I would ask innocuous and mindless questions and never express an opinion, even if a sweaty psychopath picked me up and started ranting about niggers, queers and bitches.
During a court-martial sequence, in which a private accused of taking a German pillbox with feather pillows is relentlessly badgered by a judge asking mindless questions, Judge Lasker turned to his law clerk with a delighted grin on his face.
By now both sides are aggrieved, and with good reason, but here at least it's possible to sympathize a little with Bonds when he complains, for example, about the mindless questions tossed out by reporters trolling for quotes and demanding to know in February what he thinks of the Giants' chances.
How plants do what they do without a brain — what Anthony Trewavas has called their "mindless mastery" — raises questions about how our brains do what they do.
While acknowledging the considerable investment in and recognition of contemporary art on government levels and the exciting opportunity to build something now, in this point in time, that is free from historical baggage, we need to question the mindless approach to museum building taking place.
In Consciousness Explained (1991), Dennett introduces the "party game of psychoanalysis" to compare the production of dream narratives to a mindless, aimless game of question-and-answer, governed by simple rules.
And he explored themes of courage and questions of responsibility that went beyond mindless acts of racism to challenge a people with traditions of decency.
Second, there is a lot at stake morally in the question of whether animals are conscious beings or "mindless automata".
Reginald Fitz, a reporter for The Enquirer, said he was not bothered by the questions from other journalists, though he thought some were "mindless".
Mr. Koch makes Don's willingness to go along with every mindless joke proposed by his male buddies seem so craven that you constantly question this character's motives, even when he wins the best woman in the story.
