Sentences with phrase «for fecklessness»

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.

ALBANY — Scandal - plagued state Sen. John Sampson may have set a new record for fecklessness — uttering just one word from the Senate floor during the last six - month legislative session...

Some activists, particularly in civil rights, still upbraided him for fecklessness.

Jheon and her husband made numerous bad decisions during the renovation, but were still able to continue borrowing money (including from a wealthy relative) and ultimately rewarded for their fecklessness with a palatial detached house in an up - and - coming neighbourhood.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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.