Sentence examples for ordinary stupidity from inspiring English sources
In the toughest cases, Montaigne's critical use of judgment aims at giving "a good whiplash to the ordinary stupidity of judgment".[54] In many other places, Montaigne boasts of himself being able to resist vulgar opinion.
Never attribute to evil what can be adequately explained by ordinary stupidity and greed.
It takes the ordinary human traits of stupidity, selfishness, lust and greed (and also stupidity), embeds them in a human condition that is confusing, unfair and also stupid, and turns the whole sorry spectacle into a carnival.
"It takes the ordinary human traits of stupidity, selfishness, lust and greed (and also stupidity), embeds them in a human condition that is confusing, unfair and also stupid, and turns the whole sorry spectacle into a carnival," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
In a series of talks at academic conferences, videos of which have recently surfaced, Gruber says that the creators of the A.C.A. deliberately misrepresented, or kept vague, some of its contents, seeking to exploit the "stupidity" of ordinary voters.
Many of his riffs concern the difficulty of being an artist (as compared with what, the reader wants to ask, compared with being a soldier? A factory worker? A farmer?) and the stupidity of ordinary people.
His money insulates him from his homeliness, his inarticulateness, his stupidity; it even insulates him from the ordinary consequences of being an insulting blowhard.
So the function of all of these dirty jokes and stupidities is to cover up that he is really a pretty ordinary, centrist politician".
This episode gave Thant Myint-U an early education in the vileness and stupidity of the military dictatorship, and in the strength of feeling against the regime among ordinary Burmese.
