Word: devoid
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...into the Los Alamos losses, a move that garnered considerable ire in the form of a strikingly unsubtle rebuke to the secretary: The Republican-controlled Senate confirmed the nation's first National Nuclear Security Administration. But that wasn't the end of Richardson's nonchalance. In a statement apparently devoid of irony, he reportedly complained that the creation of a new security position might encroach on the energy secretary's jurisdiction over the nuclear labs. Which, of course, may be exactly the point...
That's the uncompromising voice that made Emerge the nation's best black newsmagazine for the past seven years. Ferociously militant. Deeply skeptical of white institutions and black leaders like Louis Farrakhan. Nearly devoid of humor. The kind of magazine that nearly always left you angrier at white people than you were before you read it. The problem? It came on way too strong for many of its intended readers, not to mention white advertisers...
...badly among the urban Catholics he needed in the close race. As historian Horace Samuel Merrill wrote: "The depiction of Blaine as an unrestrained public plunderer and Cleveland as town drunk and debaucher was just a part of the material used to fill the vacuum of a campaign devoid of issues." In the end, Grover Cleveland turned out to be a good president...
...enjoy really filthy campaigning, it is necessary to return to the Founding Fathers. In 1800, John Adams called Alexander Hamilton "an intriguant, the greatest intriguant in the world - a man devoid of every moral principle - a bastard...." If Jefferson should win the election (as of course he did), the Connecticut Courant warned, "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will all be openly taught and practiced..." Of course, the vicious campaign rumor that Jefferson had sired several children with his slave Sally Hemings turns out to be true...
...test. We lose also the possibility of finding something else "out there," something perfectly reasonable yet so beyond our imagination that it does not even figure in our dreams and our invented fantasies. Is the universe that science has revealed, to be looked at with open eyes, really so devoid of wonder...