| 单词 | mindless |
| 例句 | Seeing how we had the place to ourselves, we hung out upstairs for a change, eating cereal and watching a bit of mindless TV in the living room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z There was something serenely mindless in her manner. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They might not be as efficient, but anything was better than a mindless army of slaves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just being what it was, a mindless, merciless star that would shine on whatever got in its way, beauty or horror, without prejudice, with equal heat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Say no more. Instead, think carefully. If you refuse, you shall become a voiceless, mindless slave, without even hope of death to release you from your bondage.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I like the garden sounds and the mindless repetition. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z If you thought that the departure of the Romans caused the British Isles to descend into mindless savagery that would not be reversed until the Norman Conquest in 1066, think again. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I remained mindless of the dangers of associating with whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Masses seethed along the streets below—the countless poxies on a rampage of mindless destruction, driven beyond insanity by Nergal's diseases. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Yes. The League of Concerned Library Lovers will make certain that the new Alexandriaville Public Library undertakes a major course correction and no longer subjects children to corrupting influences and mindless frivolity.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He prefers money as a concept and often uses terms such as annuity and fiduciary, words definitely not listed in the dictionary of mindless entertainment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He hadn’t seen anything but what was really before him—the faces of the four singers, those four ordinary men, cow-eyed and mindless and anguished as they went from sweetness to sourness to sweetness again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I like this, because it’s mindless and the furniture can’t talk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Now I am really afraid, Eleanor thought, and put her feet forward one after another, shivering as they touched the path, shivering with mindless cold. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I had lost control of myself and seemed possessed by a sinister force, which made me mindless of my safety, which spurred me toward reckless action, unafraid of death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His mindless hours playing ball, or riding his bike along the river? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z They vaulted off the terrace, mindless of the distance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Too much research in the social sciences, in fact, is a mindless collection of such meaningless data. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you win, it’s by mindless chance. Make no mistake. First you tricked me, and then I slipped. Accident.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “After five days of mindless training,” she replied quietly, all too aware that very few people were speaking in the hall, “I’m glad for a bit of excitement.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The term American, like the term democrat, began as an epithet, the former referring to an inferior, provincial creature, the latter to one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It occurred to me now that a great part of my mindless indifference to my surroundings earlier on was simply that I didn’t know where I was, couldn’t know where I was. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t anything on I wanted to watch, but he knew I didn’t like baseball, so he turned it to some mindless sitcom that neither of us enjoyed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Finally he got up and went into the main house to dust the furniture, something mild and mindless that would keep him occupied. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z —Oh, don’t get me started about rap music . . . meaningless, mindless noise. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He keeps on climbing, mindless, mechanical, because it is the business of goats to climb. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It may seem mindless, but it’s really largely mental. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z For the first time he knew the meaning of mindless fear and panic. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Captain Short!” he roared, mindless of her headache. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “The advantage to this version of the simulation,” she says, her eyes alight, “is that he can act independently, and is therefore far more effective than a mindless soldier.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She rapped again, louder, mindless of who might see her under the gray beech tree just around the corner from home. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They are mindless particles, after all, and not even themselves alive. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was shocked and baffled by the mindless destruction that greeted him. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt great to be concentrating on myself again, and the mindless repetition was relaxing; I must have played for about forty-five minutes nonstop. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s something soothing about the mindless, easy motion of it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But I don’t want to be another mindless sailor. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “My pilot had a stupid navigator and I had a mindless pilot.... By her fifth sortie, Dina felt very tired and kept falling asleep.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was nearly always mindless work, and as far as most employers were concerned, it was done by mindless people. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It is a compulsive, essentially neurotic kind of behavior, as mindless as an Ionesco character, but the wasp cannot imagine any other way of doing the thing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Only when sudden silence filled the clearing did I realize that I’d been keeping up a steady stream of mindless chatter for several minutes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Abigail responded harshly to Republican critics of Jay’s Treaty, calling them “mindless Jacobins and party creatures.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But when you think of shamblers as things, as mindless creatures who have to be put down so that we might live, ending them gets to be a lot easier. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It’s a mindless kind of work—no need for grinning and cheerful chatter to please the customers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z All mindless authority, as far as they were concerned. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “So his name implies. He stares strange-eyed at the mindless world and turns dry sticks to gold.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They watch with mindless, indifferent eyes, as calm and midnight black as the chasm below me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “And who are you to bore these children with mindless activities?” my mother snapped back. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z But by the end of my first week, it became mindless work and I could relax enough to notice who else was working on each side of me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The scanner beep, beep, beeps for every purchase, and Dad exchanges mindless words with the clerk about the weather. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I don’t think I could ever be part of a mindless mob that raids a house. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But now, for some reason, I found myself thinking about Morrie whenever I read anything silly or mindless. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope they didn’t waste them on mindless tasks: kindling the evening fire and cutting vegetables for dinner. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When I made a point about the long hours doing mindless work, he declared that as prisoners we had to work and were probably lazy to boot. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Adam wanders to the side of the bed, pulling me along behind him like a mindless puppet, and shuffles his hand around the end table. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z More and more she despised her life: the dull routine of the job, the mindless conversation with her coworkers, the endless repetition of her days. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The mindless contents of commercial television and the integuments of international crisis and internecine warfare within the human family are the principal messages about life on Earth that we choose to broadcast to the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “So she could learn to balance on a pedestal. So she could stand on her hind legs. So a dog could jump on her back while she walked in mindless circles.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z She said she was just typing up invoices to send out for her business, the kind of mindless work she could do while keeping one eye on animated Legos. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z But the mindless tenderness that he had felt under the hazel tree, while the thrush was singing, had not quite come back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It’s a long and tedious process, but I don’t mind it because I can see Grandma needs this kind of mindless work right now. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “You know how people are in the outside world. Only interested in themselves and their own mindless fun.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z His hindparts shiver with the usual joyful, mindless ache to mount whatever happens near—the storm piling up black towers to the west, some rotting, docile stump, some spraddle-legged ewe. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She would gladly have given her life to end my suffering —horrible, humpbacked, carp-toothed creature, eyes on fire with useless, mindless love. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And the stock car racing – mindless noisy circling, impossible to know who's winning, less exciting even than formula one – is no substitute. TV review: Grandma's House, Inn Mates and Gears And Tears 2010-08-10T06:30:00Z And it’s not just mindless replication: as with any act of creation, the end result reflects a piece of whomever made it. The Many Lives of Roberto, a Soup 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z If, like me, you have a high threshold for bad taste and mindless sex and violence, then it was all surprisingly jolly. Spartacus: Blood and Sand and Stephen Fry on Wagner 2010-05-26T06:59:00Z “When women start applying makeup as preteenagers,” she said, “by adulthood, that mindless habit can result in a mask we don’t even know we’re wearing until someone like Alicia decides to remove hers in public.” Alicia Keys and the ‘Tyranny of Makeup’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z For Dubus, salvation lay in getting at the stories imprisoned within a reality that at first seemed merely brutal and mindless. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z His celebration of the ordinary is like seeing things for the first time, and for his almost mindless optimism not to irritate but to charm shows a sincere genius. Christmas books: paperback choice 2012-11-27T14:42:01Z For example, he still evinces zero respect for organized religion, which the last time he met this reporter he called “a mindless grasp of life.” ‘You know, I’m never happy’: Woody Allen discusses new ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ Armies of faceless, mindless clone troopers, modified to make them both automatically obedient and ruthless, maraud through the later films. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z One would expect the arrival of the aliens to usher in a mindless volley of lasers and torpedoes. Battleship: More Fun Than a Board Game Blockbuster Has Any Right to Be 2012-05-17T15:11:50Z The urge to expand the story beyond the constant flight from mindless flesh-munchers is understandable. Review: At 100 Episodes, ‘The Walking Dead’ Is Walking in Circles 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z After dark, Alexa curled next to me as we watched mindless TV. Please Go Shelter in Another Place 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z You control an Earth’s worth of mindless little people. Video Games to Play With Your Kids That Won’t Drive You Crazy 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Discussion of songwriting and performing took place with the background of America’s heartless and mindless new immigration policy, while rumination on politics inevitably led back to song. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z The new app, Push for Pizza, is an even easier, more mindless Seamless. Teens invent an app for people too lazy to pick their pizza toppings 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z In the review that I eventually filed, I wrote that Oppenheimer’s actions were “just violence, impulse, a firing of circuits, as mindless as a star collapsing in on itself.” Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z I could call an old friend, chat about mindless gossip as I waited to board. Flying Close to Temptation 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z If you have to choose between Saga's gritty, insane view of the future and Apple's sterile, mindless version – and Apple is making you choose – pick Saga's, every time. Apple bans gay sex images in adult comic 2013-04-10T13:00:55Z Suddenly, I was working 18-hour days doing manual, mostly mindless labor. I can’t leave the house 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “A kitchen altar brings a sense of reverence to food preparation that can turn mindless snacking into a moment of graciously hosting ourselves and toasting to health and beauty.” The Moon Juice Prosperity Gospel 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Like them, zombies are perceived to be loathsome, mindless and threatening. World War Z unleashes an unedifying breed of zombie 2013-06-17T13:58:58Z But let him embrace it and you create another mindless consumer. Consumerism is ruining our kids: from $350 kicks to four-figure strollers, we’re making our children into product zombies 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Sometimes I sneak in some more mindless entertainment. Ann Magnuson on Hollywood’s “horrific” roles for women: Now, “I wouldn’t be cast as anything but the old hag, or the mother the men hate” 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s made me step away from screens and concentrate on something a little mindless for a while. The joy of solitaire – on your table, not your computer screen 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z After a few months at home with Penelope, I began to get depressed — sleeping too much, drinking too much, watching endless, mindless hours of brainless television. Is motherhood causing my depression? 2013-02-25T23:30:00Z Just as 20th century Freudianism erred by being too brainless, they argue, 21st century neuroscience runs the risk of becoming too mindless. 'In the Mind Fields' and the renewed emphasis on a mindful approach to mental illness 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Workers have formal rights but they have no real power to break free from the mindless pressure of a service economy and a consumerist society. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z Few are mindless marauders, and their brief lives often seem a tragic waste of potential to those who knew them well. Billy the Kid died young, but the myth can’t be killed 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Polanski at 76 provides a reminder of directors of the past who were raised on craft, not gimmicks, and depended on a deliberate rhythm of editing rather than mindless quick cutting. You review: The Ghost 2010-04-19T13:02:00Z He set the mood for mostly mindless fun early in the two-hour set by delivering fuzzy metal and shredding on his vintage Danelectro on “Devil’s Haircut,” followed shortly by the try-not-to-dance-to-this track, “Up All Night.” Review | Beck proves to be jack-of-all-genres in two-hour D.C. set 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z That intensity may be matched in upcoming episodes where the human threat may exceed the one from mindless zombies. Prepare for a lively 'Walking Dead' season 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z If you are looking for mindless entertainment, you may want to skip “The Republic, or My Dinner With Socrates.” Theater Review: ‘The Republic, or My Dinner With Socrates,’ at La MaMa 2013-12-09T22:33:28Z He studied accounting at Miami University, in Ohio, he told me, where he pledged a fraternity, though he stressed that he joined for the networking opportunities, not for the “mindless drinking.” The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z More often it was something like Pokémon or Broadway musicals, Batman or "Backyard Baseball," an utterly mindless computer game. Advice from a home-school veteran: Ditch the schedule and let your kids play 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z And we at Creem haven't seen such a blatant bit of typecasting since Sly Stone made his fortune playing mindless beefcake. Michael Jackson: 'Magic is easy if you put your heart into it' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-20T12:40:54Z It's a reminder that mindless entertainment can still be well-made, and, more importantly, that just because a story is an homage, a remake or a sequel doesn't mean it has to be unoriginal. Forget "The Rise of Skywalker" — the only "Star Wars" sequel you need is this episode of "Community" 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z But then it became a chore, finding my life reduced to a cartoon narrative by a mindless media. HarperCollins, ?20 2010-10-04T23:07:00Z Efforts made to train people to control mindless eating and to pay attention to portion sizes generally fail in the long term. Restaurant portions destroy your diet: Eating out is killing us! 2013-12-31T21:00:00Z The problem with such mindless neuroscience is not neuroscience itself. Pop neuroscience is bunk! 2013-06-08T15:30:00Z Are the spymasters brainwashing gullible young Americans and rebooting them as horrifying mindless death automatons with amazing free-running skills all over again? Five things we learned from the debut trailer for Jason Bourne 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z It is often dismissed as mindless, stupid or empty, which is not always wrong but often beside the point. Film: Brace for Impact ? It?s Action Movie Season 2010-06-23T18:10:00Z Yet there was still something mindless about the whole experience. Big Dance takes steps towards the London Olympics 2010-07-12T14:20:00Z The color was no mindless wardrobe fallback but a conscious fashion choice. What Pops in a Sea of Shrill Color? Hint: It’s Not Pink 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The leading lady endures humiliating auditions for mindless TV shows as she struggles to become a Serious Actor. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling's dancing in 'La La Land': beautiful magic or overrated misstep? 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The gadgets have made their way into office buildings and onto subway commutes, dutifully serving as the mindless activity our restless hands crave. Kids are over fidget spinners. Adults are just getting into them. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z He saw Italy’s postwar boom as an irreversible blight, turning the masses into mindless consumers and erasing local cultures. Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality 2012-12-26T23:04:57Z TV comedy is beginning to tread a similar line – mixing disruption with mindless humour to cathartic effect. 'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z With the horrible potential latent in anti-Semitism ever more apparent, any performance or hearing of this work must be cause for sober reflection, not mere mindless pleasure. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z She makes golems of herself, which multiply into an enormous army of mindless, destructive Kamalas, wreaking havoc all over town. The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z “Boston Med” also subtly draws a line between scenarios of hideous bad luck and mindless self-destruction, the latter weighing down a stressed hospital staff unfairly. | 'Boston Med': Inside Boston Hospitals, Where Reality Is Real 2010-06-23T23:58:00Z Followers come in all distinctions: There are gutless followers, mindless followers, but they’re still following.” What Scares the People Who Scare Us? 2011-10-31T15:37:35Z The holidays in New York City evoke everything to rail against for the viewer – false cheer, mindless consumerism, a willful blindness to the evil running roughshod over the world. Unhinged melody: "Mr. Robot" puts a grim holiday bow on its endgame 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z “Tidying Up” is mindless television on the topic of mindful domesticity. “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” Reviewed: The Organizational Consultant as Freelance Exorcist 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The aim is to make this 1896 play about love, theatre and mindless destruction seem entirely fresh. The best theatre for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z The only mindless chatter he didn’t cut off, in fact, was his own. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: Squabbling and Dancing (and Some Singing), All of It Live 2011-10-26T05:30:17Z Out go the critical faculties, to be replaced by the kind of mindless adoration that the young hero of this musical brings to his obsessive worship of a toy BB gun. Theater Review: ‘A Christmas Story, the Musical,’ at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater 2012-11-20T03:00:10Z Riley captures that essence: his prowess at clobbering mindless demon creatures is just a handy extra, like the ability to unscrew a stubborn jar cap or reach something on a high shelf. Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—Jane Austen, with Teeth 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The reporters are invested by the playwrights, former ink-stained wretches themselves, with fallible, sometimes appalling natures: They’re lazy, too fond of drink, unfaithful to their mates and prone to mindless prejudice. Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The BBC Symphony Orchestra was on brilliant form, their central adagio noble and broad, with strings and horns maintaining a heroic struggle against the mindless hate of the obstructive snare drum. Mittwoch aus Licht; BBC Proms 50 & 51 – review 2012-08-25T23:06:12Z You can have a mindless entertainment film that doesn't affect anybody. James Cameron blasts Glenn Beck 2010-03-24T07:06:00Z Of course they get occasional good results, but essentially it is mindless. Google Translate and the battle for accurate translations by computer 2010-12-19T00:05:52Z Her singing is free of the flowery melismas that became a ubiquitous pop cliché in the 1990s and threatened to turn singing into a mindless gymnastic exercise. 2010-02-15T00:59:00Z The mindless, heartless, government-sponsored breeding described in this article is NOT 'scientific', it is brutality disguised as science. Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z To a lot of people, reality television is simply mindless, lowbrow entertainment. Why Big Ang from Mob Wives was the most gif-worthy reality star ever 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The annual Call of Duty games are known for frenetic multiplayer action, and the rapid pace — spawn, kill, kill, die, spawn, die, spawn — is addictive, but ultimately mindless. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z While Mr. Quinto accepts the occasional fan ambush as part of the movie and television stardom package, he chooses to keep his distance from what he regards as mindless celebrity-gossip culture. Career Zigzag, Changing Coasts And Galaxies 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z Though neither mindless nor insensitive, this interminable movie falls far short of Brooks's best work, which is to say Broadcast News and As Good As It Gets. How Do You Know ? review 2011-01-30T00:06:09Z “The whole idea of sleepwalking into sort of mindless consumerism.” A Maverick Director, His Big Pig and the Small Screen 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z And it works nicely, both as mindless entertainment with breathtaking action sequences and as a transitional film for the series. 'Fast Five' ? big guys and fast cars equals fun 2011-04-28T20:06:04Z “Book Of The Stranger” continues the trend of Dany awaiting the mindless worship of dirty proles of color, which raises a few red flags. “Game Of Thrones” recap: Nobody puts Dany in a corner 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z She summarized, “I think you go from being mindless to being self-conscious, and then you want to end up being mindless again.” Alison Krauss: Vintage Country. Modern Self-Awareness. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z But as the painting hanging in Porter’s bathroom states: “One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.” Seattle’s Porter Ray makes official debut with ‘Watercolor’ 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z “Tumacho” is the platonic theatrical version of the artfully anarchic, shrewdly mindless comedies we wait for every summer to hit movie theaters, often in vain. Review: ‘Tumacho,’ a Rootin’-Tootin’ Musical, Keeps Its Poker Face 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z It falls under the category of mindless contrarianism, by which I mean running in the opposite direction from the crowd without considering the consequences. Perspective | Avoid these travel hacks for a smoother summer vacation 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But mostly they babble incoherently to themselves, bursting “into mindless and uncontrollable laughter at random moments” and “not necessarily about anything in particular.” Books of The Times: Cruel Stories of Youth: Numb, Violent and Aimless in Japan 2011-02-07T17:18:05Z It’s a mordant meditation on capitalist imperialism and mindless consumerism. An H.C. Westermann Retrospective Melds Humor and Provocation 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z I realized that what I really needed was to watch some mindless TV reruns. To detox from the news, I binge-watched ‘Dallas.’ It was more than just fun. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z We get better and better at noticing what is happening in our minds so that we don’t go around in a fog of mindless worry. Perspective | Teaching our kids (and ourselves) mindfulness to get us through the coronavirus anxiety 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z It’s the opposite of the layered, sophisticated comedies that tend to win Emmy Awards: it’s mindless and proud of it. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Workaholics' 2011-09-20T22:18:55Z The loyalists, never mindless supporters of the crown, were a diverse group, Jasanoff observes. 'Liberty's Exiles': the American colonialists who opposed the Revolutionary War 2011-04-27T21:54:03Z In boom times, the theory says, zombies become popular in part due to their association with mindless consumerism; in recession, vampires return, with their air of guilty consumption and self-doubt. Warm Bodies: what our love affair with zombies says about us 2013-02-08T15:00:05Z And that the Black mindless slaves were doctors, educators and leaders in their homeland, not just laborers. "Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z These clones are mindless golems handmade from clay. Video Games: Deadpool, Company Heroes 2, Game & Wario, Color Zen and the Swapper 2013-07-09T20:36:52Z The real question is how to fight this kind of diet absolutism without bouncing back to a mindless celebration of the modern food environment that is demonstrably making so many people sick. