Sentence examples for seemed dumb from inspiring English sources

No, what seemed dumb, plain bad science, was all that talk that New Orleans needed to be evacuated because a storm surge could have put all of it, even the relatively elevated French Quarter, under twenty feet of water.

Fast Society's co-founder Matthew Rosenberg tells me "It seemed dumb to just quit.

Birth with dolphins seemed dumb two years ago when stories circulated about someone trying it, and it seems dumb today.

It seemed dumb to use it on a flip phone, so I had a brief email exchange with my mom, and shortly thereafter I was walking to my apartment on a dark Lower East Side street, cradling a new iPhone 4 like an egg.

It also seems dumb to tell you to turn up Mastodon.

But with so many blameless people being punished, and severely, worrying about proportionality for this guy seems dumb.

She made appearances on "The Tonight Show," where, she remembered, she worked awfully hard to seem dumb and make Johnny Carson seem smart.

"People just have to sit through a short commercial and then we give them every episode in very high quality that makes stealing it seem dumb," he said.

Its revelations, aside from Mr. Affleck's performance, which manages to make the character seem dumb and the actor wily and smart, are nonexistent.

"When the Time Comes," which Mr. Petty said the band had not performed since 1978, has chiming Byrds guitars but shaky self-esteem; it's a vow of devotion that begins, "This might sound strange, might seem dumb".

Mr. Fürmann and Ms. Hoss, even when gripped by sexual fervor, display a reticence that blunts the force of the story and makes their turn from adultery toward more serious and criminal transgressions seem dumb rather than passionately reckless.