The stupidities were, of course, as stupid as ever: Center Parcs attempted 'fine dining' and left me feeling grateful that my wife was too unwell to detain us for pudding; Tugga defamed the good name of Portuguese food, and at Cocoon, the menu ranged across Asia, doing terrible things to noble culinary traditions.
"We have the same thing with smart cities – a stupid mayor and an eager company putting strange stupidities into the heart of the city.
For a working-class intellectual (which was how I rather cockily fancied myself as a student) to speak and understand French is to short-circuit many of the stupidities of class prejudice in the UK.
In the ten years from the mid-1960s thuggerygery of the cultural revolution claimed many thousands of lives; victims of the famines brought on by Mao's other stupidities were numbered in millions.
In a future generation, the economic and cultural stupidities of the communist dictatorship will be forgotten.
Instead, the stupidities of capitalism and crass ignorance will be assiduously practised.
Using unconventional imagery and syntax, the poetry in this volume can best be understood in terms of its visions of the stupidities and horrors of the contemporary human scene.
The latter's Catch-22 (1961) is a notable example, in which Captain Yossarian battles the horrors of air warfare over the Mediterranean during World War II with hilarious irrationalities matching the stupidities of the military system.
Along with arguing against the decision very articulately, the author made a contribution to the newspaper's fund which compensated "official stupidities", paying for copies of the book to be given to children who asked for them.
A conjunction of mistaken loyalties, repeated stupidities, base forgeries, and excited extremisms inflamed the situation into a national crisis.
We're stuck with necessary stupidities because trying to eliminate them would do more damage than it's worth, but why are we stuck with so many unnecessary stupidities?
