But then, Irene can be indiscriminate, according every possession equal worth, whether it's a newspaper clipping or a photograph of her daughter.
British musicians from Humphrey Lyttleton, a bandleader born in 1921, to Eric Clapton and Lonnie Donegan talk on camera about how they absorbed, in a ravenously indiscriminate way, every strain of American music that made its way across the ocean.
It seems strange to speak of growing censorship in an era when elections are common around the world, private freedoms have expanded even in repressive countries like China, the Internet and social media swamp our brains with indiscriminate information every nanosecond, and anyone with a Twitter account or a Facebook page can be a journalist.
Local authorities have responded with paranoid and indiscriminate crackdowns, treating every Salafist as a potential terrorist.
Mr. Moore, the Tennessee solicitor general, emphasized the breadth of the law and what he described as "its indiscriminate application to every facet" of state activities.
My decade doing the job coincided with a bloodbath among my fraternity that has been every bit as savage and indiscriminate as the one that was perpetrated by Vincent Price in that splendid 70s shocker Theatre of Blood.
The elephants' deaths are part of a worldwide epidemic of land mine injuries to animals who stray into battlefields or former battlefields, joining some 25,000 humans who are also killed or injured every year by this most indiscriminate of weapons.
But recognizing the gravity of Sept. 11 did not mean "that we must yield to a reflex to treat every offense and every offender associated with Sept. 11 with indiscriminate severity and weight," the judge said.
The willingness of investors to bankroll every dot-com venture has often appeared indiscriminate, creating expectations among investors that may never be fulfilled, and a measured decline in Internet stocks might mitigate the damage from these excesses.
The clatter of public transport or indiscriminate snatches of conversation situate every song in a room, on a bus, or at the bottom of some stairs real or imagined.
