Word: soullessness
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...women as victims of male songwriters, or even as victorious over misogynist songwriters. Her take on 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love” turns a slightly cutesy heartbreak ballad into a mechanist over-you diatribe worthy of Kraftwerk in its soulless accompaniment. She deadpans so flawlessly that there really is no doubt about her feelings towards the unfortunate subject of her song—let us hope he can peel himself off the pavement before anyone else comes...
...Post’s poll: a full 77 percent of the American people would support a military response even if innocent civilians from foreign nations might be killed in the process. It appears most Americans have decided that the Israeli approach to terrorism is actually pretty reasonable. When combating soulless, vicious acts of barbarism, we must not let our high standards of morality impede the path to justice, deterrence and closure. If distant governments continue to harbor and indirectly support these terrorists, then we must resort to swift and extreme military actions in order to ensure proper punishment...
...angle taken most easily, of course, involves the down-and-dirty possibilities of the case--the lurid interest in Condit's apartment house, shown frequently on TV and looking like the soulless building where Isabella Rossellini was kept in Blue Velvet; the images of secret lovemaking on dank and silent Washington summer evenings; new old girlfriends turning up on a weekly basis, talking of being told not to talk. One could swim down into this stuff or pretend to sail above it (as this paragraph somewhat does) and swim while sailing...
...that these people's lives (and those of their children) are anything but fodder for tabloid speculation and ridicule. You made fun of the headlines the breakup has produced in other publications, but you had no right to assume superiority when your own reporting was so vapid, meanspirited and soulless. ROBERT E. RYDER Savannah...
...countryside for several silent pages until he can take no more. Slowly he plunges a pair of scissors into his soft head so that the stuffing spills out. The Millionaire touch of exquisite ghastliness comes when this fails to kill, and instead leaves him to ponder life as a "soulless monster." Thankfully, in an oddly uplifting ending, the little girl sews him up and puts him to bed with forgiveness...