| 单词 | stupidity |
| 例句 | Maya wasn’t sure if it was love, fear, or just plain stupidity, but the colors picked up speed when she saw Claire waiting in the parking lot for her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I don’t see why I should be punished for his stupidity,” Ambrose groused to the other scrivs as I made my way numbly to the door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “And I rejected her, and she went running off like a five-year-old. There’s really nothing to blame her for but stupidity.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Nelson, as usual, was the one who finally took pity upon our benighted stupidity and told us what was up: kukwela. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something that he lacked: discretion, aloofness, a sort of saving stupidity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I said at least we don’t burn books out of sheer stupidity, like you do.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity; they stared at him with a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in their eyes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the consequences of Milkman’s own stupidity would remain, and regret would always outweigh the things he was proud of having done. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Once again, Nailer wondered at his capacity for suicidal stupidity. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He was going to display some stupidity of his own. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Call it stupidity, given the condition of her feet. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Coop, do you know the basic definition of stupidity?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z At the beginning they met with much stupidity and apathy. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The body must move and throw itself about, the eyes must roll, the hands should have no peace, and the throat should release all the yearning, despair and outrage that accompany the stupidity of loss. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Special Julius brought a bottle of whisky, and the guests sang and shouted drunkenly about the might of Biafra, the stupidity of the Nigerians, the foolishness of those newscasters on BBC radio. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Just like a peasant, to burn his own village from sheer stupidity!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z As I ran up to the plate to bat, I almost laughed aloud at the pitcher’s stupidity. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z All around their bubble of stupidity I could feel the brume of the dragon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It may be stupidity, but I don’t think so. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I have half a mind to admire his bottomless stupidity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z To become a high officer in the Sarf one must have, it seems, a certain complex form of stupidity. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Itchy trigger fingers,” Dad had said, aiming his trigger finger toward me and giving it a pull, “and stupidity is what gets people killed.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z After at least a quarter of an hour of watching, she could stand their stupidity no longer. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z All the parts—the stealing, the speed, the size, the rash stupidity—came together to make me the perfect smuggler. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Avoiding Lola's gaze the whole while, she proceeded to outline the plot, even as its stupidity began to overwhelm her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Good. Then I won’t be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I learned to prefer peace to war, cleverness to stupidity, love to hate, sensitivity to stoicism, humility to pomposity, reconciliation to hostility, harmony to strife, patience to rashness, gregariousness to misanthropy, creation to annihilation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I thanked the Lord for showing me the stupidity of my ridiculous and dangerous proposition in time. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I looked about me in the room with a sort of dumb stupidity. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It is, in intention, a public mockery of our credulity, our gullibility, our stupidity—engineered, with incredible impudence, by this person who stands here before us today. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Exasperated at my stupidity, I looked up at the ceiling and moaned. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Now I know why Flannery used the line She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Instead of saying ba-ka-ta-re, a common insult meaning stupid, Terminal Islanders would say ba-ka-ya-ro, a coarser and exclusively masculine use of the word, which implies gross stupidity. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z There ain’t nothing in my Noise but a pit full of my stupidity and worthlessness and hate. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I say The stupidity of my voice feels beyond repair. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I spelled it in my head, forward and backward, chastising myself for my own stupidity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Well, that bravery—or, as I like to call it, stupidity—is about to be tested tonight.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I had two more classes to get through after lunch but I wasn’t sure my head could take it; I’d already surpassed my threshold for stupidity for the day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The man knocked my hands from his face and moved back from me—and I cursed myself for my utter stupidity. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She laughed at my stupidity for thinking it was—it is her code name. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A sudden stupidity overcomes me, and I feel awkward standing there on her driveway. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z So I'll amend that: Mars and my stupidity keep trying to kill me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He could evade its pangs if he was quick-witted enough; it was chiefly when he showed stupidity that O’Brien pulled the lever. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z First, his general stupidity in not believing what I had told him the day before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I worked feverishly, all the while cursing my stupidity. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Dumbfounded, panting, astonished by his own stupidity and rage, and spitting blood, Bernabe just sat there for a while. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Chase had had to rescue me from my own stupidity on my very first homestead day. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Mistaking their arrogance for stupidity was our mistake. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He described the prison routine in every aspect, but he never told her of its stupidity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the poor dogs, despite my stupidity and grandiosity, despite our crime. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The sincerity of many people’s bigoted racial beliefs is what led Martin Luther King Jr. to declare, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was probably going to be the first homesteader ever to die from extreme stupidity. