Sentence examples for stupid measures from inspiring English sources

"Monday Mornings" is all about piling on emotion and pushing every scene to an edge of contentiousness or sentiment, and driving home the show's one idea, which is that these doctors just care so much that it drives them to excessive — you might say stupid — measures.

" 'Monday Mornings' is all about piling on emotion and pushing every scene to an edge of contentiousness or sentiment, and driving home the show's one idea, which is that these doctors just care so much that it drives them to excessive — you might say stupid — measures," Mike Hale wrote in The Times.

Recently, Draper announced he is on track to gather enough signatures to get his mind-blowingly stupid measure on the November 2016 ballot.

It's unreliable, it makes other people feel insecure for no good reason, and it's a stupid way to measure sexual experience.

No politician wants to be blamed for "reducing security" (however stupid the security measure is) in advance of a terrorist attack.

Last month, I warned that "no politician wants to be blamed for 'reducing security' (however stupid the security measure is) in advance of a terrorist attack".

That means that all but the most stupid and useless security measures (and some of those, too) are approved.The researchers, to their credit, understand all this.

"Apparently the editorial piece writer on former Gov Rod doesn't understand what a deterrent is meant to do - stupid folks need stronger measures".

San Francisco's mayor, Edwin M. Lee, has dismissed the measure as "stupid" and "insane".

So, I gather that the old core inflation bugaboo is rearing its head again — the complaint that it's somehow stupid, dishonest, or worse to measure inflation without food and energy prices, often coupled with the claim that the statistics are being manipulated anyway.

Quitting it has inspired philosophical meditation: death may be fine for believers, he says, but "what about those of us who fear that the hokey-cokeyreally is what it's all about?" That's a one-liner from comic heaven, stupid and profound in equal measure.