We were a "sandwich" generation — blithely supporting our kids and our parents and believing that we could work until we wanted to stop.
Proponents of the war are using it to paint peaceniks as naive, blithely supporting a resistance that answers international solidarity with kidnappings and beheadings.
Yet Tria sails on blithely, drawing support from Democrats and Republicans every time, without fail.
Elsewhere, Acosta is supported by some fine performances: Yuhui Choe and Valeri Hristov are blithely elegant in La Sylphide: Thiago Soares and Tierney Heap are convincingly turbulent, lost lovers in the Farewell pas de deux from Winter Dreams.
Why prop up Russia's rouble when other basket-cases, such as Indonesia, whose economy is bigger than Russia's, were blithely told only last year that their currencies were not worth supporting and that help should be directed at a general economic restructuring, not a bailing out of banks?
"Each time you vote, you support the process," runs the refrain on the stately and blithely anti-politics title track, an insight so tidy and vacuous that only a standup comedian or a pop star could advance it with a straight face.
Almost from the start, the author contradicts himself, mentioning studies that support the problem of exorbitant CEO pay, but then he blithely dismissing all of them as meaningless in order to focus on... two studies.
The House ban was announced just days after the committee blithely pronounced the coincidence of generous defense contracts and political contributions as just that -- a mere coincidence that does not "support a claim that a member's actions are being influenced by campaign contributions".
While I support health care reform and would even be willing to pay more to cover more folks, I am tired of hearing that I am blithely demanding care I might not need because it is free to me.
The striking points made by all speakers seemed to be the inter-connectivity of the systems that support a life worth living: access to food and water, avoidance of human conflict, and the preservation of the natural systems and resources that provide us with so much, most of which we blithely take for granted until they are gone forever.