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The old men discussed the stupidity of the young men in tones of great contempt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The stupidity of my feat replaces it all. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The judge bristled at the reminder of her stupidity. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The stupidity of this sent Mr. Jacket right out of my mind, and I bolted down the valley to my mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Confronted with our stupidities, Charley accepts them for what they are—stupidities. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I have no idea, but somehow he managed to infect the whole world with his stupidity—including my own mother. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She felt what he had felt—the awfulness of what a moment’s inattention, thoughtlessness, stupidity had brought about, and its probable cost. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z I was such a calamitous whirlwind of stupidity! 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “It is how you are thinking, if that is one thing I can’t stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That speaks not of sacrifice but of stupidity. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I told myself it was an act of stupidity to go inside. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The appalling sick stupidity that was so bad you thought sometimes you would go suddenly, violently, completely insane just having to watch it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t I make sure I had the Invisibility Cloak with me?” said Harry, inwardly cursing his own stupidity. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But at the same moment, Jacob said, “Better than burning books from sheer stupidity.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Reading the letters, I was alternately thrilled that so many people had bothered to write and sunk low by such overwhelming evidence of Britain’s stupidity and indifference. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z I wiped my hands on my apron and cursed my stupidity. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Then he could see their meanness and their stupidity objectively; then he could pity them and help them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You see, if you are going to continue this stupidity, this staying away, there are things you are going to have to do without.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Over the years he had saved Izzy from her own stupidity—as he thought of it—a number of times, but this, for him, was a new record. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Protect us from angry gods, and our own stupidity, by sending us away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt a twinge of guilt, and stupidity, too. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z That was my idea of stupidity, not heroism. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “The stupidity of it gets my goat,” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z One cannot but accuse her of some stupidity. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he remained offstage, leaving the campaign of condemnation to Karl Compton, who was serving as scientific advisor to the occupation forces and publicly labeled the cyclotron destruction “an act of utter stupidity.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hrothulf speaks: In ratty furs the peasants hoe their fields, fat with stupidity, if not with flesh. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Unless he really did have some kind of problem—poor vision or some learning disability that people in this time would see as stubbornness or stupidity. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Although not quite like the war Hitler started, the war in my house was also created by ignorance and stupidity. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A moment of carelessness or bad judgment or plain stupidity carried consequences that lasted forever. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought he would laugh at the bottomless stupidity of my cynicism, but while the laugh was still starting at the corners of his eyes, another look came, close to fright. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He was successful, but because of Atlas’ stupidity rather than his own cleverness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His intelligence or stupidity was nobody’s business but his own. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z It was either courage or stupidity that took over his father’s head in moments like this. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The enormity of our recent stupidity washed over me. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z They talked nothing, stupidities, their soft voices groping like hands. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And it does sound as if you were brave, Scorpius, and you, Albus, but the lesson even your father sometimes failed to heed is that bravery doesn’t forgive stupidity. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z I suppose it’s better to believe in our own stupidity than it is to believe that all the clues in the world wouldn’t have changed a thing. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He did not know how he survived the daily stupidity of it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I look down, thinking of my stupidity in slipping my phone into my backpack pocket before I fell asleep in the car. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He says this is a story told by farmers and probably not true, although the stupidity of the bird is legendary. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Yes, and been amused by my political stupidity. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "For some, courage and loyalty are nothing but great stupidities," says Herr Vinke. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Cursing himself for his own stupidity, he plunged into the storm. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Amid his despair, Tree-ear still felt grateful—grateful that the emissary had not laughed in his face for the stupidity of traveling all that way with only a single shard to show. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z On the last arithmetic test you only got twenty-six out of a hundred, and you said that your stupidity was due to your sins in a former life. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She wept for her father and mother, whom she would never see again, and she wept for her stupidity in trying to stay in so dangerous a place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “In the kitchen,” he says, mistaking our shock for stupidity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Of course, this was double stupidity on his part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She will apologize for her stupidity and her craziness. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As a young man, I marveled at the stupidity and hypocrisy of the mortal age. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “More, much more. I understand, Ben. Really I do. Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Hated his stupidity for sailing so far out before the storm took him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hey,” I said, continuing my journey into stupidity, “Do any of you guys know my home phone number? I think it’s got a twenty-four in it, too.