Word: senselessly
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...that many of the guerrillas are in the Soviet camp and it may be too late for a peaceful settlement. Yet continued civil war--and that, clearly, is the logical result of Reagan's policy, for side, short of outright intervention by the United States, can win--means more senseless deaths. A last--ditch attempt at a settlement is imperative if we are to prevent the Vietnam analogy from becoming more than just effective rhetoric. But as the recent dismissals of Undersecretary of State for Central American Thomas O. Endears and U.S. ambassador to El Salvador Dean Hinton show, such...
...kind that every TV news director dreads: a despondent person demanding the attention of a camera, and an audience, for one last desperate act. On scant notice and even scanter knowledge, the TV executive must decide whether the threat is news to be covered, or a cruel, senseless display that the cameras will only encourage. The voice on the telephone said, "If you want to see somebody set himself on fire, be at the square in Jacksonville in ten minutes...
...amusing and pathetic in their pettiness. In one scene, as Mauro types. Marta in the kitchen drums her fingers to the rhythm of the keys. Little by little her motions become agitated, then furious, as she takes a slab of frozen beef and hammers it against the counter in senseless anger...
...letters in this book deepen our understanding of that resolution. We see that MacLeish knew senseless suffering at first hand. He saw the agony of humanity in the World Wars, and the events of his personal life were often painful. His younger brother Kenneth, with whom he was very close, was killed in World War I, and MacLeish lost two sons, one as an infant and the other as a young man to cancer. But everything in these letters bears witness that he was nevertheless a great knower and lover of life, and that he believed this...
...pastor's wife who plays electronic games rather than attend one more workshop like Christian "marriage enhancement." In true short-story tradition, the insights and epiphanies are spring-loaded. A rock group called the B-52s sounds like "a crazed parent abusing a child, thrashing it senseless." A wife realizes that her husband is afraid of women and feels "so sick and heavy with her power over him that she wants...