Word: mindlessness
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...institution for research, education and preservation, is becoming as endangered as some of the animals it houses. Financial support has dropped, and costs keep climbing. Rising too is a clamor from critics who claim that zoos are no better than prisons, designed for the amusement of mindless gawkers. The more militant activists want to shut zoos down altogether...
...with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with a linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it "racist...
...veered towards guys who were older.” On the particular night of a “Jolly-up”—smoky Radcliffe mixers with lax alcohol rules—two graduate students decided to celebrate the completion of their oral exams by doing something mindless: getting jollied-up. One of the doctoral students, who led Whitman’s Gen Ed section, hated dancing with his students. So his friend, Robert Whitman, took her hand—literally.“I remember going upstairs and telling my roommate...
...beliefs people adhere to, instead of blindly following out-of-context phrases from ancient, and therefore dare I say slightly out-of-date books, I would pray for humanity that these people would finally turn their brains on. Certainly no faith in this world requires anybody to be a mindless, raving conqueror in the name of religion - of all things! Cornelia Graham Lage, Germany
...THAT WAY? I THINK THAT'S GENUINELY HOW YOU FEEL. I don't buy into doom scenarios. I've lived through all that, living under the shadow of the A-bomb and the H-bomb, without getting discouraged or hopeless or frantic. It might just be a kind of mindless optimism, sort of more genetic than thought controlled. I do tend to trust this country to come up with the right answers eventually. And I tend to trust the people in government, even though I didn't vote for them. So in that way, I'm not a pessimist...