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Jefferson threw up his hands at the sheer stupidity of Adams’s proposals, calling them “the most superlatively ridiculous thing I ever heard of.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As children, Laura must have played the role of the big sister who exposed the stupidity of the little sister, always with kindness and good cheer, and preferably in the company of adult relatives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z This was not Mount Sebastian, it was another world, where there were no pretty poems or midterm exams, a place where men died because of carelessness and gross stupidity. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z A man with an eye for the good ground, already badly wounded and not long to live, weary of stupidity and politics and bloody military greed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked away, shaking her head at my absolute stupidity. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I realized it was the same stupidity I had encountered at the New Orleans bus station. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I am suddenly annoyed, no longer amused by his stupidity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel a kind of weird calm, despite the stupidity of what I’ve done. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s important to stand up for what’s right,” Mr. Eberhardt had said, “but sometimes there’s a fine line between courage and stupidity.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a look of mingled ferocity and stupidity about him. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Notable for its equally prodigious strength and stupidity, the troll is often violent and unpredictable. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sick. I’m sick of greed and stupidity.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The turnkey was twenty stone of gross stupidity, with brown rotting teeth and small dark eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Excuse me, but is there some kind of gross stupidity requirement to be a cab driver in Gatlinburg?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Just the part where I passed out and dropped you. It was sheer stupidity. I forgot to hold my breath and sucked down some bad air. Were you hurt anywhere else?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They had the scent and were excited and in the stupidity of their great hunger they were losing and finding the scent in their excitement. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to be proud of his stupidity. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “No, perpetuate means to keep something going!' Like I am perpetuating your stupidity, Adina thought. “ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Every day, it’s another stupidity or tragedy,” he said. Pete Hamill ‘Ain’t Done Yet’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The more important matters for me, since the election, are those that offer reminders of human potential, rather than spotlighting the human propensity for stupidity. Art is not an escape — it’s our most powerful weapon against apathy 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z What is firing you up right now today in terms of sheer stupidity? Samantha Bee on why she's on tour: "It is feeling treacherous out there to be a woman" 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Swap the positron pump for global warming and Asmiov's contest against stupidity seems ever more urgent. Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z "I think I deluded myself that actually it was such a well-worn excuse that it was almost real. I only realised 10 days later the sheer stupidity of what I'd done." Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong' 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z He then showed some of the highlights of her stupidity only to look confused and say “What?” Sarah Palin’s American lobotomy: The Republicans keep making us dumber, and not even Stephen Colbert can save us 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Even with the brief distance of a few months since the end of prohibition, the sheer stupidity of the drug war appears absolute. Canada Has Made Pot Super Boring 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Maybe it was my stupidity that got me through it. Is hitchhiking a thing of the past? 2011-08-13T23:06:26Z The writing and performances remain brilliant, the stupidity of Jez agonising, the agony of Mark exquisite. TV review: Peep Show and Arena: Dave Brubeck in His Own Sweet Way 2010-12-03T23:00:00Z There's a knowingness to the stupidity, and a charm in Karl grappling with thoughts. TV review: An Idiot Abroad 2012-12-15T08:00:01Z But I look on my “stupidity” somewhat differently. Why I left the GOP 2012-09-10T13:30:00Z A house desecrated by squatters, an arrest rooted in abject stupidity, a body ravaged by an undisclosed illness, a team-defeating trade sparked by closeted jealousy, marriages busting up all over the place. Review | Emily Nemens’s ‘The Cactus League’ is a nostalgic look at the world of baseball 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The comedy, when it doesn’t involve simply shooting random things — a pet bird, a basketball — comes from the cackling killer’s disbelief at the squareness and stupidity of the cops. Television Review: ‘Bullet in the Face’ Is IFC’s Spoofy New Series 2012-08-15T22:40:01Z These dudes are usually at the mercy of other people, a hostile universe and their own stupidity. Movie Review: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen 2013-12-05T13:00:01Z Simplicity is not stupidity; making language easy to apprehend is intrinsic to making it appealing. Double-plus effective 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The tiger does some trash-talking himself, gloating over the stupidity of the lions, who fled their habitat only to be mowed down by artillery. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z Virtually sweating testosterone from every frame, the movie follows five longtime friends as they bicker, drink and roughhouse their way through a story that purports to be about honor and is really about stupidity. ‘Semper Fi’ Review: A Misty-Eyed Ode to Male Bonding 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s all here again: the botched planning, lack of coordination and cooperation among various forces, the ruthless deployment of men and their powerlessness against their superior commanders’ coldbloodedness, miscalculation, negligence and outright stupidity. ‘Where My Heart Used to Beat’: Sebastian Faulks’s latest foray into war 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The actor bitterly took to Twitter after the incident, publishing an officer’s name and badge number and calling New York City a “mismanaged carnival of stupidity.” He’s no smart Alec: Baldwin breaks bike laws by riding the wrong way — again 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Or was it substance abuse, inexpert driving, mindless acquiescence to group stupidity, illusions of immortality, naivete about peers . Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Waves of anxiety over an 18-year-old’s coed beach trip 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z “This grotesque chain of stupidity, evil, desperation is beginning to test my competence and above all my patience.” ‘Arabian Nights’ in Portugal Looks at a Gloomy Nation 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z And in this world, that so-called stupidity ultimately makes a big difference. HBO Max's magical and action-packed "Adventure Time" special is a tribute to heroic resistance 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z You experienced the stupidity of this version's Trashcan Man as interpreted by an actor who really should know better, Ezra Miller. "The Stand" finale is aggravating confirmation that Stephen King still needs more Black friends 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z There’s no cure for ignorance and stupidity, but at least we can keep alleviating the symptoms, and stop the suffering it inflicts. Gay healers: You’re quacks! 2012-11-28T21:24:00Z Offering grace initially felt like stupidity, and now it’s harmony. Gabrielle Union wants to talk about the tough stuff. You ready? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z His knack for playing the blank page, the human blur, has been mistaken in the past for stupidity or vacancy. Keanu Reeves: 'I would've broken Kubrick' 2011-01-13T21:30:01Z “New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign,” Baldwin tweeted. Alec Baldwin arrested for 'belligerent' behaviour with New York police 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Hall knows how to rebuild a valuable institution mired by greed, stupidity and cowardice. Tony Hall: Reaction to new BBC DG 2012-11-22T15:30:49Z TIME: So Homer’s stupidity is a gold mine. Hank Azaria: I've Lived The Simpsons Marathon 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z There is more stupidity in the world than I would have ever imagined. Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The best, most rigorous journalists make mistakes, through omission, commission and accidental stupidity. Brian Williams: Personal branding got in the way of the news 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Also, there is something innately comical about stupidity; if we are forced to suffer fools, we can at least have some laffs in the process. The Year in Stupidity 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The cab driver gets to be angry and stupid; Michael gets to be aware of that anger and stupidity. The Condescending Compassion of Charlie Kaufman’s “Anomalisa” 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Maybe what brings people to trade their fingerprints for a snickerdoodle isn’t carelessness or narcissism or stupidity but a kind of calculated nihilism. Giving Yourself Away Online 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Trump went on to suggest that Iran is likely “laughing at the stupidity” of the Americans negotiating on the nuclear deal. Donald Trump has all the answers to the Iran nuclear crisis: “The Persians are great negotiators” — we’re just sending the “wrong people” 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s full of explicit commentary about the stupidity of taxes and the dangers of an overly intrusive state. “Battlefield Earth”: Romney vs the Psychlos 2012-05-24T20:42:00Z It would have been so much more convenient if being stupid had protected me from the consequences of my own stupidity. Two Tattoos Gone Wrong 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Well, it was a deep and perverse stupidity. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z That's the closest thing to tenderness Georgy finds in this land of stupidity and evil, where any human impulses seem to have been overrun by the most ruthless and Darwinian kind of struggle. Best of Cannes: Russian horror movie "My Joy" 2010-05-22T16:30:00Z That's the closest thing to tenderness Georgy finds in this land of endless stupidity and evil, where any human impulses seem to have been overrun by the most ruthless and Darwinian kind of struggle. "My Joy": Nightmare voyage into the Russian heartland 2011-09-30T22:01:00Z This year’s Vacation—in which Ed Helms plays Rusty Griswold, Anthony Michael Hall’s character in the original, all grown up—offers something much worse: Halfhearted stupidity. Top 10 Worst Movies 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z This hypothetical situation was regaled as if it were one step beyond stupidity. SXSW 2011: The rise of the music vlogger 2011-03-18T15:46:19Z Now, there’s also enormous cruelty and tragedy and stupidity and pain. Barack Obama and Bryan Cranston on the Roles of a Lifetime 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Matthew Maher stands out among the supporting players for his complacently doltish Acaste, preening himself on his own stupidity like a cat licking its fur after lapping up a saucer of milk. | 'The School for Lies': Glittering Opprobrium in Iambic Pentameter 2011-05-02T04:27:03Z “One way to sum up the stupidity of this phase of my life,” he says, “would be to call it the phase of insights.” In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking “You’d better stay silent because when you talk it shows your stupidity,” said a typical posting on manager.co.th, the site of a Thai-language newspaper that was a staunch opponent of the latest protests. A Thai Director Earns Acclaim Abroad and Ambivalence at Home 2010-09-14T03:00:00Z Those kinds of incidents are now hilarious to recall, our sureness that television could only offer one thing a kind of fixed stupidity, in retrospect. Today's TV shows are good – but they aren't The Sopranos 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z And this is the essence of this Canadian troupe's subversive genius, won by shuffling critiques of first-world stupidity into a tall stack of inane. "The Kids in the Hall" are old now, and that makes their comedy still very much alright 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z “Sure there are times when one cries with acidity, ‘Where are the limits of human stupidity?’” A ‘Sherlock’ Creator Responds to a Critic in Verse 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Which living person do you most despise and why?The part of myself that's capable of hatred, deception and stupidity. Q&A: Pamela Stephenson Connolly 2012-11-09T22:59:00Z Did I overreact or is this just plain stupidity on the blushing bride’s part? Ask Amy: Weddings create timeless dilemmas It can feel its own acuity, its ability to question, doubt, analyse, imagine, worry, fear and ceaselessly sense its own mortality, being blunted – in starchy, sugary stupidity lies its chance of contentment. Fast food: the reason behind our national incompetence 2012-10-06T23:06:03Z In a din of so much stupidity and chaos, it was a reminder that television’s most sublime power often rests in the act of two people taking a minute to slow down and open up. Perspective | 2019’s best TV moment? It was Stephen Colbert answering Anderson Cooper’s question about grief. 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z We should not be surprised if from time to time stupidity fights back with the only weapon it has – which is to say, more stupidity. Hilary Mantel: why novelists are deliberately misunderstood 2013-02-19T17:32:07Z “I mean stupid in a positive way. Stupid can sometimes be very liberating. There’s a lot of good things in stupidity.” Lukas Moodysson’s ‘We Are the Best!,’ About a Punk Band 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Of course, stupidity is great fodder for comedians and entertainment. Readers recommend: songs about stupidity – results 2013-03-07T14:47:19Z “As a kid, I loved the confident stupidity of Laurel and Hardy, but I was also obsessed with ’70s detective shows and movies.” ‘Get a Life,’ Now on DVD, With Chris Elliott 2012-10-21T03:17:16Z But it’s also a sign of the amazing stupidity of the post-truth era. Academic witch hunts are back: The new McCarthyism, a sign of the stupidity of the post-truth era 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z “Kein Licht” treats its bleak topics — stupidity and blindness leading to man-made apocalypse — with neurotic humor and a taste for the absurd. At 75, the Holland Festival Is Back and More Global Than Ever 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z George W. Bush was a full-employment act for any comedian whose "political comedy" repurposed redneck jokes or blond jokes to be about Bush's stupidity. Can three comedians transcend the red-blue divide? 