"And the Wichita Lineman, is still on the line". Webb, while proud of the song, has always insisted it was unfinished, and says he initially considered that famous couplet "the biggest, awfulest, dumbest, most obvious false rhyme in history".
Guston's 1975 Head and Bottle is awful and dumb and cartoonish, but then that is the state of the world he depicts.
When he found himself once again answering a question about Mr. Gingrich's appearance in a public service announcement with Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic and conservative punching bag, he quickly acknowledged that the move was "awful, evil, dumb, never do it again".
If you wanted perfect demonstrations, on the one hand, of how good contemporary art can get, and on the other of how awful and dumb-arsed it can be, there could be no better place than London right now.
And that function is making you feel better about your own dumb-dumb awful life.
Then, after several of his dumb, awful, not-that-old tweets were discovered and publicized, our game apprehension turned to something like hopeful dread.
You may believe that the Grammys are dumb, awful, inexplicable and irrelevant, but a few brief minutes during the Feb. 15 telecast were actually worth your time. .
And they're every bit as awful, lazy-minded, annoying, dumb and, well, cliched.
And though there are plenty of awful Romans, they are dumb sadistic brutes; not so the conniving Jews.
The book weaves travelers' personal experiences with Top 10 lists of the dumb, the awful, the misguided or the downright weird, partly based on over 2,000 travelers' responses to online surveys that Mr. Lansky conducted.
