| 单词 | feckless |
| 例句 | They stayed, stubborn relics of a misplaced childhood, reminding anyone who witnessed his pointless, endless, feckless belligerence, that this man was once a boy. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Though Scottish by birth, he grew up in the far south of England, in the New Forest of Hampshire, because his mother was convinced that Scots were feckless drunks. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Aeron Greyjoy had been the most amiable of his uncles, feckless and quick to laugh, fond of songs, ale, and women. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Francisco Pizarro, now governor of Peru, was learning that to avoid outbreaks of feckless violence he needed to keep his men occupied at all times. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was a commotion at the locker room door and the manager’s voice was raised in a shrill, feckless protest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His stepsisters — not nasty — are rapacious and feckless; their bullying mother rules the roost with monstrous energy; Cinderella’s father is a melancholy, weak drunk. Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Cinderella,’ Under Alexei Ratmansky 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The weakness of this approach to fiction should be obvious: If what you really want is a set of fortifying maxims, why bother with stories about feckless romances or foolish kings? Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z Not Thurber’s feckless Everyman or Kaye’s holy fool, but a sad, decent guy in need of protection and love. Movie Review: ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Stars Ben Stiller 2013-12-24T18:27:55Z “So You Think You Can Dance” is as feckless as ever. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Bunheads Is Gone; ‘Breaking Pointe’ Endures 2013-09-01T22:29:35Z Once, though, I was artfully feckless too, making the rent by working as an usher for the Royal Shakespeare Company. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z Em, the woman who runs the place, radiates all the grace of a prison matron while bossing her weaker husband Harry and her three feckless farmhands. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z The aching final story, “Fatherland,” centers on a feckless playboy in Vietnam who survived brutal years in a Communist labor camp. In Viet Thanh Nguyen's 'The Refugees,' wistfulness is an anthem of displacement 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z At one point in this sometimes powerful world premiere at Rep Stage, the feckless but likable King Edward practices swordplay with his prime minister, Sir Roger Mortimer. Games, both old and new, power this reboot of ‘Edward II’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z As you read Birmingham’s book, you realize that the author of “Ulysses” was a sponge and a fop, feckless and irresponsible about money, prone to drunken binges and embarrassingly crude in his sexual enthusiasms. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style The feckless Kash uses his ability to rewind short segments of time to dodge responsibilities and postpone a reckoning in his relationship. ‘Extraordinary’ Review: The Power of Powerlessness 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s about her feckless parents, who more or less abandoned her. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Jim, in the brief look we get at him, seems more feckless than despairing. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Advertisement Nixon and Kissinger go on to blame a feckless Congress along with the “shameful” antiwar “leader class” of intellectuals, media commentators and “even some” business people for the public’s war weariness. ‘The Nixon Tapes: 1973,’ Edited by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z The fun irony is that the feckless Commodus has brought the gladiators to Rome as a bread-and-circuses initiative to distract the great unwashed while he seizes total authority over the empire. Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Yet the warring siblings fitfully reach for reconciliation with each other and their feckless father. ‘The Last Days of Cleopatra,’ a Dark Comedy by Laoisa Sexton 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Zach presents himself as a man confident in his gender privileges, but underneath he is clearly insecure and feckless. Review: ‘Permission’ and Spankings at the Lucille Lortel Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Where Roma is a paean to women – not only Cleo and her fellow maid Adela, but the middle-class family’s mother Sofia and grandmother Teresa – the two main men in the film are feckless moral cowards. Roma star Yalitza Aparicio: 'I don’t think I am an actor' 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z James' sparkling expressiveness makes the case for Ava as someone who's willfully feckless, not harmful, and ultimately can be persuaded to do the right thing – as long as the person who's asking is hot. The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Being feckless and rich, Kaz's main aim in life is to ascend to the top of the city's Bachelor's List against his nemesis Arcangelo. 14 of the best animated shows for adults from the last decade 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z They punch, strike, and kick with precision, breaking bones and saving feckless boys from themselves. "Bottoms" takes a swing at the meaning of ugly, reclaiming it for us average, untalented people 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z In this account, Trump is as he ever was: craven, feckless, moody, narcissistic, mendacious, forgetful. How Donald Trump’s Obsession With Immigrants Has Shaped His Presidency 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z And in dramatizing the effects of that backlash on Walter Lee, the feckless dreamer of the family, it offers a piercing psychological portrait of Black manhood in distress. Review: This Time, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Really Does Explode 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Meredith Hunter’s death was instantly co-opted as a rock story about bloated superstars and feckless promoters and a misguided counterculture. Rolling Stones, Hells Angels and Meredith Hunter: What the Altamont story is really about 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z With the death penalty of his diagnosis looming, Walt wakes from the slumber of an unfulfilling life, evolving from feckless drudge to reluctant part-time criminal, then gradually to something worse. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z The deaths of her father and daughter followed, and her remaining child, the feckless King Tommen, was co-opted first by his wife Margaery and then by a religious zealot Svengali, the High Sparrow. ‘Game of Thrones’: 8 Questions for the Finale 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z In the US, meanwhile, it is consumed by feckless millions who harbor no qualms about the indelicacy of the name. The Irish Car Bomb: the controversial drink with a split reputation 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Hammond's remark last week that "Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus," provoked a storm of criticism. Steve Coogan attacks Top Gear's 'ignorant' stars 2011-02-05T21:32:50Z On the contrary, Smith and Hickock symbolised the feckless, degenerate underbelly of the country, the absolute antithesis of Holcomb's God-fearing and law-abiding citizens. Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - rereading 2011-08-05T09:00:06Z A hole in the fence surrounding the facility inspires the inmates to joyfully slam through en masse, disregarding the feckless guards who fail to stop their stampeding toward a nearby lake. Dark times ahead in Litchfield: “Orange Is the New Black” returns with its most challenging season yet 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z But in the more than one thousand interviews I have undertaken in east London, I have never come across any of the feckless cockneys of popular lore. There's more to cockney culture than being born in earshot of Bow bells 2012-06-26T11:50:01Z Will Adamsdale as her feckless partner, Justine Mitchell as the alcoholic Mary and Stuart McQuarrie as the comically Anglophile Ben also adjust, more or less convincingly, to the rhythms of American life. Detroit ? review 2012-05-16T17:24:50Z The president is far from being the feckless wuss portrayed by his critics. Playing it long 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z T. J. Miller, the excitable comic who played the feckless blowhard Erlich Bachman, last seen in a Tibetan opium den in Season 4, left the show, bashing colleagues in interviews on the way out. Mike Judge on ‘Silicon Valley,’ T.J. Miller’s Exit and How ‘Idiocracy’ Endures 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Among them are Blackett’s feckless, dissolute son, Monty, who is scheming to avoid military service; his daughter, Joan, a human viper; and the Human Condition, an elderly, mangy spaniel with his own preoccupations. Review | The sordid tale of the Borgias and other great audiobooks for your playlist 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z She is the mother of a feckless loser of an adult son bullied by his brazenly materialistic girlfriend. Isabelle Huppert's rape non-victim makes Elle a perversely compulsive film 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z For establishment liberals, isolationism is synonymous with feckless irresponsibility, an abiding sin to which the American people are said to be prone. Where Does American Foreign Policy Go From Here? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The narrator of “Rorschach” notes that a man he hired “seemed agreeable — a trait I’ve grown to loathe,” deciding the man is, in fact, “just feckless.” Two Lies and a Truth: Story Collections Exploring the Spectrum of Human Honesty 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Meet Jack Frost, a happy, feckless, carefree kid who brings the winter wonderland wherever he goes. Autumn movie preview: how this year's Oscar contenders warn of America's fall 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z Ms. Jones, who has no children of her own, has developed an admiring and protective relationship with Ms. Hawkins and with Adam Driver, barely a year out of Juilliard, who plays the feckless Frank Gardner. Single, and Singular, Women Become Her 2010-09-03T20:40:00Z They are sophisticates in a slum, alienated from their families and frustrated by the feckless men in their lives. Elena Ferrante May Be the Finest Author You've Never Heard Of 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z We're constantly lambasted as feckless, spendthrift, idiots and gamblers by our European superiors. Bloomsday: a rare chance to feel good about being Irish 2012-06-16T09:59:01Z I will cop to the fact that the sharing daughter is disrespectful, that the responsible one is bossy — and nasty when disappointed — that the oldest son can be feckless. Motherlode Blog: Cultivating Gratitude, Theirs and Mine 2011-11-25T12:45:11Z He made his film debut in 1962 in “The Wild and the Willing,” a drama about academic life in which he played the feckless roommate of a rebellious student played by Ian McShane. John Hurt, British Actor Hailed for His Shape-Shifting Roles, Dies at 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z It would be pleasant to think that this dreadful, heartbreaking story will at least do something to puncture the popular stereotype of teenage mothers as feckless scroungers. TV highlights: 11/07/2011 2011-07-10T22:00:01Z At one point, he triumphantly held up the taped-together Pope photo, like a feckless politician stirring up his base. The Night Sinead O’Connor Took on the Pope on ‘SNL’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Out of the blue comes a violent confrontation with Carrie Kipling’s feckless brother, a collision that sends both men to their lawyers. Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z The comic balance between Andrey, the sisters’ feckless brother, and his domineering wife, Natasha, is exactly opposite of Jackson Gay’s recent Studio production. To Moscow! Kennedy Center showcases an expert Russian ‘Three Sisters.’ 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z It was as if Louise Mensch was some kind of stupid, embarrassing, feckless idiot. Gobbling pâté allowed a nation to scoff at the legacy of Thatcherism 2013-04-20T21:00:03Z Giuseppe Garibaldi, rather than a dashing warrior, emerged as a waffler, and Victor Emanuel II, Italy’s first king, as a feckless playboy. Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z As if to prove the point, the Albanians cut off the head of one of their female slaves and left it in the bed of Beckett's feckless son. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z There was Stella as Shelly, the film’s central character — abrasive, audacious and rabidly insecure; her Shelly smokes incessantly, rides roughshod over friends and insists on giving herself to a succession of feckless young men. The Many Faces of Stella 2010-12-29T21:45:19Z Leaning heavily into the familiar narrative obsessions of Hill’s father, Stephen King — plucky kids, feckless parents, creepy clowns and their accessories — “The Black Phone” feels unavoidably derivative. ‘The Black Phone’ Review: The Dead Have Your Number 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z By withdrawing Fairstein’s name after it was criticized, the organization appeared both feckless and perversely ignorant of the career of the very person it, days earlier, presented to the public as deserving of its imprimatur. Perspective | Does Linda Fairstein deserve a literary honor? Critics say her past as a prosecutor sullies her art. 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Recently married to Noah’s feckless father, and trying to assert authority in the awkward situation, she imposes a new rule: Caroline should keep any change she finds in Noah’s dirty clothes. Review: ‘Caroline, or Change’ Makes History’s Heartbreak Sing 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Brown, for example, acknowledges but scarcely dwells on how the princess’ two children became “widely regarded as more accomplished and personable” than the queen’s own feckless, always-divorcing offspring. Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z In the face of feckless leadership from the shift supervisor, a foul-mouthed and mercurial Jehovah's Witness named Marío Sepúlveda steps to the fore, rallying his companions to keep the faith in their darkest hours. Hector Tobar's 'Deep Down Dark' chronicles Chile's mine-shaft miracle 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z But a series of business calamities — rendered here as the screw-up of the single feckless and alcoholic school pal he’d put in charge of his finances — forced him to pick up the gloves again. ‘Big George Foreman’ Review: Not the Biopic a Two-time Champ Deserves 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z That’s good, because it challenges what might be your first assumption: This band gets close to the details of what was long ago called “college rock,” trebly, fuzzy and slightly feckless. Review: In ‘The Blackest Eye,’ Aye Nako Draws on Race and Identity 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z And so the feckless schemes of the conservatives realized the violent dreams of the Nazis. How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Come to think of it, this feckless man who would be God might have directed the arbitrary production in which he appears. Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z In a hatchback packed with college kids and one feckless millennial, the transition from youthful insouciance to settled-down banality couldn’t be more explicit. So wait, millennials aren’t the enemy? From “The Intern” to “Grandma,” the threat of looming intergenerational war has been greatly exaggerated 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z From the beginning it is an unequal contest, pitting the visionaries against the narrow-minded, the righteous few against the feckless many. Moral of the story 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z This he does first by flashing a wad of bills at Cara, his feckless son’s English teacher. Review: ‘Dan Cody’s Yacht’ Sells Upward Mobility for Dummies 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Film aficionados tend to find the fact-checking of movies a feckless exercise. Before the Oscars, Some Films Face the Truth Test 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Boys and men were "almost exclusively shown as being feckless, violent, and/or criminal," according to the complaint. Ofcom to investigate potential racial stereotyping in Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 2012-11-15T16:03:47Z However, he has a soft spot for a young boy who lives across the street with his feckless mother and her punk boyfriend. ArtsBeat: New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2011-02-16T18:16:53Z Nor does Roman, who, despite being the most feckless character, may also be the most authentic, in that he almost never changes his costume. Let’s Talk About the Yacht Clothes on “Succession” 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Lanners' feckless youths need an extended siesta ahead of their evening revels. The Giants – review 2012-07-12T21:10:02Z Feral and feckless as a child, Leigh Fermor was expelled from school after school. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z Young, Dumb And Living Off Mum Last in the series which will determine which reformed feckless waster wins a trip around the world. That Paralympic Show 2010-08-28T05:45:00Z Amy's Choice of course is between her two men, the feckless fiancé and the heroic adventurer. Doctor Who: Amy's Choice ? series 31, episode seven 2010-05-15T18:10:00Z Now their way of life is threatened because their feckless sons and grandsons aren’t holding up their end of the bargain. Louis C.K.’s ‘Horace and Pete’: Mournful and Unshakable 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z It's a measure of how endearing I found the feckless, lovesick Cincy that I feel for Vera exactly what I would towards a girl who was messing my best friend around. SOUND: A Novel by TM Wolf – review 2012-07-20T21:55:01Z This title gestures bitterly toward the novel’s many festering injustices, from the debtor prison system to the feckless “Circumlocution Office.” stings with a single, sharp point, while expands to touch upon the entire plot. You can judge a book by its title 2013-04-01T18:27:00Z As men go, Dean represents anything but the feckless, workshy, parenting-averse man whom sociologists now blame for the preponderance of single mothers. Jonathan and Julie Myerson on Blue Valentine: almost too painful to watch 2011-02-06T00:08:49Z So Evgheniya’s future now includes being pressured by the K.G.B. — using the feckless Pascha as a pressure point — to return to Moscow and continue the affair. ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Cad though he is, her feckless lover, the painter Anthony Winter, is still recognizably human. Cold Cases and Hot Emotions: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z He described his bookmaker father, Joseph, as a feckless drifter. Richard Briers: the sweetest of men 2013-02-18T14:31:30Z She amped up her efforts, and her profile, after her husband, Clayton, a feckless landowner, began to lose his fading fortune at the gambling tables. The Big, Bold Life of the Woman Who Brought Us the ‘It Girl’ 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The stench of hypocrisy and corruption permeates these pages, and the foul odor wafts through the halls of Congress, where Rep. Richie Langdon of Brooklyn is a feckless, weirdly likable, moral coward. ‘Golden Age’ review: Jane Smiley brings America into the age of terror 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Whitehall's feckless Alfie Wickers is still pursuing fellow teacher Rosie, but it's the kids who find themselves with the best lines. TV highlights 28/08/2012 2012-08-27T19:00:02Z Then, the slings and arrows of feckless journalism hit: The Independent — a British newspaper — rebukes the New York Times’s Sunday Magazine London supplement for getting some things “amusingly” and “spectacularly wrong.” | The Empire Strikes Back 2012-03-15T18:53:51Z But if you are the owner of a run of the mill feckless teenager, this is what you need to know: Teenage parties – a parents’ guide 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The store is “a treasure trove for serious music nerds, and with a selection that pushes beyond the city’s reputation as a safe zone for feckless jam bands,” Mr. Fausset said. A Mellow Summer in Asheville (With Moog Music) 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Where Mr Bower gets it wrong, however, is in casting Mr Blair as a feckless flibbertigibbet incapable of the serious analysis required to think through and implement complex policies. The shredding of Tony Blair 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Farrell’s feckless character, who inherits the company where Kurt works, is a monster of irresponsibility. | 'Horrible Bosses': A Treatise on Issues of the Workplace. Not. 2011-07-07T16:06:51Z "Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat." BBC defends "Top Gear" jokes about Mexico 2011-02-04T12:25:09Z Gallant, feckless, frivolous, brave and oh so miserable, this Brett is a triumph of style over unhappiness, who, more than anyone, embodies the spirit of the book. | 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises)': ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:06Z That is the scathing, self-deprecating sensibility that audiences expect from Mr. Stewart, who has made his name speaking humorous truths about incompetent leaders, failing institutions and the feckless news media covering them. Jon Stewart Tells Maziar Bahari’s Story With ‘Rosewater’ 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z To the English, Goldsmith appeared stereotypically Irish: easygoing, innocent and loquacious, but also impudent, feckless and improvident. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “Single Dads,” a gently absurdist comedy about a pair of feckless fathers who in real life wouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a 1-year-old, stands out for a couple of reasons. Watchlist: Mishaps in Politicking, Single-Parenthood and Finding a Partner 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z Even better, why not describe some Islamic fundamentalists as lazy and feckless? I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough 2011-02-05T21:30:00Z Contrasting that motherly image with the news of the moment, the Trump administration’s immigration policy of separating children from parents, Ms. Bee called Ms. Trump a “feckless” version of that word. About Samantha Bee, Ivanka Trump and That Word 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Edith Nesbit had three children of her own, and then adopted the two that her feckless husband had with his mistress. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z Straying husbands and feckless sons are hardly uncommon in literature or in life, but such knowledge would hardly be much consolation for any specific wife or mother. Review: Indelible Heartbreak, Moment to Moment, in ‘A Woman’s Life.’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Americans aren’t the weak, pliant, feckless people portrayed in “The Mandibles.” The bankruptcy of liberal America: ‘The Mandibles,’ by Lionel Shriver 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z It all seemed to say: Home Depot is the dominion of dads, who are said to have dominion over families, despite being cast as feckless and fumbling. ‘I never know what to get my dad’: The 11th-hour angst of a Father’s Day at Home Depot 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z She becomes pregnant, they marry young, and a near-catastrophe nudges them from the life of feckless young rock ’n’ rollers and literary dreamers onto the path of salvation. | 'Higher Ground': ?Higher Ground,? Directed by and Starring Vera Farmiga 2011-08-25T22:13:02Z Most of those lines are Mr. Esper’s, and he delivers them with a feckless bravado that makes them almost bearable. Theater Review: Nina Arianda Stars in ‘Tales From Red Vienna’ 2014-03-19T02:00:02Z She’s also vaguely uneasy about her feckless husband, Miles, who’s standing in an infinity pool with a topless girl on his shoulders. Review | ‘When Life Gives You Lululemons’ is a delicious sequel to ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Sandoval is rightfully catching the bulk of the ire for his shameless web of lies, but Schwartz's feckless little rebellions are grotesque in their own way. The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the "Vanderpump Rules" Scandoval implosion run deep 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Cazale delivers this feckless rant with wide-eyed rage and self-pity, flopping up and down in his lounge chair like a beached guppy. Respect for Fredo, a Character Who Is So Much More Than a Political Insult 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Trishna loves Jay, despite abundant evidence that he’s a thoughtless, feckless playboy, and without doubt that’s a great weakness in her character. Pick of the week: “Trishna” rebukes Bollywood 2012-07-13T00:00:00Z Hannah bumps into Adam and discovers a new truth about the feckless primate she regularly skewers her self-respect on. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z But contrary to the avalanche of tabloid reports about the star that materialize on a weekly basis, he does not seem feckless in the film. In ‘Justin Bieber’s Believe,’ director aims to look beyond stardom 2013-12-26T18:52:25Z Jesse tries to make serious street hustlers out of his motley crew of feckless associates by inviting them to a pep talk, complete with complimentary pretzels and supermarket cola. Breaking Bad: Aaron Paul plays a drug-dealing killer and viewers can't get enough of him 2012-10-12T23:01:00Z He plays a good-hearted, somewhat feckless widower, working as a supermarket clerk and trying to regain custody of his young son — who is being kept by his dead wife’s disapproving family until he remarries. Starring Nebbishes and Noodges, Yiddish Cinema Makes a Comeback 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z She also called her a "feckless c**t." How did Sam Bee’s “Full Frontal” find its brilliant voice? By amplifying the unheard 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Thursday; at 10:59, it announced that searches for “feckless” were skyrocketing on its site. Exhausting and entirely predictable: How the 60-hour Roseanne-Samantha Bee outrage cycle unfolded 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z In one particularly striking story, “Rosalind,” a feckless and wealthy young man realizes how much he loves his castoff mistress only after she and their child are dead. Review | Stories that are strange, fantastical — and utterly engrossing 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z She plays the feckless single mother of a little kid, who runs off with a truck driver leaving her daughter with her brother, played by Nick Stahl, who does his best to look after her. Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles – ranked! 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Sure, there are lovers in her stories: husbands and wives, young women and their feckless boyfriends, girls experiencing the first taste of something we might recognize as desire. Edith Pearlman has a fine eye for the intimate in 'Honeydew' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z They are everywhere, with their selfies and their avocado toast and their feckless refusal to save for a house deposit. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z A feckless dog chases a flock of sheep over a cliff. Review: ‘Far From the Madding Crowd,’ the Rom-Com 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Lipsyte's characters are often feckless, invariably deluded and they will typically end the story in an even worse place than the unappealing one where they started. The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte – review 2013-07-07T10:00:00Z Paul reaches out to John to examine her own life, art, relationships and her work habits, creating a portrait within a self-portrait, flanked by memorable sketches of their feckless lovers. Best Art Between the Covers of These Holidayx Books 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z To say nothing of the army of craftsmen the feckless baron employs to meticulously restore the family’s medieval estate. Edmund White’s High-Octane Saga of Twin Sisters and 1950s Texas 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z "But let me just say, one mother to another, do something about immigration practices, you feckless c**t." Let’s not normalize the c-word: Why the “worst word” you can call a woman matters 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z And voila, the star impulsively turns the feckless young woman into her personal assistant. Zadie Smith's 'Swing Time' is a tour-de-force 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In Ms. Patek’s opening monologue she is a feckless choreographer trying to give her work context. Dance Review: Rebecca Patek’s ‘Real Eyes’ at Chocolate Factory 2012-06-03T21:19:26Z "Because I sincerely believe that it doesn’t matter who you voted for — if we let this happen in our name, we are a feckless country." Stephen Colbert rips into Jeff Sessions for separating immigrant families 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Where they are mentioned at all, allies are portrayed as incompetent, feckless, cowardly or complacent. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran – review 2012-07-06T10:00:02Z How about if the Lads had described Africans as lazy, feckless etc? I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough 2011-02-05T21:30:00Z This film isn’t particularly kind to Queen Anne, the feckless monarch at its core, but history hasn’t been, either. A Literary Guide to the Oscars 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Pod is also a man we’ve watched grow up through the series, developing from a feckless squire into a reliable right-hand to Brienne. "Game of Thrones" recap: It's the last night in the world 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, Jess spent the entire episode shouting at her feckless bankrupt husband across the echoing exposed-brick expanse of their cavernous Heal's showroom/"lounge". Mistresses: series three, episode two 2010-08-12T21:00:00Z He’s a Clinton-era free spirit: feckless, a bit lost, waiting to see what kind of luck or love comes his way, but never doubting that something will. | 'Love & Other Drugs': A Young Viagra Salesman Sees Lust Turn Into Love 2010-11-23T23:20:00Z Imagine Voltaire's Candide with the hero rewritten as a reckless entrepreneur rather than a feckless innocent, or a picaresque fable by Henry Fielding transplanted to America between 1759 and 1776, and you get the picture. The Low Road – review 2013-03-28T12:01:43Z Kenny Wells, the feckless owner of a Nevada mining company, is the latest entry in the Matthew McConaughey gallery of charming rogues. Review: Matthew McConaughey Mines Profane Capitalism in ‘Gold’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Most of the animals they began with didn’t make it across the border, but that won’t hinder this feckless familia any more than its dumpster dressing room behind el Teatro Skylight. From cabaret to big top, more 'El Grande' laughs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z As Harris describes it, the “feckless” Obama administration mismanaged Syria nearly as badly as the Bush administration mishandled Iraq. Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z A lot of people of a certain age hear “environmentalist” and they immediately conjure the feckless back-to-the-land hippies of Easy Rider. The Green Movement isn’t fringe! 2013-03-05T17:20:00Z Trump is quoted saying feckless things like, about the war in Afghanistan, “You should be killing guys. You don’t need a strategy to kill people.” In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump’s ‘Crazytown’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z He pushed his narrators beyond scoundrels, impatient teenagers and feckless lovers into a new specialty: spectacularly ordinary, middle-aged, middle-class men, savoring their problems and only partly interested in keeping up appearances. Music Review: Once Cruel to Be Kind, Now Soft to Be True 2010-10-22T23:39:00Z The feckless Noh lets himself be dragooned into this ridiculous scheme. Boys in Love 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z He is contrasted with a feckless British spy in Moscow who blunders into a “honey trap” involving two sisters who bed him and then turn him over to the authorities. ‘The Unfortunate Englishman’: a stylish spy thriller set in postwar Berlin 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Sally — romantic, conventional — got Ben’s feckless pal Buddy; never for one moment in the 30 ensuing years has she been happy with the trade-off. What Makes ‘Follies’ a Classic? 7 Answers and 1 Big Problem. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Man Lab, which attempts to re-bottle some of his practical skills and intelligence into a kind of bluffer's guide for a generation of feckless men who can't change a fuse, less so. TV highlights 28/03/2013 2013-03-28T07:00:04Z “This was my family’s encounter with History,” she says, but at the time she was just a teenager, a “feckless witness.” Karen Olsson’s ‘All the Houses’ traces the personal costs of a political scandal 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z In the middle it’s more or less a comedy about a feckless guy taking care of a baby. Review: The French Countryside Holds Surprises in ‘Staying Vertical’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z She is also coping with care for her octogenarian, Holocaust-survivor father, and a strained relationship with her feckless teenage son. Review: ‘Small Admissions,’ ‘Freebird’ and More 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Women even harbor affection for the feckless nerds on “The Big Bang Theory” because they are gentle and smart and supportive of their wives and lovers. Smart Watch: Let’s look at men via portrayals in “Mr Inbetween,” “Insecure” and other T... 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Here was the underclass in all its feckless, drunken, irresponsible, irrepressible, resourceful, violent and promiscuous splendour, and there were no homilies or apologies or tales of transforming personal growth. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z Combine that with feckless Democrats who are so preoccupied with sportsmanlike governing that they lose the ability to govern at all. Perspective | This is what the beginning of the end of the Roe era feels like 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Jull Costa and Patterson offer a peerless translation of this comic masterpiece, narrated from beyond the grave by a feckless, pretentious, impossibly winning aristocrat. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z “I admit that I crossed a line. And I deeply regret calling you a ‘feckless runt.’ Style Invitational Week 1286: Mind your P’s and B’s (and more) 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Indeed, while the depiction of feckless American actions is clear, the alternatives at each stage in this grim history are not so obvious, nor does this book present us with a plan for the future. War Without End 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z A blithe run-through of the sexual prejudices and preferences of feckless young men, in which celebrity is celebrated more than excoriated? Your next box set: Entourage 2011-03-04T08:00:03Z It was given a helping hand by a feckless Mr Obama, already guilty of “passivity in the face of catastrophe” according to Mr Kilcullen. The mistakes that made Islamic State 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Men like him, those feckless, nervously smiling lumps pouring into decent haberdashery, have a knack for scoring second chances. Hey, talk show gatekeepers: Let’s not enable Sean Spicer 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z He sings in croons and yelps, making acid commentary about competition between musicians, sexual rituals and everyday treachery, feckless posing, attractions and repulsions, and class and race. New Music: The Dude Sings 2011-08-15T22:07:21Z The story follows the feckless, peerlessly lazy nobleman Brás Cubas as he reflects on his life from beyond the grave. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Vance’s mother was an empress of instability — violent, feckless, prone to hysteria. Review: In ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a Compassionate Analysis of the Poor Who Love Trump 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Although I have always enjoyed traveling, I am a hopeless and even feckless planner of vacations. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z Partly we get yet another English variation on The Cherry Orchard, with a feckless family seeing their rambling property grabbed from under their noses. The Last of the Haussmans – review 2012-06-20T17:21:31Z While the writers never pretended the larger New York Police Department isn't corrupt, the antagonists representing the worst aspects of the force are generally as feckless as the criminals Jake and the gang pursue. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" returns with an appropriate awkward hello to its farewell season 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Robert Plant’s feckless pliancy throughout is hard to square with the exploratory nature of his later work. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z In a statement posted on X after the vote, he called the resolution “feckless,” “deeply flawed” and that it had “factually unverified claims.” MTG attacks House Republicans who voted against her motion to censure Tlaib 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z It is, on one level, a crime thriller built from familiar Scorsesean elements: demanding father figures and feckless heirs, treacherous husbands and neglected wives, oafish goons and ruthless assassins, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Review: 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is a powerful historical epic — and a qualified triumph 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Republicans have been able to avoid the political costs of their feckless behavior for decades, in no small part because Democrats have been effective at stemming the bleeding from bad GOP choices. Holy entitlement, Batman! Republicans are furious Democrats didn't save Kevin McCarthy from himself 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z “Putin is certainly expecting the West to be as feckless as the West can be when they’re in the fight and they lose stomach for that fight, whether it’s Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq.” Combat fatigue? Cracks in Western unity as Ukraine struggles to show progress 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z “You can defend your values, be a soldier for social justice and be merciless toward conservatives while still admitting when feckless people take liberal ideology to bizarre ends.” Do ‘elites’ really know best? | Pamela Paul 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Not more months in this feckless “ambiguous position,” which the city has been placed in by both the mayor and City Council. Seattle sure is in no hurry to address the drug crisis on its streets 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Even as college athletics became a free-for-all, the league pursued a feckless strategy, eschewing expansion until completing a media deal, which became more illogical over time even while criticism of this decision mounted. WSU needs a warrior president, not a docile diplomat, after Pac-12 implosion | Op-Ed 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z The Irishman steadied things, then actually looked like he might rescue the situation with a run of three wins, before the squad returned to type with a succession of feckless performances. Where did it go wrong for Dundee Utd? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z That article was feckless and dopey, but if anything Andrew Prokop's effort in Vox to both-sides the ensuing controversy was somehow, and hilariously, worse. "Dark Brandon Tonight": Joe Biden, Tucker Carlson and the lure of the unsayable 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z They are something worse than that — unproductive, ineffective, feckless and uninspiring. Mariners waste dominant performance from Easton McGee in 1-0 loss to Blue Jays 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z The feckless speaker accuses Biden and the Democrats of “playing partisan political games” by refusing to negotiate with him over the debt ceiling. Column: The GOP's debt ceiling proposal bundles every bad policy idea into one noxious package 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Regardless of whom they nominate, Republicans expect to challenge Mr. Biden next year by linking him to the nation’s economic troubles and depicting him as a feckless leader held captive by his party’s activist left. Biden Announces Re-election Bid, Defying Trump and History 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Is he a feckless man-child who, you know, accidentally lost track of $8 billion worth of liabilities? Opinion | Sam Bankman-Fried is a product of our time 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z A feckless cabal forms a touchingly ineffectual pseudo-religion that turns out to harbor real cosmic truth. Review | Charles Portis, model outsider, gets the canon treatment 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The media coverage of the arraignment and the spectacle that surrounded it showed yet again how feckless our mainstream media is, and how inflammatory is the tribal right-wing media. "The first of a series of indictments": One week after historic Trump indictment, experts reflect 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Black, a journalist and the author of eight books, repeats the all-too-familiar story: a cunning and ruthless North Vietnamese army defeating the blind and brutal Americans and their feckless South Vietnamese allies. Review | Vietnam’s toxic legacy continues, and Agent Orange looms large 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Even this sensible policy, emerging from a fog of feckless rhetoric, invites cynicism. Opinion | With the Silicon Valley Bank rescue, welcome to capitalism without risk 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z “Our party has a problem with feckless leaders. … We need a wartime leader.” Colorado GOP selects combative, election-denying new leader 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z It was Carlson who whitewashed the Jan. 6 insurrection this week after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy turned over thousands of hours of video to the feckless fountain of fear and disinformation. Tucker Carlson, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News: A network of treason, sedition and lies 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi was a feckless and lazy pupil who was carefully groomed into a terrorist, his former head teacher has said. Manchester Arena bomber was feckless and lazy, says head teacher 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Today we are less about news and more about trying to preach our own version of the truth, and in so doing we are humorless, shameless and feckless. Adults in the playroom: Biden and Romney try to rescue order from chaos — but is that enough? 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Ironically, while the feckless Carter lost the presidency to Reagan, Kennedy returned to the Senate revitalized. Review | Two books capture the messy, monumental life of Ted Kennedy 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Along with his “half and half” friends, Insu leads a feckless life until he learns that water collected in a human skull may be a miracle cure. 10 books to add to your reading list in February 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z He leveled criticism at the “feckless military government” that manages civilian affairs for Israeli settlers, including himself. Netanyahu government: West Bank settlements top priority 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z But Goodell isn’t going anywhere, and his feckless leadership will be the enduring legacy of this fiasco. Perspective | The NFL shield never stopped protecting Daniel Snyder 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Billy was the heir to a New York banking fortune; Ann came from Kansas, where she’d grown up poor and neglected by an absent father and a feckless mother. Review | Truman Capote’s other true-crime story 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z “With the administration’s feckless approach,” he said, the U.S. is “sleepwalking into a crisis.” Steve Chabot: Joe Biden, administration dropping the ball on holding China accountable 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Now an England team winless and feckless across its past six friendlies waited at the end of another trail for its traveling fans. England, which knows the weight of expectations, opens World Cup looking gorgeous 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Things worsened as Qatar’s passing looked aimless and its defense looked feckless. Host Qatar revels in World Cup opener, then suffers a deflating loss 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z A Trump campaign spokesperson called the announcement “a totally expected political stunt by a feckless, politicized, weaponized Biden Department of Justice.” Opinion | Garland’s appointment of a special counsel was cautious. But also bold. 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z “Instead, the senior royals seem dangerously deluded and out of touch. The junior royals, feckless, entitled and lost.” Review | ‘The Crown,’ good as ever, may change your opinion of Charles and Diana 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Sean Marks, Brooklyn’s general manager, exemplified the Nets’ feckless approach when he spoke after the team parted ways with Steve Nash as coach. Perspective | Delusional, defiant Kyrie Irving is a stain the NBA could no longer ignore 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Belle’s father Maurice, a feckless inventor very much in the Gyro Gear loose mold, gets the plot rolling by getting himself hopelessly lost in the deep woods. 