Sentence examples for idiot box from inspiring English sources

And the poor consumers are squinting their eyes trying to extract the few droppings of real content out of the idiot box that is getting more idiotic by the day!

Overwhelmingly, staring at the idiot box.

Yes, it's the New Golden Age of Television, but I miss the old idiot box.

He said: "Open the idiot box and you'll see [a] woman called Sunny Leone.

But consumers do not typically expect the so-called idiot box to be a savant.

Television has often been described disparagingly, from "the idiot box" to "the plug-in drug".

The overall idea is to make TV-viewing just interactive enough to make it more compelling without sacrificing the "idiot box -ness of the medium.

In the current scenario the majority of the citizenry is glued to their idiot boxes waiting for the emergence of a 'Naya' Pakistan.

In that short space, he blames us for being addicted to our idiot boxes, reminds us that our food, air and government is screwed, that we're a violent nation, that times are "worse than bad" and "people are crazy," and that we sit in our comfy abodes and want to be left alone with our microwaves and flat screens.

"He must watch television?" asks one of the pupils, incredulous at the idiot-box-obsessed Mike Teavee.

But now the key elements required to propel the old idiot-box world of analog broadcasting into the digital age are falling into place.