Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summit began, Gorbachev presented Bush with a cartoon showing the two as boxers, with a figure representing the cold war knocked senseless at their feet and a referee with a globe for a head raising their hands in joint triumph. Most of the session was devoted to the gulf; Bush aides asserted that neither the presence of Soviet military advisers in Iraq nor Moscow's call for a Middle East conference that would discuss not only Kuwait but the Israeli- Palestinian impasse and the civil war in Lebanon as well posed a major impediment to cooperation. En route...
Almost any way you look at it, it is senseless to pay a penny more than necessary for oil. Consider the environment. Why aren't conservatives these days clamoring for the restoration of a free market instead of clamoring to open up fragile strips of America's coastline? What sense is there in wrecking Alaska to get at $30 or $40 oil when it flows out of the Saudi desert for a fraction of that cost...
...this end, there is plenty of high-tech destruction and gratuitous violence. But it is violence of a slightly different sort; darkly comical, Robocop II's well engineered mayhem bears more of a resemblence to the black satire of death orchestrated by the Joker in Batman than to the senseless slaughter in Total Recall or the recent series of Rambo movies...
...wants no part in civil war and wants to go to America, for every child who dreams of joining the I.R.A., there is a ghetto kid who has no dreams and who lives for the present, finding the instant, brief thrill of joyriding worth the risk. It's senseless, except that these kids have become inured to risk, and joyriding is the one violent activity in Belfast where the kid is in control, steering his own danger...
...distinguished translator and literary scholar in his own right, Gamsakhurdia is viewed by many of his countrymen as something of a Georgian Vaclav Havel. Twice imprisoned for his nationalist views, Gamsakhurdia believes full sovereignty can be achieved only through nonviolent opposition to Soviet rule. As he explains, "It is senseless to declare independence when the Soviet army and administration are still here. No Soviet institutions can bring freedom to Georgia. The only way is through civil disobedience...