Word: carelessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they think, a man who connived in the use of torture, and who marched into Iraq without considering the consequences of his actions. Rather like Tom and Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, two of the least appealing characters in the American canon, Europe thinks that Bush was shruggingly careless about what it was he smashed...
...Cambridge in particular, where much of the high drama consists in interdepartmental squabbles and where an unmet quorum can constitute the positive derailment of progress, international crises can present themselves as geopolitical Gordian knots: impossible to disentangle entirely and inclined only to tighten further after the overzealous jerk of careless hands...
...past, they’ve struggled with inconsistency, because they would be brilliant one moment and careless the other, but they’ve really stabilized in the last month,” Fish admits. “That’s certainly given us a huge edge in the Ivy League...
...Politics and the English Language, George Orwell commented that a lack of carefully chosen diction and imagery marked the fundamental problem with modern writing. By finding a name that more accurately represents its function, Harvard’s English department places itself at the forefront of the battle against careless usage. In addition, as E.B. White noted in The Elements of Style, “Vigorous writing is concise.” Orwell agrees, telling us “If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.” It is unclear what...
...Meanwhile, Power, on a book tour in Europe, made two statements that were as shocking as they were careless. In one interview with The Scotsman newspaper during which she belatedly tried to convince the reporter to keep her remarks off the record, she described Clinton as a "monster" who would do whatever it took to win. More substantively, in an appearance on the BBC, Power seemed to indicate that Obama's commitment to expeditiously withdraw American forces from Iraq was a campaign plan that would not necessarily guide his actions as President, particularly if conditions on the ground in Iraq...