Politicians blithely consider homicide as a political option.
When they kill it isn't blithely or without consequence – it is a deeply considered risk that seems to injure them every time.
Narrative momentum is suspended for long sequences in which the characters take time out for a softball game or drink themselves silly; storytelling points that many directors would consider crucial are blithely omitted; and characters act out of the illogic of their own impenetrable natures rather than following clearly signposted motivations.
One of his contradictions is how such a congenial man can be so blithely capable of behavior that others consider unethical.
Far more popular shows like "Two and a Half Men" or "How I Met Your Mother" blithely exist in a world that rarely considers race.
If there is any one force making life intolerable for the victim in question, one would not look any further than chedevans.com, where so many of Evans' supporters blithely insist he is innocent, without stopping to consider that he has been found guilty by a jury and his leave to appeal has been rejected by a Lord Chief Justice.
And the book traces the roots of many modern crises: Britain, trying to create buffer zones against Russia, occupies Afghanistan and considers seizing Baghdad, where a British diplomat blithely proclaims that Sunnis and Shiites "could always be played off against each other".
Or, for balance, consider instead Bill Clinton, who "never inhaled", but blithely instituted a "one strike and you're out" policy, which saw entire families thrown out of social housing because one member (frequently a teenage child) had been busted for marijuana possession.
"Zuma blithely incurred large debts – for cars, property, loans, building his Nkandla homestead – without bothering to consider where the money would come from".
So this afternoon when you're out mowing the lawn, blithely assuming you've got all those crew-cut blades marching crisply to your orders, consider all that the grasses have achieved.
