Word: wantonness
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...most successful operatic roles, Cherubini's Medea. Setting: Milan's La Scala, not far from the courtroom where Maria's estranged husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, avowedly plans to enliven an upcoming legal separation trial with an angry aria on La Callas' "wanton search of happiness that she should realize she will never regain...
...thing was a priest. "Some Baptists will find a comparison in that," he cracks. A high point of his youth was when his father, a minor politician, wangled the first electricity in his "back-of-the-stock-yards" neighborhood. So impressive was this that when his sister read about "wanton women standing under gaslights, leading men down sinful paths," the future Bishop exclaimed: "How awful-gaslights...
...told that the New English Biblemen wanted to change the accurate and acceptable "den of thieves" to "gangsters hideout" but were afraid the phrase lacked permanency; they settled instead for "robbers' cave." Such a re-reading is undoubtedly a conscious break with the past; it is also wanton destruction...
President Kennedy's statement to the effect that the size of the job done by a civil servant will be more important than the size of his staff, budget and office is a direct threat to all loyal bureaucrats. Arise one and all and prevent this wanton attempt to repeal Parkinson...
...inability to accept death as a part of life-in effect, to accept life. All four of them drive off to the mountains to rope some wild mustangs, which will be sold to a slaughterhouse and ground up for dog meat. Roslyn's horror at this apparently wanton destruction of life and Gay's refusal to see the horror of it collide to provide the picture's climax and conclusion...