9 Angela Lansbury favorites to watch and where to find them 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z But feckless management, misreading the public mood and executive overreach have all contributed to voter rage. Opinion | Bolsonaro beats the polls — and plunges Brazil into more uncertainty 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z What promising young Russian would waste a career on such a feckless, corrupt force — to be known only for indiscriminate bombing, war crimes and incompetence? Opinion | Why a negotiated peace with Putin is the safest way out 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z A growing number of people now understand the Republicans as a brazen group of feckless bullies. A storm is coming: It might sweep Trump and the GOP into history's dustbin 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Thanks to a hostile Supreme Court, an intentionally ineffectual Federal Election Commission and a similarly feckless Internal Revenue Service, that effort can now be declared an abject failure. Opinion | A $1.6 billion donation points to a bipartisan scandal 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Republican leaders largely have been feckless, ducking the question with answers like “now is not the time,” or “other issues are more important.” ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ is the latest example of the left’s outright lying 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z In fact, accepting things as they are is one of the most powerful ideas a person can aspire to: to not be feckless, but to understand how little we have control over. Perspective | Grandma’s helping with grandchildren, but doesn’t like what she sees 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The likelihood of that bill becoming law also was nonexistent under President Barack Obama, making it a feckless exercise that could have hurt Republicans in the 2016 election, Republican women said at the time. House GOP women are a crucial piece of party’s next move on abortion 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z They’re certainly more tolerable than the torrent of emails I’ve received from feckless Democratic politicians begging for more money in the wake of Roe v. I’ve been getting tons of "wrong number" spam texts, and I don’t hate it? 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z We are filled with foibles and fears, and at times the feckless fools seem to run amok. Did "surprise witness" Cassidy Hutchinson save America from Trump's comeback? 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Her second novel, about a feckless nanny, is titled “Bad Marie.” Marcy Dermansky whips up the perfect storm of an unreliable narrator in 'Hurricane Girl' 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z His connection to the artists in “Flux Gourmet” — or “feckless faux-provocateurs,” as one character describes them — feels especially personal. Review: The wickedly funny ‘Flux Gourmet’ serves up food, poop, orgies, satire — and soul 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The son of Pelham “Plum” Warner, dubbed the “Grand Old Man of cricket,” Esmond was living a feckless Brideshead-style life when World War II broke out. Review | Marina Warner’s new book evokes the vanished glamour of yesterday 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Abbott’s meddling with international commerce is his latest gambit in what he calls Operation Lone Star, which is designed to make him look tough on immigration and President Biden feckless. Opinion | Greg Abbott declares war on international commerce 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z “We don’t see global American leadership anymore. Instead, we rather find it feckless and helpless,” Lee Sang-min, a senior lawmaker affiliated with the governing Democratic Party, told a parliamentary hearing in February. In South Korea, Ukraine War Revives the Nuclear Question 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Republicans, meanwhile, have been determined to outflank Biden, casting his approach as weak and feckless — with some clearly seeing the opportunity to create a political wedge ahead of November’s midterm elections. As Ukraine conflict rages, Congress struggles to legislate a response 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z The picture of mile after mile after mile of Russian military hardware bogged down along a single road north of Kyiv suggests that Xi’s Moscow partner is not just reckless but also feckless. Opinion | Xi Jinping is surely rethinking his grand bromance with Putin 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z They cite Putin’s shrewdness and strength, along with an unfettered willingness to use force to expand his country’s reach, suggesting that creates a flattering contrast with Biden, whom they portray as weak and feckless. Trump and his supporters praise Putin and dismiss Biden as crisis unfolds 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The right likes to share viral videos of brazen shoplifters, and blames store closures on feckless progressive cities that have stopped prosecuting these scofflaws. Opinion | Are retail closures caused by shoplifting or other factors? Well, yes. 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Afghan army couldn’t fill its ranks even by dangling money, and the public had given up on the corrupt administration of feckless Ashraf Ghani, the former president who fled the country. Opinion | George Packer’s opus on Afghanistan is a scorching indictment of Biden 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z He must have hoped for a feckless, divided response from the West. Opinion | Biden’s resolute campaign of deterrence against Russia in Ukraine 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Former president Donald Trump and some of his fellow Republicans are already positioned to capitalize on any perceived misstep by the Biden administration to help buttress their political narrative that Biden is weak and feckless. Biden faces no easy options on Ukraine — and Democrats fret he could look weak 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z “It’s a feckless move. However, Senator Sinema certainly has a broader problem than just a censure from the party faithful.” Arizona Democrats Censure Sinema After Filibuster Vote 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z Stewart wasn’t just famous; he was also feared, having shown himself willing to subject feckless politicians to public shame. The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z “What Governor Evers is doing is trying to take an electorate, especially his base, who look at him as weak and feckless and try to show that he matters,” Vos said. Wisconsin Gov. Evers’ reelection pitch: democracy is at risk 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z After feckless leadership by the Seattle City Council, the majority of which had supported defunding the police, voters elected progressive moderates Bruce Harrell as mayor and Sara Nelson as a City Council member. The gifts of our region 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Quietly, and then loudly, he urged the learned elites of America to go on strike to show the public how brilliant and essential they were as a feckless government slowly collapsed without their industry. Column: L.A.'s unvaccinated public workers go Ayn Rand, throw fit over city's vaccine mandate 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z The Lebanese are now struggling to survive one of the world’s worst economic meltdowns of the past 150 years, a crisis the World Bank has called a “deliberate depression” perpetrated by a feckless ruling class. How Corruption Ruined Lebanon 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z His followers are given license to attack these enemies, including the feckless liberals and intellectuals who are a pathetic appendage to the oligarchic class. America's fate looks bleak: Will it be oligarchy or autocracy? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z But they weren’t all feckless boobies, as the Blatherskite proved. Review | How to fritter away a family fortune 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The man I once considered a friend and confidante has morphed into a feckless and unreliable leader I no longer recognize. Biden’s agenda ‘hanging by a thread’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Call me feckless, call me disloyal, call me old-fashioned, but I think paying for pain should be a personal matter, best taken up with one’s shrink. Opinion | There have always been losing teams in baseball — but this season is different and worse 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z “We must reject the falsehood peddled by a feckless president that this was the only option for withdrawal,” Mr. Hawley said. On Afghanistan, G.O.P. Assails the Pullout It Had Supported Under Trump 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Not all but most of those taking the opposite point of view end up uttering lines of reasoning that are unsubstantiated and feckless. Opinion | Invading Afghanistan was based on more than fear 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Veterans and other groups seeking to extract particular Afghans have called Biden feckless, a liar or far worse. U.S. consular officials at Kabul airport struggled with surging crowds and painful choices 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z In the continuing aftermath of the catastrophe of the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan, the Biden administration continues to display the feckless wokeness causing disaster after disaster. Biden’s ‘woke’ Afghanistan strategy 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The feckless Ghani could have been propped up at minimal cost in American blood and treasure. Opinion | Biden’s grave miscalculation in Afghanistan: He didn’t think like an underdog 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z That’s why the Trump White House considered just about any domination of the news cycle to be a win, no matter what disgusting or feckless deeds it perpetrated. Review | A new Trump book is disturbing but entertaining — and maybe that’s a problem 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, just after Mr. McCarthy scolded her, Ms. Greene retweeted — and then quickly deleted — a post calling him a “moron” and “feckless,” using an expletive for emphasis. Greene’s Holocaust Comparisons Cause New Headaches for G.O.P. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z “That proved to be a horrible, feckless fiction.” Biden faces another Vietnam, Hill critics warn 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z But strategists who are drawn inexorably to top-down crisis-definition and management can be facile and feckless too, corrupting the republican ethos and liberal education they mean to rescue from liberals. What "politics" does to history: The saga of Henry Kissinger and George Shultz's right-hand man 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Condoleezza Rice went so far as to call Jimmy Carter’s 1980 boycott of the Moscow Games a “feckless” act that did nothing to alter Soviet behavior in Afghanistan and harmed only the athletes. Perspective | China controls the IOC and Olympic sponsors the way it governs its citizens: Through fear 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z In 2018, Bee was forced to apologize after calling Ivanka Trump a "feckless c---" over a photograph the first daughter shared on social media. Liberal comedian Samantha Bee admits she pulls punches when it comes to Biden: ‘I can’t deny that’ 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z In a column Monday in the Washington Examiner, a conservative news outlet, Gaetz predicted that “some of my feckless colleagues in Congress” will call for him to step down. Gaetz says he won’t resign over ‘false’ sex allegations 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z In a column appearing in the Washington Examiner, a conservative news outlet, the embattled Florida Republican predicted that “some of my feckless colleagues in Congress” will call for him to step down. Gaetz says he won’t resign over ‘false’ sex allegations 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Some leftist and "politically correct" initiatives on college campuses are feckless reactions against these pressures. What "politics" does to history: The saga of Henry Kissinger and George Shultz's right-hand man 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z There would be nothing feckless about such an act. Perspective | China controls the IOC and Olympic sponsors the way it governs its citizens: Through fear 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Otherwise, the operative standard for presidents will continue to be what they can get away with, in tandem with a collectively feckless Congress. What's an "impeachable" crime — and what isn't? History offers some dark lessons 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z This politesse, which epitomizes the Biden White House, fuels an animus towards the ruling elites, along with the feckless liberals and the liberal values they purport to defend. Papering over the rot: Joe Biden's window dressing can't end oligarchy 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z At one demonstration, speakers denounced Mr. Biden as a “feckless puppet of the centrist Democratic establishment.” They’re Breaking Glass and Criticizing Biden. From the Left. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z She applied to Geneva College in New York, where a feckless faculty let the students vote on her admission. ‘The Doctors Blackwell’ tells the story of 2 sisters who blazed a trail for women in medicine 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z It’s hard to overstate how feckless and cynical this action is. Column: On his way out the door, Trump aims one more shot at California over abortion rights 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z With feckless men and women like these representing the once Grand Old Party, the Republican symbol should no longer be the majestic elephant; it should be the weasel. A new symbol for a new low 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z That advance prompted Trump’s feckless and futile inquiry about bombing — which, his advisers told him, could trigger a regional war during his last days in office. Opinion | Trump’s overarching Middle East strategy reaches a disastrous dead end 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z His feckless response to the 1929 stock market crash undoubtedly made the ensuing Great Depression worse. Harris will be the first female, Black and Asian vice president. But not the first VP of color. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Hamas and other critics portrayed Dr. Erekat as feckless and timid for standing against militants carrying out anti-Israel attacks — acts that some Palestinians saw as heroic. Saeb Erekat, Palestinian negotiator who shaped Arab-Israeli peace agreements, dies at 65 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The damage encouraged by feckless elected Republicans is considerable. Opinion | The election is over, but there’s no end to Republican bad faith 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Like Van Buren, it wasn’t his fault, but his feckless response made it much worse. Trump just joined history’s club of one-term presidents, rejected by the Americans they led 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z The elder Menaker was later linked to KGB intelligence operations in Chile but “seemed pretty feckless altogether,” said Mr. Menaker, who suspected his father was not entirely sure of what he was doing. Daniel Menaker, author and celebrated editor at the New Yorker and Random House, dies at 79 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Obama concluded by comparing Trump, unfavorably, to the state’s signature meme, a feckless and addled Everyman known for bizarre and idiotic behavior. Obama’s new gig: gleefully needling Trump 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z In his speech, Fowlers, who represents Burwood, told Parliament, “We did not expect, nor did we invite, this confrontation with a ferocious and feckless enemy,” News.com.au reported. Australian politician borrows lines from 'The West Wing' fictional president in own coronavirus speech 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z It is inhumane to reduce millions of people to feckless byproducts of inequality, and does a huge disservice to the vast majority who remain generous, open and kind. Idles v Fat White Family: what the indie showdown tells us about class 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z And seeing its current enemy clearly, as a feckless tribune for the discontented rather than an autocratic menace, is essential to the wisdom that a Biden presidency needs. Opinion | There Will Be No Trump Coup 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Apparently, whoever demonstrates the least care is the strongest man, the most fearless leader — as opposed to the most feckless. Perspective | Trump obsesses over ‘dominating’ covid-19 because he wants to look manly 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z He was nothing like the “utterly feckless”, “dilapidated personality” described in official reports, but sociable and resourceful enough to make friends and find supporters around the country, and to survive on his wits. How one man spent 34 years in prison after setting fire to a pair of curtains 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The European Union, for example, has confined itself to feckless requests to send observers to the region. Opinion | China’s Xi is doubling down on genocide 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z "Violent radicalism had been flourishing in the city for years before the rest of the country paid attention, and Mayor Ted Wheeler’s feckless leadership is no anomaly." Mark Hemingway delves into 50 years of 'depraved' left-wing leadership in Portland 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Cotton said that that’s the kind of “feckless leadership” former Vice President Biden would offer as president of the United States. Tom Cotton slams Biden’s Kenosha response: Democratic nominee is 'panicked and overmatched' 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z It was clear he couldn’t bear not to be practicing, to be stuck feckless in the castle posting on Facebook. How Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z I have spent much of the Trump era arguing that he is too feckless and incompetent, too much of a buck-passer and coward, to represent an authoritarian menace in his own right. Opinion | Win or Lose, Trump Will Hold Power Over the G.O.P. 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z In the script for “An American Pickle,” Rich extends a bit more charity to Ben, who is more hapless than feckless. Review: Seth Rogen's dual role elevates 'An American Pickle,' an ode to classic American Jewish cinema 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z There’s a good reason many observers think Beijing wants another Trump term: No one does more to hurt America and help China than our feckless president. Opinion | No one does more to hurt America and help China than Trump 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The Karen meme sends up a laughable, often feckless symbol of racism in America. In 'Hanna,' even the assassins have online personas. Let us explain 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Cotton wrote: "Outnumbered police officers, encumbered by feckless politicians, bore the brunt of the violence." After Tom Cotton's "Send in the troops" op-ed, NYT staff stages internal rebellion 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z We have all seen variations of this financial advice, which is normally written by a “sensible grownup” and directed at feckless millennials. So much for entitled millennials – it’s billionaires such as Richard Branson who are begging for loans | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Oh, their conduct might be legal, thanks to their feckless friends in big government, but it ain’t right. Perspective | Being forced to play poker online serves as another reminder of why we need human contact 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z The Reverend would opine on feckless politicians, lack of police presence and low turnout for neighborhood meetings. Opinion | The ‘Reverend’ of Benning Ridge died, but his fight should live on 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The Dutch and Germans suspect Italy is using the crisis in Lombardy to rebrand the rejected concept of eurobonds in which the north finances the debts of the feckless south. Coronavirus: who will be winners and losers in new world order? 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z The U.S. response has been led by a feckless president who did not recognize the seriousness of the problem. Opinion | Does the future still belong to the U.S. and China? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z There’s a wedding, a feckless young painter and his even younger bride, our dotty narrator, who brings her pet newt Great Warty in her pocket and lets him have a swim in the water jug. Novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Despite a privileged background, he was anything but a feckless playboy. The moment Britain's first great grand prix driver saluted Adolf Hitler 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z So maybe some of the divide reflects policy — the fact that West Coast leaders acted ever-so-slightly more swiftly and with more seriousness of purpose than the feckless Bill de Blasio in New York City. Opinion | Rational Panic, but Also Rational Hope 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z The feckless liberal class, easily frightened, is already abandoning Sanders, castigating his supporters with their nauseating self-righteousness and championing Biden as a political savior. The one-choice election 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z It was a favorite of captains of industry, many of whom saw it as a goad to their feckless employees. Perspective | A fruitless search for a D.C. plaque that once honored a famed Cuban general 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z And as our children see our feckless leaders tolerate a president without a fiber of virtue, I fear that we will all become who he is. Opinion | This vulgar man has squandered our decency 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z He saw the Saudi royal family as feckless, but feared that the alternative in such a deeply conservative society could be an ISIS-style Wahhabi theocracy. Mohammed bin Zayed’s Dark Vision of the Middle East’s Future 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “A war without a Congressional declaration is a recipe for feckless intermittent eruptions of violence,” Mr. Paul tweeted, with “no clear mission for our soldiers.” Congressional Leaders Call for Details After U.S. Airstrike on Suleimani 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “The violent anti-Semitic attacks in NYC are being caused by raw hate, feckless leadership, a culture of acceptance, education & promotion of anti-Semitism, & lowering quality of life,” Zeldin tweeted. Cuomo calls machete attack at NY rabbi's home during Hanukkah celebration an 'act of terrorism' as other politicians react 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Zeldin told "Fox & Friends" that the city's "feckless leadership is greatly concerning, and these people are being victimized and it's only getting worse until you see more people stepping up to confront it." Lee Zeldin rips Bill de Blasio's 'feckless leadership' as NYC faces 9th anti-Semitic attack 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z The feckless Wilhelm can be a little hard to bear but, given stentorian honor by the strong tenor Scott Ramsay, he ever so slowly becomes more sympathetic. Review: Numi Opera takes on Korngold's 'Polykrates,' written as a teen before he hit Hollywood 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “During that time, the Los Angeles Times reported that 25 Ukrainian soldiers lost their lives in combat. The gravity of this feckless decision is clear and stunning,” he wrote. Courtney, Hayes add their support to impeachment 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Of all the failures in Afghanistan, the war on drugs has been perhaps the most feckless, according to a cache of confidential government interviews and other documents obtained by The Washington Post. In confidential documents, U.S. officials said almost everything they did to end opium farming in Afghanistan backfired 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “But too many,” he added, “have been absolutely feckless.” Michael Bloomberg Has Used His Fortune to Help Republicans, Too 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z If anything, he said, the protests began here in 2013, when millions flooded the streets in a public indictment of corruption and feckless governance. As protests sweep Latin America, Bolsonaro warns Brazil: Don’t try it here 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z State Department as a feckless institution subjugated to the White House. Colombia ambassador criticizes State Department in recording 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Whether it is feckless foreign policy moves, illicit self-dealing or controversial corporate alliances, there is no shortage of scandal to alarm and divide Americans. Thailand wants to ban these three pesticides. The US government says no | Carey Gillam 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z It is as rebellious for Kesha to make feckless pop now as it was a decade ago. Kesha: 'The world's going to burn up – I might as well have a good time' 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z That must not be the last feckless word on this historic neglect. Add Columbia River’s polluted Bradford Island to Superfund 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Mike Pompeo has a cameo as the feckless secretary of state who refuses to stand up for his diplomat out of fear of setting off an unstable Trump. Opinion | So this is why Trump doesn’t want officials to testify 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z It is, after all, very convenient to believe that the poor are feckless and undeserving, morally weak or stupid, rather than casualties of a deeply unfair systemic bias. Smashing the patriarchy: why there's nothing natural about male supremacy 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Under certain conditions, we’re all perfectly capable of being spineless, feckless, reckless and cruel. In search of our better selves - Golf Digest 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “To everyone in the White House and every Republican who was mad that President Obama pulled out of Iraq, you feckless, unpatriotic cowards,” she said. Meghan McCain slams ‘feckless, unpatriotic cowards’ who support Trump’s decision to pull back US troops in Syria 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The state’s watchdog responsibility is too important to leave its enforcement so feckless. Day of reckoning for serial initiative filer Tim Eyman 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The lawless and rootless and feckless and helpless are not good gambles for too-scarce, meticulously rationed organs. A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z “On the one hand it’s a bad policy, and then the other thing is it’s a feckless policy,” Mr. Mankiw said. Democrats’ Plans to Tax Wealth Would Reshape U.S. Economy 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Reliance on special commissions is feckless and weak. Editorials from around New York 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Luke Wilson plays his feckless, self-deluding father, who reappears to take him off to a strange new life in Las Vegas. The Goldfinch: can a film solve Donna Tartt's most divisive book? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It was through such feckless, defeatist policies that the United States theorized that conciliation and engagement would lead the Party rulers and their military henchmen away from communism and toward democracy and free markets. Book reveals how Chinese intelligence steals U.S. tech secrets to dominate world 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Trump’s advisers and allies have dismissed the efforts as feckless plotting by a bloc that has lost relevance in the GOP. Trump critics eye GOP primary race, even if defeating him seems ‘preposterous’ 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Because feckless but sweet peace-and-love quietism seldom makes going on a killing spree look like the obvious next step, equating the Manson “family” with hippies in general is obviously a fallacy. Woodstock glorified them. Tarantino barbecued them. In 2019, whither the hippie? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The incumbent, a feckless Trump clone, had won his last race by nearly 20%. Are the Democrats divided? No — they're poised to win big if they don't screw it up 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It was the kind of offhanded comment that made Appleton — as close as there is to a steward of Frogtown’s amphibians — wish for a cudgel to wake up feckless bureaucrats. An activist bought 4.5 acres of the L.A. River just to have a stake in its revitalization 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z “Looking weak and feckless does not help your re-election prospects; it’s going to hurt you.” Support for Impeachment Inquiry Grows in the House 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z That op-ed was written by columnist Dana Milbank, whom McConnell suggested in no uncertain terms was one of several "hyperventilating hacks" who conveniently had ignored former President Obama's "feckless" Russia policies. McConnell condemns 'modern-day McCarthyism,' 'feckless' Obama policies, after pundits call him 'Russian asset' 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Detractors call Johnson buffoonish and unprincipled, reckless and feckless. Boris Johnson, one of Britain's most eccentric politicians, on track to be next prime minister 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z We need to cloak our nominee in their conservative drag because, they say, the Democrats are too feckless to find 270 electoral votes with a flashlight and GPS. NeverTrumpers, let's talk: We want your help, but so far your advice sucks 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Initially sparked by anger over transportation issues, the demonstrations grew into a broader indictment of corruption and feckless governance. He’s the Rush Limbaugh of Brazil. He has Bolsonaro’s ear. And he lives in rural Virginia. 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z The stereotypes emphasized in the Facebook group happen to have struck a particularly resonant chord with younger demographics, predominantly millennials, long sensitive to being labeled entitled, lazy, wildly selfish and feckless by their elders. Meet the millennials pretending to be baby boomers on Facebook 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z “She was just so enigmatic and tenacious and foibled and feckless and passionate and terrified of herself and terrified of the power of what she was feeling,” she says. ‘Wild Rose’ heralds arrival of rising star Jessie Buckley 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Perhaps; but it would be arrogant and feckless to assume that the double vision of one modern progressive captures the full plurality of political truth. Review | The message of these ‘civic sermons’: Have faith in your fellow Americans 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z But things get interesting, and funny, when a group of moms debate whether the demon is a feckless phony. Portland author Karen Russell explores human frailty in ‘Orange World and Other Stories’ 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Barbare spent much of her time circuiting the provinces, trying to help her feckless husband and then her hapless son salvage catastrophic careers. The Culinary Muse of the Caucasus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z His goal is to attract traditional Republicans who are as disillusioned with Trump’s feckless tax and spending policies as they are with his personality. Bill Weld’s Presidential Run: Finally, a Republican Tells the Truth About Trump 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z This is one of the hoariest shibboleths of modern American politics: feckless Democrats tax and spend; sober Republicans stand for balanced budgets. Can we stop pretending now? 