wanton
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Does this explain why one could reasonably label 2023 as the Year of Grandiosity and Wanton Escapism?
From Salon • Jan. 3, 2024
Wanton destruction doesn’t merely isolate, it aims to sow confusion and dissent in the fearful, to seed defeat before the enemy even rolls in.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2023
Photograph: Tristram Kenton Lord Lechery, Madam Wanton and Judas Iscariot: in a flash these names thrust us into the moral chaos of Vanity Fair, that sleazy pit stop on the grand highway to salvation.
From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2012
Joseph Wanton is character analysis in the grand manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I, listening, Found not the salt of the whispers of my girl, Murmur of confused colors, as we lay near sleep; Little wise words and little witty words, Wanton as water, honied with eagerness.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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