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z We are seeing a rather mindless scything down across the land—"swish, swish" goes the scythe, and down come the weeds; but down, too, come the crops and the blooms. Bakewell, Bragg and Puttnam speak out as Lords debate arts funding cuts 2011-02-04T11:32:01Z You want something relatively mindless on the long weekend, but if you’re a certain type of person you also want something sports-related, and the live football offerings may not be enough. Thanksgiving TV: Plan Your Other Binge 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z It never occurred to me to look up our old A-frame, but during hours of mindless pandemic scrolling, I turned to Google. I lost my dad in Nomadland 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z There will never be a point where it’s mindless, but there will be a point where it’s effortless. Eva: transgender voice-training app helps women and men talk the talk 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Only medicated lunatics tolerate this degree of mindless depravity. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z These microscopic machines are injected directly into an individual's bloodstream where they immediately start converting said individual into a mindless drone from the inside. Rats ARE like the Borg 2013-03-01T14:12:17Z Kulendran Thomas’s big idea is to rebut the precious, humanist, nation-state-upholding concepts of creativity and individuality by making the most pretentiously mindless art possible. An Artist’s High-Tech Dream of a World With No Nations 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Even in the midst of the mindless carnage and nonsensical plotting of “Bats-Vee-Supes,” Wonder Woman quite literally saved the day as the film’s strongest, most alluring character. Starting with ‘she-ro’ Wonder Woman, spring’s movies look encouraging for exhilarating female roles 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z It’s not that she doesn’t suffer from second-guessing, insecurities, bouts of vanity, impatience or mindless cellphone scrolling. Lorde’s Work Here Is Done. Now, She Vibes. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z And Sia Berkeley as a visiting reporter behaves like a mindless humming bird, keen on her human interest story – but also a roaming omnivore, making notes in wonky shorthand about the decor. The Winslow Boy – review 2013-03-24T00:06:01Z I've seen enough TV and endured plenty of mindless interpretations of alternate universes to know how miserably Viktor's introduction might have been handled by less capable writers. Netflix's superhero series shows what's to be gained from embracing one's true self, even if others 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z So stop explaining yourself and leaving him room for mindless theories. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If you had all the answers, you wouldn’t need to go back to school 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z “It was all sort of mindless,” he said, ten years later. The Chaotic Magic of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z To be clear, escapism is not the same as being a “mindless” watching experience. ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’: There’s no better use of Netflix’s fortunes than this perfect revival - The Washington Post 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, due to "the gamification of dating" — the way the apps are designed to be engaging and addictive — mindless swiping is a common phenomena across all dating apps, not just Bumble. Does it really empower women to expect them to make the first move? 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z As a corollary, spoofs play well in ancillary markets like DVD because their silly, mindless content makes for easy repeat viewing and doesn't call out for the theatrical experience. Spoofs seek proof of life at box office 2010-08-19T04:02:00Z The piranhas and caimans the kids encounter aren’t mindless killers but animals occupying important niches in the environment, and the true insect menace is not the spiders but the bullet ants. A Novel Set in the Amazon, Harking Back to Classic Survival Stories 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Political repression, mindless consumerism and the hardening of class divisions conspire to threaten Silvio’s happiness and rob him of Elena’s love. ‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z This daily chore was of the sort that could be termed “mindless,” but it also afforded some time for self-reflection. Puking myself clean 2012-09-26T16:55:00Z Brooks gets it now, why he’s thinking about the mindless scarecrow after all these years. Thomas Pierce “Ba Baboon” 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z But Three Billboards is the polar opposite of the mindless Frat Pack fare its jokes sometimes resemble. Why Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z That a play is a rather arrogant edict demanding the subservience of the other theatre artforms, and the mindless obedience of theatre artists. Do not dismiss playwrights as mere content providers 2013-06-19T07:00:00Z Less methodical and witty than its predecessors, “Patient Zero” often turns its infected characters into mindless, lurching zombies. ‘Cabin Fever: Patient Zero,’ the Latest in a Franchise 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z My tiny front-yard garden is usually a place for mindless scavenging: With the sun overhead and my knees in the soil, I enjoy ferreting among the plants, collecting anything ripe and edible. Lutein supplements are everywhere. Here’s what you need to know about this nutrient. 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Too bad for those people whose jobs were mindless enough to be taken over by third world teenagers or, more humiliatingly, machines. ‘Rise of the Robots’ and ‘Shadow Work’ 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z In other years, the prize has focused on the real villain of British architecture, the kind of mindless planner-friendly filler that marches up and down the country along railway lines, canalsides and out-of-town centres. Carbuncle Cup: what's the ugliest building of the year? 2013-05-21T10:36:49Z We are thankful to them for letting us into their lives and hope the film reflects the terrible consequences of these mindless acts which continue to reverberate. Scenes from a Teenage Killing 2011-01-25T13:48:29Z “It isn’t just mindless entertainment or like, escapist romance,” he said. Kit Harington shifts from Jon Snow to ‘Modern Love’ 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Historically, while vampires are controlling and mesmerising, zombies are controlled and dominated, little more than mindless slaves. Warm Bodies: what our love affair with zombies says about us 2013-02-08T15:00:05Z On a Texas train, they mingle with white passengers whose mindless conversation has no intrinsic meaning for them: “Something cup of tea/ Something honeybee/ Something and a big magnolia tree,” we hear one passenger sing. Review | Get a load of the exuberant new sister act: Mary and Martha Clarke, singing outlaw heroes of ‘Gun & Powder’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z But I made it to the theater in plenty of time and was looking forward to a few mindless giggles on a summer night. What would a theater critic write to the creator of 'Letters From a Nut'? Well, let's start with ... 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Questions going to the heart of mindless conformity are often treated with disdain. Lessons from the first ‘tiny house’ evangelist, Henry David Thoreau 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z I came home wanting comfort, wanting something large and mindless to embrace me until I was warm again. When everything’s wrong, only baked pasta feels right 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Start a “Stop Doing” list To clear out the mental clutter, take note of the mindless ways you spend your time. 25 Habits That Will Make You Smarter 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Nor is it exactly news to us to learn that we are capable of mindless sacrifice and slaughter. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z Do they just play mindless games all day? How to Judge Someone's Character 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z In his new novel, the ingenious dystopian thriller “NK3,” Tolkin is back with a Los Angeles populated by mindless creatures who live for sex and drugs. ‘NK3’: A dystopian thriller from Michael Tolkin, author of ‘The Player’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s too bro-tastic for a satire but too incisive for a mindless frat pack foray. Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z “I just like to flex my muscles every once in a while and do something relatively mindless,” Mr. Penn explained to Mr. Schickel. Arthur Penn, Director of ?Bonnie and Clyde,? Is Dead 2010-09-29T14:59:00Z The guests they serve live as mindless consumers whose desires and traumas are not to be questioned, but indulged and exploited. Is Westworld an anti-human fable? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Remember when "House Hunters" blocks were comforting and mindless spans of viewing as opposed to cruel taunt-a-thons reminding you of how cramped your place is? Netflix's "Marriage or Mortgage" invites us to look back at a time when bad decisions were a luxury 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z But she seeks her escape not in mindless entertainment but in an art form that puts the human story front and center. Why Hillary Clinton's next big stage should be at the Tony Awards 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z “Memorizing anything is associated with rote learning, the mindless parroting of information under an authoritarian teaching style.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z I knew I was done using driving as a mindless escape. I got hooked on Uber Eats. Not as a customer — as a delivery driver 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z In passages of improvisatory sweep, he went too far, playing with murky textures and mindless abandon. Review: National Youth Orchestra Impresses With ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ at Carnegie Hall 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The contrast between the domestic and the industrial suggests that violence often unfolds as an almost geological process, implacable, mindless, indifferent to the lives it swallows. Die and do 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z But he pushed scientific inquiry away from the mindless piling up of facts and towards making a difference to people’s lives. The role of ideas in the “great divergence” 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z She talks to him about the material as an artist, not as some mindless sapling, which is good. Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Becoming Bruce Willis and Time-Traveling to Meet His Future Self 2012-09-26T12:00:47Z I suspect that in 10 years when climate change and mounting waste is impossible to ignore, we'll find the mindless consumption in shows like "Emily in Paris" jarring. The missing ingredient in fighting climate change: positive fictional role models 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The music of this apotheosis is a calm, seductively beautiful celebration of irrationality, disorder and mindless obedience, one of the scariest final curtains in all of opera. Christoph von Dohnanyi Conducts Hans Werner Henze 2012-03-16T16:11:31Z My romantic imagination had been corrupted by outrageous expectations and mindless fantasizing that bore as much resemblance to real life as a Hollywood action film. Modern Love: How Hollywood Ruined Me for Romance 2014-01-23T19:38:45Z Margene is deemed so mindless that everyone around her believes she is in cults — Barb telling her that Goji Juice is a cult, and Michael Saint, cornily telling her the Henricksons are a cult. ArtsBeat: 'Big Love' Watch: A Night of Horrors 2011-03-07T18:25:26Z Yet it is also a time of mindless neuroscience that leads us to overestimate how much neuroscience can improve legal, clinical and marketing practices, let alone inform social policy. Human behaviour: is it all in the brain – or the mind? 2013-06-29T23:05:40Z In the realm of mindless comedies, "Billy Madison," "Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd," "Happy Gilmore," "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1" and "The Mask" all come to HBO Max this month. "His Dark Materials," thriller "The Flight Attendant" and Maisie Williams hit HBO Max in November 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z But while his scathing view of mindless club culture, which he endlessly mocked in his lyrics for Blur, is still present, his wrath seems to have mellowed, slightly. Music: Damon Albarn's Operatic Career 2011-07-25T11:30:06Z But its enduring anthem was this plaint, sung by a former slave, about the mindless ol’ Mississippi River. