Hubris
Vaulting Ambition
Imbecility
Grotesqueness of World War I
To reiterate to contemporary generations: war is horrific.
Political traction
Gamut of issues from communal harmony to big corruption.
Lent credence
Ostensibly out
And for these prosaic reasons, doubting Thomases like myself find it hard to believe the technos can be much of a solution.
politically-beleaguered
sundry
par excellence
disillusioned
forbearance