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Liu is not so arrogant or feckless, as revealed in his third major theme: “democracy in America is an act of faith.” Review | The message of these ‘civic sermons’: Have faith in your fellow Americans 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Plus Mrs. May found herself in No. 10 Downing Street only because these same feckless upper-class men decided to kiss off the European Union without a clue how to achieve it. Opinion | What Happens When Women Stop Leading Like Men 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Once again, the U.S. political system looks feckless compared with other democracies. Opinion | New Zealand is showing America how to respond to mass shootings 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Yet Pence's speech savaged the Obama administration for being weak and feckless in cyberspace — a remarkable shift in tone. Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: Security pros once worried Trump would be a loose cannon in cyberspace. Now, they praise his policies. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z In recent days, House Republicans have put on their most feckless performances of the Trump era. Opinion | On the critically endangered list: The Principled Republican 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Dating back to the cold war, voters have stubbornly clung to the image of Republicans as unflinching patriots and Democrats as feckless security risks. Trump is a national security risk – and still Republicans back him | Walter Shapiro 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z It is a truth universally acknowledged that millennials are a feckless bunch who can’t get on the housing ladder because they spend all their money on avocado toast. Would you take a pay cut to get a better job title? It's not as stupid as it sounds | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Jonah’s dangerous path takes him through a full complement of familiar types and tropes, the cop on the take, the immoral industrialist, a Hong Kong godfather, a down-on-his-luck journalist, feckless hoods, politicians with agendas. Review: Amazon's thrillers ‘The Widow’ and ‘White Dragon’ are potato-chip bingeable 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The odds are that, with an entirely feckless Republican Party serving in the U.S. Will Donald Trump follow Maduro’s path? 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Could it be that Trump’s reckless spending and his feckless Republican enablers will doom Democratic firebrands to live in the real world? Opinion | Democrats refuse to be the only ones limited by reality 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z We can do that in spite of climate change, invasive species, a feckless global economy, dysfunctional politics, and a national attention span for which sound bites take too long. Grand Canyon National Park turns 100: How a place once called "valueless" became grand 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Responding to Ms Allan's comments, Labour councillor Lee Carter accused her of delivering "12 minutes of fact-free and feckless words about a process that means so much to so many courageous people". 'Gravy train' jibe over Telford abuse probe 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Europe is feckless in the face of U.S. pressure, they say, and Iran is wasting its time with negotiations. While E.U. tries to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iran, Trump administration amps up pressure 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z That suggests the value of a public pension system that is insulated, and that insulates beneficiaries, from cyclical turbulence, feckless employers and poor individual choices. Review | Why retirement is no longer a time of relaxation and security 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Kelly last year publicly slammed Bee after the comic called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c - - t” on her topical TBS show, “Full Frontal.” Megyn Kelly, Samantha Bee had jury duty on the same day 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z A betting man might lay odds that King will prevail in a primary as a visionary zealot who prepared the way for our fearless and feckless leader Trump. The epic hypocrisy of Republicans' sudden distaste for Steve King | Art Cullen 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Ryan's performance as speaker showed him to be feckless, hypocritical and weak in just about every way. So long, Republican Congress, and good riddance: It's been even worse than we expected 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Later in the movie, Luna remembers her as the station wagon passes the village where she was born, but he says nothing to his feckless companions. After ‘Gravity,’ Alfonso Cuarón Had His Pick of Directing Blockbusters. Instead, He Went Home to Make ‘Roma.’ 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Any party that wants to govern Britain must embrace the reality that “Leave” voters were right in their dissatisfaction with a feckless, over-bureaucratized E.U. system that’s better at delivering rules than results. Opinion | Republicans failed to govern. Democrats have a chance to succeed. 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z These have all been trashed by managements' feckless greed and arrogance fueled by Wall Street and GOP cheerleaders. G.M. to Idle Plants and Cut Thousands of Jobs as Sales Slow 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z None of them slept over, because they, unlike the feckless robots, had work and school the next day. Learning to Love Robots 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Trump’s critics, including former national security aides under Obama, piled on — payback, perhaps, for the times Trump ridiculed Obama by calling him feckless and weak on the world stage. Critics pile on after Trump cancels visit to U.S. military cemetery outside Paris, citing weather 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z “In the former scenario, they risk appearing feckless; in the latter scenario, they risk appearing reckless.” Heated rhetoric commences as Trump reimposes sanctions on Iran 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z At the time, he called media reports he slept “feckless” and “inaccurate.” Group urges Illinois voters to oppose alleged sleeper judge 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z First play: the most feckless of jet sweeps for a gain of zero. For Georgia, a nightmare in Death Valley 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Today, it’s mocked as feckless, or reviled as near treason. A New Report Offers Insights Into Tribalism in the Age of Trump 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z And both Douglass and Stanton felt free to use the Drunken Pat argument, asking why the feckless, inebriated Irish immigrant had the vote when—depending on who was arguing—black men or white women didn’t. The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z MIA’s little brother was in a young offenders’ institute; Allen’s, as detailed in the song Alfie, was a feckless stoner living easy at home. MIA and Lily Allen: staying loud in a world that silences women 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z This is not part of a feckless project to frustrate parents, but is driven by changes in the way the brain responds to light. Opinion | Let Teenagers Sleep In 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z A coarse and feckless viciousness is the operating procedure of his White House, and the poison spreads to everyone. With “Fear” and Trump, Bob Woodward Has a Bookend to the Nixon Story 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Over and over again, there are vivid scenes that show feckless decision-making by Trump and then mad scurrying by his aides to undo the damage. Review | Bob Woodward’s meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White House 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Right or wrong, plenty of Twitter’s users view Dorsey as a feckless, spineless suit unwilling to address even the most basic problems plaguing his platform. Roasting Jack Dorsey’s beard may be petty, but it’s also part of a time-honored tradition 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The same pattern repeated itself in 2003 with then secretary of state Colin Powell’s feckless internal opposition to launching the Iraq war without major international backing. The anonymous op-ed writer is just another Trump enabler – not a rebel | Walter Shapiro 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z I’m also not sure she used “feckless” correctly. Another ho-hum summer with Donald Trump: Here are all the “big” stories we wish we could forget 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Certainly, the totalitarian rulers of the twentieth century would have been, if such feckless openness had been theirs to abuse. Goodbye to all that: A private investigator on living in a surveillance culture 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z McCain believed that because of feckless policy, the United States was complicit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians. Opinion | How to stanch Syria’s bloody final showdown 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z And when Meyer was forced to face punishment Wednesday night — merely a soft, three-game suspension from Ohio State’s feckless leadership — for his actions, he coldly apologized to “Buckeye Nation.” Perspective | College coaches are put on pedestals. I learned from one who stayed grounded. 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z He contended for instance that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2014 invasion of Crimea was a result of “a feckless foreign policy where nobody believes in America’s strength anymore.” John McCain, ‘maverick’ of the Senate and former POW, dies at 81 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Labor laws would probably look quite different if workers returned from vacation or long weekends in rebellious or feckless moods. Perspective | Vacation seems like it frees us from work. That's what work wants us to think. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z There seems to be no fudge, no disaster, no incompetence to which Britain’s current, distressingly myopic and feckless batch of politicians refuse to stoop, be they in government or opposition. Auf wiedersehen, Britain: Brexit is forcing my German family to leave the country we call home 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z We used to laugh at this, the idea that this somewhat feckless, harmless man could be perceived as so frightening. The ‘Paris harasser’ video shows why women fear male violence | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z For more than a year and a half, Republicans in Congress have appeared feckless at best and complicit at worst in the face of Trump’s countless controversies and often inexplicable conduct. Republican resistance to Trump growing, from Helsinki to the heartland: Will it make any difference? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Presumably, Trump and his feckless son-in-law feel the same way. Middle East alliances, old and new confronting “that part of the world” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the “snowflake” fills an ideological role once occupied by the “lazy welfare scrounger” or “feckless poor”. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z In the words of the Tasmanian novelist Richard Flanagan, it became “a lost object of awe, one more symbol of our feckless ignorance and stupidity.” The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Save for a few governors, Mr. Schmidt said, the Republican Party is now filled with “feckless cowards.” Steve Schmidt, Longtime G.O.P. Strategist, Quits ‘Corrupt’ and ‘Immoral’ Party 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Calling Republican leaders in the House “absolutely feckless,” Mr. Bloomberg criticized them for failing to check Mr. Trump or to exercise rigorous oversight of his presidential administration. Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms. His Goal: Flip the House for the Democrats. 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z With the exception of a few Governors like Baker, Hogan and Kasich it is filled with feckless cowards who disgrace and dishonor the legacies of the party’s greatest leaders. Border crisis exposes media’s empathy gap: Maddow cries, Lewandowski says “womp womp” 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z It was also a chance for rank-and-file Republicans to replace an insulated, often feckless, party leadership that had elevated its own interests over everyone else’s. Opinion | If There’s a Red Wave Election in 2018, This Will Be Why 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z For the record, what she said about Ivanka Trump, calling her a “feckless c---,” was disgusting. Opinion | Comparing Barr’s fate to Bee’s fails on its face 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z "You know, Ivanka, that's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about immigration practices, you feckless c**t!" Samantha Bee draws cries of a liberal double standard after blasting “feckless c**t'” Iv... 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z However, when cues are ambiguous – when it’s not obvious if the person in need really is unlucky or feckless – differences emerge. Takers or makers? how Americans decide who 'deserves' a safety net 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z According to the American Heritage Dictionary, feckless means “ineffective, careless, irresponsible.” ‘Feckless’ leadership: Mariners brewpub vs. regional crises 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Obama also proved feckless in the face of Beijing’s salami-slicing strategy of gradually building up its position; each individual step was judged insufficient to justify a major U.S. reaction. Opinion | The biggest China problem has nothing to do with trade 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Even as he spoke, the Democratic National Committee continued to pan Mr. Trump’s plan as feckless, saying he reneged on his push for direct government negotiation under Medicare. Alex Azar, HHS secretary: Trump drug-price plan is boldest ‘in history’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z More recently, some academics have argued that corruption can serve as an economic lubricant in societies that have low levels of trust, weak legal institutions or feckless governments. Corrupt Leaders Are Falling Around the World. Will It Boost Economies? 