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z It was my mindless garbage of choice during my frequent bouts of insomnia. Opiate For the Masses: Do you like to watch? Your secrets are not safe with your TV 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z But I can't, from my ivory tower in the Hollywood Hills, compete with the understandable yet futile rhetoric, describing the rioters as mindless. UK riots: Big Brother isn't watching you 2011-08-11T17:18:00Z It’s not all bad, but a lot of it is fairly mindless. Art Review: Tomás Saraceno’s ‘Cloud City,’ on the Met’s Roof 2012-05-25T23:00:40Z It shows a neat division of labour in the creation of pointless products, with implications that reach way beyond the beauty industry, to capitalism's mindless cycle of production and consumption. Artist of the week 191: Mika Rottenberg 2012-05-24T11:40:15Z It was a mindless bit of yardwork that led him to wood carving. The Hammer biennial's breakout star? A 78-year-old retired gardener from Compton who once worked for Marlon Brando 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z There is a transgressive thrill to how Tony punctures mindless niceties. Review: Ricky Gervais’s ‘After Life’ Is the Tearjerking of a Clown 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z When will we insist on a media world that offers well-made, intelligent entertainment with plot, dialogue, character development and suspense instead of mindless, ever-escalating violence? Letters: A Diet of Brutality 2010-04-24T02:32:00Z It’s all supposed to be mindless fun, but the jokes are too unsophisticated and unoriginal to justify the damage. Review: In ‘Kevin From Work,’ Caricatures Are the Rule 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Ultimately, "The Gray Man" is as mindless as it is thrilling — not unlike the similar Netflix offerings, "Extraction" or "The Old Guard." Netflix's "The Gray Man": Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go loud in Russos' propulsive action flick 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z I was getting ready for bed, performing the half-dozen mostly mindless tasks that, because they occupy my hands, normally provide a treasured window for listening to an audiobook or podcast. 1994 Was a Prison of My Own Making 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z This is not a story of humanity helpless in the face of a mindless contagion; we ardently assist in our own demise. An Eerily Prescient Pandemic Novel That’s Guaranteed to Terrify 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The nightly entertainment, too, is easy and bright and mindless. Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z In “Jesus Rolls,” you stand in for Depardieu, the mindless mastermind, and Bobby Cannavale is your partner in crime. Nobody Messes With the Jesus (Except for John Turturro) 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z But it’s an uncomfortable fact that one of the greatest appeals of being part of an audience is the flip side of that mindless suggestibility. I Miss Being Part of an Audience 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Robbins’ Wonder Woman uses only her magic lasso, weaponized cuffs, and super-strength to battle evil queens, mindless warriors, and other villains to save the little girl they threaten. Meet the first woman to draw Wonder Woman 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z All this – the mindless eye of the dragon, the shining armour of St George – was touched into life through lines and splodges of brown ink by the young Raphael. The Italian Renaissance drawings at the British Museum show what lies beneath 2010-04-04T20:30:00Z In a year that felt like wall-to-wall exhaustion and misery, we need a measure of mindless, bland snacking. The giant holiday popcorn tin has invaded your life once again 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z After a raucous evening with girlfriends whose mindless chatter irritates her, Kelli is arrested on a D.U.I. charge, and her driver’s license suspended for six months. Movie Review: Linda Cardellini in Liza Johnson?s Film ?Return? 2012-02-09T23:12:08Z I was struck by the parallels between Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Borg, a race of mindless drones bent on assimilating others into their collective. We lived long and prospered! How Star Trek saved fans' lives 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Was this an egregious act of racial terror, a mindless provocation or a threat to the homeowner, or the neighborhood? Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Besides, this kind of mindless stuff is such a waste of the English language, and of the elegance, imagination, wit and erudition that can be brought to bear on a really cracking parliamentary insult. Is it unparliamentary to call someone a 'muttering idiot'? 2012-05-26T17:19:01Z The article, available to subscribers here, addresses the difference between smart television violence and mindless television violence, looking at shows including The Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire and The Following. Bloody Death: Six Ways to Die on TV 2013-02-28T16:14:56Z Faceless, mindless, subservient and rotten as marksmen, Imperial Stormtroopers embodied dehumanization. A Long Time Ago in Drawings Far Far Away … 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z But what if it is only meaningless noise generated by mindless activity on a screen as time is killed and popcorn munched? | 'Grown Ups': Adam Sandler in Blatant Acts of Naked Regression 2010-06-24T22:53:00Z Though “Bakkhai” might appear a warning against manic behavior and mindless emotion, it actually stresses the need to accommodate the instinctual in our natures. Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z He describes the mindless banality of going along to clinics and giving sperm samples, but also the nervous feeling that he had to give it his best shot. The male infertility crisis: ‘My failure at fatherhood ate away at my very being’ 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z But now we find ourselves hoping that Barb will get away from Bill for good and forge her own modern life, free of his mindless oppression. ArtsBeat: 'Big Love' Watch: Anything Is Possible 2011-02-22T20:10:46Z Without Scientology, you are gonna degrade into a mindless slug of a spiritual being. HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z Don’t watch many Hollywood movies unless I feel like some mindless fun. Asian-American Actors Are Fighting for Visibility. They Will Not Be Ignored. 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The mother's attentions are not unloving, but she gives off the air of someone engaged in a pleasantly mindless task, kind of like polishing one's shoes. Babies Review: The Awwww Heard 'Round the World 2010-05-06T23:30:00Z When Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper less than a week after the election, Milley saw it, Woodward and Costa write, as part of a “mindless march into more and more disorder.” Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z But there's a darker side to the world of the mindless Coldplay groupie, blithely yielding her all for the chance to "walk on the wild side" for one night with The Last Gang in Town. Poor Chris Martin – at the mercy of the mindless Coldplay groupies 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Listicles are mindless pap involving quick, careless research based on no actual original reporting. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: When a listicle takes a bad problem and makes it worse 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z But within the "Star Wars" cinematic canon, allowing the audience to view the Tusken Raiders as something other than mindless killers – a designation drilled into audiences from a young age – is relatively novel. "The Mandalorian" message for 2020: “If we fight amongst ourselves, the monster will kill us all” 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z I was holding down a mindless part-time job at a teen fashion store, playing keyboards in a band more or less on the weekends and generally feeling pretty miserable about my lot in life. Shirley Manson: The First Time I Cut Myself 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The word “mindless” tends to accompany the world “violence” in describing most of the action genre. Why do women love John Wick? (It's not just the puppy) 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z I initially mistook it for a mindless diversion, one meant to please me, not peck at my conscience. To a Gamer, Minimalism Is a Virtue 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Apart from that, the film is aiming for the mindless horror of drive-in movie days, and at that it succeeds. Review: In ‘Fender Bender,’ Makenzie Vega Is Pursued by a Homicidal Maniac 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “At a big law firm you are doing so much mindless work and so much suck-uppery,” she said. Not Done Yet 2010-10-08T21:40:00Z His best movies arose directly from the suburban ennui of the Eisenhower era he grew up in: atom-bomb drills in school, the Bomb itself, 1950s television, consumerism, mindless conformity. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It is a monument to the mindless consumption of material goods and waste that plague the world. 5 Great Art Exhibitions to See in New York Before They Close 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Unwavering respect and mindless obedience are tough to resist. | 'The Wave': The Siren Song of Groupthink 2011-05-26T23:10:14Z “Now that I am famous, I feel responsible to speak about how we can’t give the big-business sociopaths, who pray to the money gods, power. We can’t just be mindless consumers.” Fran Drescher in “The Nanny” Is the Fashion Look This Fall 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z But if the show is going to act like a conventional sitcom with little on its mind, it’s fair to treat its more excessive touches as mindless instead of subversive. Review: In Season 5, Girls Becomes a Traditional Sitcom 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Ah, the famous mindless Coldplay groupies: you just don't hear enough about them, do you? Poor Chris Martin – at the mercy of the mindless Coldplay groupies 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z As a bonus, I find I'm way less likely to crack open my laptop or pick up my phone for mindless scrolling if we've eaten outside. Picnic dinners are the one thing I’m keeping from last year 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z “People don’t want escapist, mindless entertainment right now,” he says. Kumail Nanjiani is the Romantic Comedian We've Been Waiting For 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Haitian rituals are often cited as their origin: voodoo rituals producing animated corpses or mindless automatons. Warm Bodies: what our love affair with zombies says about us 2013-02-08T15:00:05Z But the country is really just an attractive, putatively exotic backdrop and as generic as it is in most mindless action blowouts. ‘Triple Frontier’ Review: Men on a Mission? Possible! 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Cerebral precision and mindless abandon are an irresistible combination – and those jiving elementary school kids aren't the only ones to know it. Phoenix Metaphors 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z So for Dennett, computers consisting of layer on layer of mindless programs can indeed achieve consciousness, at least in the very restricted sense in which philosophers – and neuroscientists – use that multidimensional word. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z But when she said it a second time it came with the same inevitability as the mindless murder, domestic violence and the boys who were too stupid to wash the bloodstains off their own trackies. Run; My £9.50 Holiday; Broken by Battle – TV review 2013-07-15T22:15:00Z For a moment, he hangs in the air as he reckons with the sight of the ship’s other half bobbing in the waves nearby, an instant that captures the mindless cruelty of the sea. Review: Chris Pine Rescues The Finest Hours 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But it’s Sandra herself who carries most of the film’s ethical baggage, her subtle resentment of her attractive prisoner complicating her apparently mindless actions. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘Compliance,’ Directed by Craig Zobel 2012-08-17T15:23:01Z The first few days are devastating because the work is both mindless and extremely taxing. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z If the protagonists were mindless brutes enslaved to social conditioning, their doings would be something of a bore. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z First single Cough Cough is about society's mindless money lust. Everything Everything: Arc boasts "proper songs" 2013-01-24T08:03:39Z Because he was a good person, Josh came over each night, sometimes to talk, other times to do something mindless to take our minds off the decision we would sooner and sooner need to make. Abortion, a love story 2012-08-25T01:00:00Z But even lightweight, mindless popcorn entertainment, with special-effects fireballs and papier-mâché villains, does a service. When TV Turns Itself Off 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z I’m left with a question: What am I willing to die for or take action for in a time when all we do is mindless chatter on social media? Readers react to stories about a doctor treating Ebola and the murder of a climber 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Clip shows are the cheap, instant, mindless filler of TV. Your next box set: Harry Hill's TV Burp 2010-07-23T05:45:00Z I feel like oftentimes, when we're faced with what to watch at the end of the day, it's either joyful and mindless or important and depressing. "Mrs. Davis" star Betty Gilpin on her risk-taking acting style: "I like playing high stakes" 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z She sings little “la-la-la” type songs that sound like someone making fun of mindless singing, except that they, too, often last several minutes. Worst co-worker ever 2012-07-24T00:00:00Z Certainly, "Killjoy's Kastle" will not be your average haunted house full of mindless monsters and defenseless ingenues. Column: Inside West Hollywood's feminist haunted house: Zombie folk singers and body-positive vampires 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z "Dateline" gawkers might recognize this as the setup stretch, demonstrating how well the lives of these two kids were going until the mindless assailants, i.e. the royalist press, enter the picture. Meeting "Harry & Meghan": the Sussexes launch the next stage of their strategic charm offensive 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z In the 1978 George Romero film “Dawn of the Dead,” zombies swarm a shopping mall in a grim parody of mindless consumerism. Zombie Poetry Takes On a Life of Its Own 2012-01-13T14:47:39Z "As I raised the stuttering guitar above my head, I felt I was holding up the bloodied standard of endless centuries of mindless war." Who I Am: A Memoir by Pete Townshend - review 2012-10-09T11:35:01Z Instead state prison administrators used the indeterminate sentence as a cudgel to pathologize prisoners’ grievances and encourage mindless submission to authority. Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z We as the largest consumers on the planet are driving all the woes of the world because of big business greed — but we’re enabling that because of mindless consumerism. Fran Drescher reveals the role she turned down out of principle: "Who am I if not my word?" 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z “Adhocracy” tiptoes around this concern under the assumption that delivering information and tools into the hands of nonexpert, ordinary people will make everyone more free from mindless consumerism and control by big business and government. Art Review: ‘Adhocracy’ at the New Museum 2013-05-09T20:27:22Z What can I watch that I’ll just enjoy, that isn’t too mindless? ArtsBeat: Stephen Colbert on 'Network': Great Film, or the Greatest Film? 2011-05-19T15:14:27Z The jokes and mindless banter also helped me to ignore some of my real problems. Quitting Twitter is easy — changing ourselves is harder 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z I knew then why those bugs disgust me — it’s their aggressive helplessness, their mindless propulsion of a cycle that will only destroy them. I’m terrified of the cicada onslaught 2013-05-20T23:45:00Z Video games can still be mindless if the player wants. Game on: The Darkness II 2012-02-09T20:59:02Z I played in the streets with my friends during afternoons and summertimes, with a total, mindless freedom I can’t give my own children. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z Here it's all about action, but there is no denying that it gets mindless and repetitive. Game On: 'Resistance 3' is a keeper 2011-09-27T22:16:04Z Historians debate whether she was mindless or just moronic. Vincere proves that behind every great dictator, there's a great woman 2010-05-07T23:42:00Z The movie traces the mythic origins of the worst of modern cable news — the mindless jingoism, the split-screen shouting, the cluttered graphics, the breathless coverage of car chases and celebrity nonsense — to Ron’s initiative. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z They offered technological sneak previews, shameless product plugs, mindless carnival entertainment and a cascade of schlocky souvenirs. World’s Fair Artifacts, From ’39 and ’64, at Queens Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z In the final scene, Norton’s character “kills” Tyler, implicitly recognizing—and picking—a path between mindless middle-class consumerism and the nihilistic will to power of the terrorist. The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z She denigrated sex as “a gross waste of time” and “the refuge of the mindless,” but she supported herself via sex work for much of her career. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes, mindless entertainment is truly the best medicine. 16 Clever Ways to Entertain a Child Who's Home Sick 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z “We didn’t realise what a scourge they would become. It was mindless.” 'We just didn’t think about it': how did we let plastic bags get everywhere? 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z This does not necessarily mean they are random or that they are straightforwardly habitual or mindless. Runners v pedestrians: who should give way to whom? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z I had to grit my teeth every time I personally debated someone defaulting to the mindless mantra of “The real issue is mental illness” over the Isla Vista shootings. It’s not about mental illness: The big lie that always follows mass shootings by white males 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But those observations were embedded in a sleek adventure — not mindless or superficial by any means, but more surface than depth, frothy and giddy. Review | In Neal Stephenson’s ‘Fall,’ there is life after death 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Oh, so many moments of mindless fatuity to choose from. The Apprentice 2011: the best and the worst of series seven 2011-07-15T13:56:00Z TV, as Intelligent People of Quality saw it, was occasionally good, almost by accident; otherwise, at best it was mindless escapism, of mainly anthropological interest for understanding Joe Q. Walmart. What I Learned Watching 16 Years of Television for TIME 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z But the majority of people who say they’re sending “thoughts and prayers” are just falling back on a mindless cliché. This Life: ?You Look Great? and Other Lies 2011-06-10T17:10:41Z These days, while many plays have shrunk to less than 90 minutes, even formulaic rom-coms and mindless action movies gobble up a full two hours or more of screen time. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: 'Les Misérables,' Stage to Screen 2013-01-03T17:53:43Z And in some respects, they're not entirely wrong: there is plenty of mindless out there because there's plenty of TV in general, be it stultifying or mediocre or brilliant. "Devs" is Alex Garland's aesthetically mesmerizing and engrossing modern horror story 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z That’s the sense I got last month at BAM, where mindless, stunning films like “Resident Evil: Retribution,” “Katy Perry: Part of Me,” and “Step Up 3D” were juxtaposed, low-meets-high, with experimental shorts. The Misunderstanding of 3-D 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z They’re short enough and mindless enough to make the train ride to work pass more quickly. Critic’s Notebook: ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live,’ on Hulu and iTunes 2013-05-03T21:37:46Z Mr. Weiner’s mindless pugnacity, meanwhile, outlives even his capacity for self-destruction. Are You Over 35? ‘Wild in the Streets’ Should Scare You 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Lol, Why bother searching for "magic" for such a mindless piece of "entertainment?" MTV Searches for ‘Jersey Shore’ Magic on the Florida Panhandle 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z After all, underground music stays underground for a reason; show it off too publicly, bring too many people to the party, and the joyful inclusiveness of the dancefloor turns into something horribly mindless. Love Parade's tragic final chapter 2010-07-27T08:00:00Z “No, No, Nanette” was as mindless a piece of fluff as you can imagine, noteworthy mostly for the jaunty soft-shoe number, “Tea for Two.” Nostalgia? Yestalgia! Why reviving old shows is exactly what we need right now 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It’s dreadful, in part because it is anathema to the creative process, prompting you to never travel to Tijuana write glib, mindless cliches. Perspective | How to turn your writing into an obstacle course 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Instead, our seemingly mindless drives are, to a large extent, the basis of our more sophisticated forms of conscious thinking. Review | A brain researcher on what Freud got right 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z But the perception of them is that it’s just mindless reality television. Caitlyn Jenner on Privilege, Reality TV and Deciding to Come Out 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z "Harming one's own community is entirely mindless, but why would someone care for a community that doesn't care for him?" says Professor Green. Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' 2011-08-12T17:15:46Z Food and travel journalism don’t have to be “soft,” mindless, or without intellectual grounding. Two Cheers for CNN 2013-04-24T16:40:55Z “It’s a wonderfully mindless activity in a beautiful place,” Valtz said. Oystering on Cape Cod 2010-08-18T13:46:00Z In part it’s a tour of the island’s faux-casual charms, and as such it’s threaded with mindless chitchat of the sort you find in the TripAdvisor comments section. ‘To the New Owners,’ About a Summer Place (Too) Well Loved 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Some may call it mindless mayhem, but here it goes by another name: family values. ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’: Lots of whuppin’ and special effects 2013-02-13T19:22:30Z One of life’s great gifts is the need to eat, so don’t squander it with mindless, joyless consumption. Forget government guidelines. Here’s how to eat better, in 6 easy steps. 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Conservatives say it’s about the mindless conformity imposed by communism, leftwingers that its about the mindless conformity imposed by McCarthyism. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Until one day, while completing yet another mindless but stressful office task, I thought, “I can’t do this anymore.” The Tallest Man I Ever Loved 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Best of all, in a marketplace filled with mindless work about teens, here’s one that doesn’t insult their intelligence — or yours. Review | ‘Mean Girls’ on Broadway: Omg, you’ll lol. 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z In this one-dimensional era of online shopping and mindless scrolling — punctuated by unnervingly targeted advertising — we’ve lost touch with the visceral delights of meandering around in a single-subject bookshop. From screens to stovetops: Exploring the tactile delight of culinary bookshops 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z When Chester urges his small flock to realize that “love is our safe haven from that which is brutal, from mindless activity and organized greed,” Ethan feels the spirit move him unexpectedly. Theater Review: ‘Storefront Church,’ by John Patrick Shanley 2012-06-12T02:00:13Z Tom makes it clear from the start that he is raging against "it", by which he mean mindless materialism and convention. The Good Life 2010-04-09T05:45:00Z At the time, researchers associated dreaming with REM sleep, a particularly “mindless” state. Review | A brain researcher on what Freud got right 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Similarly, there are a few rats who have managed to shake off the "destructive mindless disease-carrying vermin" mantle, and become individuals much loved by humanity. Rats ARE like the Borg 2013-03-01T14:12:17Z Enjoyable without being "oppressive, mean or totally mindless," the film continues McCarthy's blossoming as a leading lady. 'Spy': Melissa McCarthy's comedic mission accomplished, reviews say 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z No scripted version of Congress can help us deal with the complicity of the one backing this administration's mindless cruelty. Forget civility: On “The Good Fight,” “Luke Cage” and “Dietland,” resistance means go... 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z “The rebel against tyranny, who stands in stark contrast to that mindless superstition and that mob mentality that causes people to give themselves the moral self-licensing to create the ‘other’… and thereby victimise people.” Devil's advocate: are satanists now the good guys in the fight against the evangelical right? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Replace mindless chatter about commuting times with a conversation about our weightiest beliefs and most potent fears? The End of Small Talk 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Another sure sign of spring’s arrival is the mindless laying of shredded wood mulch by the ton. Of course this gardener is ‘getting ready for spring.’ He never stopped. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Let’s allow him to lean into that tendency with a version of his most mindless film. Justice for directors! The $20m 'Snyder cut' should only be the start 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z After I started working from home a couple of years ago, I realized that I needed to keep healthy, crunchy items on hand for those mindless snacking urges between meetings. I committed to cooking one meal a day using my new air fryer — here's what worked (and what didn't) 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z We’re seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. Main Course: Comedy With a Side of Disgust 2011-05-20T21:11:50Z That was the first time I'd ever encountered that kind of mindless bias among what I considered to be intelligent, literate people. Chabon ties it all together in 'Telegraph Avenue' 2012-12-13T17:42:53Z One solution to such mindless overeating would be to eat in a silent, featureless room by yourself. Eating in Front of the TV? Action Movies Lead to Gluttony 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z In its parade of ribald gags and infantile preoccupation with body parts, not to mention a climactic decapitation, water-balloon-style, The Interview displays all the mindless excesses that repressive regimes condemn in Hollywood movies. You Can't See The Interview, But I Did 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Or was it substance abuse, inexpert driving, mindless acquiescence to group stupidity, illusions of immortality, naivete about peers . Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Waves of anxiety over an 18-year-old’s coed beach trip 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z A brutal, graphically violent action scene establishes the Covenant's mindless butchery as a prelude to Master Chief and his fellow Silver Team Spartans' intervention. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The mindless horror of that attack drew intense and sustained press as well as, later on, books and film. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “I was doing lousy parts in lousy movies, mindless characters. I was a bad guy by profession, a heavy in a certain kind of tacky movie.” Martin Landau, Actor Who Won an Oscar for ‘Ed Wood,’ Dies at 89 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z But meaning, minding and consciousness are higher-order processes, requiring but not reducible to the billions of mindless neurons firing away inside your brain. