Word: thoughtlessness
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...rest of the Owens clan, including Lucy's mother, two sisters and younger brother. The plot thickens when Adam begins to give "everything" to both of Lucy's sisters as well. He provides the scholarly Charlotte, the youngest Owens sister, with passionate romance and allows eldest sister Alice the thoughtless affair that she craves. He even manages to help Lucy's brother David coax his stubborn girlfriend Laura into bed. Frances O'Connor's portrayal of Laura is a highpoint of the film. O'Connor (Bedazzled, Mansfield Park) recently won a Golden Globe for her performance in the television miniseries...
...complex relationship between these two men that emerges from the letters raises more questions that it answers. It does not, however, permit a thoughtless dismissal of Van Vechten into the historical periphery. Instead we see a man dedicated to and intensely interested in the promotion of black art and, Bernard argues, devoted to using art as a way of challenging racial barriers. Bernard would thus place Van Vechten within the literary vanguard of Larsen, Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, all of whom defended Van Vechten from his harshest critics. These letters reveal that Van Vechten was the first line...
...Yard pump. If the disapproval of the undergraduate body could be given as wide publicity as the act which aroused it, much of the harm done to the best interests of the University would be remedied. But in actual experience this has rarely been possible. The act of one thoughtless individual invariably creates a prejudice against the whole University of which he is a member, and, in the case of those newspaper readers who are unfamiliar with the real spirit of the University, these prejudices are likely to be strong. It is this fact that makes most serious the offenses...
...loyal patriot, Bond is the paragon of thoughtful manliness, which is not always an oxymoron. He is intelligent but not reflective, independent (the "00" in "007" represents a license to kill) but not reckless, reliable but not predictable. Consider, by contrast, the brutish strength of professional athletes, or the thoughtless braggadocio of action heroes like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the like. Bond is a caricature of manliness, to be sure, but not an altogether unflattering...
...seem to oscillate as a society betweentimes of apathy and self-centered ignorance, andtimes of hyper energized activism, sometimesbordering on thoughtless," Wood says. "Even withKosovo in the wings, we're in the more apatheticmode. I wish students were more motivated,concerned...