2011-08-26T20:30:00Z Most of the recent discussion about this issue has focused on extremes, generalizations and stereotypes, which is – I know! – super-surprising in the age of Twitter and the overcaffeinated, meme-driven stupidity of the news cycle. What “Neighbors” and “Chef” can teach us about white male privilege 2014-05-10T16:30:00Z This isn’t a difficult distinction—we only act too stupid to understand it when stupidity fits our purpose. Donald Trump, human dog-whistle: The 2016 election, the left and the place where language ends 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Barnaby is really stupid — he is, for example, forever falling into the toilet — but he partly conceals his stupidity with a nastiness and arrogance that seem to give him agency. Perspective | Who would be a better president than the current one? For starters, my cat. 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Kiba’s Nakata naturally wins our hearts with his deadpan confessions of his own stupidity and genial ability to catch each of life’s curveballs as if it were nothing out of the ordinary. Review: ‘Kafka on the Shore,’ a Metaphysical Odyssey Adapted From Murakami’s Novel 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z In mitigation, his lawyer cited a "moment of drunken stupidity", but the presiding magistrate said the comments were so "abhorrent" he deserved the longest sentence the court could hand down. Matthew Woods 'joking' about April Jones on Facebook is sick, not criminal 2012-10-09T12:17:57Z Michael's employees openly dispute his judgment more often, and even call him out publicly on his stupidity in no uncertain terms -- and for the most part, Michael can handle it. Why NBC should close "The Office" 2011-03-02T16:11:00Z It was hard for the audience to care about bankers struggling to deal with a crisis created by their own greed and stupidity. Short and sweet 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Like the first film, the sequel is a road trip comedy of stupidity and bathroom humor, but this time they are in search of Harry's long lost daughter, his last hope for a kidney donor. For 'Dumb and Dumber To' directors, bad jokes are worth the fight 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z “We were sending up the stupidity of the costumes, the behaviors, the scenarios, the etiquette around these people. And I think that scene really shows how stupid the whole thing is,” said Neal. How “Jojo Rabbit” crafted that hilarious yet horrifying “Heil Hitler” scene 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z After Irish voters rejected the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, Hitler became the taoiseach, Brian Cowen, ranting about the venality and incompetence of his advisers and the stupidity of the electorate. Will this be the Downfall of remix culture? Don't bet on it 2010-04-29T11:13:00Z When, in a thick Scottish accent, he delivers an obscenity-filled comic monologue about the tendency to mistake lack of linguistic fluency for stupidity, his meaning couldn’t be clearer. Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship 2014-04-13T21:06:55Z After all, he also spoke profanely but warmly about being the father of two girls and repeatedly assailed male hypocrisy, stupidity and aggression. Louis CK: laughter ends as years of allegations dog comedy superstar 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Every time an opportunity for stupidity arises – literally every single time – Paris Hilton manages to rise up and hit the target. 'Spoons are so brutal!' Paris Hilton's cooking show is a rare work of comic genius 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z She poured me into a cab, found my address somewhere in my purse, and sent me home while I cried for my own stupidity and the world’s inherent cruelty. Burritos, big macs and beer: how I binged my way to oblivion in college 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Booze, youth and stupidity led to the accident, as did her distracting long look at a newly discovered planet, the blue marble twin of our own that gives the movie its metaphorically resonant title. | 'Another Earth': Living in a Different World, Searching for a Second Chance 2011-07-21T22:19:22Z His work helped expose the inhumanity, injustice and blind stupidity of the system to audiences around the world. Playwright Athol Fugard: a man of obstinacy and courage 2012-06-03T17:45:01Z I’m also sorry you’re on the receiving end of our culture’s stupidity about death. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: One child’s the caregiver, and the others are share-takers. Sound fair? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z “We’re all trying to make it through this without making any trouble,” Ofmatthew declares in one scene, after gossiping about the stupidity of June’s act of defiance. Weaponized white feminism in "The Handmaid's Tale" and "When They See Us" 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z One might say that New Yorkers like the folks in “The Beach Boy” are especially susceptible to the kind of stupidity I love to write about—the stupidity of entitlement. This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on the Repressed Western Consciousness 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Akella tells subtle jokes that mock the stupidity of generational stereotypes while emphasizing the illusion of choice. Stand-Up Sets Where You Can Choose Your Own Adventure 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z I also deeply regret that I will die because of an act of stupidity on my part. 'I wasn't there at the end': your biggest regrets in life 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z What keeps men and women at war is male laziness, stupidity, buffoonery, disorganization, bad taste and fantasy baseball. | 'Perfect Couples': Tribes Meet: The Female and Male 2011-01-20T00:32:24Z Smartly, Panorama also used Andrew’s interview in key moments, just to highlight its utter stupidity. 'Prince Andrew can't slink away from this now' – the TV triumph of Virginia Giuffre 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Even Ned Stark, whose demise is a byproduct of his stupidity, dies because he unwisely believes that members of nobility were bound by honor. “Game of Thrones” recap: “Beyond the Wall,” an adventure into thin air 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z As you can imagine, he probably died of stupidity. Apollo 18 is totally eclipsed by aliens on the moon 2011-02-23T12:37:00Z “The rest of the world is watching this and are sure that our stupidity will endanger their lives,” he says. Perspective | Everything Americans need to know about the E.U. travel ban 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z I wanted to write what I thought about wars, and stupidity and futility. AUDIO: War poet wrote about 'stupidity and futility' 2013-11-19T12:42:58Z To write about all the politics of this moment and the stupidity of it all. CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump's "absurdity" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z On screen, its screamy satire seemed too blunt; in mocking the obvious stupidities of television it also mocked its viewers. The Shows I’m Afraid to Look Forward To 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Without pretending to offer an exhaustive list, prepare for tired and emotional revellers, gunpersons taking potshots at birds bred for stupidity, a pet duck, "my general set-up for photographing the universe", sports and a proposal. TV highlights 11/06/2012 2012-06-10T19:00:01Z In a validation of stupidity not seen since, well, NBC’s entire lineup, two institutions that have gone viral for their idiocy are now reaping the benefits of attention. Triumph of the viral crazies 2013-05-16T14:51:00Z O’Casey’s lampooning of the priggish stupidity of army officers and the indifference of a surgeon can be lead-footed. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z ‘I was just hungry’ Nick again proves himself MVP of the kids, though it’s no high bar to pass and he suffers from some of their stupidity, maybe by association. Fear the Walking Dead recap: season two, episode three – Ouroboros 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z He describes countless scenes of terror, disgust, insanity and stupidity in prose that is lucid and unadorned. ‘With the Old Breed,’ an Intimate Look at Terror in World War II 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z That was followed by the simple stupidity of Ship Your Enemies Glitter, which launched in 2015 as a stunt site, but was rapidly overwhelmed by real orders. Would you pay $1 to find out how many other people have paid $1? A new website shows curiosity pays 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z At best, he felt teachers were glorified grief counsellors assigned to help unfortunate kids cope with the fact of their own stupidity. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z But the documents mostly play on broad themes of the Trump Administration: stupidity, duplicity, and the strategic use of fear. The Onion Leaks a Trove of Trump Docs 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z "My naivete, ignorance of the rules and plain stupidity as a first-time nominee is not an excuse for this behavior and I strongly regret it," Chartier wrote in an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press. 'Lockergate'?: Producer apologizes for e-mails 2010-02-27T17:28:00Z But these beliefs did not develop in a vacuum, and often have more to do with lack of adequate education than innate stupidity. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z “There ought to be a prize for that kind of stupidity.” Imagining a thirsty future in Paolo Bacigalupi’s ‘The Water Knife’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z His family once hoped Holley would be a preacher; between songs, he warned about a digital landscape where the “playground of foolishness” soon leads to the “quicksand field of stupidity.” Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Being pretentious, it seems, is the only thing saving us from stupidity. Faking cultural interest can actually make you smarter and more creative 2013-07-02T12:00:01Z “Too many people think that beauty is synonymous with stupidity,” she once complained, but that did not stop her from appearing in plots that probably would have failed on radio. Laura Antonelli, Leading Italian Actress, Dies at 73 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “Mandibles” is sweet, simple, and oh-so-very stupid — a stupidity that’s oddly liberating, like making up ridiculous scenarios with a pal over bong hits. ‘Mandibles’ Review: A Bug-Brained Affair 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z The word ‘bovine’ is enough to bring me out in a sweat with its sickly combination of size and stupidity. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Addressing the ruckus on Saturday, Penn said, "I'm always surprised by flagrant stupidity. I keep having more hope." Sean Penn won't apologize for Inarritu green card joke at Oscars 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z This deadpan sensibility, staying earnest in the face of extreme stupidity, has found its classiest practitioners in Joel and Ethan Coen. Airplane at 30! The ride of their lives 2010-08-22T20:30:00Z It's a show about human stupidity and people are not getting any brighter, so we've always got ideas. “The Simpsons” writer Mike Reiss: “The Trump years have been a shot in the arm for the show” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “Part of it is just the very public nature of the death: The banality, the stupidity of it — the sheer awfulness of it — seemed to transform him into something else.” An Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z It teeters right on the line that separates stupidity from genius. Netflix's Floor Is Lava: the show to save the summer? 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z “It seems to me it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war,” he said. FoxNews.com assailed him for “stupidity.” Chris Hayes Has Arrived With ‘Up’ 2012-06-22T20:45:34Z If you want an idea of the cast’s chemistry, listen to one of their Comedy Bang Bang episodes, which tend to pile on layers of stupidity until the whole thing collapses. Silicon Valley: the best and only comedy you should be watching 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Dorothy thinks that people acting more or less normally in the face of climate change is “not evidence of stupidity or lack of care but some mixture of impotence and courage.” A Debut Novel With Prose as Lively as Its Heroine’s Mind 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z There's some inspired crude in here, to be sure, but you have to bust through a lot of gravelly stupidity to get to it. "The Duchess" proves that not every stand-up comedian should get a series 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Pop stars, it seems, cannot be trusted to name their own records thanks to a mixture of vanity, stupidity and hubris, but it's still marginally better than pop music by committee. Can bands be trusted to name their own albums? 2013-06-19T13:50:47Z Mr Penn should be called to testify to respond about the stupidities he has said.” Sean Penn on El Chapo interview: 'I have a terrible regret' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z "Only from the heights of an infinite good mood," the author writes in these pages, quoting Hegel, "can you observe below you the eternal stupidity of me, and laugh over it." Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z “It was stupidity, just me trying to prove I was hip like everyone else.” James L. White, who wrote screenplay for Ray Charles film, dies at 67 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z With BUG, I thought we'd change the format a bit, show fewer videos, and break it up with more stupidity – which is, of course, what I do. Adam Buxton: how I got the music video BUG 2010-07-15T15:24:00Z He declared that dubbing Confederate soldiers actions’ treason “is to add viciousness to stupidity.” Two women lead a free tour of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments each month. A new website lets everyone listen. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Morris sees truth as maddeningly difficult to find or to recognize, and believes that human stupidity and vanity and self-deception often prevent us from seeing it. "Tabloid": The beauty queen who "raped" a Mormon 2011-07-15T00:30:00Z And the animated vignettes show that, even if the world a generation later is choked with new kinds of stupidity, Beavis and Butt-Head are endlessly adaptable to them. TV Tonight: Beavis and Butt-Head Return 2011-10-27T10:53:47Z “I have never ever in my life sought to actively fight racism. I have simply adduced myself as evidence of its absolute stupidity and irrationality.” Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Yemi, on the other hand, remains a mystery for much of the novel and his quiet demeanor is often mistaken for stupidity. Going AWOL in Africa’s Largest City 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The characters need to remain somewhat sympathetic, or at least identifiable, even as they lapse into nuclear-grade stupidity and criminality. "The Square": Coen-style sunbaked Aussie noir 2010-04-10T00:30:00Z Don’t say: We need a scale of stupidity units, too. Beware the Reaper: why would anyone eat the world’s hottest chilli? 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z If these parents were with their children, they would upbraid them for low grades and accuse them of laziness, ingratitude and stupidity. Perspective | Parents berate their kids in school conferences, and a teacher cringes 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Couples will break up and get together and feel fatally uncertain about everything; there will be moments of tenderness and also moments of cruelty and stupidity and pure teenage calculation. "Myth of the American Sleepover": An exquisite teenage dream 2011-07-22T23:30:00Z Lana not only has to fight the faceless bombers — she also has to combat the panic-induced stupidity of the people she is trying to save. ‘Trigger Point’ Review: Pure Pressure à la ‘Line of Duty’ 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z “I am not going to let stupidity or bigotry trump fun for my loyal fans this year.” Jimmy Buffett Says He'll Play in North Carolina Despite 'Stupid Law' 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s there in Sonny Bono’s smiling bravado and false stupidity on “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour,” and in a young Steve Martin’s refusal to acknowledge the vise that’s squeezing his head. The Best Bit of Steve Carell’s Turn on “S.N.L.” This Week 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Narrator George Blagden beautifully captures the tenor of Nana’s mordant wit, his lofty view of himself, and his frequent spates of umbrage at human presumption and sheer stupidity. Review | When these animals talk, listen: Audiobooks give voice to a cat, a horse, a sheep and others 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z If we can judge stupidity by solitary lapses, then Roger Simon, by dint of this recent column could rightly be judged a moron. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z But for the most part, everyone navigates each other's strange appearance with a good sense of humor while the audience delights in the absolute stupidity of it all. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z It was an act of great stupidity, actually. “If we came out now, we wouldn’t have a chance in hell”: Shirley Manson looks back at 20 years of Garbage 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The “stupidity” is demonstrated by radicalized Sunni Muslims, culminating in a dramatic scene involving one of the brothers near the novel’s end. ‘The Shadow of the Crescent Moon,’ by Fatima Bhutto 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z During tense meals and between visits from various combatants, the audience and the characters reflect on the nature of honor and the stupidity of war. Movie Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z I would renounce those who feigned innocence or slight stupidity in order to create empathy in their readers; I would never fall into the trap of candor. Collected Poems 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Though some are more vague and oblique than others, what these idioms have in common is an implied attitude that at their worst, mullahs represent stupidity, blind dogma, moral superiority, repression, and greed. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z The survivors are all guys, every one possessing his own special blend of insecurity, bravado, courage and stupidity. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z Rylance confesses that he is finding it hard to do stupidity. Mark Rylance: 'It's all about the attitude' 2010-06-15T20:30:00Z New York was the backdrop for my earliest triumphs and stupidities. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness,” Flaubert wrote, “though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.” Stefan Sagmeister?s ?Happy Show? at Institute of Contemporary Art 2012-04-03T12:00:00Z Laughing at the man's stupidity, the emperor agrees but is bankrupted by the 64th square as the multiplying reward now totals more than all the rice in China. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z Thanks to the utter stupidity of the "victors", most especially the French, it went on and culminated in the biggest disaster in human history. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z One can perhaps accuse Nasheed of being too idealistic, or overly optimistic — I’m afraid he undervalues the power of know-nothingism, arrogance and stupidity in American politics, for example. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z If she doesn’t let women off the hook, it’s because she knows that sexism isn’t exclusively a guy thing; like stupidity, it is a people thing. Review: ‘Trainwreck’ Delivers the Full Amy Schumer Experience 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “I signed up out of stupidity, thinking that I could stay for the two years they asked me to commit to. But when I arrived there, I wanted to go home immediately.” Man seeks pals he once persuaded to ship him around the world in a crate 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Bev, an unglamorous film editor, is the smart, tough one who’s there to provide some contrasting intelligence and choke on her incredulity at everyone else’s stupidity. ‘The Money Shot,’ by Neil LaBute, Satirizes Hollywood 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z After losing his job and getting some really bad medical news, Frank decides to seek violent retribution against the evil, stupidity and cruelty he sees streaming out of the TV every day. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z The stupidity of the Dial Press notwithstanding, the Walt Disney company came up with a proposal for a film version. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z After you have read these stories of great misfortunes and greater stupidity, perhaps you will accuse me of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. Calling out the saddest sacks of 2021, a reckoning by Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend's ... friends 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Meanwhile he misses his wife, who left him three years ago: “Life without a woman to temper your stupidities was difficult indeed.” New Books by Jim Harrison and Howard Jacobson 2011-10-19T22:58:24Z I spent 14 years as a union organizer, which convinced me that progressives lose because of us, so I naturally wanted my comedy to hunt a bigger whale than right-wing stupidity. Can three comedians transcend the red-blue divide? 