Sentence examples for utterly dumb from inspiring English sources
Instead of demanding that Congress raise the debt ceiling, or demanding that it eliminate the debt ceiling, Barack Obama should threaten to veto any increase in the debt ceiling unless Congress goes along with his demands.This idea, though utterly dumb, has a formal logic to it.
To say that Robin Hardy's The Wicker Tree (2010, Anchor Bay, 15) is infinitely less awful than Neil LaBute's utterly dumb Stateside reboot of The Wicker Man is to damn with faint praise – slamming your finger in the car door would be more fun than watching Nic Cage battling bee-loving feminists in the stupidest US remake of a Euro-classic since The Vanishing.
"I was utterly dumbed down," she said.
Dumb is superior to expressions of utterly average non-dumb, in these cases.
The Modern Toss duo, cartoonists Jon Link and Mick Bunnage, have released a Mindless Violence colouring book, full of images of utterly surreal and dumb brutality.
Any doubts that Lee Evans is much more than just a bendy comedian were dispelled by his moving and utterly impassioned performance opposite Jason Isaacs in The Dumb Waiter, a production that deserved far greater kudos than it got.
Utterly likable but never saccharine, flighty but not dumb, Betty is a contemporary grown-up Dorothy Gale skipping down the yellow brick highway to meet the wonderful wizard.
Adaptation is so original that once in a while you almost wish it would do something utterly commonplace, just to show that it too can be as dumb as the rest of us.
Zach repeatedly described the men's actions leading up to the arrest as "stupid" and "dumb", promising the courtroom that the jury would see "how utterly clueless Efrain is – it's almost embarrassing".
Here is how Barry Diller, the media mogul, framed the situation: "This isn't about good governance; it's about busybodies without a clue, trying to do the dumbest thing — slapping and shaming a superb C.E.O. for utterly no practical reason".
