Throughout the novel, he splashes down paeans to virtue and beauty you'd have to be heartless not to enjoy, but mires them in sloughs of homily at which you'd have to be brainless not to bristle.
Elphaba criticizes Fiyero for his "brainless" approach to life when he is clearly more intelligent than he wants people to see.
There is a kneejerk, brainless reaction to any legislation that may have a detrimental effect on their God-given right to drive cars anywhere at any speed that they consider safe.
What a heartless, wicked, brainless thing to do! . . .
Well, apart from the usual brainless attempt to drown out another country's national anthem.
You can stand there and tell me all about how Halloween is just some corporate scam that we were all brainless enough to fall for – I won't dispute that.
From the opening brainless giggles to the sort of nasty metallic beats that normally emanate from a vomit-splattered Benidorm bar, this is the sound of feminism wailing in the seventh circle of hell.
The books that did make it to print usually featured brutal "anti-blurbs," which Knott culled from reviews good and bad alike: his work was "grotesque," "malignant," "tasteless," and "brainless," according to some of the big names of the day.
You n***as want brainless bitches to stroke your motherf**king ego".
Their styles may have varied from manic to comatose, cerebral to brainless, but they shared similar suburban backgrounds, and they brought a studied irony into the comedy mainstream.
