Sentence examples for by witless from inspiring English sources

Overlooked by witless adults, Matilda uses brainpower — which builds into telekinesis — to triumph over stupidity.

Instead, it is defined by witless one-liners, programmed ironies and retro stabs at innovation.

For years the culture has been dominated by witless pop music, stupid films, and so-bad-it-doesn't-need-an-adjective reality TV.

The disk becomes her ticket to restored pulchritude, and assisted by her witless Hardbodies colleague (a wonderful portrait of vacuous narcissism by Brad Pitt) and a kindly admirer (Richard Jenkins), she tries to blackmail Osbourne and then to sell the material to the Russian embassy.

The fans are being drowned out by the witless honk of the vuvuzelas.

Both have respectable television credentials, but they are wasted by this witless show, forced to swap distasteful one-liners without zest or conviction.

Not as confused as Shae, however: using the same dazed, bovine stare to telegraph shock, desire, pensiveness and murderous resolve, she makes "Girls Against Boys" less a battle of the sexes than a wipeout by the witless.

One of the hoariest clichés is that hard times bring out the best in New Yorkers, whose hometown did not achieve international greatness by being witless and docile in adversity.

I'm always amused by the witless complaint I can recall hearing even as a kid and as recently as a week ago: "Why don't these old-timers move over and let somebody else have a chance?" As if there were only a certain number of places at the "top" — like limited seating on a bus — until somebody gets off.

With the exception of the Streets' Mike Skinner - whose style has more in common with the streetwise witticisms of the late Ian Dury than his garage peers - MCs' lyrics still tend to be embarrassingly gauche, as evidenced by the witless hectoring of So Solid Crew.

These were not the artificial cheers spurred on by the witless sounds from the public-address system, but rather the warm and impromptu sounds of fans who had gotten more out of this cool, sweet Memorial Day weekend than they ever could have imagined.