Word: wantonness
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...least 2 million Vietnamese had been slaughtered. As McNamara helpfully reminded the Kennedy School crowd, if the U.S. population had suffered an equivalent percentage of losses during that war, 27 million Americans would have been killed. According to the Nuremberg Principles, war crimes include the “wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity...
...OTHER REINTERPRETATIONS OF MARY MAGDALENE. Feminist biblical scholars like Harvard's Karen King use some of these texts to argue that far from being a wanton prostitute, Magdalene was seen by some as a disciple whose standing rivaled that of the Apostle Peter (see TIME...
...Kampf’s portrait, the traditional figure of the Kaiser stands erect with a hint of a sneer, clashing with Lovis Corinth’s adjacent Salomé, which epitomizes the unconventional. Largely a satirical depiction of femmes fatales, the wanton Salomé leans over John the Baptist’s head with her breasts exposed, her fingers probing at the eyes of the dead. Informed more by the burlesque than the Biblical, Corinth uses the grotesque to satirize a common subject in paintings at the time...
...hearing presided over by a judge who was a former member of the Lampoon, prosecutors dropped charges yesterday against Gaurav Yadav ’05, who had been charged with wanton and malicious destruction of property after he allegedly broke a stained-glass window by repeatedly throwing a brick at the Lampoon building early on June...
Back in the primordial rock ooze of the late '70s, Steely Dan wanted the world to think it was more wanton even than its extravagantly wanton rock peers. Judging from their blithely cynical and mordantly libidinous 1970s songbook, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were guys who would wait until the Eagles checked out of the Chateau Marmont so they could rush in and snort what was left on Glenn Frey's coffee table. Then they would go to a bar and talk about hitting on high school girls...