Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Needless to say, the pathos is, in this production, an awkward intrusion. Contrasting strangely with the thick boffola of the comic scenes, it produces a sense of dislocation, a sort of emotional lacuna. Not that there is anything wrong with emotional lacunae: such an effect was doubtless what the producers of the original film were after. But the dislocation in the present version acts to no purpose and fails to convey the desired jarring effect...
...difficult to be anything but surprised," the tall, thin-haired professor commented at a news conference. "Needless to say, I am extremely pleased, and it still is not easy to believe I have really received this honor...
...refrains of most of our "socalled" gospel hymns are filled with needless repetition. As Dr. Wiant says, they "dupe" and "dope" us and are "sentimental and good for nothing." The type of tune found in many of these hymns is used outside the church for dancing and for popular love songs, and is hardly appropriate for expressing our Christian joy and striving for perfection...
...keep the nation's budget in balance. The issue was forced by the Senate's Democratic liberals, desperately anxious to get out from under the President's firm fiscal thumb. In insisting on an attempt to override, they exposed themselves and their party to a needless and humiliating defeat...
...three is now saved, meaning cured or enabled to survive five years or more. Until recently, it was only one in four (see chart). But this advance could be upped by 50% merely by early detection and prompt treatment. About 75,000 cancer deaths every year are needless sacrifices to ignorance, apathy and fear...