Word: thoughtlessness
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...exploited medieval attitudes to ward leprosy which render needless sensationalism. Graham Greene, as a novelist, has a right to choose whatever background he finds suitable to his writings, in this case an African leprosarium. The author's attitude toward the leprosy patient is respectful, in contrast to the thoughtless attitude of your reviewer...
This is a bold, imaginative proposal, which, if properly planned, promises great relief to the core of Harvard Square and to MTA service, at very little cost to either. It deserves careful study and evaluation, not thoughtless jibes and dismissal. Paul G. Feloney...
...achieve. The splendid points of the program, the stab at Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at sometime patriots who in return for a sacrifice to their country now demand a neutralizing and unnecessary sacrifice, these are lost in the superficial hilarity of the thoughtless abandon of youth...
...does, however, feel strongly about Secretary Herter's recent remark that Nkrumah was "very definitely leaning toward the Soviet bloc": "it was a thoughtless thing to say--well, perhaps we'd better say unwarranted, it is possible that he did think about it. But, by lumping a man together with your enemy like this, without even asking him for an explanation, why you almost force him to join with your enemy...
Even then he was a strange mixture of rabid rebel and good companion-the original Angry Young Man, full of both compassion and wit. The war with the Kaiser was none of his concern: his battle was with the thoughtless world of privilege that allowed his father to choke to death of a miner's lung disease and never offered a tuppence in workmen's compensation. In 1929 he burst upon Parliament "like some great disturbance of nature" as the new member from Ebbw Vale...