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z A squabble between his father and the family's synagogue over the latter's mindless fundamentalism resulted in Disraeli's baptism in an Anglican church, at the age of 12, in 1817. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z Try to mitigate the mindless snacking by planning ahead. Coronavirus outbreak: How to maintain healthy snacking habits while working from home 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s all mindless and harmless and goes down as easily as the chicken and biscuits and fried corn on the cob. Hooray for Dollywood 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z While hammock-weaving is social, mellow, and kind of mindless, producing tofu is essentially factory labor, involving elbow-length yellow plastic gloves, boiling water, and loud machinery. I worked hard for no pay — and I dug it 2013-02-10T23:00:00Z He’s a successful actor who’s unsatisfied with his role on a mindless sitcom called “The Manny.” ‘This is Us’ twist revealed, plus 4 other things to know about the buzzy, new series 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Done right, though, as it is in “Galavant,” a mindless comedy is not the same as a dumb comedy. ‘Galavant’ Goes Medieval for the Biggest Laughs 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Wansink’s solution to mindless eating is to use small bowls—a different method for ensuring smaller portions. Restaurant portions destroy your diet: Eating out is killing us! 2013-12-31T21:00:00Z Today, much of our resource-intensive consumerism is still mindless, despite rising awareness of the impact of our plastic waste. 'We just didn’t think about it': how did we let plastic bags get everywhere? 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z The third movie was cynical to its core, a marathon of mindless destruction that culminated in the gruesome destruction of much of downtown Chicago. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z “What has evolved over the last three plus decades is to show that they’re not these mindless killing machines, that sharks are amazingly intelligent animals,” Swartz said. Haddish, Shatner, Paisley join Discovery’s ‘Shark Week’ 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z That high moment made me realize that games are more than just something to distract me, more than mindless entertainment or violence simulators. Video games aren’t mindless — or heartless — entertainment 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z It's easy to disregard TV as mere mindless entertainment. What made Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner so different from other sitcom dads 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The show needs moralistic centrepoints like these to anchor it, particularly with everyone else seemingly on a mindless killing spree. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode three recap – Monster 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z "Zombies resonate with us because of the idea of mindless conformity, of societal pressures, of overpopulation," he said. EMP horror show adds wink, nudge to blood, gore 2011-09-29T20:55:17Z On the school bus she analyzed the mindless chatter of classmates, her mind racing from James Bond to the Holy Ghost. This Memoir About the Contradictions of Grief Plays by Its Own Rules 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The children your violence produces will return to you as savage, mindless things. Thrillers - reviews 2012-10-11T07:00:02Z But the joke is always on its enemies when they end up speaking for a vision of a cultureless, mindless, joyless Britain and chant the slogan "no art here, thanks!" Public art? Not in my back yard | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-24T17:00:00Z Blogs dedicated to “Justice for Meredith Kercher” call Ms. Burleigh a shill for the Knox family’s publicity juggernaut, “a relentless and mindless cheerleader for the superiority of all things American,” in the words of one. Between Journalist and Advocate: The Amanda Knox Case 2011-10-07T23:33:56Z “If Venice Dies” is more of a meditation on the madness of the free market, consumer culture and mindless urban expansion than it is about a city in a peril. Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Australian director and Mad Max auteur George Miller once said: “Think of stories like food, try to provide nourishment. Don’t serve up empty calories … the mindless can be toxic.” Kong: Skull Island – why do Hollywood blockbusters have such Trump-like politics? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z All this does not, by the way add up to a satiric take on a time of mindless affluence. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: A 'Much Ado' With Dr. Who 2011-07-14T18:42:41Z A few audience members ruined the silence following the final bars with their mindless coughs. Sizzling debut by violinist Renaud Capucon lifts CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-01-14T17:38:01Z Or as Norman, a self-described eternal optimist, put it: “Society will, inevitably, come to the understanding that racism is mindless, lacking in all the light that is within us.” That sound you’re hearing is classical music’s long overdue reckoning with racism 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z As it is in complex late capitalist society, so it is in complex late capitalist sport: intense specialisation equals mindless repetition. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z “No uniform, you use the teachers’ first names, so you don’t create this fear and mindless ... what’s the word?” Thandie Newton: ‘I wake up angry – there’s a lot to be angry about’ 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z God Bless America: A sublime slice of anarchy that fires up the brain cells whilst providing mindless hilarity. Open thread: What's the greatest-ever kids movie? 2012-06-29T16:26:03Z He also blames a lack of sleep and no lack of alcohol — a double-whammy leading to mindless munching for him. Five diets, one year later: Did our staffers keep off the weight? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Your mindless desecration of this public treasure was an abhorrent act. Rant&Rave: Cheers for Ilwaco salmon fishing 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z “Groundhog Day,” the genius existential Bill Murray comedy, is code for “mindless repetition.” Respect for Fredo, a Character Who Is So Much More Than a Political Insult 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z In February 2016, when Donald Trump won his first primary in New Hampshire, the New York Daily News headlined it “Dawn of the Brain Dead” and likened Trump’s GOP supporters to “mindless zombies.” Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z It allows the commodification of living creatures such as whales and trees, which, in turn, enables their homogenization, and therefore mindless substitution of one “service” for another. Restoring the Planet Will Need More than a Climate Price Tag 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z But Sonja Hillemacher, an animal behavior researcher at the University of Bonn in Germany, always knew that chickens were more than mindless sources of wings and nuggets. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Foster could have been the hero when his close-range finish was ruled out, before the striker turned villain by being sent off in injury time for a mindless elbow on Ryan Yates. 'I switch off when it comes to laws' - Kompany 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z "This is mindless vandalism, and it's also criminal activity in terms of shoplifting and theft, looting, mass looting," she said. Call for parents to act over social media challenges 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z I love songs about hope, wild longing, working through things, and just sheer, mindless fun. Q&A: Keith Urban talks 2024 album, Vegas residency, and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Trump's violent directives excite the fantasies of his mindless supporters, converting his words into weapons designed to destroy anyone he hates. "An inner drive for self-destruction": Psychoanalyst on Trump's cycle of crimes and confessions 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Mr Bloomfield said the lives of people who paramedics were responding to were put at risk by the attacks of "mindless individuals". Bonfires: Eleven paramedics assaulted in spate of attacks 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Yet the invention of a new conspiracy theory about Luft's arrest was not just automatic, it seemed as mindless as breathing. Hunter Biden "whistleblower" is a fugitive and an accused spy — why MAGA conspiracies won't change 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Ms Bradd describes the instrument as one of "connectivity" which has brought joy and described its theft as a "mindless act." Thieves target musician's crashed car 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z The sway Trump has over his mindless supporters is chilling, and has we've seen, he will take no reasonability for their violent actions, either. Why Donald Trump can't simply keep quite — even when facing prison 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The encounter makes him believe “‘Bad boys’ weren’t just mindless men morphed from the darkness, but people like me.” This novel confronts the ugly realities of addiction, mental illness and racism 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z One theatergoer’s mindless fluff is another theatergoer’s inspired caprice. Ranking this year's Tony best musical nominees from worst to best 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z What the Republican fascists, neoliberal gangster capitalists and Christian fundamentalists want are compliant citizens, mindless consumers and subservient flocks of churchgoers. Ron DeSantis wants to "make America Florida": That's a dire threat 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z More importantly, Trump and his mindless minions are still at it. Joe Biden on the brink: Will the disastrous White House comms bring us a second Trump term? 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z He said despite the investment and support it "hadn't been transformational in terms of people's individual wealth", but said "it's not being poor that triggers violence" and condemned the "mindless" behaviour of rioters. Cardiff riot: Can lack of opportunities for young people be blamed? 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z The father of the student who owned the car said it had been left to his son by his granny and described the perpetrators as "mindless thugs". Belfast: Holyland car tipping incident 'not an isolated incident' 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps, on the issue of guns, people of good faith and sound minds can find solutions that change the equation and place public safety ahead of mindless slogans without resorting to extremes. Opinion | An assault weapons ban would slow mass shootings 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z "Carly is naturally devastated about this mindless act, which has caused real harm to her efforts to help those most in need in Harlow," he said. Police to investigate Harlow allotment salt sabotage 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z Taken together — the GOP's war on books and libraries — a picture emerges of what the Republican Party wants Americans to be: mindless, illiterate and compliant. GOP book-banning morphs into a new goal: Defunding libraries 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z West Virginia exposes how, in their mindless hysteria, two of the biggest arguments anti-trans people make contradict each other. Trans athlete case exposes how anti-trans arguments contradict each other 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Oe followed with “The Silent Cry,” a much more ambitious work whose psychological intensity is infused with his concerns about Japanese history, cultural integrity and mindless consumerism. Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Laureate and Critic of Postwar Japan, Dies at 88 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z AFSC’s embarrassing blunder is a lesson for us all about the perils of mindless box-ticking in the name of diversity representation. Opinion | Raquel Evita Saraswati and the racial impostor problem 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z In the stack of military uniforms piled in a corner and waiting to be mended, Khoury opens a window on the mindless piecework an urbane woman such as Afiya must undertake. Review | ‘Selling Kabul’ falls short of its ‘Homeland’-style ambitions 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z "Tomney is a selfish man who had no consideration for those whose properties he was damaging, or the community that was deeply affected by his mindless actions." Grimsby rooftop siege: Ryan Tomney jailed for seven years 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z While Dilbert’s satire of mindless corporate bureaucracy and office culture has been popular with readers for many years, Adams’ conduct is repulsive and collides with Seattle Times values. Why The Seattle Times is dropping ‘Dilbert’ 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Could a “mindless algorithm carefully designed not to violate any laws” have chosen who got the ax, one person wondered in a Discord post The Washington Post could not independently verify. AI is starting to pick who gets laid off 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Police describe it as a "mindless, reckless attempt to kill officers". Timeline of dissident republican activity 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z There's a temptation to see this rhetoric as mindless partisanship, as nothing more than a reflexive right-wing tendency to dismiss everything Biden says or does as wrong. Worse than partisanship: GOP hurt Ukraine to hit Biden 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z A man has been jailed for life after murdering a man outside a nightclub in an act of "mindless violence". Neath: Daniel Pickering jailed for life after nightclub murder 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z "We removed the unauthorised sign the day it was put up and will not tolerate mindless vandalism after one of the signs was defaced," she said. Black Boy Lane poster installed behind new La Rose Lane sign 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z “He himself was beloved, but unfortunately, through the mindless and thoughtless management of the 1965 crisis, he managed to squander this sympathy very quickly.” Thousands turn out to bid farewell to Greece’s former king 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Monteith combined jokes about everyday life, from hospitals and restaurants to people’s mindless habit of saying “thank you” in casual encounters, to spoofs of old movies. Kelly Monteith, US comedian also popular in UK, dead at 80 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z But it’s telling that Republicans were so shameless about embracing him as some sort of mindless prop, supposed proof that their party couldn’t possibly be racist since it had a Black man as a candidate. Column: White supremacy comes in all colors. 