Word: thoughtless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bourgeois tailoring trade of his parents, but in mimicking their gab and strut, he made them sympathetic and worthwhile in spite of himself and of them because he saw where they were authentic beneath their fraudulence. He found the poetry in a whore; for all the disgust, indifference and thoughtless obeisance to some purely sexual nerve communicated by the images, there is something totally absorbing in his spasmodic narrative. You just can't tell what it means to see corruption and what it means to see sublimity any more. Carrying this from the level of human interaction to human transaction...
...want Communists coming to power in places like Italy and France, but if they did get government roles, it would not necessarily be a catastrophe. That was more than an irritated Paris could take. Premier Jacques Chirac rose in the National Assembly to register "astonishment" at Schmidt's "thoughtless remarks...
...That John Ehrlichman! That arrogant, thoughtless creature! I never could stand him, and now this...So what if Ehrlichman could pull "rank"--this wasn't the military. Let him come in and try, just...
...anti-heroes are a kid on the run from middle-class respectability (Jeff Bridges) and his faithful half-breed companion (Sam Waterston), who seems, in his inarticulate way, to aspire to the free life enjoyed by his Indian ancestors. They begin the film as prankish, thoughtless one-cow-at-a-time rustlers. They end it in Rancho Deluxe-a prison camp-after they fail to pull off a major cattle heist. Their nemesis is the biggest, most blustering rancher in Montana (Clifton James); his name is Brown. Their undoing is an ancient range detective (Slim Pickens) who is smart enough...
Most real bureaucrats don't have to search for philosopher's stones or even gold. An adequate salary and a dose of power come easily enough, and the passage into a looser morality is smooth and thoughtless. Dobecker, however, agonizes over each new level of depravity, and swears silently and repeatedly to return to his cubbyhole, with its furnace and modest mysticism...