Sentence examples for do something idiotic from inspiring English sources

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Of course "fem jep" (a woman in danger) is a trope of crime fiction, but the author was forcing a smart character to do something idiotic for the sake of the plot.

He was obviously guided by stylists from Elle magazine who "persuaded" him to do something idiotic; he's accountable, but he's accountable for being stupid or naïve and not necessarily a racist.

Lesser-known Giegling-man Konstantin's entire label was being wiped from festival bookings after his slip-up, whereas UK techno mainstay Scuba seems to be able to do something idiotic every six months or so without his touring schedule suffering too badly.

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That's right, for the next forty-six days, I'm asking you to bite your tongue every time Mitt says or does something idiotic.

With his improbably broad shoulders and general menacing authority, he cuts an imposing figure in uniform, even when he's doing something idiotic, like working out potential troop casualties on a child's toy computer, or screwing up his face in imitation of a scrotum.

We keep thinking "Maybe we weren't paying attention, maybe we missed somebody doing something idiotic" -- which is always a possibility.

If, on the other hand, you do something completely idiotic that is tangential to what voters most hope or fear about you, then you tend to get a pass.

If you do something that is idiotic, the best thing you can do is quickly admit it and learn from it so you can move forward the next time.

Not only does she do something so manifestly idiotic, she is in such throes of self-justification that she feels that it is somehow society who is at fault here, not her.

Inevitably, their foreign brothers-in-nuttery see it and get all themselves worked up and have to storm off to a rally or to the internet to do something equally showy, inflammatory, and idiotic.

They're going to do something that we think is painfully idiotic, that's no doubt.

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