2023 will make this impossible to ignore 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Judge Geraint Walters described the killing as a "senseless episode of gratuitous and mindless violence." Neath: Daniel Pickering jailed for life after nightclub murder 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Another reader, driven to distraction by a chatty colleague’s mindless, repetitive questions, was not so lucky. Advice | Work Advice: 2022 in review, with reader updates 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Plus, if you search YouTube for kids stuff, and you’ll see plenty of mindless junk and lots of wonderful videos, too. YouTube is pushing educational kids videos. Can parents trust them? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Honey bees are almost robotic, she said, going about their duties with seemingly mindless precision. Forget honey bees. This L.A. artist finds meaning chasing California native bees 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z "This idea that it's indoctrination is just hate. It's just mindless," Bandit said. "It's terrifying": Texas drag shows become a right-wing target amid rising extremism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Second, all this mindless amplification of run-of-the-mill bigotry adds to the perception that history is moving in the wrong direction when it comes to inclusivity and tolerance. Opinion | Kanye West, Elon Musk and the problem with public shaming 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z We are now, of course, relegated to two years of garbage about Hunter Biden's laptop, potential impeachment hearings of every Democrat who can be impeached, and endless, mindless criticism of the "evil" and "socialist" Democrats. Our biggest problem isn't Trump or Biden: The media is disconnected from reality 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Escapism seems like a mindless waste of time until you open the newspaper and consider the alternative. Confessions of a middle-aged fanboy 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Psy insists the song never intended to deliver any profound social commentary — he was just looking to give people a few minutes of mindless hilarity and a reprieve from reality. ‘Gangnam Style’ Brought K-Pop to the World, but Haunted Its Creator 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z From the outside, watching someone use TikTok mostly looks like mindless swiping. How TikTok ate the internet Its very nature requires intentionality, and that’s a good thing: Mindless drinking, like mindless snacking, can be a slippery slope. You don’t need fancy cocktail glasses to make great drinks 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Sure, the beginning is arch, and it’s twee, but it’s not some mindless gimmick. Review: If 'The Wonder' doesn't quite live up its title, it remains something to behold 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z It appears that Biden himself is growing weary of this mindless battle. With America poised on the knife's edge, Joe Biden's silence isn't helping 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z There are moments when this war feels utterly mindless. Ukraine war: The cost of occupation in Kherson 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z "We must stop this mindless violence in America. We must address gun violence. We have much to do, and tonight we have much to mourn," Governor Cooper said. North Carolina: Five dead in Raleigh mass shooting 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The wide and unrelenting protests — oil field workers joined this week, and ethnic minorities, too — have been met by the regime with the usual mindless deployment of thugs, batons and guns. Opinion | In Iran, a new generation rises. The theocracy strikes back. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z “We must do more. We must stop this mindless violence in America. We must address gun violence. We have much to do. Tonight we have much to mourn.” Suspect in custody after at least five are killed in North Carolina shooting 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z “We must stop this mindless violence in America, we must address gun violence,” the mayor said. Police: 5 killed, including officer, in N. Carolina shooting 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Greenwald in 2019 noted: "The idea that Putin controls Trump and the U.S. Government through hidden blackmail power is as deranged, mindless, stupid, and unhinged as anything Alex Jones has ever advocated." Glenn Greenwald's bromance with Alex Jones: New low for a onetime Pulitzer winner 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z A pretty smart trick for a "mindless killer." Viruses may be ‘watching’ you 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z So deeply do Republicans value that mindless embryo that your entire life must be upended — or even ended — to preserve that precious ball of cells. Republicans learn the hard way that sex is still popular 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Kamikaze attacks that took place towards the end of the war were regarded as proof of the irrationality of Japanese martial values and mindless loyalty to Emperor Hirohito. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, this over-reverential, sanitized view of our Founding Fathers is what is taught throughout our education systems, and it contributes to mindless chants of “U.S.A., U.S.A.” while attacking the U.S. Opinion | David McCullough’s legacy is the history he brought to life 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Kraemer said she sometimes resorted to doing “busywork that is mindless” to accumulate clicks. The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Reading magazine articles about the Kardashians and bingeing episodes of “Modern Family” focused my attention on mindless issues, which allowed me to stay calm and zone out. When my daughter was in the hospital, this was what kept me sane 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z It seems like something they would do, just watching mindless stuff on TikTok. Mike Judge knows why 'Beavis and Butt-Head' endure: 'They're very pure' 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z He satirized American middle-class life as pleasure seeking and mindless. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Public schools more than ever are subject to the toxic forces of privatization and mindless standardized curricula, while teachers are deskilled and subject to intolerable labor conditions. Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z As a working mom of two young kids, I have all the trappings of middle-age life, and what little free time I’ve had of late was devoted to wine and mindless TV. Woodcarving: Finding flow, community in the curve of a spoon 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z One councillor labelled the "mindless destruction" shown by the vandals as "sickening". Cardiff: Trees gifted by Japan vandalised in city park 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Like she hadn’t helped Trump plant that lie over the course of many months, mindless of the consequences. Opinion | These Jan. 6 witnesses are doing the right thing now. They’re not heroes. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The mindless, irresponsible opposition of the Republican Party to fighting climate change is so accepted that it is not even discussed. Opinion | Manchin’s interests run deep 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Without sportsmanship there are no sports … just large mindless thugs who think they are impressing their peers or fans. Letters to Sports: Big Ten defection by UCLA, USC infuriates readers 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z "We put our heart and soul into keep our heritage alive. To see it reduced to tatters in a manner of minutes by mindless individuals is absolutely gut wrenching," the society said. Foxfield Railway: Vandals cause £25k damage at heritage attraction 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z “Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts,” the poet James Dickey wrote of the vine. ‘They’re everywhere’: The never-ending battle to control noxious weeds in WA 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z “The most unfortunate part is the lives of innocent children cut down in their prime and some severely injured by the mindless terrorists,” Governor Akeredolu said in a broadcast. Nigeria church: 38 killed in attack during Sunday service 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns described those involved in the singing as "mindless hoodlums" and called for the police to investigate the matter. Michaela McAreavey: Council to investigate video mocking bride's murder 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Mass shootings expose the deep problem of mindless cheerleading for "traditional" masculinity. Male cops blaming a female teacher for their own failures fits right into a larger pattern 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Sharp, a former Forest player, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that “one mindless idiot ruined what was an unbelievable night of football.” Soccer fan pleads guilty to assaulting player after game 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Like her husband, Midge Decter was a onetime Democrat repelled in the ’60s and after by what she called “heedless and mindless leftist politics and intellectual and artistic nihilism.” Midge Decter, leading neo-conservative, dead at 94 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z That pretty much negates Vindman's analysis, and sails over the heads of the mindless arguments on social media. Now Elon Musk has to choose between good and evil — and maybe he'll surprise us 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Convenient payment options can sometimes lead to mindless spending. Millennial Money: 8 tactics to break credit card debt cycles 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z "The only success of these mindless idiots is to distract attention from the great success of the rally and the very clear anti-protocol message." Doug Beattie: Poster of Ulster Unionist leader criticised 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Meanwhile — stay with me here — a genuine mad scientist has developed a toxin that reduces people to mindless, lumbering “Dawn of the Dead” zombies. Review | Let’s call April mystery book month. Here’s what I’d read. 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z And that's precisely what degrowth thinking is all about: scaling back the mindless pursuit of production, consumption and profit in favor of "human wellbeing and ecological stability." The U.S. truly is an "exceptional nation" — in its devastating impact on the planet 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Currently, the shuffle feature is available for 45 series on HBO Max, meaning you have 45 options for mindless streaming next time you’re having trouble finding something to watch. HBO Max adds a shuffle button to help you find something to watch 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z “It was disturbing to witness law students whipped into a mindless frenzy. I did not feel it was safe to get out of the room without security,” she said. Police escort speakers out of Yale Law School panel amid LGBT protest 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z "It was disturbing to witness law students whipped into a mindless frenzy. I did not feel it was safe to get out of the room without security," Waggoner told the Washington Free Beacon. Liberal Yale Law students derail bipartisan 'free speech' event in chaotic protest; police called to scene 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z And could a mindless creature have scribbled a note that said, “Let’s eat”? Review | Let’s call April mystery book month. Here’s what I’d read. 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z We know, in theory, that everyday Russians aren’t all Putin’s mindless minions. Commentary: In Hollywood, the 'evil Russian' stereotype isn't back. It never left 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Indexing software is now available, but some find it cumbersome, and its mindless output requires editing. Review | Sure, Google is handy, but what about the mighty book index? 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Lost Ark is mindless fun that won’t punish you for not taking it too seriously. Lost Ark is a grindy MMO that’s perfect to while away the hours 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The little spare time he had outside work, he spent playing what he describes as "mindless" computer games. 