Word: thoughtlessness
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...preserve an appearance of harmony, quietly shelved the letter. The bishops waited several weeks for an answer. Then three of them paid Skancke a call, armed with a document that forthrightly proclaimed, "The Church can never remain silent where God's word is ignored. . . ." Skancke replied that "thoughtless action now may result in serious consequences for the Church." Promptly the bishops wrote a pastoral letter to be read before every congregation in Norway. "When the government tolerates violence and injustice and brings pressure to bear on the souls of men," said they, "then the Church is the guardian...
...begins to depend on the psychiatrist and accept him as a "supporting presence," he is likely to lose the outward signs of his neurosis-a stiff leg, deafness, forgetfulness, phobia. But if the psychiatrist neglects him or ships him off too soon to another station where he gets some thoughtless rebuff, the neurotic symptom will return. Bad news from home sometimes causes a relapse. "Time is necessary for the patient . . . to test the human environment's sincerity. . . . The Army is not conducive to such testing...
Said the Bishop: "Unquestionably morals in a sexual sense are getting worse and worse. . . . But we have reached a pretty pass when judges recommend that undefended cases should be dealt with by magistrates' courts. The only preventive for divorce is to make it more difficult. Young and thoughtless people would not rush into marriage if they knew it was very difficult to untie the knot and . . . many tiffs would be composed if the partners knew a divorce was hard to get and a disgrace...
Life in the Queen's rural retreats was excruciatingly dull. "It was not," says Biographer Ponsonby, "that the Queen was markedly inconsiderate, but she was thoughtless of all other considerations where her own comfort and convenience were concerned." No one was allowed to leave the castle while the Queen was inside. No one could leave except at times appointed by the Queen. Because she disliked fires, everybody shivered...
...This was not a race riot. There was no conflict between groups of our citizens. What happened was the thoughtless, criminal acts of hoodlums, reckless, irresponsible people. Shame has come to our city, and sorrow...