Sentence examples for idiot of a from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Achebe and his classmates responded with "exasperation at this bumbling idiot of a character," he wrote.

This is Weiner's stylish wife, the elegant and cerebral Huma Abedin, who is standing by her idiot of a husband.

He'd start muttering, 'Look at those fools; look at that idiot of a man,' and so on.

"And look at me," said Stephen Colbert, who plays a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot" of a news correspondent on "The Daily Show".

One of the toadies is Sir Edward Denham, the nephew of Lady Denham's second husband, and an idiot of a very particular brand.

Akshay Kumar plays Happy Singh, the uber idiot of a Punjabi village full of chicken-chasing numskulls, who has to leave behind the ever-smiling imbeciles of his homestead to go and bring back his cousin, Lucky Singh (Sonu Sood).

Without "Mary Tyler Moore," it's harder to imagine Tina Fey's "30 Rock" and Lena Dunham's "Girls"; without Ted Baxter, the series's bombastic idiot of an anchor, we might not have Will Ferrell's Ron Burgundy in ­"Anchorman".

"We're idiots of a different species but we're both bloody idiots," Vic says, in one of the moments of deadpan awareness that spike the story.

(Scott) 'Killer Joe' (NC-17, 1 43) Matthew McConaughey plays a psycho hired by the idiot son of an idiot family in this unfunny, self-indulgent violent bore.

(Nicolas Rapold) 'Killer Joe' (NC-17, 1 43) Matthew McConaughey plays a psycho hired by the idiot son of an idiot family in this unfunny, self-indulgent violent bore.

For nothing – to go on television and make an idiot of himself, for a false ideal.