Sentence examples for stupidity by from inspiring English sources

STUPIDITY By Avital Ronell Illustrated.

He said they demonstrated "stupidity" by "allowing themselves to be suckered in a sting like this".

"This was incredibly bad judgment and stupidity by the commissioner's office," Steinbrenner said in a statement.

Apart from an "Oooh" (or maybe "Pwooh") at being accused of stupidity by Sexton, he takes it philosophically.

More crucially, however, I had plumbed new depths of notebook stupidity by annotating the separate quotes of Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray with a single big circled 'R'R

"I account for morality as an accidental capability produced, in its boundless stupidity, by a biological process that is normally opposed to the expression of such a capability," Dr. Williams wrote starkly in 1988.

Potter is masterful at catching the occasional air of stupidity, the foolishness by way of aloofness, that means the observation of cats can be a cruel kind of entertainment.

From "Our Democracy's Unnecessary Stupidities," by George Packer.

Satire draws attention to defects or stupidities by exaggerating them, transposing them into startling contexts or turning them upside down.

The resulting collision is a typically rowdy Witness Relocation mash-up of rules and ridiculousness: great fun, stupid fun and great stupidity, punctuated by fleeting breakthroughs into surprisingly personal revelations from a game cast of seven, clad in variously tailored coveralls by Deb O. (There are also blindfolds and lizard masks).

It is as though Daumier had drawn figures besotted by stupidity and disfigured by genetic deficiencies — what might have been a corrupt 19th-century politician's image of his victims — rather than the corrupt politicians themselves, whom he of course portrayed as swollen to ridiculous physical proportions by mendacity and greed.