Word: thoughtlessness
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...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...
Danehy's action led the Cambridge Chronicle to publish an unusually strong editorial criticizing city leaders for making "nothing but platitudes and meaningless blanket statements." The paper also called Danehy's order "wholly unconstructive, thoughtless, and inflammatory" and asserted that the city badly needs more minority group representation...
...about Kiely accepting the request. He told everyone at the beginning of the course that he would be glad to discuss the course with anyone, either individually or in groups. He specifically encouraged us to make use of his (and the teaching assistants') office hours. While it was perhaps thoughtless of him to mention two "examples" that were in fact on the exam, I hardly consider that criminal. In the course of leading a review session, it would cover. Besides, the real advantage of pre-exam review lies not in hearing Kiely divulge two possible questions, but rather in talking...
...admit to having squandered energy for much too long a time. If the crisis is shown to have been fabricated by the oil companies, let that serve to flood the companies with public indignation. But their possible guilt must never become an excuse to let us return to our thoughtless, wasteful expenditures of energy...