Word: mindless
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...season’s orgy of collective identity, voters cannot possibly succeed in discerning which of the candidates is a better human being and policymaker. With both the House and the Senate up for grabs, if voters cannot bear to check the box next to the name of a mindless automaton pretending to be a thinking candidate, they should look instead to the emblem of the one, residual difference of this campaign season’s politics...
...first time you meet a robot can be pretty disappointing. Hollywood has taught us what to expect: a trusty sidekick like R2-D2, a gleaming robo-maid like The Jetsons' Rosey or a cyberassassin like the Terminator. The reality is very different: most robots are either mindless factory drones or blue-sky academic projects that cost a fortune, break down a lot and don't do very much. Most of them don't even have death rays...
...Americans have never been averse to mindless entertainment, but has there ever been a better time for a bit of farcical fluff? The economy's shaky, we may be headed off to war in Iraq, and as we near the one-year anniversary of September 11, we are all being forced (either by our own actual experiences or by an omnipresent media campaign) to revisit the pain and horror of that day. We could all use a break. The executives at Fox were lucky enough to have hit on the perfect programming to capitalize on our emotional exhaustion, providing...
...only has the focus shifted from the first "Dark Knight," but the tone as well. Incredibly, Miller has become more cynical. The theme of the book seems to be peoples' need for "heroes," or rather, their mindless need for leaders. There are few heroics in this supposedly "superhero" book. Even Superman, famously incorruptible, undergoes a massive change of character that, at the end, turns him into a fascist. Seeing Miller handle characters this way has the same empty appeal as watching a sandcastle get kicked over. The Batman of the first series personified a man on edge: cruel yet tempered...
...first I was annoyed, but I eventually grew to love the way their loud, mindless, Southern-accented banter added some life to the morning bus trip, and now that they’re gone, the ride from my dorm to the subway stop is a little lonelier...