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Our addictions are believed to be because we are feckless, lazy and unwilling to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps in what most white Americans consider to be a meritocracy. Amid the opioid epidemic, white means victim, black means addict 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z This was a feckless waste of American tax dollars that will accomplish nothing. Pentagon Says Syria Strikes Hit ‘Heart’ of Chemical Weapons Program 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z It's a grim assessment, but their feckless, clueless boss is no match for either in knowledge, intelligence, reasoning, and understanding of what passes today for diplomacy. Pompeo and Bolton Appointments Raise Alarm Over Ties to Anti-Islam Groups 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The normally feckless state legislature last year passed a package of laws to create alternatives to the warehousing of less dangerous criminals. In Louisiana, criminal-justice reform is badly needed 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Lord Lloyd-Webber's most recent hit is School of Rock - the story of a feckless substitute teacher who inspires his class by getting them to compete in a Battle of the Bands competition. Andrew Lloyd Webber: My career in 7 songs 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z One of the few white characters, a CIA officer, is portrayed as generally well intentioned but occasionally feckless. How white nationalists are trying to co-opt ‘Black Panther’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Otherwise, what is there to talk about apart from our own feckless leader's mystifying infatuation with strongmen like...him? Opinion | Can North Korea Trust Us? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z But the keenest borrowers in Africa are also feckless spenders. Increasing debt in many African countries is a cause for worry 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z They can’t just be written off as feckless grumblers because their gloom and doom paralyze us, imperiling our very survival. Review | Buck up, everyone! We are riding along the Enlightenment’s long path of progress 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z She also drew a link between feckless parenting and children with special needs. Peggy Cooper Cafritz, grande dame of the Washington arts and education scene, dies at 70 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Our failures didn’t start with the latest round of feckless members of congress and it won’t end when they leave. Opinion | Corporations Will Inherit the Earth 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z It matters little what the feckless leadership of the Democratic Party says, the country stopped listening to them in October of 2017. Trump Clears the Way for Release of Secret Republican Memo 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z There's even something insightfully pitiable and feckless about Carvalho's Antonio too — he practically sleepwalks through the vicissitudes of his sinful privilege, as if he can't wait to be a ghost for a changing world. The eyes see everything in Brazilian historical drama 'Vazante' 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z You, on the other hand, did wrong wrong, making yourselves look feckless, spineless and brainless in the process. Democrats, you’ve been had 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Worry about genuine threats, not more feckless bluster. More Libel Law Bluster 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Many Palestinians in Bethlehem described their own leadership as feckless and confrontation with the Israelis as futile. In Bethlehem, a Mood of Hopeless Resignation Among Palestinians 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z They better hurry up passing their feckless agenda because the rest of us will soon have nothing left to lose. Senate Republicans Will Diverge From House in Sweeping Tax Rewrite 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Profiles in cowardice, brought to us by the NRA and feckless pols. Why the Push to Ban Rifle ‘Bump Stocks’ Has Slowed 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z This paradox is at the heart of the feckless, fruitless debate over tax reform — and nearly all of the pathologies of politics in 2017. Opinion | Everything Is Bad. Blame the Tax Code. 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Sadly, the Democrats are not much better because they are so feckless. Opinion | Elections: Both surprising and predictable 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z It was also significantly abetted by feckless pitching, as Collin McHugh walked the first two batters to start the fifth, his first game action in almost two weeks. World Series fast turning into classic as Astros beat Dodgers in thrilling slugfest 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The policy paralysis has been clearest with Syria, where a brutal civil war occasioned so much criticism of a “feckless” Obama administration. Opinion | The real problem with Trump’s foreign policy plans? He may not have any. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z He blames the Republican establishment and others for failing to enact his agenda and making him look feckless, and is unhappy with losing in Alabama, according to people briefed on White House deliberations. A ‘pressure cooker’: Trump’s frustration and fury rupture alliances, threaten agenda 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z In fact, the more closely one looks at what passes for “common sense” gun laws, the more feckless they appear. Opinion | Repeal the Second Amendment 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Even as Trump lashes out at his critics and pours kerosene on the nation’s racial divisions, feckless congressional leaders continue to try to appease him. Charlie Sykes: Roy Moore Signals the End of the Republican Party 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The matriarchs, she showed, often transferred their ambitions from their feckless husbands to their promising sons. Bonnie Angelo, political journalist who wrote about moms of U.S. presidents, dies at 93 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Carr said on Twitter on Friday that he’s not yet ready to announce his plans, but that he is looking forward to continuing his fight what he called the “feckless” GOP establishment in Tennessee. Tennessee Sen. Corker meets with Trump following spat 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The Fox host told his 2.83 million followers that Mr. Trump was pushed into negotiations with Democrats due to feckless Republicans. Sean Hannity claims Republicans pushed Donald Trump into ‘arms of political suicide’ on DACA 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z What many Americans hate is redistribution to folk they see as feckless. A Democrat in a deep red state 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z In a memorable episode of “Seinfeld,” the feckless George Costanza couldn’t seem to get a handle on what exactly “a mentor” is. Deciding When a Mentor Is a Mentor 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z And while most of Trump’s efforts have proved feckless, transactionalism is the only thing he understands. We can survive President Trump’s soulless transactional leadership 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Members of the feckless Congress party, which dominated Indian politics until a generation ago, are turning coat, too. How the BJP juggernaut is winning control of Indian states 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Lazy, feckless Trump has no interest in the onerous business of lobbying Congress or working the phones. The Observer view on Donald Trump’s unfitness for office | Observer editorial 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z This does not preclude us from being on Claire’s side too, even if she’s basically playing the responsible, no-nonsense foil to the feckless and funny Béatrice. Two great Catherines find the drama in Martin Provost's 'The Midwife' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Largely set in Chicago’s urban-tough Lawndale neighborhood, the book captures Sigal as a feckless youth who got into trouble routinely, but was just bright and cagey enough to talk his way right out of it. Clancy Sigal, novelist who wrote 'Going Away' after being blacklisted in Hollywood, dies at 91 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z They have been young and old, they have been Scottish, northern and received pronunciation, they have been grumpy, feckless, patrician, barmy, innocent, brash and potty – but never female. I was the Doctor and I’m over the moon that at last we have a female lead | Colin Baker 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z And while it’s not entirely pleasant to watch Junior, Kushner and the others stage this somewhat gormless, witless, feckless reenactment, the story remains entertaining. 'These are not bright guys': watching the Trumps bring about their own destruction | Van Badham 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z And although recent polls suggest that Russians don’t like the job Putin is doing to rein in corruption, they evidently approve of the way he deals with feckless underlings. Putin made a lot of promises to Russians on his call-in TV show. Now, he’s delivering. 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z In fact, our feckless commander-in-chief seems to be handing overdirectly to that military all power to decide when and where this country sends its troops or launches its missiles from drones. America at war since 9/11: Will it ever end? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z So, at least as long as these things are under my influence, my daughter will be a Red Sox fan as her mother and her feckless father once were. Picking a Baseball Team for My Baby Daughter 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z But Mr Trump believes that foreign governments have abused that generosity, aided and abetted by stupid, weak and feckless American leaders, so that it is time to become more ruthless and selfish. Why nationalists are so bad at foreign policy 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z For Trump, the global trolling represents a mild rebuke for a president who had lambasted former president Barack Obama as feckless on the world stage and adopted a tough-guy persona aimed at putting “America first.” Trump said foreign leaders wouldn’t laugh at the U.S. Now they’re laughing at him. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Early in the movie, the general invites Afghan President Hamid Karzai, his feckless partner, to accompany him on a helicopter tour of the country. Perspective | I took an Afghan war vet to Brad Pitt’s bad, anti-military movie. He liked it. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Avocado toast widens the criticism to a larger income bracket, but the principle is the same: you are where you are not for any structural reasons, but because you are a feckless individual. So what if the poor buy avocados – everybody deserves a little luxury | Emma Brockes 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Oliphant and Wilkie occasionally get tough with their young subject—the coverup of his health problems, his “feckless” behavior with his wife—though they exhibit a lingering Boston tendency to sentimentalize the Kennedys. Trying to Remember J.F.K. 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z We may be saved by the fact that the feckless Trump is often the authoritarian Trump’s worst enemy. Opinion | The amateurish autocrat 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z Those parents were feckless, foolish, bad – not like us, the good parents. From Nick Cave to Kate McCann, it’s time we judged parents a little less 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z “Admittedly, Trump has the enormous handicap of having to work through congressional Republicans, who are feckless cowards,” Ms. Coulter said before her conclusion: “We want the ruthless businessman we were promised.” Ann Coulter rips Donald Trump over budget deal, pitches new GOP motto: ‘Next time!’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The spectre of “British-style” abortion loomed in the public conscious, the worry that unrestricted access would result in feckless women terminating pregnancies on whims, giddy on cosmopolitans during Sex and the City binge-watches. Irish people have dared to speak on abortion. Our government must listen | Grainne Maguire 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Between his feckless dashing about Washington like a barely housebroken Scooby-Doo and his postponement of more open hearings that might further reveal the administration’s culpability, he has done his best to obfuscate and obstruct. What are you hiding? Trump has been building a Watergate all his own 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z The Palestinian leadership is split, feckless and often inept. Opinion | Is Israel losing its soul? 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Historians will also see a feckless Congress—both Democrats and... America Is Ill-Prepared to Counter Russia’s Information Warfare 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z “They are going to blame the feckless, corrupt Republican Congress that they’ve always hated,” Mr. Schmidt predicted. Congress Seeks to Pivot After Health Care Debacle 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z His interrogations are feckless, and his dialogue explores little beyond his own hurt feelings. Review | ‘The Shack’: Religious drama doesn’t live up to its own lofty ideals 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In addition, with some notable exceptions, the minority Democratic Party appears dispirited and disorganized, if not feckless, and unable to thwart Republicans determined to bulldoze a serious investigation. We need the truth about Trump and Russia now 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z History will have the final word on this feckless, meanspirited Congress and their vile president-elect. House Clears Path for Repeal of Health Law 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z For Mr. Dowson, such activities are in keeping with his philosophy that traditional Christian values are under siege because of feckless leadership by America and European powers. How a Putin Fan Overseas Pushed Pro-Trump Propaganda to Americans 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z He promised to repair a feckless passing game when he said, “We will become a good passing team. Next year.” Clemson throttles Ohio State to earn title game rematch vs. Alabama 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Others are feckless, such trying to embarrass Putin by publicizing pictures of his girlfriends. How Russia overtook China as our biggest cyber enemy 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z What feckless surge of beneficence inspired most of the D.C. Why should the District provide paid leave to nonresidents? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z He pledges to be more self-interested, obliging feckless allies to pay for their own security. The Obama way of war 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z There is no evidence yet that the Clinton campaign put Stern up to her feckless frolic. Lawyer in Bush v. Gore: The 2016 Recount Is a Folly 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z “American allies and partners in the region have been disheartened by a foreign policy that has veered from feckless to mendacious.” At economic summit, Obama seeks to shore up U.S. focus on Asia-Pacific region 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z The hypocrisy of the Republican Party now potentially embracing a kind of crypto-Keynesian program knows no bounds. But what if this feckless gambit works, at least for a while? Coming to Terms with Trumponomics 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the nationalist buffoon who is a particularly vulgar yet ultimately feckless Russian version of Trump, threw a party with champagne in his Duma office. Is Putin’s Russia Ready for Trump’s America? 