Word: well-meant
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...told the court that at the time the skin around Jensen's midsection had been covered with "a rash and boils," which would have made sex a painful enterprise at best. A character witness, Captain Thomas Loomis, who had served aboard the carrier Ticonderoga with Jensen, offered a well-meant if ill-phrased testimonial. Jensen, he said, was "the finest example of moral turpitude on the ship...
...phrase, "the prevalent sense of hopelessness and inevitability." For we know the people who suffer from this syndrome: the frustrated psychiatrists and psychotherapists who so valiantly attempt to "cure" those of us who are young enough and hurt enough by society's prejudice to seek out their well-meant help...
...Paris. That got him into Kings County (Brooklyn) Hospital for two years, and later he was named chief of both thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital. So far, so good-or at least, not bad. But then Columbia's P. & S. took over Harlem, in a well-meant but abortive attempt by the city to raise ghetto-hospital standards. Columbia's white administrators did not bother to consult or even notify Dr. Cordice. They simply announced that two of their brethren were taking over the thoracic and vascular divisions, but Dr. Cordice was told that he could...
...careful with a Murdoch ending: Is she, perhaps, spoofing the conventional novel as well as the curative powers of love? Yes, but her occasional barbs are more like twinges of a habit not yet kicked. This is a well-written and well-meant novel of lovers gone astray but saved by love. If more is meant, Iris Murdoch, a gentle ironist, conceals it too well...
...country life, and the young paternalistic squire who owns it wants only to keep it free of the incursions of progress. If the idyllic life he envisions for his tenants has more than a bearable streak of treacle, it is hard to cavil at the squire's well-meant fatherliness. Births, deaths, maids slipping into the shrubbery with the lads of their choice, the dotty and the shrewd, the pleasures of the bed and the hum of local politics-nothing escapes the chronicler's notice. But after a while the detail be comes soporific, the eye closes...