Sentence examples for nor mindless from inspiring English sources
Cervantes, a hero at Lepanto, wants Don Quixote to be a new kind of hero, neither ironic nor mindless, but one who wills to be himself, as José Ortega y Gasset accurately phrased it.
It was not so long ago that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were hawkish neo-liberals, eager to prove that they were neither peaceniks nor mindless populists.
The Nazi death camps are not an aberration, nor are mindless studio movies innocent entertainment.
If anything, their economic miracles had nothing to do with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), nor with mindless dissolution of trade barriers and strategic industrial policies, as prescribed by the IFIs and market-fundamentalists (a.k.a.: Neo-liberals).
AL Kennedy, reviewing the book in the Guardian, wrote: "Enright's work is neither mindless nor inhuman; it is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction.
Thus plants are like animals which are asleep, but not thereby mindless nor even unconscious, insofar as they possess no less than animals a complex set of teleological mechanisms serving their perseverance.
Nor is "R2P" about mindless moralizing, or prioritizing democracy or the achievement of longer-term justice, at the expense of effective action to stop mass killing in its tracks.
Now, at the age of eighty-one, I have neither the strength nor the years ahead to fight against the mindless damage that is being done to our country — and to our planet — by Pruitt, Ryan Zinke, and their colleagues in the Trump Administration.
On the first page, McCarthy describes how his protagonist, the kid, gets to be the way he is: "He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence".
While she regarded the emptiness of the protagonists' adventures as "surprisingly amusing" in a similar vein to Seinfeld, Ashby ultimately called it "mindless entertainment", stating "there are no subtle themes nor any clever satire to be had here".
