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But their performances -- along with an eager, energetic turn by Zena Grey as Hal's younger sister, Natalie -- are the only signs of intelligence in a movie so witless that it can't even manage to be stupid.
That content tends to be a really dumb listicle, or a one sentence piece of pure and unadulterated banality, or, if you are really lucky, a paragraph or two of analysis that's either so conventional as to appear slam-dunk, or so witless that it's completely laughable and wrong.
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Campbell is portrayed as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" (an actor wearing an ill-fitting sheep suit, and dress shoes), with blazing red eyes, and he mingles with a flock of witless sheep that are, presumably, California's voters.
Not only are we expected to sit through all the witless trash that comes down the pike; we have to write about it, too, knowing full well that our highbrow rants will do nothing to slow the juggernaut of mass taste.
After college, his witnessing the witless mayhem that passed for children's TV programming both appalled and inspired him.
How does "The Simpsons" relate to the often witless non-fiction that is TV's latest vogue?
Lord Radcliffe could speak as well about "the apparent indifference of censors of all kinds to the depiction or portrayal of mindless violence and brutality, that witless rejection of civility that threatens to be the Black Death of the twentieth century".
The latest addition to the Mafia gabfest is "In the Big House," a witless reality show that has its premiere Monday night on Logo.
But it didn't and doesn't go blowing us up just to scare us witless for reasons that completely elude us.
The critics almost unanimously deplore Bono and the Edge's rock score as bland and witless, and that while the story is now coherent, it remains irritatingly juvenile.
He was the first to give people that stunned, delighted and scared-witless feeling that full-scale encounters with these terrible creatures, now reassuringly extinct, evoke.
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