Word: wantonness
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...fact that Churchill placed much of the blame on the British government, touched feelings of guilt in England. "It is British policy to keep Nigeria one and to keep it one by force of arms," he wrote. "Because the British government have never publicly disassociated themselves from these wanton and deliberate bombing raids-as they felt compelled to do in regard to the American bombing raids on North Viet Nam-Britain must bear a very grave responsibility...
...discourage the North Korean commando incursions into the South that have grown increasingly bold since the beginning of 1968. In Pyongyang, North Korea's Foreign Ministry denounced the U.S. for "running wild to provoke a new war in Korea." The exercise, said the Communists, was "the most wanton violation of the Korean Armistice agreement and a reckless playing with fire, threatening peace in Asia and the rest of the world." In the six days before the U.S. parachute drop, four firefights broke out in the demilitarized zone. One American was killed in the worst incident, and two U.S. troops...
...obsessive Eve. As a result, he often gained a depth totally lacking in larger group portraits of the three women. His sensuous 1895 Madonna captures a strangely melancholy bacchante, in the throes of some primeval ecstasy, clearly his "woman of lust." In Ashes (1889), she appears again, a wanton totally untouched by the guilt that overwhelms her partner-yet at the same time electrified by some outside, elemental force...
Given these two successful and fruitful approaches to white blues-playing, one is at a loss to understand where the blues style of Pacific Gas & Electric (another West Coast group at the Festival), with its amorphous bag of drum solos, wanton guitar effects and indifferent singing, fits in. I suspect it doesn't and I fear again that this is a malady common to too many American groups, born of half-assimilated influences from jazz and Cream...
Godard is partly right; wanton flow is the film's main source of entertainment. But the melodramatic sluice-of-life interludes-based on Lionel White's novel Obsession-are what ultimately swamp the film's modest blend of whimsy and melancholy...