Sentences with phrase «as thoughtless»

For example, if one partner greets the other while s / he is working, the other is «primed» (by a negative perspective) to see it as a thoughtless interruption rather than welcome it as a sweet gesture of love.

It might not have been as thoughtless as critics think, however.

But I'm not suggesting, as thoughtless types often do, that we shouldn't worry because «it might not be that bad.»

For the soldiers faced with death, «survive» was experienced as a thoughtless reflex; for the citizens at home, the keepers of the feeble political order, the command «go on» is heard with much less certainty.

Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).

While describing those behind the argument as thoughtless, Ojudu described it as a ploy by the opposition to cause an unnecessary division.

As a middle - class twentysomething living in a city, I breathe cynicism like it's oxygen — so mocking both candidates for superficiality comes as a thoughtless response to me.

Not exact matches

It seems like, at least once a month, we read about a famous company that sent a thoughtless tweet or posted something politically incorrect on Facebook and suffered a PR backlash as a result.

I am so glad the author did not let that thoughtless, arrogant professor influence her as she truly has the gift of understanding.

Another defender of myth as fact proves himself to be a thoughtless sheep.

He will not do what so often I have heard done by thoughtless ministers: simply repeat what the text says or attempt to elaborate on it as if it stood entirely by itself without context.

One can not say, therefore, that the self - slaughter was despair, which would be a thoughtless hysteron proteron; one must say that the fact that the pagan judged self - slaughter as he did was despair.

I'm sure there is a lot of inadvertent backstabbing by people that was well - intentioned but just thoughtless, but to be honest, the backstabbing I've heard about and witnessed seemed at least as ruthless as a business environment.

Then one day I went home for a visit, and it was gone, wiped away as if by a thoughtless giant hand.

Seize nature and let it seize us up aloft, until our eyes burn and drop out; let our murky flesh fall off in shreds, and let our bones unhinge and scatter, loosened over fields and woods, lightly, thoughtless, from any height at all, from as high as eagles.

Surely many of them are just as insouciantly thoughtless as I used to be.

His dismissive insinuations that I am arguing according to the Scofield Bible and that my argument — weak as it is — belongs in an intellectually deficient Christian Zionist journal exhibit the very kind of thoughtless disdain of which he accuses me.

Chris — or «Chrissy» as Danny Murphy would rather annoyingly refers to him as on Match of the Day — has really turned his fortunes around since a thoughtless second bookable offence would cost us the game at the Etihad, almost a year ago.

People need to have it drummed into them that reckless and thoughtless challenges, such as yesterday's, are not acceptable, because as the speed of the game increases, it is more and more likely that someone is leaving the stadium in an ambulance if you tackle in this manner.

They even closed the curtains on the bus to hide themselves from the cameras... With hindsight, I see them above all as a bunch of thoughtless brats.»

The thing is, instant obedience and thoughtless compliance based on fear of punishment will always be an external and temporary «fix» for behavior issues, as evidenced by the increasingly defiant and disconnected Israelite nation in the Old Testament, while thoughtful consideration and cooperation are internal, a heart - deep and soul - to - soul connection inspired by compassion, respect, and communication.

Therefore, it is our manifest intention through this petition, to call on your good office and the Leadership of Parliament to remove Mr. Kennedy Agyapong as the Ranking Member on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Communications with immediate effect since his thoughtless comments and insults are a disgrace to Parliament in general and the NPP in particular.

Warsi likes to present herself as outspoken, and I am quite prepared to accept that the comment was much more thoughtless opportunism than anything else.

«Thoughtless and unsupportable endorsements such as that for Senator Martins undermines Long Island's environment, economy and quality - of - life,» Long Island Voters Forum President Richard Amper said in a statement.

He has an incredible knack for intervening at the wrong time, at the wrong place and saying the wrong thing to the wrong people, as evidenced by the Booker controversy and the skyrocketing legal bills he is incurring as a result of his various thoughtless acts.

In other words, you are less able to overlook a thoughtless comment made by a frenemy than one made by someone you think of as supportive.

The revolution to re humanize our world and take back our lives from the corporations has begun, and if you have no brave part in this, history will remember you, not as people worth talking about, or writing about, but as a duped, tired, thoughtless people, that were used and abused so much by their own government and the corporations that rule us, that there was no good thing left to effect a change.

