Sentence examples for simple-minded fool from inspiring English sources
The Times, says the PM in his victory speech, called him a "simple-minded fool".
And being a simple-minded fool, he didn't see a king.
The simple-minded fools are rising again.
He duly takes the opportunity to thank the mass of "simple-minded fools" who just voted him into office.
Perhaps the park's long tradition of goat-friendliness has something to do with the fact that the word Gotham, according to the New York Public Library, is borrowed from a reference in old English proverbs to "a village called Gotham or Gottam, meaning 'Goat's Town' in old Anglo-Saxon," a village of simple-minded fools.
It's not only the simple-minded folk who get confused.
"Neanderthals are often thought of to be simple-minded mumbling, bumbling, stumbling fools.
In the line of literature's holy fools, running from, say, the utterly simple-minded Chance in "Being There" to the bombastically cunning Ignatius J. Reilly in "A Confederacy of Dunces," the protagonist of Patricia Wood's first novel lands somewhere in the middle, not far from Forrest Gump.
Whether -er is attached to a noun or a verb, whether it takes aim at conspiracy theorists, political extremists or everyday fools, it's meant to cast a foe as both single- and simple-minded, part of a larger monocultural group limited by its own tunnel vision.
The alternative titles that we had in mind for this paper exemplify the problem: "The great merit of simple-minded dichotomies for clinicians" or even more provocative, "The great merit of dichotomies for simple-minded clinicians".
