Sentence examples for playing the stupid from inspiring English sources

Villeneuve said: "There is enough pressure without playing the stupid games that happened in the past.

Alarming footage (ravaged bodies, contorted minds) and bold statements (the voice-over is presented on-screen in text form, a motif apparently inspired by Prince's Sign o' the Times music video) skewer America as "a monster" and demand that European peoples, in Fanon's words, "stop playing the stupid game of the Sleeping Beauty".

"She doesn't play the stupid stuff in the house," Ms. Blackman said.

A lot of the time all's we know is that we won't play the stupid game.

Yes, he says, and he does just that in Simon Pegg's new film, Man Up. "It's great to play the stupid," he laughs.

Whatever their characteristics as individuals, as a group Godspeed describe themselves as "earnest and naive and square", and the idea that doing things differently sets them apart discomforts them: "All's we know is that we won't play the stupid game".

"Some people have always wanted to play the stupid morality game," Linnell told me.

Randy ultimately ran the Vacation brand into the ground in 2003 by once more playing the fat, stupid low-life Cousin Eddie in a made-for-TV flop called National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure.

Does Bears ownership appreciate the way the head coach is playing the fans for stupid?

She said she was concerned about it playing near the stupid smartphone in the garden.

Megs Jenkins plays the deeply stupid housekeeper Mrs Grose as conscientious and kind-hearted and knowing her place.