| 单词 | bloodless |
| 例句 | I noticed the imprint her fingers made on her forehead, the delicate chain of bloodless flesh. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In a bloodless coup he had thrust beneath her visor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But the conflict within the American revolutionary generation remained a passionate yet bloodless affair in which the energies released by national independence did not devour its own children. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Her voice was bloodless and her eyes seemed drawn and unlived in as though the capillaries that fed them were filled with the dust from the Catholic centuries that sustained her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her bloodless lips were drawn back, and Jonathan could see her tongue. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z He made a half gesture to the woman who sat beside him, but her thin, bloodless lips merely pursed themselves a trifle. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The door of the room burst open in a shower of red sparks and Harry wheeled around as Professor Lupin came hurtling into the room, his face bloodless, his wand raised and ready. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Congratulations!” he exclaimed bitterly, the thinnest milk- white line enclosing his lips tightly in a bloodless, squeezing ring. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z No matter how hard he tried, he never developed any imperishable allegiances to the washed-out, bloodless Marine bases where he had lived for most of his seventeen years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was considered very anti-climactic in the Capitol, all those quiet, bloodless deaths. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I remembered Soraya handing me the article over breakfast, her face bloodless. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps a little water would restore her. Hannah, fetch some. But she is worn to nothing. How very thin, and how very bloodless!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He had won a great victory that day, all the greater for being bloodless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I’m an empty, bloodless shell for about five seconds. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He had pushed to the front of the crowd, his cold eyes alive, his usually bloodless face flushed, as he grinned at the sight of the hanging, immobile cat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z William and Mary actually gained the throne as a result of a full-scale invasion of Britain, seizing London by force, even if it was largely bloodless and welcomed by many. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She was bloodless, detached, floating in a world where darkness descended too soon and everyone walked around burdened by coats, and flattened by the absence of light. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The queen's face was a mask, so bloodless that it might have been sculpted from snow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her face looked bloodless, as gray as fireplace ash. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Though at other moments, flickering in front of him, he sees the big kid from the entrance exams: his face gone bloodless atop the platform high above the dance hall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The quick, bloodless tears of tape on the trainer’s table. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked around in front of her, saw bloodless lips and eyes shining dully between half-closed lids, and he knew she was dead. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A shocked murmur ran through the crowd as she looked up, straight at Malachite, who was bloodless with building rage. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Immobile, bearded and hand palm-lifted the horseman sat; behind him the wild blacks and the captive architect huddled quietly, carrying in bloodless paradox the shovels and picks and axes of peaceful conquest. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes are slightly open; his lips are gray and bloodless. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Redemption had stood up behind Jam, staring at his uncle, his hands balled into bloodless fists. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Fenton saw this and gave me a smile with bloodless lips. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z That night I dreamed of the king’s pale and bloodless corpse sprinkled with innocent white and pink blossoms. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z How satisfying to have a bloodless war in which each side was equally convinced of its own triumph. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z What a white bloodless ghost of a woman! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He made it sound so banal, so bloodless, so common. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben had watched her at church and her pinched bloodless face and the stiffness of her bearing, as though her joints lacked oil, made him grant her a wide and respectful berth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With the suspicion of warring Mafia families, they exchanged bloodless greetings. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the one who told her in the summer of 1973, when Mariam was fourteen, that King Zahir Shah, who had ruled from Kabul for forty years, had been overthrown in a bloodless coup. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He sat back in the seat, his hands grasping his knees, his knuckles bloodless. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Gripping the standard in bloodless claws, Cluny climbed over the fence to the common land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I witnessed perhaps the ultimate in bloodless curriculum while researching a magazine story several years ago—a robotic teaching method known as Direct Instruction. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He half-closed his eyes and in a moment his face was bloodless once more. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I think I was half prepared, in my dark, demented state, to see God, bearded and gray as geometry, scowling down at me, shaking his bloodless finger. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw him before he died: his body was all swollen, very much like mine, with bloodless skin that looked like white rubber. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes you touched a man like this and it was the last time, and the next time you saw him he was cold and white and bloodless, and the warmth was gone forever. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And, as usual, I couldn’t get my mind off of it, so I quickly drew up a brain-function chart in my bloodless head: I am such a loser. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They were as bloodless as the rest of his face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Anyway it seems to me more accurate about motherhood than the old bloodless milk-and-water Virgins of art history. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His face was stricken and bloodless as if he had been stabbed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When they taught, they were at best bloodless and inoffensive; at their worst, they could ruin a child’s life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was looking over Ben’s transcript, which a short, bloodless woman had brought from Guidance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe during those three years you make friends you’ll love and respect forever, people who seem genuinely called to the bloodless intricacies of the law, but you yourself are not called. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I feared for you, dear blessed Ork—I feared your bloodless rationalism. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Death is all over them—in the mottled patterns of their battered torsos, the eggplant purple on bloodless white; in the sinking, hollowed eye sockets. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But the talks proved too abstract and bloodless, and far too disengaged from the social and political issues of the day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after his return to consciousness, the albino appeared, bloodless, with skin as pale as dying birch. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Citra found herself wanting to grip Rowan’s hand in anticipation and squeeze it until it was bloodless, but she restrained herself. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The sellswords threw taunts at their backs as they pushed through the doors of the Merchant’s House, mocking them as bloodless cravens and frightened girls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Shawn’s “Four Solos Based on American Folk Music,” though more distilled and shaped than the previous dances, were equally bloodless. Downtown Dance Festival's Echoes of Pete Seeger 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z It is the gradual, bloodless massacre of all of us. Perspective | Only in America: enduring one mass shooting while bracing for the next 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Yet despite North’s attentive, kaleidoscopic storytelling, the novel ends up being rather bloodless. ‘The Life and Death of Sophie Stark:’ A portrait of a woman’s sacrifices for art 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z To me, they were hardly “collateral damage,” that bloodless term the military persuaded journalists to adopt. America’s criminal injustice system: A private eye sheds light on the gross indignities suffered by the poor 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Reading “The Stranger” is a bracing but somewhat bloodless experience. Review: ‘Looking for “The Stranger,”’ the Making of an Existential Masterpiece 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It has bloodless violence, including a scene of patricide that may be too intense for wee viewers. | 'Green Lantern': It?s Not That Easy Being ... You Know 2011-06-16T15:32:25Z Each facet of his routine is designed to transform Nadal from an unimposing, humble young man into a “bloodless warrior.” ArtsBeat Blog: Nadal Reveals the Toll of Being a Top-Tier Athlete in 'Rafa' 2011-09-07T20:25:51Z What’s notable here is Colbert’s restraint, so much so that I hesitate to describe “She Will,” which is virtually bloodless, as a horror movie. ‘She Will’ Review: Payback Is a Witch 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z While Marcos — profoundly alienated from his ex-wife and 3-year-old daughter, unwilling to rise to his girlfriend’s expectations and adrift amid the unpacked boxes that litter his apartment — is fully embodied, A. is strangely bloodless. Contemporary Brazil, Captured in Two Novels and a Journalist’s Collection 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z I think perhaps Arabic was not as much of a bloodless charter as it looked when, in the textbooks, they separated out each letter – in real life, of course, language is pungently real. How to screw up in Arabic 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z It’s bloodless, but far from dry as Ash is covered with a different bodily fluid, one that stinks him up for the rest of the episode. Has TV reached peak gore? The Walking Dead and Ash vs Evil Dead push limit 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z And it’s a fairly bloodless conversation between the two of them, so that’s revealing, is it not? 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Casualties of war 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z But for a movie that stresses how important it is for us to stay connected with nature, to keep our ponytails plugged into the life force, "Avatar" is peculiarly bloodless. 2009-12-18T07:17:00Z It exists in the same imaginary realm all other MCU movies do, one where being a superhero is like entering a Disney theme park; everything is anodyne and bloodless. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z While some critics praised his impeccable fidelity to composers’ scores as brilliant, others condemned the resulting interpretations as stiff and bloodless. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Executed properly, without malice, posh-bashing is screamingly funny, the most bloodless of blood sports. What's up, you posh boys, can't you take a joke? 2012-08-18T23:06:40Z But for its cover this year, the magazine has decided to dispense with even the pretext of realism, by trotting out a bloodless, nearly 55-year-old female who’s a collection of fake body parts. Sports Illustrated’s absurd, trolling Barbie cover 2014-02-13T18:49:00Z Director Scott Derrickson said audiences were drawn to bloodless supernatural horrors as a means to escape from news about wars and violent killings. Ghosts scare off gore for Halloween movies 2012-10-29T20:22:21Z Titled Ill Form and Void Full, after a phrase by the modernist writer Gertrude Stein, the work manages to be beautiful and intriguing, though bloodless – all those anaemic tones. Geraldo de Barros: master of montage 2013-01-18T18:29:55Z The result is understandably chilly fare, occasionally bloodless but never lacking in ambition, and unafraid of its own dark heart. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-02-03T00:05:13Z But he’s written a tepid and bloodless book, one that demonstrates the defects and virtues of consummate professionalism. Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But sometimes the power of the sampled excerpts — an intense tango, for instance — made the choreography look bloodless or tone-deaf despite the energy and skill of the dancers. Choreographer Rosanna Gamson delivers a 'Restless' night of dance at REDCAT 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z It’s a war movie, if mostly a bloodless one. Movie Review: Clooney and Company Hunt for Treasures in ‘Monuments Men’ 2014-02-06T22:43:48Z Her bloodless performance put a damper on the night, even though there were few glitches, and the children were engaging. Television Review: Carrie Underwood Stars in NBC’s Live ‘Sound of Music’ 2013-12-06T17:45:01Z Many men are killed, but no one, so to speak, dies—the deaths are distant and bloodless. A Forgotten D Day Film 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The whispered set opener, The Motherlode, sounds blanched and bloodless, a mere sepia sigh. The Staves – review 2012-11-20T17:50:02Z Largely bloodless, if at times extreme, violence, including gunplay and a fatal push from a skyscraper. | 'Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol': ?Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol? - Review 2011-12-16T00:00:15Z The series’ generic nirvana can feel distancing and bloodless, and some of the special-effects-based comedy falls flat. Review: In ‘The Good Place,’ Kristen Bell Is Dead and Crabby 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z For the majority of its intermissionless 165 minutes, this “Seagull” is handsome and skillfully rendered, but curiously bloodless, much like the stuffed specimen at the play’s end. Review: A Star Director Takes a Back Seat in ‘The Seagull’ 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z As the anguished Lili, Ms. Milans gives a studied but rather bloodless performance. ‘Mala Hierba,’ a New Play by Tanya Saracho 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z It's pretty mediocre fare, completely bloodless and formulaic. Comics: "Hybrid Bastards" provides some good, dirty fun 2010-09-21T19:27:00Z The writers' implication here is obvious enough to make its role in the presentation as a whole bloodless without a legitimately haunting and compelling figure to hold it together. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Sarastro’s temple, with its unflattering overhead tube lighting, was populated by bloodless corporate shills. Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Increasingly one reads books that are beautifully put and rather bloodless and anodyne. Irvine Welsh tears into Booker prize 2012-08-19T19:06:49Z "Eclipse" illuminates the tension that Bella embodies — between autonomy and surrender — and clarifies her desire to become a bloodless being with no human connections. Lots of extras on 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' DVD, to be released Dec. 4 2010-12-02T05:01:00Z But it is that heightened exaltation that makes Williams’s work glorious, and it is woefully missing in this cautious, bloodless production. Review: A Lack of Passion Keeps This ‘Orpheus Descending’ Earthbound 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z The stage looked like an abbatoir: instead of the bloodless battle scenes offered by better behaved companies, it featured cleaver-wielding actors tearing into chunks of raw meat. Edward Hall: chainsaws and pickled princes 2011-01-18T22:00:04Z Britain’s abolition of slavery in 1807 was partly a reproof, a counterdemonstration, England’s own bloodless revolution. Museum Review: ?Revolution!? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-11-10T23:07:33Z A certain dispassionate approach to mortality has been part and parcel of the action genre since its earliest days, when tight censorship controls rendered Hollywood violence bloodless in more ways than one. Pacific Rim: mass destruction and modern cinema 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z That may be an overly generous interpretation of the situation; an accidental benefit of a bloodless corporate strategy. Reimagining Donna Karan 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z In 1974, army officers led a nearly bloodless coup, freed the colonies and established the current democracy, but a chaotic period of adjustment followed. The rain forest destination Americans are missing out on 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The parties, while lavish, are muted and bloodless. The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view 2013-05-14T14:21:41Z Until the mid-'90s, TV misdeeds were mostly bloodless and mundane. TV criminals don't have a chance against today's armchair profilers 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z It was as if the old man propped against the headboard were not a person at all, but a bloodless wax statue. Short story: England and My Clan by Yan Lianke 2010-03-22T12:02:00Z The narrator of the Blakean poem “Genesis,” either God or poet, proclaimed: “By blood we live, the hot, the cold,/To ravage and redeem the world:/There is no bloodless myth will hold.” Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z If there is an underlying issue, it might be that clunky, rather bloodless title, one that seems anchored to the drama’s initial premise. Hail to the Kief! Sutherland is still TV's best action hero – even as President Dadbod 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z But then, we are whisked back into the bloodless drawing rooms of mannered artistic re-creation, and the movie collapses back into itself. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z That this was Star Wars in name only, a bloodless counterfeit of the original trilogy’s soulful cosmic magnificence. Bye bye box office: has Disney really given up on Star Wars movies? 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z “Sweeney” is usually gruesome, and bucketfuls of artificial gore were thrown around the stage at Glimmerglass on Friday, but this production felt bloodless. ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘The Crucible’: Not New, but Darkly Up-to-Date 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z But even here, the mayor can be bloodless: “Effi was a huge asset to me,” he writes. In ‘Mayor for Life,’ D.C.’s Marion Barry takes pride in himself but little blame for problems Isn’t a bloodless sport between unfeeling machines the very definition of holds-barred? Review of Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z Where the eyes and mouth were, black holes gape in a bloodless grimace. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z But by the time Francie’s own mask finally falls, the revelation feels oddly bloodless. Review: In ‘The Butcher Boy,’ an Anti-Coming of Age Story 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z In Birth, the muted colours of the opulent Upper West Side setting in New York conveyed a cloistered world that was polite but bloodless – a perfect backdrop for the story's messy, unruly emotions. Harris Savides 2012-10-12T13:11:36Z And, like you, I don't want PMQs turned into a bloodless, bowdlerised shadow of its rowdy self. Is it unparliamentary to call someone a 'muttering idiot'? 2012-05-26T17:19:01Z And for me, her femininity is important because I was familiar with this idea that she could seem like this sexless, austere, bloodless, lustless sort of shell. Ruth Negga Thinks Lady Macbeth Is Misunderstood 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z But for its cover this year, the magazine has decided to dispense with even the pretext of realism, by trotting out a bloodless, nearly 55 year-old female who’s a collection of fake body parts. Sports Illustrated’s absurd, trolling Barbie cover 2014-02-13T18:49:00Z The movie has the usual largely bloodless violence and includes a death that may be too intense for some younger viewers. Movie Review: Andrew Garfield Returns in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ 2014-05-01T12:00:02Z I opened the fascia and smoothly dissected the muscle away, until only the wide, glistening vertebrae showed up through the wound, clean and bloodless. My Last Day as a Surgeon 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Every now and then, among the men who climb the gangplank into England, one sees stretcher-bearers carrying a still form, its face bloodless and remote. Dunkirk: how the Guardian reported the evacuation - archive, 1940 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z They are bespoke but can be bloodless, like lesser Merchant-Ivory films. Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z The retweet has become the bloodless new standard of our personal interaction. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The adjectives that readers often attach to Bynum’s work — “enchanting,” “charming,” “precise” — are accurate, but can give the impression that she specializes in dollhouse miniatures, masterfully crafted but bloodless. Dreams and Waking Life Blur in a New Story Collection 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Let the U.S. focus on its “bloodless” use of air power and covert ops. We’re not beating ISIS like this: America has no easy solution to its Middle Eastern crisis — and maybe none at all 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z “I’m always concerned with the way we cloak the war in bloodless, gallant myth,” Mr. Burns said. Television: Old-Time Stuff Is Not Forgotten 2011-05-27T18:40:43Z Easily, the best on-stage interaction involving the bloodless Franco and Hathaway was at the beginning when there was some audience interaction with Franco's granny. Oscars 2011: 10 ways to improve the ceremony 2011-02-28T18:42:02Z But in this overly sympathetic film he’s a superhero without feelings, curiously bloodless except for the moment just before the China jump, when his mother presents him with his stepfather’s ashes for inspiration. Movie Review: ‘Waiting for Lightning’ Stars the Skateboarder Danny Way 2012-12-07T03:15:37Z It’s weird, then, that this crowded production reads as bloodless, with no sense of Faust’s perpetually restless desire. Review: A Devil’s Bargain, Live and on Video, in ‘Faust 2.0’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Rod Stewart certainly has had tremendous success, and while I find those interpretations bloodless, at best, whether I like them or not is inconsequential. Michael Feinstein is keeping the standards alive 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z There’s a surprising level of bloodless violence and a propensity to uncover a bit more of the body of its 12-year-old star, Elle Fanning, than is strictly called for. | 'The Nutcracker in 3D': A Dystopian Aftertaste to Those Sugarplums 2010-11-24T00:07:00Z The devastating, though largely bloodless, finale stayed true to the series’s theme that often the greatest sacrifices you make for a doomed cause are emotional. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Cue sad trombone music for a number that was technically decent but mostly bloodless. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: First perfect 10s; Michael Sam leaves 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z For the two centuries in between, the common perception was that, as Mr. Kerman wrote, “Lully’s recitative is bloodless, its vigor carefully paced, its passion channeled, its nobility stereotyped and labored.” ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z But Ruskin’s wan, emotionless screenplay — shockingly bloodless for a movie about more than a dozen murders — fails to give the character a single believable relationship. ‘Boston Strangler’ Review: Chasing a Killer (and a Byline) 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z His raw performance is the beating heart of what could have been a cold, bloodless movie, and a reminder of the life and force he brought to so many roles in his long, varied career. Alan Arkin Could Do It All. In ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ He Did. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The historic streets eviscerated, Washington Square blanched and bloodless, you would have wondered why it was you’d decided to visit the park in the first place. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The moment of impact isn’t shown, and the aftermath is relatively bloodless. ‘Pet Sematary’ Has a Shocking Change. Yes, Stephen King Approved. 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The show may forgive its characters’ sins in part because they’re driven by passion, not by the bloodless calculation that motivates the coastal interlopers. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z In that respect, Schwartz is careful about preventing the film's emotional tone from running into the red, but the result is that it often feels bloodless. "Elon Musk's Crash Course" warns of the danger of a billionaire's love of being unreasonable 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z That would change, of course, and the evolution of a truly American style of hunting forms the subject of Dray’s enlightening and oddly bloodless new book. How Hunting Became a Macho Sport 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z But the violence Stormfront commits is bloodless, a poison seeping into ears and invading hearts and minds by way of memes. "The Boys": With new superhero Stormfront, fascism dons a mask and cape of female empowerment 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s bloodless even in the midst of all its bloodiness; its characters are devoid of nobility, even the horrible kind. Review: Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight Revels in Snow, Not So Much in People 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z “The Mandalorian” delivers heaping helpings of lethal, albeit bloodless violence in its calling card episode, which pretty much lets you know who the intended audience is for this series. The Force is strong with “The Mandalorian” debut, but not the glitchy Disney+ launch 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z A well-wrought but oddly bloodless tale, “A Nearly Perfect Copy” is regrettably true to its title: cleverly rendered but lacking the spark of a true original’s inspiration. ‘A Nearly Perfect Copy’: seduced into art fraud 2013-04-10T18:14:27Z The battles are robust but mostly bloodless; in a PG-13 action film, you see a weapon’s thrust, not its impact. The Vampire as Messiah in Dracula Untold 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Still, I worried that my non-drinking life would be bloodless and boring. Wigs are my superhero costume 2012-10-12T23:30:00Z That friendly, funny kid with “an almost robotic, bloodless focus” at “The Outsiders” auditions turns out to be Tom Cruise. Rob Lowe on the high road 2011-04-29T20:35:00Z When your encounters and negotiations veer into name-calling or emotional manipulation, you should steer it back to the bloodless practicality of who gets the bookshelf. Perspective | Ask Amy: Breakup encounters should be negotiations 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z In much the same state as the sanitized and bloodless version of punk’s origins and influence delivered by the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the name of fashion. At the Met, Punk Without the Down and Dirty 2013-05-06T11:58:12Z Among the sometimes bloodless English male novelists of his generation, he is the one whose cleverness is least in conflict with his ability to make the reader feel as well as see the story. Books of The Times: ?The Stranger?s Child? by Alan Hollinghurst - Review 2011-12-11T21:24:58Z Where there was bloodless professionalism, they brought reckless amateurism. The Drums: The Drums 2010-05-27T14:29:00Z There is some bloodless violence, some involving wings. Angelina Jolie Stars in ‘Maleficent,’ From Disney 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It was a concert so fixated on elegant details that its blues were bloodless. Music Review: Pairing Their Sounds and Sharing the Blues 2011-04-10T21:52:38Z In part that’s why it can feel bloodless compared with Mr. West’s previous album, “808s & Heartbreak,” which was a consistent and unnerving meditation on personal loss. Kanye West, Still Unfiltered, on Eve of Fifth Album 2010-11-19T04:30:00Z Mostly bloodless where it could be a massacre, it is a study of a family irreparably fractured by trauma. Review: Two Sopranos Make an ‘Elektra’ Both Mythic and Human 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z In the original, the ending is horrifying, yet bloodless. Hollywood Goes to Sweden 2010-02-18T17:04:00Z Kicking, shooting and punching — but the harmless, bloodless cartoon kind. ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Review: Rock-em-Sock-em Bromance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z And I will do so without paying a nickel's worth of attention to the bloodless coup that's co-opted the music industry. Grammy Nominations 2018: Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar Lead the Way 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z In this extraordinary moment the entire history of the white man's trickery is re-enacted in one futile gesture, along with the long and desperate history of futile resistance to an impervious, bloodless foe. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-10T12:00:01Z Directed by James Reynolds, “Primum” parades an impressive string of doctors, nurses and scientists who call for a drastic cutback in transfusions and increased reliance on so-called bloodless surgery. | 'Primum Non Nocere': ‘Primum Non Nocere: First — Do No Harm,’ by James Reynolds 2012-09-28T05:10:06Z Before the United States entered the war, "audiences were very used to a sterilized Hollywood war, with bloodless combat," Spielberg reflects in the documentary. 'Five Came Back' and changed Hollywood's depiction of war 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The literary craftsman’s term for what Wallace is doing within the Erdedy interlude is free indirect style, but while reading Wallace you get the feeling that bloodless matters of craftsmanship rather bored him. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Isn't a bloodless sport between unfeeling machines the very definition of holds-barred? Review of Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman 2011-10-07T15:30:00Z That meant a decades-long push and pull between the sometimes dogmatic rule-making of International Style architecture — flat roofs, clean lines, no ornament — and a culture that prized a more joyful, less bloodless aesthetic. Brazil's modern look: Why Olympic viewers should know the name Roberto Burle Marx 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z While those spectacles drew their share of press attention and loose talk, today’s corporate, almost bloodless entertainment industry seems less tolerant of executives who depart from the script. In the New Hollywood, Sumner Redstone Is a Man Out of Time 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Spike himself would surely blanch – were he not already bloodless – at the heartlessness, the brutality of such an undertaking. Oh, Buffy! I don't know whether to weep or cheer 2010-11-23T20:00:00Z Violence, mostly bloodless, inflicted by and upon digital animals. Movie Review: ‘Life of Pi,’ Directed by Ang Lee 2012-11-20T17:49:12Z Some naughty words and deeds, and the usual large-scale, largely bloodless action-movie violence. Movie Review: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ Directed by J. J. Abrams 2013-05-15T17:31:02Z The modern war against aging — against tiny furrows, laugh lines and muffin tops — will be bloodless. Having a little work done: Now as routine as ‘eating kale and going to spin class’ 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Ultimately, Mr. Sullivan’s well-spoken but rather bloodless production falls into its protagonist’s woozy rhythms, ruminating when it should be marching forward. Theater Review 'Richard II': Shakespeare?s ?Richard II,? From the Pearl Theater Company 2011-11-24T20:23:31Z Free of the bloodless, academic tone that so often puts off new viewers of dance, Ailey welcomes both neophytes and aficionados. Paramount audience communes with Alvin Ailey company 2014-04-12T17:44:21Z Although there are deaths galore, this is a virtually bloodless action movie. ‘The Legend of Tarzan’: Updated ape-man adventure is a jungle of film styles 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Faced with the bloodless convenience of digital music, it is human nature for some people to hanker after the cumbersome, the labour-intensive and the fallible – to pause and rewind. Return of the audio cassette 2010-03-29T20:00:00Z True Blood crawled through four, ever-more bloodless seasons, until, finally, the stake through its heart felt like a merciful release. When good TV goes bad: Why True Blood sucked the life out of the campy Vampire mystery 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z It's pretty enough, of course, but there is something a little bleached, a little bloodless about Alpin's version; a Twilight rendering of the song, its focus seeming to fall on atmosphere rather than lyrical content. The Power of Love: a magical hit in which the secular and the spiritual entwine 2012-11-15T20:00:00Z The new movie is altogether more abstract in its mayhem, which is depersonalized and mainly bloodless even when massive. An Edward Snowden “Terminator” 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z In short chapters of two or three pages, the unnamed narrator proceeds from rage through “this frail and too bloodless composition,” which he presents to us as an act of revenge. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z It's a "bloodless" world, with no meat, no spices, and no irony either. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z But in doing so they have emphasized the bloodless slashing of departments and agencies rather than the jobs involved. GOP slams Obama over new jobless figures 2011-12-03T02:31:00Z The Tops track that everyone's raving about, Turn Your Love Around, is funk-lite with a pallid version of soul vocals, melodically malnourished, rhythmically bloodless and sonically anaemic – these are compliments, by the way. New band of the day – Tops (No 1,310) 2012-07-17T16:17:40Z The fighting is very intense, if largely bloodless, but be warned that several beloved characters do die and that is upsetting. | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z This would be the last bloodless episode of "Game of Thrones" we got for a while. The only four episodes of "Game of Thrones" where no one dies 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Two decades later another coup - not so bloodless this time - brought Catherine the Great to the throne for a 34-year reign that stretched almost to the century's close. Delving in to the Russian classical archive 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z It is difficult to imagine a more bloodless season than this one, or a more generally cynical one. In Paris, the Hunt for Real Emotion 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z His father makes the case for rule of law, a conglomeration of seemingly bloodless determinations that he hopes will someday add up to true sovereignty for his people. The Round House by Louise Erdrich – review 2013-05-18T06:59:01Z The plot, O'Sullivan adds, is "at once ridiculous and smart," and as for the copious violence, "most of it is bloodless and surprisingly balletic. … It's more comedic than disturbing." 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' shakes up spy genre, reviews say 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z “The colonel sat upright at a camp table, bloodless and gray, the line of his mustache expressing indignation, the handset of the field telephone still clasped in his hand.” Chris Cleave’s ‘Everyone Brave Is Forgiven,’ about love and redemption in WWII 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z For years he has held the juicy 19th-century novel of action above the bloodless musings of the modernists. Mario Vargas Llosa’s delicious melodrama of sex, love and revenge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It's a high-IQ picture – there are few enough of those – and it's fascinating, if a little bloodless. Film review: I Am Love 2010-04-08T21:10:00Z But it was Ms. Radvanovsky’s luminous performance that breathed life into this otherwise bloodless production. Opera Review: ‘Tosca’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2013-12-12T23:23:47Z So much so that a track like Lost and Found just sounds a bit bloodless and wimpy once you've been subjected to its ribcage-shaking reworking. Steve Mason and Dennis Bovell: Ghosts Outside ? review 2011-07-21T22:20:01Z It’s the ultimate contradiction: The Senate impeachment trial of the media-obsessed president is a remarkably bloodless TV spectacle. Perspective | Senate press restrictions have an ugly goal: Putting distance between the public and Trump’s impeachment trial 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z And while it’s good to hear this music, Ms. Caux’s biggest failure may be that her film makes its creation seem a rather bloodless business. | 'The Colors of the Prism, the Mechanics of Time': The Sound of (Experimental) Music 2011-06-17T00:14:15Z And on History channel, it’s going to be far from a bloodless academic exercise. TV Weekend: History Launches Vikings (and an Action-Packed Bible) 2013-03-01T15:59:13Z “The adjectives that readers often attach to Bynum’s work — ‘enchanting,’ ‘charming,’ ‘precise’ — are accurate, but can give the impression that she specializes in dollhouse miniatures, masterfully crafted but bloodless,” Caitlin Horrocks writes in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s so bloodless I hesitate to advise reconciling — for their sakes. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He dropped the bomb, and now he’s surprised about the fallout 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Skeptics call it a bloodless “video-game war,” a mere prologue to the nation’s wars following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, too short to be historically significant. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z It was clear this was not going to be like Turkey’s previous, largely bloodless coup attempts. Experience: a coup interrupted our wedding 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z But for her, “nonpartisan” doesn’t mean she’s in thrall to bloodless, anodyne ideas totally disconnected from her personal experience. In a Memoir, the Impeachment Witness Fiona Hill Recounts Her Journey From ‘Blighted World’ to White House 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Yet something gets lost in the translation to harmony: whether the sisters' gossamer voices are woven together or flutter alone, what you hear is a bloodless, polite prettiness. The Staves: Dead & Born & Grown – review 2012-11-15T21:45:01Z Elizabeth, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1741, made music an important feature of her court, and sang in her chapel choir. Delving in to the Russian classical archive 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z It does snap to briefly when Ms. Surrey’s Janet stands up to her father, telling him plainly what her life has been like under his roof: bleak and bloodless. Theater Review: ?Rutherford & Son? at Mint Theater 2012-02-29T00:18:13Z In part that's why it can feel bloodless compared with West's previous album, "808s & Heartbreak," which was a consistent and unnerving meditation on personal loss. Kanye West: Do not disturb 2010-11-20T01:25:00Z The decor is as bloodless as the small talk. Let’s Talk About the Clothes on “Succession” 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Shepherd also was a crook and fraud who steered development away from black neighborhoods and engineered the breathtaking and bloodless coup we call the Organic Act of 1871. Book World: ‘Empire of Mud,’ by J.D. Dickey Give me Saul’s low-tech lyricism — “We don’t hold each other for ransom. Or ask what we cannot give” — any day over this bloodless chatter. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 6: Carrie Needs a Powerful Ally 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z There is something a little bloodless and cerebral here, too: an intellectual experiment beneath the stormy passion. Review: Naomi Wallace’s ‘Night Is a Room’ Unfurls a Complex Reunion 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Things start getting out of control when Rocket's younger gang target the clients of a sleazy motel and the raid, intended to be bloodless, becomes a killing spree. City of God: No 6 2010-10-19T10:49:00Z Ask Heath Freeman why he got into the newspaper business and the explanation is specific and bloodless. Heath Freeman is the hedge fund guy who says he wants to save local news. Somehow, no one’s buying it. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Colored contact lenses and skin-hued “mousse” helped them blend in, though the more disaffected returnees went au naturel, flaunting their dead eyes and bloodless skin and demanding acceptance. Critic’s Notebook: ‘In the Flesh’ Shifts Gears in Season 2 2014-05-09T21:27:19Z These Bunnies, so very bloodless seeming, are in fact quite bloodthirsty. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z A grab bag of random notions lifted primarily from the “Terminator” and “Matrix” universes, “Hitman” is a sexless, virtually bloodless chain of preposterous battles rendered in a two-dimensional gloss. Review: Rupert Friend and Zachary Quinto in a Pas de Bullets, ‘Hitman: Agent 47’ 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z A loose adaptation of the novel by French author Thierry Jonquet, the movie is a bloodless thriller that keeps audiences' knuckles white without drenching them in gore. Almodovar, Banderas reunite in 'The Skin' 2011-05-19T11:22:11Z He became prime minister in February 2014 after a bloodless internal coup in his party. Meet Matteo Renzi — the Justin Trudeau of Italy and the Obamas’ final state dinner honoree 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z They were impressive, but none was harrowing; the overall effect of the opera was muted, bloodless. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z At one point, Ilse finds herself “alone in the confusion. That was her bloodless, invisible wound.” Review | Acclaimed Mexican author Sofia Segovia returns to her U.S. audience with a story of World War II resilience 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Hercules is enslaved far from home but literally battles his way back to the kingdom in a story with the sort of bloodless combat scenes typical of PG-13 rated movies. ‘The Legend of Hercules’: A ‘Twilight’ vamp does mythology 2014-01-10T17:34:01Z But in this shaggy-dog version the wolfman’s story is both gratuitously bloody and, finally, bloodless. 2010-02-11T22:49:00Z The N.F.L. courts provocateurs, but forbids any actual provocation, thus ensuring, with rare exceptions, an expert but largely bloodless show. The Artless Spectacle of Maroon 5 at the Super Bowl 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Some are also riding on BMX bicycles, anachronisms that give the movie a whiff of contemporary desperation that signals an endeavor reaching for honest nostalgia and trapped by bloodless marketing. ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Review: A Truck Full of Sugar Can’t Make This Uplift Go Down 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Once or twice he’d reach down to rearrange his crotch, and his bloodless lips would twitch in an acknowledging smile. The Bonds Between Sex and Books 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z One ritual that’s distinct to this region is cow fighting — “combats de reines” or “battle of queens” — bloodless, surprisingly watchable spectacles in which pairs of bovines push against each other’s heads. ‘Vedette’ Review: A Cow’s Trouble in Paradise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Bush was running for re-election in part on his foreign policy successes, especially the relatively bloodless conclusion of the Persian Gulf War, in which 148 Americans died. The Lesbian Avengers Will Not Be Commodified 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z The new film isn't as unseemly in its choices as the 1992 version, and yet the ones into which it leans the hardest are bloodless. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z The result is a fair-minded and thorough, if somewhat bloodless, compendium that, by design, contains little likely to surprise informed readers. The Challenges of a Threatening World 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z I’m not trying to be glib — well, maybe a little — but rather to put my finger on the merits and limitations of this ethically serious, aesthetically graceful and curiously bloodless movie. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z The director, Michael Bay, deftly integrates digital wonders and live action, and he stages scenes of extensive destruction with bloodless exuberance. Movies 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Maybe, she writes, you meet “people who seem genuinely called to the bloodless intricacies of the law, but you yourself are not called. Your passion stays low, yet under no circumstances will you underperform.” Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Today, three tribes here are locked in a bloodless war. A 19th century massacre, mostly forgotten, clouds plans for a shimmering tribal casino 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Yet, those coups have been bloodless, while thousands of people are dying in greater Khartoum, and elsewhere in Sudan. Sudan conflict: Risking lives to bury the dead in Omdurman 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z The military leveraged middle class anger to stage a bloodless coup in September 2006 when Thaksin was abroad, but his loyalists kept winning general elections. Revered and reviled, Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra returns home 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The miraculous bloodless end of Soviet totalitarian Communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 were not bloodless after all. Putin’s Forever War 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z There's a lot of talk about protecting democracy and our institutions from Trump, which can feel ennobling to the pundits, but often feels bloodless to ordinary people listening. Why the new Trump indictment feels so different: This time, there are victims 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z They dispersed after warning shots were fired - the only gunfire heard in this bloodless seizure of power. Niger coup: Captive President Bazoum defiant after takeover 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z "I don't think the job is done until the picture is bloodless," said Edley, a former Harvard law professor who now is at UC Berkeley's law school. Key voices in the decades-long debate over affirmative action 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Powell tends to speak in the bloodless terms of academic economics, referring to “market conditions” and supply-and-demand curves. Column: Wage growth doesn't drive inflation. So why is the Fed out to crush workers? 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Snow feathered its way to crystalline horizons; sea and land merged with sky, dancing together in bloodless miasma. Astrophysics and stale beer: What life is like working at the South Pole 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z This series of events became known as the Glorious Revolution – “glorious” because it was bloodless and resulted in a political settlement that finally ended the better part of a century of conflict. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Their antagonism played out in a real but bloodless conflict known as the Cold War. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z They may not be draping their homes in Union Jack bunting, but they aren’t plotting a bloodless coup, either. ‘Not My King’ protests are now the norm at King Charles III’s events 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z The changes serve a political agenda better than a romantic musical, for what’s left are lots and lots of conversations about forging an equitable society — and the unraveling of a bloodless, arranged royal marriage. Review | ‘Camelot’ gets the Aaron Sorkin treatment, with no happily-ever-aftering 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z He’s spinning a plot to pique Valentin’s interest, but these moments are bloodless onstage. Review: A potent and intimate take on 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' enthralls at A Noise Within 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Duke Kincaid’s solution to this problem is bloodless, but that isn’t always the case. Review | Jeannette Walls draws on family lore in a novel that brims with drama 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z But in the nearly four decades since the uprising, poverty, landlessness, stark inequality between the rich and poor, and injustices have remained deeply entrenched and shrouded the nearly bloodless revolt’s legacy. Philippines 1986 revolt marked with dictator’s son as leader 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Seneca’s bloodless pomposity makes his end hilarious, even enjoyable, to watch. 'Be quiet and die' - Malkovich as first-century life coach Seneca 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z As the head of the armed forces, General Musharraf seized power in a bloodless coup in October 1999, before formally appointing himself as president two years later. Pervez Musharraf: Thousands attend funeral of ex-Pakistan military leader 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z It is not, probably, the country that Mr. Musharraf hoped to forge after he seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999. Musharraf’s Legacy: A Conflicted Pakistan and a Bristling Military 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Musharraf, who was out of the country at the time, quickly returned to Pakistan and seized power in a bloodless coup - taking the title of chief executive. Obituary: Pervez Musharraf 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The former four-star general, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, oversaw rapid economic growth and attempted to usher in socially liberal values in the conservative Muslim country. Pakistan former President Pervez Musharraf dies in Dubai hospital 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z That Ukrainians couldn’t be chief executives until they rose up and threw off the shackles of a state-controlled economy, as did the Russians in history’s grandest bloodless revolution ever? Opinion | Zelensky’s historical references, and his history 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z But the unnecessary, gratuitous viciousness of so much of this stuff — seriously, no one asked Ron DeSantis to relitigate the pandemic! — makes that kind of bloodless explanation seem unsatisfying. The hell with "compassionate conservatism": In 2023, expect all MAGA sadism, all the time 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Fortunately, the murders committed in BBC One's The Traitors are metaphorical, but the bloodless backstabbing has nonetheless inspired a fiercely devoted following since the series launched in late November. The Traitors: Why viewers became so loyal to the BBC reality series 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Contains strong language, some bloodless war violence, racial slurs and smoking. Review | ‘Devotion’: Korean War aviator drama is slow to take off 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Wouldn’t it be surprising if this is how I discover I am not a human being, but a bloodless automaton? Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’? 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z "As much as possible, we wanted a bloodless campaign," Police Chief General Rodolfo Azurin told foreign correspondents in a virtual forum. Killings in Philippines anti-drug operations will be minimised, says police chief 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z This is a bloodless way of saying that the job market, wages and economic growth — and many of the people who depend on them — must suffer to avoid even worse economic conditions. Opinion | The Fed’s rate hikes will hurt. That’s unavoidable. 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s easy to think of humanity’s future as a bloodless abstraction, but future people will live lives just as real as our own. Perspective | Want politics to be better? Focus on future generations. 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z This is what the adults in America aren’t getting — the bloodless lacerations that are a hidden cost of American gun culture. Perspective | Gun culture is terrorizing our nation, even when there are no guns 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “We must reclaim the founding generation’s belief in bloodless revolution, reforming Article V to provide an amendment procedure fit for a modern, democratic society.” A Second Constitutional Convention? Some Republicans Want to Force One 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z The acquisition of additional lands from Mexico, a country many in the United States perceived as weak and inferior, was not so bloodless. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Scenes with a physically pained-looking Harrelson opposite Hart yapping away about the high body count — in the most bloodless action movie in some time — die by cringe. Review: Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson are a match made in hell in 'The Man From Toronto' 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Though he considers abatement a “win-win” because of its relatively bloodless effectiveness, McNeff says the debate is stoked by a growing concern for the sport’s future. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Violence is frequent, if unrealistically bloodless, as when a character is pinned to the wall by a giant metal hammer but unharmed afterward. What to watch with your kids: ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ and more 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z For me, her femininity is important because I was familiar with this idea that she could seem like this sexless, austere, bloodless, lustless sort of shell. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z And yet it all feels just a little bloodless. Andrea Pirlo Is Timeless 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z As Rebecca Traister wrote in New York this week, Democratic leadership reacted to the Roe leak with "words that ultimately felt bloodless." Republicans are lying to you about Roe 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Russia seized Crimea, a peninsula on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, in a largely bloodless but internationally condemned referendum in March 2014, after Ukrainians ousted a pro-Russian president in a popular uprising. Ukraine alleges new Russian strikes near Kyiv preschool, Lviv airport, as Kremlin campaign intensifies 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Those who watch Russian television instead see the country’s troops taking part in a largely bloodless “special military operation,” to protect Ukrainian civilians from a neo-Nazi government. With New Limits on Media, Putin Closes a Door on Russia’s ‘Openness’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z There is a growing tendency to view international conflicts either purely in terms of realpolitik — strategies and interests, bloodless and devoid of moral valence — or as an extension of fandom. Opinion | The war in Ukraine doesn’t need your ‘likes’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z This bloodless overthrow of King James II is called the Glorious Revolution. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Theirs was a bloodless escape, but traumatizing because they couldn’t return for decades. Perspective | Now we get to see why our parents fled from the Russians — in real time 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z A California magazine praised the expulsion’s quick and supposedly bloodless removal of Chinese immigrants as the “Tacoma Method.” How Tacoma’s small Chinese community reckoned with the city’s anti-Chinese history 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z The technical term for this appearance is “brachycephalic,” a bloodless, scientific word for an extremely painful reality. Opinion | For bulldogs and some other breeds, man hasn’t been the best friend 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg lead the long-awaited movie adaptation of the hit game, but the result is mostly bloodless and inert. Tom Holland on a roll: 'Uncharted' rules the box office as 'Spider-Man' makes more history 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Brazil had won its independence in a bloodless revolution. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Expect lots of largely bloodless action violence, much of it in the form of set pieces in which the main characters have to fight faceless, dehumanized minions to get into or out of a location. What to watch with your kids: ‘Uncharted,’ ‘Dog’ and more 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s oddly neutered and bloodless, the stakes negligible. Review: An uninspired 'Uncharted' can't overcome the video game movie curse 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Tamim, now 41, was little known when he was declared heir apparent in 2003, eight years after Hamad seized power from his own father in a bloodless coup in the absolute monarchy. Risk of Ukraine energy shock poses fresh test for pragmatic Qatar emir 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z A bloodless coup is, in fact, quite likely to be covered as not a coup at all — and therefore more likely to be accepted, however reluctantly, by the public. A second civil war: One year after Trump's violent insurrection, how worried should we be? 