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b lahyth lee

  • r  in a joyous manner

  • Indefatigable lover of women's wisdom, remorseless anatomizer of men's insecurities, Bergman would make sterner, possibly more profound works, but never again one so blithely .
  • When Reagan blithely suggested that people who cannot make it where they now live can "vote with their feet" by migrating to greener pastures, he sounded like a social Darwinist.
  • The cheerful curiosity of Sacha Baron Cohen's blithely ignorant foreigner is mostly matched by the friendly, if often deranged, behavior of the people he ropes into being themselves.
News & Articles

  • Pie anxiety in Rim Country
    Eight pies lined the table at the Payson Farmers Market pie baking contest — and I had blithely offered to judge them.
    June 11, 2013 - Payson Roundup
Quotes

  • Patrick Leahy in Forbes
    The administration is walking blithely toward a cliff with this program, and they're threatening to take millions of Americans with them,said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. "Their competence in being able to get this right was already in...
  • Kenny MacAskill in AFP
    Robert Mueller, director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, sent a letter to Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill saying he was "outraged at the decision, blithely defended on the grounds of 'compassion.'"
  • Ronald Reagan in Orlando Sentinel
    I urge you to beware the temptation of pride,warned Reagan, "the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an Evil Empire,...

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