." But he also warned both sides in the Oaxaca violence that "an attack on one journalist is an attack on all who believe that freedom of the press lies at the heart...
It’s high time that we put that mentality behind us. While it makes sense to respect the tradition of Harvard’s planning and style and to draw on its icons for inspiration, a photocopy of Sever Hall in Allston would be senseless, styleless, and a poor policy for an Allston masterplan that should be committed to building an intellectual arsenal unmatched anywhere else...
...Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the massacre "a cowardly and senseless act of violence." Montreal Mayor G?rard Tremblay said it was "a tragic incident, but an isolated incident...