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Russians have traditionally marked this bloodless standoff as their liberation from Mongol rule. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus the Capitol riot continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court. Opinion | Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Months of quiet preparation for a war that was supposed to be swift and bloodless. The Nobel Peace Prize That Paved the Way for War 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z While such an attack would be "bloodless" at first, experts warn that a yearlong blackout caused by an EMP could kill an estimated 90% of the American population. US vulnerable to Chinese electromagnetic attack, experts say 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z After all, a bloodless coup is far more likelier to work. A second civil war: One year after Trump's violent insurrection, how worried should we be? 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Ever since Trump's failed coup that culminated in the January 6 insurrection, Republicans have been carefully laying the groundwork for a bloodless destruction of democracy. Why Donald Trump exalts Kyle Rittenhouse: Nothing gets the base going like violence 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Republicans will be able to steal the 2024 election for Trump through bloodless methods like gerrymandering and election office interference. Kyle Rittenhouse verdict: Just what the right needs to create a thousand more like him 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z But after promising a swift, even bloodless campaign, Mr. Abiy was quickly drawn into a military quagmire. Ethiopia Declares State of Emergency as Rebels Advance Toward Capital 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Violence includes mass destruction, many minor characters being killed in bloodless ways, fighting, smashing, pounding, brutal attacks, eye-gouging, strangling, biting, bullying and some guns and shooting. What to watch with your kids: ‘No Time to Die,’ ‘Star Wars: Visions’ and more 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z This is already happening today, but we prefer to discuss it using the bloodless language of inflation. Opinion | ‘The Moratorium Saved Us. It Really Did.’ 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z But even though a bloodless fascist takeover is in the works, Trump and other leaders of the Trumpist movement have spent the past years ratcheting up enthusiasm on the right for political violence. Why Donald Trump exalts Kyle Rittenhouse: Nothing gets the base going like violence 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The bloodless logic of credit and debt markets ensures that those with the least pay the most. Opinion | We’re Burying Our Kids in Debt (Just Not the Way You Think) 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z But the extraordinary melting away of government and army, and the bloodless transition in most places so far, point to something more fundamental. America’s Afghan War: A Defeat Foretold? 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Otherwise, it was a bloodless coup, and people took to the streets in joy, embracing young soldiers and sticking red carnations in their automatic rifles. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, army officer who led Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution,’ dies at 84 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z It was a chilling moment in an America where political rancor was escalating but seemed to be a bloodless war of words until Giffords was shot. Perspective | It’s been 10 years since the day Gabby Giffords walked back into Congress 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z The idea of a bloodless fascist takeover doesn't really get the right-wing juices going. Why Donald Trump exalts Kyle Rittenhouse: Nothing gets the base going like violence 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Violence is largely bloodless but prevalent, with lots of guns and shooting, a character getting shot off-screen and many scenes of fighting, punching, hitting with objects and sword fighting. What to watch with your kids: ‘Jungle Cruise’ ‘Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins” and more 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Tunisia, with only 12 million of Africa’s 1.3 billion people, holds outsized symbolism as a nation that designed a democracy from scratch and earned a Nobel Peace Prize after its largely bloodless revolution. Tunisia’s turmoil is being watched warily around the globe 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Grim as it sounds, the movie is nonetheless par for the Marvel course: The Avengers may be taking a breather, but the violence remains predictably PG-13 bloodless, the moral ambiguity close to nil. Review: Scarlett Johansson finally gets her Marvel closeup, but ‘Black Widow’ is too little, too late 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z “Because it’s a bloodless coup, people aren’t so concerned or disturbed by it.” ‘Bloodless coup’: Samoa’s first female leader locked out of her own swearing-in ceremony 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Most available evidence suggests that not only can Trump's desired fascist takeover happen without violence, it would actually be more likely to work if it was bloodless. Why Donald Trump exalts Kyle Rittenhouse: Nothing gets the base going like violence 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z But the bloodless war here hasn’t stopped the bloody war there, if anything, it inflames both sides. Op-Ed: What can we do to help the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Stay out of it 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z These are the kind of simple, effective emotional stakes that the franchise gave up on long ago in favor of bloodless characters and overblown plotlines. Why 'Law & Order' is lost without Stabler and Benson, together 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z And a lot of bitcoiners, we actually fought a civil war over this exact question, a largely bloodless civil war, thankfully. Is there a future for bitcoin? An investor and a skeptic make their cases 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z That led to Mata’afa’s claim that a “bloodless coup” was underway. ‘Bloodless coup’: Samoa’s first female leader locked out of her own swearing-in ceremony 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Laboriously paced, the indulgent jolts and bloodless scares, neither deeply rooted nor artfully raised, float as lifelessly as a lily pad on a bog. Review: The gothic terror and limited scares of 'The Unholy' bog down in tired tropes 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z In Baker’s bloodless description, “This is what he did.” Opinion | Remember these words whenever anyone tells you policing is colorblind 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z But rage filled the recording studio Wednesday when he recorded the band’s latest protest song against Myanmar’s new military regime, which overthrew the civilian government in a bloodless coup Monday. Myanmar's youth savored their taste of democracy. Will they fight to get it back? 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z “So it’s not a bloodless future,” the official said. In Saddam strongholds that fought America, Iraqis fear a U.S. departure 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z The relative peace — this appeared, so far, to be a largely bloodless coup — propelled some people in Myanmar to cautiously raise their voices against the re-imposition of army rule. After Coup, Myanmar Military Charges Aung San Suu Kyi With Obscure Infraction 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z The quick, bloodless takeover Monday, hours before the opening parliamentary session, took even close observers by surprise. A dangerous political bargain ends with Aung San Suu Kyi in a familiar place: Under arrest 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Brexit, divisive and angry though mainly bloodless, then engulfed and divided the nation. Unwanted virus milestone: UK’s civilian dead now tops WWII’s 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Brexit, divisive and angry though mainly bloodless, then engulfed and divided the nation. Unwanted virus milestone: UK’s civilian dead now tops WWII’s 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Despite Mr. Abiy’s recent military successes, the swift and bloodless victory he once promised in Tigray remains far from his grasp. On ‘Rooftop of Africa,’ Ethiopia’s Troops Hunt Fugitive Former Rulers 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Egged on by Trump, a dozen Republican senators — a quarter of the GOP caucus — have defied McConnell and said they will vote to reject the electoral college results, in effect authorizing a bloodless coup. Opinion | We all suffer for Mitch McConnell’s sycophancy 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z This thriller manages to grip readers in a bloodless fashion. In ‘Pickard County Atlas,’ a family tries to bury its curse 18 years after an unsolved murder 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Long the country’s dominant institution, the military has often privately influenced civilian rule and periodically ousted elected leaders, most recently in the 1999 bloodless coup that removed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Breaking an old taboo, Pakistan begins to reckon with its powerful military 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Although Thailand moved from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy in a bloodless revolution in 1932, the palace retains wide-ranging powers and is deeply embedded in the economic and cultural fabric of the country. Thousands of anti-monarchy protesters defy Thailand’s new emergency decree 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s mostly bloodless, but there are guns, shootings, explosions, crashes and beatings. What to watch with your kids: ‘Tenet,’ ‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’ and more 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z "While there are some spectacular fight sequences with a large - but totally bloodless - death toll, there is a distinct lack of humour in this version, making it both songless and smileless," she said. Critics decry Mulan's small-screen release 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The Chinese crackdown, when it came in May, was surprisingly easy and relatively bloodless. Opinion | For Trump, the Portland protests are a dream come true 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Al-Bashir, 76, who is already imprisoned for corruption and facing several other trials, appeared in court earlier this week over charges of plotting the bloodless 1989 coup that brought him to power. Sudan finds mass grave likely linked to foiled 1990 coup 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z About 200 demonstrators denounced the government and the army, accusing it of inappropriate defence spending and of interfering in politics by backing Prayuth’s bloodless 2014 putsch, which saw him installed as prime minister. Thai protesters take aim at army after anti-government rallies 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s a bloodless argument, but an honest one. An Ex-Times Reporter. An Ohio Wedding Provider. Covid Contrarians Go Viral. 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Me, I’m bringing back the zombie metaphor, teaching on Zoom, enjoying bloodless family harmony despite the urge to stab someone, and wandering an internal desert. Planet virus: seven novelists from around the world on living with the pandemic 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Technology and a mass social movement would seem to guarantee that, when the court does speak, it cannot be in the bloodless abstractions of Graham v. Opinion | A 1989 Supreme Court ruling is unintentionally providing cover for police brutality 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Compare that to the bloodless, computer-generated worlds of the Marvel movies — or even Scott’s Oscar-winning “Gladiator,” an earlier entry in our summer movie showdown series that digitally rebuilt the Colosseum. Did ‘Alien’ deserve to beat ‘Star Wars’? Our critics discuss Ridley Scott's classic 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z But I do think beneath the super-slick banter and the bloodless, oddly unmemorable action scenes, there is something soulless and even antiseptic about the Marvel enterprise. Our critics take another look at 'The Avengers' in the #UltimateSummerMovie Showdown 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Their deaths are acceptable losses in the name of God and country, which mutate together into the bloodless idol of commerce. It's time to reject the gods of commerce: America is a society, not an "economy" 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z The idea that the government translates life to dollars and cents may sound bloodless but it is not unusual. The Cold Calculations America’s Leaders Will Have to Make Before Reopening 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Violence is strong and frequent, if largely bloodless. What to watch with your kids: ‘ThunderCats Roar!,’ ‘I Still Believe’ and more 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z In October, the Bolsheviks, a far-left political party inspired by the writings of Karl Marx and founded by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the provisional government in a nearly bloodless coup. Russian Revolution begins: This Day in History 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z In this bloodless surgery, 1,000 transmitters housed in a water-cooled helmet produce sound waves, all directed at a single spot in the brain. His hands shook uncontrollably for a decade. MRI-guided ultrasound surgery finally relieved the tremors. