Sentences with phrase «fecklessness of»

Yeah, except I wasn't talking about the fecklessness of congressional Republicans (who are mostly progressives anyway), I was talking about the pseudo-science of global average temperature.

Such candidacies can give a cathartic option to voters dissatisfied with nominees produced by the two major parties — as Ross Perot's surprising presidential candidacy did in 1992, or the choice that Rep. John B. Anderson of Illinois gave some 5 million 1980 voters unhappy with the fecklessness of Democratic President Jimmy Carter or the polarizing campaign of conservative Republican Ronald Reagan.

These gaps and repetitions occur unwittingly, not through the fecklessness of guideline makers nor the incompetence of teachers, but thanks to the formalistic idea that no particular piece of knowledge will boost reading comprehension more than any other.

But the successor regime of Bush, in an overcorrection, reacted sharply against the perceived fecklessness of federal education policy, was indifferent to what the states had in place, and demanded impossibilities.

And yet, thanks to the small - mindedness of two state senators from Long Island and the fecklessness of the Senate majority leader, we remain so far away.

All of which is deeply moving, even as it throws into sharp relief the fecklessness of Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, and Berlin in addressing Vladimir Putin's mendacity, aggression, and brutality.

Resistance is real, as is the fecklessness of many who are entrusted with political power and who are threatened by any authority other than their own.

The fecklessness of this, especially coming from the overweight and unattractive Connolly, Malcolm took to be characteristic of a civilization in complete collapse, which he supposed his to be, however eagerly he kept on the lookout for signs to the contrary.

Not exact matches

Now Oxycodone has joined shuttered factories and Donald Trump as a symbol of white working - class desperation and fecklessness.

The irresponsibility that characterized the Carter and Clinton administrations» responses to the threat of global Jihadism» a fecklessness deeply influenced by the canonical Vietnam narrative» is one obvious result.

its fecklessness will make it an even softer target for the kind of lethal fanaticism that recently turned Paris into a war zone.

The valor of the Rangers of Pointe du Hoc and the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne and the sailors who risked grounding their destroyers on the Normandy beaches to provide covering fire for the hard - pressed men on Omaha's Dog Red and Fox Green, like the decisiveness of their leaders, stands in sharp and disconcerting contrast to the fecklessness displayed by too many European and American leaders in recent months, during which foreign - policy - by - hashtag seems to have become the norm.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Any other proof that Jonathan, despite his personal fecklessness, was only the logical victim of an irredeemable system of corruption and rot fated to collapse, sooner than later?

Whether he smirks at the (admittedly pathetic) Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, tells Brits they can't understand the «subtlety» of European political arrangements or publicly humiliates the Greek prime minister, he is a victory for small - minded xenophobia and fecklessness who true internationalists should intuitively jettison.

Only one stands out, the grocery store clerk of the title (Menashe Lustig, in a nuanced portrayal of good intentions undermined by fecklessness and misfortune); hatless, coatless, portly, and disheveled, he's a slob.

Saturday Night Fever, for example, is a bleak tale of youthful fecklessness, blue - collar dissatisfaction, unwanted pregnancy and date rape, where the American Dream is exposed in its most narcissistic and narrow - minded form.

We'd seen hints of it in earlier films: the heroes» general fecklessness in Shaun, for example, or their tendency to confuse fictional bombast for real life in Hot Fuzz.

(T) ERROR unfolds with the narrative kick of a great TV show — perhaps Homeland, which Shariff recommends to his mark, in a moment of comical fecklessness — but Cabral and Sutcliffe also make startling moral and ethical choices that shape the story they're telling.

Weingarten is right to call out state policymakers for their fecklessness about properly funding teacher pension plans, part of the cause of the pension mess today.

The biggest disincentive to stay in this profession is not lack of money, but the relentless assault on one's self - esteem by the corrosive stew of union avarice, management fecklessness, and school committee politics.

Spiced by gossip about the artist's fecklessness, which, on an earlier visit to the city, had caused her to be ousted from a series of hotels, starting at the Waldorf and ending in a youth hostel, the show is legendary; Laura Hoptman, a curator of the moma show, told me that art - world types who didn't see it (including me) are tempted to pretend, or may even believe, that they did.

Their fecklessness and lack of credibility will manifest as the continued decline of British industry, the continued rise of unemployment, and the deepening of the mutual cynicism between the public and themselves.

Instead of playing other sectors of the Canadian economy as chips in some high - stakes game of pipeline poker, Harper should affirm Canadian sovereignty — and confirm U.S. fecklessness — by fast - tracking energy projects of all description.

Now that he has explained the failure of environmentalism as the consequence of the public's fecklessness, he can no longer make any claim to be at all interested in the public demanding anything from government.

Diana's dying marriage, then divorce and Fergie's fecklessness fuelled the voracious appetite of the weekly mag readers, week after titillating week, making Australia home to the highest circulating women's magazines in the world.