Sentence examples for a doofus of from inspiring English sources

He was an apoplectic ship's captain in the Agatha Christie mystery "Murder Ahoy" (1964); he was a doofus of a secret agent in "The Spy With a Cold Nose" (1966); he was a bungling Scotland Yard inspector in "The Wrong Arm of the Law" (1963), with Peter Sellers; he was the amiably feckless King Pellinore in "Camelot" (1967).

She'd left him for a plaid-clad insurance salesman who turned out to be too much of a doofus for her.

He said that the boos "test her mettle" and called Mr. Giuliani "bush league" and "a doofus" for making fun of the first lady's ability to navigate New York's streets.

But "Saturday Night Live" is an especially tricky gig: instead of just chit-chat, there are a monologue and skits -- opportunities to make yourself look like a clown instead of a wit, a doofus instead of a potential world leader.

The hero is Emmet, an amiable doofus of a construction worker who somehow finds himself leading a rainbow coalition of Lego figures in a revolution that seeks to return power to the people (well, to the Lego figures that look like people).Thus far, "The Lego Movie" fits the old stereotype of Hollywood peddling anti-capitalist propaganda to kids.

I knew that I wanted to tell a story about a doofus who kind of learns a lesson and is a better person than he expected to be so I thought that a good fellow might be a nice way to foreshadow that part of his character.

–Why is that orb on that planet at the start, and why was it so easy for him to get? Presumably, this thing is a big deal, and someone that the movie spends a lot of time later establishing as kind of a doofus is able to break in and steal it pretty easily.

The plot of the film is what you would expect: Larry plays "Larry," a doofus who shares custody of his daughter with his ex-wife and her new, wealthy husband.

Dan is a bit of a doofus, too, but a charming one.

"You see him on '30 Rock' and he comes off as this total goofball, a little bit of a doofus, even," Dr. Zaki said.

It was Mike's impression that the guy was kind of a doofus and that offering this bribe had been pretty exciting for him.