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Nixon believed that America had been betrayed by feckless, out-of-touch elites who had allowed the country to descend into chaos, and he effectively exploited both racial desegregation and crime as wedge issues. Donald Trump as Nixon’s Heir 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Defense cuts and feckless leadership are projecting American weakness. Trump got a lot of things right 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z And the feckless presidential candidates and a useless congress are doing/will do absolutely nothing substantive to change things... An American in a Strange Land 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z A strengthened Freedom Caucus will make feckless demands and threaten to oust Paul Ryan from the speakership if he does not comply with them. End the Republican Reign 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z As BuzzFeed reported, last year Nebraska spent $26,700 on a feckless attempt to import drugs from a dubious source in India. Nebraska politicians can't agree on the death penalty – now voters get to decide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The turnaround is so dramatic, in part, because USC’s start was so feckless. Sam Darnold's ascension to starting quarterback is a big reason USC has turned season around 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Trump also is right when he complains that our feckless fight against the Islamic State and years of disinvestment in our military are projecting weakness in a dangerous world. Trump got a lot of things right 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z In just four seasons, Mr. Eugene had managed to transform the once feckless program into an undefeated juggernaut. Everybody Hates a Winner: A Brooklyn High School Football Coach Inspires and Exasperates 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Modi fed the perception that India’s feckless leaders had failed to allow the country to reach its full potential. Among Donald Trump’s Biggest U.S. Fans: Hindu Nationalists 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z After Trump steamrolled through the Republican primaries, the feckless and fractured party that grudgingly embraced him has few tools at its disposal to distance itself from the scandalous behavior of its standard-bearer. Donald Trump's Lewd Comments Leave the GOP Scrambling 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z And to see the weak and feckless leadership that Hillary Clinton was the architect of and the foreign policy of the Obama administration... Transcript of the 2016 Debate Between the Running Mates 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z And to see the weak and feckless leadership that Hillary Clinton was the architect of and the foreign policy of the Obama administration… Read a Transcript of the Vice Presidential Debate 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z EU foreign policy is too naive, too feckless about defense and security. Europe Needs Its Realist Past 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z But Corker and his colleagues look equally feckless. Jasta la Vista, Baby 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z "Obama is weak and feckless. He leads from behind". Obama Puts Syria at Arm’s Length as Carnage Drags On 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It underlies Mr. Putin’s attractiveness to nationalist parties in Europe dismayed by what they view as feckless leadership in the face of economic difficulties and the challenge of immigration. Trump’s Love for Putin: a Presidential Role Model 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z If that optimism played well in the ’60s, it plays just as well today, when every day brings new reports of senseless terror or fresh quotes from feckless politicians. Ranking every 'Star Trek' movie and TV series from first to worst 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z All of this was enabled by a feckless establishment Republican Congress. Jerry Falwell Jr.: Trump is the Churchillian leader we need 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Republicans opposed to the nuclear deal President Obama reached with Iran have described the payment as ransom and a further sign of his administration’s feckless dealings with Tehran. U.S. Concedes $400 Million Payment to Iran Was Delayed as Prisoner ‘Leverage’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Many who attack the media for being feckless or out of touch really have a different complaint: You should spend more column inches and airtime reinforcing my view of the world. ln defense of pointy-heads and MSM puppy-dogs 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z And the IOC was left to observe the chaos it created because of feckless leadership and discipline. Lilly King is protesting an Olympic system that won’t take a stand on drugs 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Hanna then took on the feckless leadership from his fellow Republicans, who idly watched for months as Trump desecrated ideals they previously held up as sacrosanct. “I think Trump is a national embarrassment”: First sitting GOP congressman endorses Hillary Clinton 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z But any attempt to meet concerns that companies are feckless and undeserving of trust is worthwhile. Change, or else 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z For decades, Republicans were the fiercest of Cold Warriors, fighting the spread of communism and, not incidentally, winning elections by painting Democrats as the party of the frail and feckless. In political turnabout, Democrats play soft-on-Russia card by linking Trump to Putin 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z “We are using very robust military force against ISIS. . . . It looks feckless to be declaring war against an amorphous group, and to a certain extent buys into their crusader narrative.” Would declaring ‘war’ on ISIS make victory more certain — or would it even matter? 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z That lack of caution, combined with a disregard for process that bordered on the feckless, was a recurring theme in the run-up to the war. Iraq’s grim lessons 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z He was a feckless student, and transferred from private school to public school, where he was expelled for misbehavior. The Daredevil of the Auction World 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Unless we rise up in unison and demand action, our feckless Congress seemingly will worry more about reprisals from the National Rifle Association than from the people they were elected to represent. Readers react to the Senate votes on gun control 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Si Michael will call for a tougher stance on "feckless parents" and an end to patronising the poor. Poor pupils 'are still let down', warns Ofsted boss - BBC News 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Throughout the speech, Clinton deployed humor to press her case that Trump, who she referred to sardonically as the “King of Debt”, would be a feckless and capricious economic steward. Hillary Clinton says Trump's economic policies will trigger another recession 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The welfare state certainly redistributes income to poor folk, but it has not created a large class of feckless dependants. The echo chamber 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps she would pursue a feckless foreign policy, à la Lyndon Johnson or Jimmy Carter, restoring the Republicans’ “war” advantage. The World Ends in 2021 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The feckless grasshopper spent her summer playing the mandolin, while the ant toiled to build a store of food. When the Cold comes : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z "There is nothing wrong in insisting on structure in school. "We should be tough on feckless parents who allow their children to break the rules. Poor pupils 'are still let down', warns Ofsted boss - BBC News 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The Obama administration’s feckless but familiar reaction to the breakdown has been to appeal to Moscow — as if it might somehow be persuaded to do the right thing. Children on the edge of starvation 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z So, it is that feeling of failure and hopelessness that leads to the likes of the feckless, like Donald Trump. Rise of Donald Trump Tracks Growing Debate Over Global Fascism 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The bill offers debt relief to Puerto Rico in return for a mechanism to overrule the territory’s feckless current government and impose reform. Puerto Rico Breakthrough 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z But Yemenis are also famously resilient, living in the poorest country in the region and saddled for decades with feckless leaders. Yemen’s War Becomes the Mother of Reinvention 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z I had to eat my words because feckless Republican leaders were too splintered to provide voters a viable alternative. I ate my words about Trump. But treating him as normal is a recipe for ruin. 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Or the feckless West that intervened in Libya only to abandon it? The Arab withering 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Trump says Obama and Clinton have "blazed a path of destruction" with their feckless foreign policy. Donald Trump Foreign Policy Speech: Highlights 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z But the Florida sojourns provided Stevens with more than occasions for feckless behavior. The Thrilling Mind of Wallace Stevens 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Republicans have consistently portrayed Obama’s foreign policy as feckless and weak, and the president was ridiculed in 2009 when he bowed to the Japanese emperor in Tokyo. Non-proliferation crusader Obama ponders a visit to nuclear ground zero: Hiroshima 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Laux said he believes U.S. policy at the time was “feckless,” and shattered American credibility in the region, even before Obama declined to take military action when Assad used chemical weapons in August 2013. Obama nixed CIA plan that could have stopped ISIS: Officials 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z He’s of the school that will not delay action while waiting on feckless allies or farcical entities like the U.N. The four foreign policies 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Voters should know that a Republican majority in both houses is a backstop for a feckless president. How GOP leaders can save their skins and slow Trump 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z During his Florida victory speech on Tuesday night, he launched invectives against feckless politicians in Washington who were unable to seal a good trade deal multiple times during his relatively brief comments. The Warning Sign in Hillary Clinton's Great Night 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z You could say this is because the Republican candidates around him have been so feckless and dumb, and you wouldn’t be wrong. Bernie & Hillary should be very careful: Why underestimating Donald Trump would be a fatal mistake 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z But to Trump and his supporters, he’s nothing but a loser and a feckless bad cop sent from Reince Priebus’ war room. The Mitt has just hit the fan: Why Romney’s stunning denunciation of Trump matters 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The conference turned feckless and let Allen off with a “reprimand.” Duke’s Grayson Allen plays dirty, and Coach K declines to put his foot down 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z A feckless congressional effort to rename the location of the Chinese Embassy will not be a factor in any Chinese decision. An embassy address change likely won’t change China’s human rights policies 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z “Same failed economic policies. Same feckless and naive foreign policies.” Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio trade jabs and Trump speaks in Las Vegas - as it happened 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z To spend your waking hours terrifying senior citizens that the civil order could collapse at any moment because of the feckless president? Chris Christie’s a-hole oblivion: How the tough-talkin’ GOP gunslinger lost his mojo 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z They obstructed his policies and made a Congress led by Democrats look feckless. The long, painful road to Iowa 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Captured by the Washington cartel, the Republican Party is not merely feckless, but, worse, corrupt, and it has become detached from the public to which it is supposed to be accountable. Ted Cruz Likes Being Hated 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The feckless killer, Smith, became the emotional linchpin of the book, walking an almost supernatural line between fiction and non-fiction, even though he was real. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood at 50 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z “Same failed economic policies. Same feckless and naive foreign policies.” Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio trade jabs and Trump speaks in Las Vegas - as it happened 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Both delivered variations on party-wide themes, that Obama is feckless, Clinton is corrupt, and only a Republican can rescue the nation from an administration that’s set it on a path to ruin. Cruz vs. Trump: The Bromance is Over 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z But there’s a narrative to be maintained here – that of the feckless president who leaves international adversaries dangerously unintimidated. Rubio’s desperate Iran spin: In his twisted neocon logic, dodging an international crisis is somehow a bad thing 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But Republicans are probably right in arguing that Obama’s feckless accommodation of Iran is spurring Saudi belligerence, thereby making the sectarian fight worse. America’s embarrassing sectarian strife over sectarian strife in the Middle East 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z “North Korean nuke test shows danger of continuing feckless Obama/Clinton foreign policy,” Bush posted on Twitter on Wednesday morning. Republican Candidates Blame Obama Over North Korea's 'Hydrogen Bomb' Test 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Christie has used over-the-top language to attack Congress and especially Obama, whom he described as a “feckless weakling” at the last debate of the year. One year, two races: Inside the Republican Party’s bizarre, tumultuous 2015 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The US appeared feckless and stunned in a 2-0 setback, a contest notable for an alarming drop in form and shocking display of temperament that saw head coach Andreas Herzog receive a red card. The US soccer year in review: women rule the world but questions for Klinsmann 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z The party puts such a premium on bellicosity and the “projection of strength” that arguing against a potential military conflict with a nuclear state is considered feckless “isolationism.” GOP’s national security hysteria: We’re not in World War III, so stop trying to petrify everyone 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z |
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