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The movie uses chunks of Didion’s prose but keeps the detachment, somehow doubling the alienation by the time it gets onto film, making it a bloodless moral thriller. Review: ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ is alarmingly unthrilling 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Distracted by our delusions, we failed to notice this bloodless coup from above. Opinion | You Are Now Remotely Controlled 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z As it turned out, the missile strikes might end up being a bloodless close to the latest chapter in America’s simmering, four-decade conflict with Iran. 3 Hours From Alert to Attacks: Inside the Race to Protect U.S. Forces From Iran Strikes 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z So Democrats are deluding themselves about wresting control of impeachment from McConnell’s bloodless grip. If Democrats want to be free of McConnell, they have a lot of work to do 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z He returned to Oman, but rumors soon spread that he faced a serious relapse, with social media posts praising his long rule since 1970, when he ousted his father in a bloodless coup. Oman says Sultan Qaboos, 79, is ‘stable’ amid health scare 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Reeves sent out alarmist reports about a bloodless attack on and burglary at a U.S. rifle range. Remembering America’s first (and longest) forgotten war on tribal islamists 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The unpretentious zippiness of Abrams’ direction infuses this chapter with what my screening companion described as “that ‘Star Wars’ flavor”: a breezy mix of jaunty comedy and bloodless action, high-spirited banter and high-flying peril. Review: 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' is here to remind you just how good 'The Last Jedi' was 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Naturally, the three-life limit is still in effect, promising one comically bloodless death scene after another. Review: 'Jumanji: The Next Level' is more of a retread than an upgrade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z A few years ago, researchers at the University of Barcelona in Spain grew hairless, bloodless horse skin in a laboratory, suggesting that lab-grown donkey skin might be feasible. Chinese trade in hides has led to global donkey massacre 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Presidential elections aren’t merely bloodless exercises in eliciting public opinion on a given day; they are titanic, coast-to-coast struggles, in which turnout, activism, and civic engagement also matter enormously. Impeaching Donald Trump Is Already a Win for Democrats 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z He first seized power in Suriname in a 1980 bloodless coup, five years after the country gained independence from the Netherlands. AP Explains: What awaits Suriname’s convicted president? 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z In fact, Westenra in "Dracula" is described as "bloodless, but not anemic," and her symptoms overall provided "a textbook example" of a patient suffering from acute leukemia, according to the study. Bram Stoker's vampire victim shows 'textbook' leukemia symptoms 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z When a Harvard colleague finally delivered the verdict of Alzheimer’s, Kleinman writes, of the nearly two hours they spent with the physician, 99 percent was taken up with the bloodless clinical details of the diagnosis. Review | He critiqued a callous health-care system. Then he experienced it firsthand. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z More than 1,000 people were killed in unrest before and after the revolution, setting Romania apart from the largely bloodless events elsewhere. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z It would be a bloodless uprising, not a military putsch. Paper coup: How Comey kicked off the ‘Deep State’ insurgency that Nunes put down 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z He added, "Sometimes I think I'm misread because I'm laid-back. I'm misread as being bloodless." Facebook's Zuckerberg admits to advising Buttigieg on hires, but says not an endorsement 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z He added, “Sometimes I think I’m misread because I’m laidback. I’m misread as being bloodless.” Can Pete Buttigieg, cool and cerebral, second that emotion? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z At a certain point, its visual and narrative excesses might remind you of the fantasy-franchise dregs of “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,” or perhaps an unusually bloodless episode of “Game of Thrones.” Review: Angelina Jolie and Michelle Pfeiffer lock horns in 'Mistress of Evil,' an enjoyably deranged 'Maleficent' sequel 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z He is a poet, and the thing he is interested in is obtaining poetry, getting the grapes of carnelian truly red and round, getting Uta-napishti’s deathless world appropriately wan and bloodless. How to Read “Gilgamesh” 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Everything else about him was pale: his eyebrows were thin; his face was bloodless. The Black Cube Chronicles: The Private Investigators 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z But it is not a coup, even of the bloodless variety. Impeachment intensity: Trump decries ‘coup’ and ‘corrupt media’ 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Instead, they grew out of a desire to make war more bloodless – or more bloodless for the US side, anyway. Collision course: pedestrian deaths are rising – and driverless cars aren’t likely to change that 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The audit does what audits do: In precise, bloodless prose, it points out where Upstate’s employment policies and procedures have led to egregious overspending and bad hiring decisions. Editorials from around New York 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The industrialized West initially greeted Mr. Ben Ali as a savior when, six weeks into his job as prime minister, he led a bloodless coup that toppled President Habib Bourguiba in November 1987. Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian despot whose ouster helped spark Arab Spring, dies at 83 - The Washington Post 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Years later, Charlotte selflessly decided to help House candidates who'd been left high and dry due to the narrow, bloodless targeting of shortsighted party leaders in Washington. Are the Democrats divided? No — they're poised to win big if they don't screw it up 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s a bloodless third-person game, which means players see the action through a broader perspective rather than just the point of view of the character they are inhabiting. Opinion | Hey parents, stop worrying and learn to love ‘Fortnite’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z You can share Jarmusch’s despair — I certainly do — and still find its expression here too tired, bloodless and self-satisfied by half. Jim Jarmusch's 'The Dead Don't Die' starts Cannes off on an apocalyptic note 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Six years later a group of military officers and civil servants initiated a near bloodless coup. Factbox - The 10 Ramas: the kings of Thailand's Chakri dynasty 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The omission, he says, is purposeful, serving as an implicit rebuke of past Democratic nominees who often seemed to emphasize bloodless 14-point programs over personal connection. Mayor Pete Buttigieg is the hottest thing in politics. Can it last? 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Bashir, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1989, was at the presidential residence under “heavy guard”, Sudanese sources said. Sudan's long-time survivor Bashir forced out after protests 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z You also said, “In effect, he’s leading a revolution from above—so far bloodless, thank God.” A Middle Eastern Studies Professor Interprets Mohammed Bin Salman 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z He was deposed in a bloodless military coup in 1965 that set the stage for a series of generals serving as presidents. Ailing Algeria president back home amid protests against him 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z All too frequently, their advice — our advice — is utterly bloodless. The Power of Raw, Honest Stories About Money 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z He vanished, along with the cash, in November that year, briefly becoming an internet superstar in France for his meticulously planned and bloodless heist. Cash delivery man vanishes with €3m 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Yet he found it "just a little bloodless", adding: "I'm not sure I cared remotely about the characters." Lily James: No more Goody One-Shoe 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Ventham is rather more emotional and committed a European than most of the bloodless technocrats who argued for remain in 2016. 'The UK no longer feels like home’: the British Europhiles racing for EU passports 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z This might seem bloodless and cynical, but consider this simple fact. Where are George Clooney and co now that Sudan needs them? | Nesrine Malik 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Jared Kushner, a bloodless, lipless demon, a dependent clause of the Anti-Life Equation who could be thrown into any Edgar Allan Poe adaptation and trusted to improvise, looks merely emo in comparison. Frankie Boyle’s review of 2018: 'Let's forget Brexit and enjoy our last Christmas with running water' 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z But we must be careful not to reduce the struggle for racial equality into a bloodless question of national interest. Opinion | It’s time to face the facts: Racism is a national security issue 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Now those calling for reconciliation are branded “frogs,” and Dufdaa’s role in the government’s bloodless takeover of Kafr Batna is seen as a nothing less than surrender to a reviled enemy. For Syrians in a former rebel bastion, reconciling with the government means a return to normalcy — at a price 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The rapid, relatively bloodless conclusion of the Persian Gulf war of 1991 earned him a three-minute standing ovation and shouts of “Bush! Bush!” when he addressed a joint session of Congress that March. George Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z No real progress was made over the next hour and the players shook hands after another bloodless draw. Magnus Carlsen thwarts Game 5 ambush in draw with Fabiano Caruana 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z This is not some CSI-style procedural, where catching murderers is a high-tech, bloodless, impersonal operation. This weekend, dive into ‘Nordic noir’ with Deadwind on Netflix 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The family fled to Hawaii in 1986 when the army and the Philippine people turned against the president in a bloodless popular revolt. Imelda Marcos disqualified from holding office after corruption conviction 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Seth Waxman, a Harvard lawyer who shared the closing arguments with Mr. Lee, scoffed at the “bloodless statistics” presented by the plaintiffs, saying that at most, statistical modeling could prove a correlation. The Harvard Trial: A Double-Edged Sword for College Admissions 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z “We’re cut from a different wood from the bloodless mainstream parties,” she said, promising to “fight for victory not for us, but for Bavaria”. Bavaria election: Merkel's conservative allies humiliated 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z It is a bureaucratic document, using careful, bloodless words to convey even the most hysterical of warnings. Will Trumponomics Collapse? 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Prayuth, who seized power in a bloodless 2014 coup when he was army commander, is widely perceived to be manipulating the campaign in a bid to extend his prime ministry. Prayuth Chan-ocha pressured for fair Thailand election amid skepticism 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Both men sometimes wrote schematic, slightly bloodless prose – but their certainty and breadth of reference could be intoxicating to politicians used to Westminster’s often insular culture. The death of consensus: how conflict came back to politics 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The amnesty applied to Mr. Trillanes’s role in two brief, bloodless uprisings. Duterte Orders Arrest of Philippine Senator, One of His Top Critics 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s largely bloodless, though there’s a siege-style scene and lots of peril for the teen; the violent scenes have real emotional weight, which can make them feel more intense. What to watch with your kids: ‘Esme & Roy,’ ‘Kin,’ ‘Searching’ and more 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Most likely, the Democrats will oppose Kavanaugh gingerly on some bloodless procedural grounds. Too many Americans die on the job. Are things about to get worse? | Gabriel Winant 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z And regardless of party, we have a common duty to press our officials to protect us from attacks that are no less devastating because they’re bloodless and invisible. Recent Missouri editorials 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z He devoted most of his speech to criticizing Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took the reins after the bloodless coup in November, which was supported by the military. Mugabe denounces his own party on eve of first Zimbabwe election without him 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Capitalism, by contrast, is presented as a largely bloodless, blameless engine of human prosperity. Condemn communists’ cruelties, but capitalism has its own terrible record | Owen Jones 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The attack that began three, perhaps four years ago by Russian military intelligence on orders from Vladimir Putin is a bloodless war against American democracy and our national sovereignty. America is still under attack, as President Trump meets with the man who staged it 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Too many European citizens now perceive the EU as a bloodless, bureaucratic abstraction that seeks to uproot or destroy national or regional identity. Donald Trump, Brexit and the Russians: A dangerous turning point in “World War IV” 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Gitta and five colleagues, all trained in computer science or engineering, developed an affordable, bloodless test that does not need a specialist to operate. Non-invasive malaria test wins Africa engineering prize 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Mnangagwa, 75, assumed the presidency in November after Zimbabwe’s longtime leader, Robert Mugabe, was deposed by the military in a bloodless coup. Zimbabwe’s president narrowly escapes apparent assassination attempt 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Penn’s internal rivals grumbled that he cared more about statistics than people and pushed a bloodless form of politics that focused on trivial symbolism like school uniforms over meaningful policy. Mark Penn, Ex-Clinton Aide, Dismisses Mueller Inquiry, and the Clintons Along With It 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Tuesday is the fourth anniversary of a bloodless coup in 2014 that toppled Thailand’s elected government. Thai authorities block Bangkok march on coup anniversary 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z But there is also something over-intellectualized and bloodless about this version. Review | Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan deliver masterful performances in Chekhov’s chilly ‘The Seagull’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The finding: Justified gun violence was judged suitable for 15-year-olds; unjustified but bloodless gun violence was deemed appropriate at age 16. Does Hollywood Need a PG-15 Rating? 