They are unaware of how they come across to other people.These people are major liabilities, as they usually have no idea why they do or say what they do and end up being thoughtless and insensitive.

Never mind missing some of the fun nuances that comes with realizing that, holy crap, so many of the characters here are suffering from major daddy issues — Stark, Thor, Gamora, Peter Quill / Star - Lord (Chris Pratt: Passengers, The Magnificent Seven)-- while Thanos is serving as a sort of ultimate stern father to a cosmos that, he believes, has been very naughty and thoughtless, like a child.

The only major character besides the Smiths is Pitt's wimpy boss (Vince Vaughn), and no matter how many thoughtless murders the Smiths commit or how many lies they tell we're supposed to slobber over them as if they were deities.

As played by Cumberbatch, Holmes is a magnificent character and this is the first incarnation to allow him to be such a thoughtless misanthrope (even while showing the cracks in his emotional armor).

The movie wants desperately to function as a romantic tragedy, with passions glancing off the thoughtless pursuit of satisfaction.

As the plot continues, this combination of thoughtless bigotry and more aggressive brutality accelerates, making the film increasingly provocative.

In other words, you rightly reject a thoughtless adherence to tradition, just as you rightly reject (I hope) the thoughtlessness that accompanies authoritarianism.

Meanwhile, in declaring that «Schools should teach about the French Revolution, not have their parents act it out», Rotherham reinforces a conceit found far too often found among Beltway reformers (and, as evidenced from Teach For America President Wendy Kopp's thoughtless piece on releasing teacher performance data, even among some operator - oriented reformers): That families — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — just aren't equipped to make smart decisions when it comes to school operations.

Some approve it and consider as a natural fact caused by technological and social progress, some people disagree it and insist on abortion to be unnatural, thoughtless and forbidden.

It is a very one - sided analysis that, at some points, will have the reader sympathising with Eva, whilst at other times she comes across as a selfish, self - centred, often thoughtless, opinionated snob.

Virtually all of this book happens inside someone's head... The tiny instances that become founding principles in a person's actions; the thoughtless word or action that ruins a relationship - these things are laid bare in the lives of two children as they grow to adulthood... This book is not a fairy tale, so there is no happy ending wrapped up in a bow.

Therefore, as vigorously as we endorse and celebrate the use of legitimate service animals, we just as fervently oppose the actions of thoughtless and self - important owners who falsely demand the privileges associated with the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws enacted to help persons with disabilities.

I did go through a few tissues, with both sad and happy tears, as well as bouts of sympathetic rage at the thoughtless cruelty of the cowards that leave boxes of kittens at the gate in the middle of the night, and the many clueless callers that Lynea deals with in her brutally honest style.

Whilst many felt it was insensitive and tactless for the development company to use the term FAGS at all, some saw Infinity Ward's thoughtless jest as an attempt to appeal to the «hateful underbelly» of the online gaming community which, some argued, was even worse.

I've always known that life involves thousands of daily choices, most tiny, some life changing, and many made in a thoughtless robotic way as we respond to each day's events and the people around us.

Januszczak, a former art critic for the Guardian, reserved particular ire for the current show, Ruin Lust, describing it as «a pointless collection of different pictures of ruins... [a show] so thoughtless and awful, it makes a drop of 10 % appear fortunate».

Thoughtless with Unsolicited Rug for Artist Mark Manders» Self Portrait as a Building, (Ongoing) 2012 polystyrene, plaster bandage, jesmonite, paint, mild steel, wadding, various fabrics and thread 63 x 500 x 240 cm / 24.8 x 196.9 x 94.5 in

So is their thoughtless fixation on energy - efficiency and demand reduction as replacements for energy.

«Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labor; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single - product system.»

«Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system.»

Yet our response to the wrong is also part of the moral equation, as is forgiveness or compassion for the judge whose thoughtless alignment showed a serious lack of judgment.

I am an older white male and no doubt should apologise for my thoughtless success as a lawyer and the surprising revelation that although I am part of a system which produced the Constitution Act giving everyone the right to thought, speech and expression, I am now to be told what to think, say and express!

Foss did not likely write the poem in the context of the law of stare decisis but, rather, as a simple reflection on the result of thoughtless adherence to same ol' same ol'.