Sentence examples for imbecility from inspiring English sources

But the working assumption back then was that it was the result of C&W's serial imbecility, not a vital point of justice.

He reveals their contradictory ideas of caste and the imbecility of their world-view which is haunted by fears of the World Trade Organisation and the pope.

The essence of war, he told British politicians more than a year before the outbreak of hostilities, was violence; moderation in war was imbecility.

How strange, then, that the big American airlines, still mired in losses, find themselves under attack for the imbecility of their pricing.The airlines offer two basic price schedules.

If hundreds of civilians are killed, and hundreds of thousands put to flight, so be it: in war, under Israel's philosophy, moderation is imbecility.

(He said in August that any retreat from the plan to raise value added tax was on "the verge of political and economic imbecility").Having failed to get a bill on that through parliament when six of his lawmakers defected, Mr Nečas has sent it back to the chamber but this time tied to a confidence vote.

Mr Nečas said this summer that a retreat from the tax increase plan verged on "political and economic imbecility".

You naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop…I quake at the imbecility of it".

The clerical elite was scandalised: it towered over the churches, did not speak to God, and reflected "imbecility, bad taste and foolish arrogance".

And, a little earlier,What on earth should I do with a road, that furrow On the forehead of imbecility, a road?Mr Fry counted T.S. Eliot as a mentor and a friend, and there was much of the master in his plays.

Fool, also called Jester, a comic entertainer whose madness or imbecility, real or pretended, made him a source of amusement and gave him license to abuse and poke fun at even the most exalted of his patrons.