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The planned date — May 22 — will be the fourth anniversary of the bloodless coup that overthrew the elected government and brought the current military junta to power. Thai protesters vow to march for election this year 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z He reiterated his stock response, mourning that the Senate never approved his plans to cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and food stamps, which is the policy translation of the bloodless phrase “entitlement reform.” Opinion | Paul Ryan is the personification of conservatism’s decline 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Given the popular demand for politicians to sweat passion, this has elevated the profile of a man who, having become a state congressman at 25, might have been viewed as a bloodless careerist. Senator Chris Murphy has become a leader on gun-control 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The Mueller probe is nothing more than a bloodless coup disguised as a special counsel. Trump Assails Mueller, Drawing Rebukes From Republicans 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z The violence is largely bloodless but very intense, with lots of guns and shooting, arrows, fighting, beating, bludgeoning, stabbings, crashes and explosions. What to watch with your kids: ‘Tomb Raider,’ ‘Love, Simon’ and more 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Slovenia achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, in a relatively bloodless manner after the EU helped to broker a deal. Slovakia or Slovenia? When the news gets confusing 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The bloodiness in juxtaposition with the bloodless high-end luxury is jarring - but not in a good way. Review: ‘Red Sparrow’ with Jennifer Lawrence never takes off 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z By seizing these properties all over the world, who needs an actual invasion.This is so much neater, and bloodless... Beijing Takes Over Anbang, Insurer That Owns Waldorf Astoria 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z But letters of inquiry are typically composed in bloodless prose, experts said. In Michigan State Investigation, N.C.A.A. Moves Beyond Its Comfort Zone 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s a stark and compelling picture, but in Harris’s book, it’s fairly bloodless. Review | Knocking down generalizations about the millennial generation 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Yet as the bloodless coup against him unfolded, Beijing offered no words of support or sympathy. Beijing Bids Goodbye to Robert Mugabe 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z On 15 November, Mnangagwa’s allies launched a largely bloodless coup, although even as tanks and soldiers took up positions around Harare, everyone involved denied there was a military takeover under way. Snapshots of 2017: the pain, the joy, and the Donald 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z By seizing these properties all over the world, who needs an actual invasion.This is so much neater, and bloodless too! Beijing Takes Over Anbang, Insurer That Owns Waldorf Astoria 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Chess is a bloodless game, and high-stakes political chess is a brutal game. Trump’s Frankenmoore Nightmare 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z We long ago went bloodless about professional sports. Eli Manning and the Truth About Endings 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The fall of Robert Mugabe, who was a fixture in global affairs for nearly four decades, was sudden, swift and bloodless. Mugabe's downfall: The unanswered questions 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Like most Coup d'Etat, it will not be bloodless. In Saudi Arabia, Where Family and State Are One, Arrests May Be Selective 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The women’s movement has been the most successful bloodless revolution of modern times. Opinion | The Deep Confusion of the Post-Weinstein Moment 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Now the 93-year-old is under house arrest with his rule nearing an end, a victim not of U.S. and Western pressure but a bloodless coup prompted by domestic infighting. Doing nothing, Trump may witness US goal in Mugabe’s ouster 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Zimbabwe's war veterans' association, which includes people who fought in the liberation war against white minority rule, described the military action not as a bloodless coup, but a "bloodless correction." Zimbabwe military warns it will exact a response against those who do not cooperate – LA Times 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Zimbabwe war vets praise army for ‘bloodless correction’ New center helping trace roots of Jews in New England 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z But that bloodless phrase does not begin to capture the passion and complexity of real projects in real circumstances. Could Genetic Engineering Save the Galápagos? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z We’ve taken a term that once spoke to women about revolution and made it bloodless. Opinion | I Coined the Term ‘Sexual Harassment.’ Corporations Stole It. 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Despite this promising setup, the story is thin and, well, kind of bloodless. Two new anthologies probe Dracula, rogues/villains 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Marcos declared martial law in 1972, a year ahead of elections in which he was ineligible to run, and held power for 14 years until his removal in a bloodless, army-backed “people’s power” uprising. Thousands rally in Philippines to warn of Duterte 'dictatorship' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Kingsman’s acrobatic chaos is weirder than ever Like The Secret Service, The Golden Circle specializes in extended sequences of acrobatic chaos that are hyper-gory, yet bloodless. Kingsman: The Golden Circle is as stylishly violent as the original — but more ridiculous 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z “Massive social unrest” here being a rather bloodless phrase masking the utter chaos coming to a country already riven by corruption and religious violence. This is how your world could end 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z There’s plenty of bloodless martial arts fighting, as well as other fighting and a scene with thugs destroying a laundromat. ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind,’ ‘Crown Heights’ and other movies to watch with your kids 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z And yet a year later, when the Brooklyn district attorney’s office filed a formal motion to dismiss the case, it held no one responsible and the language that it used was bloodless. Wrongful Convictions Are Set Right, but No Fingers Get Pointed 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Marcos declared martial law in 1972, a year ahead of elections in which he was ineligible to run, and held power for 14 years until his removal in a bloodless, army-backed “people’s power” uprising. Thousands rally in Philippines to warn of Duterte 'dictatorship' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Practically speaking, what viewers are left with is a flat, workmanlike compendium of apocalyptic portents, bloodless killings and highly derivative sci-fi-fantasy-western images. Dimension-hopping fantasy 'The Dark Tower' is hardly fit for a King 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It’s the birth of a bloodless, incinerating, indifferent instrument of destruction. The new Twin Peaks isn't just violent — it redefines what violence is 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z But all too often, nationalist and populist leaders behave as if other countries are bloodless technocracies, guided by coolly weighed interests. Why nationalists are so bad at foreign policy 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z But the buzzsaw of electoral politics can cut jaggedly through the otherwise bloodless task of regulating the banking sector. Analysis | The Finance 202: The road to Dodd-Frank rewrite runs through red-state Democrats 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The Elizabethans referred to their monarch not as the head of state but as its liver, and woe to any people saddled with a lily-livered leader, whose bloodless cowardice would surely prove their undoing. Behold the Liver, the Astonishing Blob That Runs the Body 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z That injury manifests not only in bloodless dollars. Opinion | United Airlines’ bad week won’t matter — and we have ourselves to blame 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z You might be wondering what made me venture into the bloodless heart of conspicuous consumption. Review | Glittering Tysons Corner offers another gem: The Indian food at Street Kitchen 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z For a movie with so much heart, “Queen of the Desert” is a remarkably bloodless enterprise. Review | ‘Queen of the Desert’: Gertrude Bell biopic trudges ploddingly through melodrama 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The response struck more than a few listeners as bloodless. Want to Know Where Supreme Court Nominees Stand? Don’t Bother Asking 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Its crumbling roads were like dried, bloodless veins leading to houses and businesses starved for life. Tiny Oregon town puts hope in pot shops to revive its flailing economy 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The point is that these physical injuries are emblematic of the larger, bloodless harm inflicted by oligopolistic power. Opinion | United Airlines’ bad week won’t matter — and we have ourselves to blame 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Renk’s contests are bloodless – at least for the animals – with the fight over when the torero plucks a flower stuck on the bull’s back, where blades would normally be plunged. Bloodless bullfighting in Texas frontier country: 'I call it the ballet of life' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z He had been a thorn in the side of the Bulgarian communist government but so simple and bloodless was the killing that nobody was ever identified as the perpetrator. Kim Jong-nam: What is South Korea's take on the killing? - BBC News 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Maybe the economic consequences of a hard Brexit will eventually be the bloodless undoing of such a successful multicultural arrangement. Mercedes’ latest era of F1 domination shows no sign of crumbling | Richard Williams 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z They fled to Hawaii in 1986 when the army and Filipinos turned against him in a bloodless revolution. Imelda Marcos loses legal fight to reclaim confiscated jewellery 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z To review the left’s reaction to Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is to infer he’s the spawn of Dracula — a cruel and bloodless beast who shrinks from the light and plays havoc with history. Opinion | The left’s boogeyman vision of Gorsuch 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z In the US, only bloodless battles are legal and they only happen regularly here and among California’s Portuguese community, though animal rights activists maintain they are cruel. Bloodless bullfighting in Texas frontier country: 'I call it the ballet of life' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Tourism fared better than expected after a bloodless coup deposed Thailand’s elected government in 2014 as well. Record 32.59 million foreign tourists visit Thailand in 2016 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Huge diplomatic pressure by regional leaders in the regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States, as well as the threat of military intervention by their troops, is what forced Jammeh’s bloodless departure. 'Everyone Will Now Be Equal.' Gambia's Adama Barrow Pledges Return to Democracy 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z This isn’t a bloodless policy choice; it’s a medical emergency. ♦ The Heroism of Incremental Care 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z And certainly we could argue that Obama has been too soft on Russia for its harsh backing of Syrian President Bashar Assad, so why take such umbrage at this bloodless incursion into our electoral process? Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Sanctions have emerged as a popular, relatively bloodless tool for the GOP-led Congress to address intractable international conflicts and threatening foreign regimes. Congressional push for sanctions against Russia could set up clash with Trump 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Jammeh, who seized power in a bloodless 1994 military coup, has long been accused of overseeing a government that imprisons, tortures and sometimes kill its opponents, according to human rights groups. Gambia security forces block access to electoral office 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Hundreds of Gambians took to the streets to celebrate the biggest upset in the West African country since Mr Jammeh took power in a bloodless coup in 1994. Gambia's Adama Barrow says shock win heralds 'new hope' - BBC News 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z It hasn’t always worked, as the eye-popping but bloodless performance-capture worlds of “The Polar Express” and “Beowulf” attest. Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard bring old-fashioned glamour to spy thriller 'Allied' 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Obama is hardly as cool and bloodless as advertised, but he will not perform, or even recount, his emotions on command. Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z As a rallying cry against economic injustice, a pledge to be “the small-business president,” for example, sounded bloodless. A series of strategic mistakes likely sealed Clinton’s fate 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Nobody thinks a genuine victory will be easy or bloodless. Mosul: The ugly, deadly urban warfare facing Iraq's elite troops - BBC News 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z While there are plenty of scares and creepy scenes, they’re mostly bloodless. What to watch with your kids: ‘Ouija: Origin of Evil,’ ‘Frankenweenie’ and more 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The plotters have proclaimed the return of a former administration, the national salvation government, in what has so far been a bloodless takeover. United Nations condemns attempted coup in Libya 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Shaking and in pain - his eyes swollen and his feet, lips and hands nearly bloodless - he was rescued and taken for a medical assessment nearby. 'I survived 28 hours lost in the Indian Ocean' - BBC News 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z A bloodless military coup followed, and part of the army rationale for intervening was Thaksin’s alleged disrespect for the king. King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand dies at 88, was soft-spoken anchor for 70 years 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z A bloodless military coup followed, and part of the army rationale for intervening was Thaksin's alleged disrespect for the king. Thailand's king, world's longest-reigning monarch, dies 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Clinton’s America, the nation that welcomes everyone from everywhere, can sound abstract: more of a political idea or a moral position than a physical place—bloodless, in ways both good and bad. In the Heart of Trump Country 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z But after the 43-year-old Westwood’s sad short misses, especially a final yip from 2½ feet for a tying birdie on the 18th that left his face bloodless, it’s hard to imagine Europe can bounce back. This is the year that age finally has crept up on the European Ryder Cup team - Golf Digest 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z This added to Dukakis' image as a bloodless technocrat who was not as likable as Bush, the Republican candidate and Reagan's vice president. Style Over Substance 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z It just floats through the forest, silent and bloodless. 'The People Garden' falls in the forest and doesn't make a sound (or much of anything else) 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Previous presidents used similar accounting techniques, she noted, saying the push to remove her was a bloodless coup d’état by elites fuming over the populist polices of her Workers’ Party the last 13 years. Brazil's Senate Votes to Remove President Rousseff From Office 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z But his viciousness is oddly bloodless: He doesn’t name names, leaving his villains as faceless institutions. Villains and heroes of Europe’s economy 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z As is the Fed’s standard practice, the description of the meeting was stripped of names and summarized in bloodless language. The Fed Is Searching for a New Framework. New Minutes Show It Doesn’t Have One Yet. 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The annexation was relatively bloodless, in sharp contrast to the ferocious fighting which followed in Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukraine Crimea: Russia sends new air defence missiles - BBC News 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The annexation, which was itself largely bloodless, followed a vote to secede at a referendum on self-determination on 16 March 2014 - a ballot which was not recognised internationally. Ukraine puts troops on high alert as tension grows with Russia - BBC News 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Unlike past bloodless coups in Turkey, this one does not have the implicitly understood support of the public, which appears to be divided over the military intervention. As Erdogan Confronts Mutiny, U.S. Reaps More Fear About the Region 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z No, that was bloodless and fast, with Tories uniting around Theresa May and installing her as prime minister on Wednesday, earlier than initially expected. This British party is embroiled in an ugly civil war. And it’s not the one that just lost its leader. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z If true, the move would sound a rare positive note in recent relations between the two countries, which cooled after the Thai military seized power in a bloodless coup in May 2014. U.S. 'Will Recognize' Thai Junta's Anti-Trafficking Efforts 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Nineteenth-century cultural commentators, she writes, often derided the “unnatural complexions” of the white lower classes, with their flesh the color of “yellow parchment” and their copious offspring bearing a “cadaverous, bloodless look.” “White Trash” — a cultural and political history of an American underclass 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The UK’s historic decision to end its 43-year love-hate relationship with the European Union represents a bloodless turning point in British history to rank alongside the two world wars of the 20th century. Britain has voted to leave the EU – what happens next? 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z They share with traditional realist sculpture the ability to imbue life into bloodless material, even if it’s cheap plastic rather than marble or bronze. At the zoo, a lively plastic art show with a concrete agenda 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z In the past Chinese class and party struggles have been relatively bloodless, but the judge’s words may put a new gloss on claims that the present cultural revolution has “no parallel in history”. Shock troops 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z All of which makes the scorpion dance over “unifying the party” between Sen. Sanders and bloodless Democratic heavyweights a show not to be missed. Bernie Should Hold Out 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Weirdly, after the politicians drag their drained and bloodless bodies back to their respective parliaments, they don’t say a word about what happened. Bilderberg staff make last nervy tweaks before arrival of the rich and powerful 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Brooks assumes that Hillary Clinton really is a bloodless policy automaton — a woman who is all work and no play. We have Hillary all wrong: Americans hate a politician of the press’ imagination 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z KABUL, Afghanistan — The local people called the militia’s takeover of the giant lapis mine in northeastern Badakhshan Province a white coup — easy and bloodless. Greed, Corruption and Danger: A Tarnished Afghan Gem Trade 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Midway through this odd book, with its crushes and cork sandals, its gaping horrors and bloodless military euphemisms, you begin to wonder: Is this what 15 years of war have done to us? Inside the bloody, painful wounds of war, with an enthusiastic guide 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Deputies discovered the bloodless body of Iana Kasian after breaking through a barricade to get into the couple's West Hollywood apartment last week, prosecutors said. Toronto tycoon's creative son accused of evil act in LA 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Deputies discovered the bloodless body of Iana Kasian after breaking through a barricade to get into the couple’s West Hollywood apartment last week, prosecutors said. Toronto tycoon’s creative son accused of evil act in LA 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z October 6, 1976 — Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four are arrested in a bloodless revolt led by military commanders working with Mao's successor, Hua Guofeng, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution. Key developments in China's 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z October 6, 1976 — Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four are arrested in a bloodless revolt led by military commanders working with Mao’s successor, Hua Guofeng, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution. Key developments in China's 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z After a relatively bloodless coup, conservatives have handed over the party to someone with little fealty to their core beliefs. Conservative Capitulation 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Southeast Asia's second-largest economy remains on shaky ground two years after the military took power in a bloodless May 2014 coup, with weak exports and consumption hurting growth. Thailand's oxen soothsayers predict enough rainfall, prosperous economy 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z He was unseated by a bloodless "people power" revolution in 1986 and fled to Hawaii, where his family lived in exile; he died three years later. In the Philippines, the Marcos name is back, even as memories of the dictator have faded 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z But it’s equally true that he never sounds more like a bloodless technocrat than when discussing these things. The Obama economy on May Day: “It could have been worse” isn’t nearly enough 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z “It is very cheap, bloodless, there are no Russian victims and it is seen positively by Russian society,” said Mr. Petrov, the political science professor. Questions Linger Over Russia’s Endgame in Syria, Ukraine and Europe 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Dionne makes the Republican Party’s rightward shift seem bloodless; voters are aggregate numbers that move to the right for no apparent reason, and ultimately, the party’s rightward swing has made little difference. Charting the long course of the Republicans’ sharp right turn 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z She mentioned a private school that — as she noted in her crisp, bloodless Anglo way — “specializes in these sort of things.” My son with autism is going to college. Cue the happy tears. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The best way to explain this, though saying it inevitably sounds overblown, is that a bit of a bloodless revolution has taken place. The Oscars revolution has been messy, but diversity in storytelling deepens the art and enriches us 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Either Mr Putin will anoint a successor, or there will be “a revolution, with luck a bloodless one”. Government in exile 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z It is bloodless tissue, taking oxygen directly from the air. The country that supplies eyes - BBC News 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Often, the scene was bloodless and trackless as well. Recent cattle mutilations bring memories of 1970s slaughter 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z I cheered for them, and at times I grimaced for them, not as bloodless perfectionists, like New England’s dominant duo of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, but as gifted and fallible human beings. Tom Coughlin, Eli Manning, and Football Between Fathers and Sons 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z If one, bloodless qualification for the GOP nominee is, very simply, who’d best compete with Hillary Clinton in the debates, it looks to me like Marco Rubio would demolish her equivocations. GOP Wars: Episode V 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Kerry continues to use bloodless terms like “mistakes” because he hopes he will soon be dealing with Assad—either through Russia and Iran or through the media, or even a negotiating team from Damascus. John Kerry’s Middle East Mission 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Monetary policy is conducted in a language of bloodless abstraction, and most Americans pay little, if any, attention. With Fed Set to Lift Interest Rates, the Little Guy Feels Anxious 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Saakashvili gained a reputation in his native Georgia for tough action against criminal gangs and powerful kingpins after leading the bloodless 2003 Rose Revolution against self-serving vestiges of the Soviet era. Rose Revolution hero runs into a wall of debauchery in Odessa 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The story of the changing labour share of national income is more than the bloodless interaction of supply and demand curves. Are the robots taking enough jobs? - BBC News 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z But he in effect did so in a speech last Wednesday, seen as an experiment in reconnecting with thousands of often instinctively moderate Labour members who found the mainstream candidates bloodless and uninspiring. Blairites, Brownites, Corbyn refuseniks: where do the New Labour tribes go next? 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z At center stage will be the pair of political newcomers who have upended the GOP Establishment’s hopes of a bloodless campaign. Republican Candidates Prepare to Debate in Milwaukee 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Lev Gudkov, director of the independent pollster Levada Centre, said earlier this month that most hope the operation will be quick and bloodless. Russians greet claims of Metrojet bombing with scepticism and hostility 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Their rather bloodless foxtrot to “People are Strange” from the Doors ended in a freaky foursome, so that was kinda cool. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Halloween Night scares away Hayes Grier 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Like a good and bloodless pundit, I must return to finding the positive – the political advantage! – in Biden choosing to stay on the sideline. Don't Go, Joe! 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Walesa, who won the prize in 1983, said he contributed to the group’s activity when he visited Tunisia in 2011 and shared his experience from Poland’s bloodless political reforms. The Latest: Obama praises Nobel Peace Prize choice 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Neither the book nor the television show offer an explanation for the bloodless cataclysm, and the narrative force of both works focus on those left behind as they grapple with the staggering and mystifying loss. Damon Lindelof never intended for 'The Leftovers' to be so bleak 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z His convincingly psychotic and homicidal Bulger is a Nosferatu look-alike, a bloodless vampire of crime whose performance is the essence of this film. Johnny Depp creates a chilling, indelible 'Whitey' Bulger in 'Black Mass' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The Australian people greeted another bloodless coup at the pinnacle of their government with indifference—and onions. Tony Abbott’s Long Demise 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z |
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