Word: soullessness
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...Harvard, the soulless pursuit of success and an utter lack of personality are standard operating procedure for vast swathes of the student body. Ambition to be the best in things that ultimately don’t matter—to get the highest paying investment banking job, to get into the best medical or law school, to ace every class—trumps all else...
...Nancy Walls. "In the year and a half since I left, it's gone through the roof and won all kinds of accolades. I guess they needed to get rid of some dead weight." But while other Daily Show correspondents have been able to create amusing iterations of the soulless newscaster, Carell has been able to distill that character down to its most elemental trait--the faked confidence we all use to get by. It may be the perfect comedic take on America in the 21st century...
...dinosaur-shaped cell phones to children. Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is a stayer. At 51, he's the nice guy who successfully runs ad sales for a sports magazine. There's no good reason--other than heedless youth worship--for the clueless Carter to replace steady Dan when the soulless multinational Globecom buys his publication and demotes him to playing "wingman" to Carter...
Finally, a movie that has the balls to say that being true to yourself is more commendable than being a soulless capitalist. It’s a bold stance to say that “money isn’t everything,” so kudos to writer/director Paul Weitz...
...settle the matter, Kerry convened a virtual Cabinet meeting of top advisers one afternoon at the campaign's soulless McPherson Square headquarters in downtown Washington. He went round the big conference table and asked everyone in his inner circle what to do. And each time he got an answer--Do It or Don't--Kerry argued with it. The staff realized what was going on. Kerry was working through it. He argued passionately with both sides, telling the Do It crowd why it was nuts and then reminding the more reluctant side that it might work. It went on that...