'Lying flat': Why some Chinese are putting work second 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Dr. Alter suggested periodically rearranging the apps on your phone so that they become harder to find and less likely to lure you into a mindless loop of checking and rechecking simply out of habit. I’m Addicted to My Phone. How Can I Cut Back? 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Leicestershire Police later tweeted there had been "a number of arrests before / during / after the game due to the mindless behaviour of a minority". Forest v Leicester City: Fan trouble ahead of FA Cup game 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z It controls all of our habitual mindless behavior, but we don't realize it's happening because it's unconscious. Why negotiating gives you anxiety — and why it shouldn't 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z It “hunts” by sitting still in the riverbed, waiting for an insect to swim by, then lurches forward to swallow the object—a mindless reflex. Junk DNA Deforms Salamander Bodies 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z On the morning of Inauguration Day, I went through the motions of getting ready on autopilot, mindless and mechanical, doing my hair and makeup even as I anxiously practiced my poem. Opinion | Amanda Gorman: Why I Almost Didn’t Read My Poem at the Inauguration 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z While it might initially seem counterintuitive, more apps are emerging to curtail mindless scrolling. The people deciding to ditch their smartphones 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Sometimes the shooting is mindless; the muscle memory of tens of thousands of jump shots takes over. Alone With a Basketball, a Hoop, and Covid 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Packing feels like both a mindless reprieve from work and a rite of self-reflection. Perspective | Zen puzzle game ‘Unpacking’ strikes a bittersweet chord as I leave my hometown behind 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z He defended his tightly controlled approach as necessary to counter what he described as Republicans’ “mindless, knee-jerk obstruction” of the Obama agenda. Harry M. Reid, pugnacious Senate majority leader, dies at 82 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z When you’re mindless, there’s no room for curiosity — or for growth and change. Tradition meets science: why mindfulness is good for you 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Some states offer payments of up to $15 for women to be sterilized, and Das Gupta says “mindless allegations” of coercion still surround sterilization. India defuses its population bomb: Fertility falls to two children per woman 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The Lakers’ flaws — mindless turnovers, so-so defense, even worse offense — defined the first half Sunday and seemed to be pushing the Lakers down a familiar path. LeBron James goes nuclear: Five takeaways from Lakers' win over Magic 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Too many journalists are caught in a mindless neutrality between democracy and its saboteurs, between fact and fiction. Opinion | The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here’s proof. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Down the street are the Correctional Industries shops, often a dead-end workplace in other prisons, symbolized by the mindless chore of making license plates. Prisons are training inmates for the next generation of in-demand jobs 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Political beliefs appear to be particularly “mindless”—people don’t tend to spend a lot of time internally rehearsing their arguments when those claims fall along party lines. ‘Constructive Arguing’ Can Help Keep the Peace at Your Thanksgiving Table 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z "Some of the passes we were making, I would say in a respectful way, were mindless." No. 20 Michigan sloppy in 65-54 win over Tarleton State 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z “The mindless and hysterical banality of the evil presented in ‘The Exorcist’ is the most terrifying thing about the film,” he writes. How Black Horror Became America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z After this study, she reminds herself of something new: “I find some comfort in knowing that they’re not mindless killers.” To Err Is Human; To Mistakenly Bite Is Baby White Shark 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z “Dozens have died or been grievously injured on movie sets because of irresponsibility, ignoring safety protocols, improper leadership and a set culture of mindless rushing,” Gunn said on Twitter. Baldwin shooting highlights risks of rushed film production 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The user posted a meme with the caption “Baaaaaa …” — a common phrase that anti-vaccine activists have used to imply that people getting the vaccine are mindless sheep. Documents show Facebook withheld key data about power, spread of COVID and vaccine misinformation 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z “But my fear is it’s now obscuring discussing the many ways dozens have died or been grievously injured on movie sets because of irresponsibility, ignoring safety protocols, improper leadership & a set culture of mindless rushing.” ‘Rust’ tragedy shines harsh light on economics of low-budget movies: ‘We can’t keep grinding people down’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z A few weeks before the episode, the agent, Matthew Bowen, referred in text messages to immigrants as “mindless murdering savages,” “subhuman” and “unworthy of being kindling for a fire.” ‘It Should Not Have Happened’: Asylum Officers Detail Migrants’ Accounts of Abuse 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z So, I ran mindless errands within a tight radius, waiting, worrying and finally wondering whether I had written down the wrong phone number. Opinion | Why is a covid-19 test so hard to find? 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z A lot of us also have learned that reining in mindless spending has its own happiness in taking care of what we have. Opinion | Why it’s hard to fill — and find — jobs 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z But Sable’s desert world, hiding discoveries buried within and above the dunes, enticed me into a state of pleasant and quiet contentment instead of mindless wanderings. Sable is an adventure made from the most chill parts of Breath of the Wild 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The most frequent words he uses to describe American culture are “coarse” and “infantile,” and he has myriad ways of expressing his distaste for “today’s leveling winds of mindless egalitarianism.” Review | Woke academics, Donald Trump and George Will’s ire 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Whether we like the results or not, the obedience that Ms. Brooks decried as “mindless” is and must remain a pillar of democratic rule. Opinion | The consequences of Gen. Milley’s calls 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Part of me finds the relationship doctrine, and especially Gefter’s you-centered metaphysics, beautiful and consoling, a welcome alternative to mindless materialism. Is There a Thing, or a Relationship between Things, at the Bottom of Things? 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The president is rightly impatient with vaccine resistance, which often expresses only the mindless truculence of those who feel fully alive only when furious. Opinion | Presidential impatience with covid doesn’t excuse wielding extra-constitutional power 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z When it comes to a virus and its mindless pursuit of human hosts to infect, this disease has no better friend than the modern GOP. Biden's vaccine mandate makes Republicans choose: culture war or corporate profits? 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z There is every reason to be pessimistic, not for mindless ideological reasons but because the balance of evidence suggests that humanity has dug itself into a hole from which escape looks increasingly impossible. Can we clean up the mess we've created? We have to do it now, or face extinction 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Some seem to be mindless and thereby make Mr. Kagan’s piece seem more sound and truthful. Opinion | Invading Afghanistan was based on more than fear 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Although mindfulness has its merits, psychological research has also revealed that in some circumstances it’s important to be mindless. Sometimes Mindlessness Is Better Than Mindfulness 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z “Ill-considered, ideologically rigid, mindless of the implications for the United States. If Biden is lucky, he will be Jimmy Carter. Unlucky, and he will have invited another 9/11.” For Biden, ‘forever war’ isn’t over, just entering a new, perilous phase 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z To Descartes, this sort of reflexive behavior suggested that animals were “automata,” essentially mindless machines that lacked the subjective experience of a conscious self. Opinion | I Can’t Stop Wondering What’s Going On Inside My Cat’s Head 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z “And it helps people gain a little deeper interest in alligators instead of seeing them as a mindless eating machine.” Pair of rare albino alligators hatch in Florida 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s fine to approach the question of the cutest Beatle or member of BTS with a mindless ferocity, because the answer ultimately doesn’t matter. Opinion | The ‘Cuomosexual’ phenomenon was disgraceful. We’re politicians’ bosses, not their fans. 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z The delta variant is just a mindless virus. Think the delta variant is scary? Anti-vaccination Trumpers are truly terrifying 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Young analysts worked around the clock, picked up coffee and food orders for the team, endured mindless tasks like filing trade tickets, and were subjected to pranks and verbal abuse. Rookie Bankers Sour on Wall Street’s Pitch of Big Pay and Long Hours 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z On apps, conversations lacked substance and swiping left and right became a mindless game without purpose. L.A. Affairs: How the pandemic taught me to switch up my dating game 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z But by late last year, all the fitness instructor wanted to do was pass mindless hours in her home, undisturbed — venturing no farther than her backyard. What burnout really is, and ways to prevent it 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z People with low distress tolerance often turn to unhealthy ways of coping, like substance use or spending excessive amounts of mindless time watching television or gaming. Four Lessons From Your Anxious Brain 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “The critics hated it. They called it mindless TV, but we became goodwill ambassadors,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 2013. Gavin MacLeod, ‘Love Boat’ captain, dies at 90 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z "The critics hated it. They called it mindless TV, but we became goodwill ambassadors," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2013. Gavin MacLeod, ‘Love Boat’ captain, dies at 90 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z I was a melancholy indoor girl myself, and Rose perfectly articulated my teenage ennui: “the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter.” ‘Titanic’ Is My Favorite Movie. There, I Said It. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z He is particularly impressed by recent research showing that animal migrations, long considered the essence of mindless instinct in motion, are, in fact, culturally determined. Meet the Other Social Influencers of the Animal Kingdom 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z As long as the league condones the sort of mindless, reckless violence we’ve seen this week, it will never be anything more than MMA On Ice. Column: The NHL embarrasses itself again as MMA On Ice 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z There was little mindless scrolling on cellphones or eye rolls. A president flanked by two California women of power speaks before a nearly empty House 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Big lecture courses are sometimes vilified as mindless mass production. Perspective | So you’re bummed because your favorite college said no. Read this. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z “We as humans tend to be mindless instead of mindful,” he said. After His Heart Attack, a British Man’s Rules for Living Take Off on LinkedIn 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Plot twist: Vegas has been overrun by zombies— not the shambling, mindless creepers from The Walking Dead, mind you; these zombies are organized and smart. New Trailers: Army of the Dead, The Underground Railroad, Resident Evil, and more 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z A lot of this screen time is likely mindless scrolling from one post to another—in one way, it’s a distraction from thinking about the strife in one’s own life and in the world. A Digital Obsession 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z “Please get vaccinated so our nutcase of a Governor will have less reasons for mindless restrictions!” Editorial Roundup: North Carolina 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z They aren't mindless ciphers, helpless to resist the allure of Fox News propaganda. Republican delusion — not disinformation — is the bigger danger to American democracy 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Long before aggrieved reactionaries became barnacles to its abandoned underside in order to spout talking points imported directly from The Ingraham Angle, it existed as an extremely sincere, extremely harebrained epicenter of mindless juvenile interests. Yahoo Answers was the most earnest place on the internet 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z |
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