2011-08-26T20:30:00Z Palin’s stupidity led to one of the very best bits yet in Trevor Noah’s career as host of “The Daily Show.” Sarah Palin’s American lobotomy: The Republicans keep making us dumber, and not even Stephen Colbert can save us 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Sounds like we're still getting the Bears' special brand of weapons-grade stupidity. Bears announce departure of GM Jerry Angelo 2012-01-03T16:34:00Z The first show didn’t age well, but its rock-solid commitment to its own stupidity have made it impermeable to any doubts. Review: Fuller House's Forced Nostalgia Is Bad News For TV 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Conan Doyle’s To an Undiscerning Critic missive was ruder than the one from Gatiss, opening with the lines: “Sure there are times when one cries with acidity,/ ‘Where are the limits of human stupidity?’” Is Sherlock worse for too much action? Gatiss sends his verse reaction 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The former was extraordinary; an extended moment of clownish, life-changing stupidity wrapped around a kernel of true nastiness. It's just not Woking: Prince Andrew has already ruined The Crown 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z This example of a fanaticism bordering on crass stupidity and mental dysfunction might seem incredible to any regular blogger, and the suspicion struck me that maybe Mark Shenton was exaggerating. Noises off: Can theatre critics ever be truly objective? 2011-03-17T12:41:05Z If Euroscepticism were to start by letting go of all the Bruegels and all the Titians, reducing the National Gallery to a room of 18th-century English portraits, its stupidity might become plain. Europe has been building a secret community of culture 2010-11-23T20:00:00Z By no means has Tony rendered mafia fiction a monolith of reverent stupidity. The Sopranos at 20: how the hit show changed the gangster genre 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z On our complacency, our complicity, our credulity and our stupidity. 'You made this bed, America!' How House of Cards turned the tables on us 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z “In my stupidity I said, ‘An American can’t play James Bond. Role reversals: the classic movie parts that almost went to someone else 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Donovan’s usually bland, repressed Robert eventually explodes in a rant about American imperialism and the stupidity of jingoistic hawks like Gus. Movie Review: ‘Collaborator,’ Martin Donovan’s Directing Debut 2012-07-05T21:40:31Z And what gay rights organizations are calling "insulting and irresponsible" looks from here like run-of-the-mill stupidity. O'Reilly's gay comment: Defamatory or just dumb? 2010-06-04T16:30:00Z The stupidity of the piece hangs over it from the start . ‘Brick Mansions’: Action takes off, but plot hits wall 2014-04-24T20:09:41Z “I push hardest against my own stupidity,” he said in an interview on a visit to New York City. Jason Pierce Struggled to Make a New Spiritualized Album. And He May Do It Again. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z And its basic stupidity should have required a content advisory: Pay no attention to the story. Review: A Multiple-Exposure ‘Me and My Girl’ at Encores! 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Good comedy is informed comedy — even if you're affecting stupidity, you have to come at it from a place of knowledge. Nobody punctures blowhards better than Jon Stewart on 'The Daily Show' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z “And for a long time it became more of a narrative of failure and insanity and stupidity. So at some point you just think, ‘There’s no winning.’ Billy Corgan doesn’t want to relive the Smashing Pumpkins’ past. But he’s happy to build on it. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z You can mourn the end of the studios and revere their legacy — the art, craft and technique — but there’s no mourning their racism, sexism, cultivated stupidity and contempt for art. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z At its climax, Becky shares her fears with Darlene about her unexpected pregnancy and, for once, Darlene doesn’t fall back to her familiar position of making cracks about her sister’s stupidity. Without Roseanne, who are “The Conners” now? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z What's striking for Dalrymple about the British in Afghanistan is that we are forever donkeys riding into the field of stupidity. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z “The Devil is taking delight in human stupidity,” Kandinsky wrote them in 1937. A Belated Retrospective for a Bauhaus Artist 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z It was a two-year process and somewhat complicated, and I watched him never get angry at anyone, never write 5,000-word emails lambasting the stupidity and imbecility of everyone. Tony Kushner, at Peace? Not Exactly. But Close. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z It's about the stupidity of human beings in general and can be enjoyed on so many levels because of it. Have you been watching ? Twenty Twelve? 2011-04-04T14:37:06Z Like Sandler, he’s a dude who revels in dude humor, that most oppressed, persecuted and underrepresented of comic modes where the boundary between self-mockery and outright stupidity is never entirely clear. The dude-humor master class of “Ted 2″: Flashes of offbeat brilliance among the expected spank gags and deflated ball jokes 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The turkey's reputation for stupidity prompted other meanings. Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z These are people, the filmmakers suggest, who by their deep-fried stupidity and avarice deserve to fade quickly. Movie Review: ‘Killer Joe,’ Directed by William Friedkin 2012-07-26T17:03:26Z "Anything you do about truth, stupidity, anger, humanity, world issues - it's so much in the forefront of people's minds about what's happened." Ricky Gervais' shtick gets tricky in Trump and Brexit era 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z “There couldn’t be a better opportunity for the arts to respond to so much nonsense and ignorance and stupidity.” ‘Zoot Suit,’ a Pioneering Chicano Play, Comes Full Circle 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z A version of these heartless villains exists in every type of "deadly game" story, but Hwang intentionally plays up the callous stupidity of his shadowy titans. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s an all-purpose knock that they use for spinelessness, stupidity, political correctness and non-O’Reillyian political leanings. Visions of Snowflakes Dance in Bill O’Reilly’s Head in ‘Old School’ 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z O’Connor talks about how a writer needs a certain amount of stupidity, and you certainly do for at least the first draft, and then you put your brain back in. “The World Without You” 2012-06-29T20:06:00Z It can be so difficult to decide whether to laugh at the sheer stupidity of Trump and his kakistocracy or to cry in horror at their pure evil. An American tragicomedy: The Trump spectacle as a new brand of theater 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z While the whole film is professionally executed and goes down smoothly enough, the underlying stupidity of its subject matter can't help but show through in the end. "X-Men: First Class": Slick, dumb big-screen candy 2011-06-02T00:30:00Z Here are acts of stupidity and ignorance devoid of possible reward, other than the enactor’s demonstrating enough confidence to share his act of stupidity or ignorance. Circa Now: Bah, Humblebrag: The (Unfortunate) Rise of False Humility 2012-11-30T20:49:55Z If you could suffer through most of the weapons-grade stupidity offered by Lovie Smith at his 2011 post-mortem Monday, you get to the part where Smith indicated injuries were a killer of a 7-3 season. Bears announce departure of GM Jerry Angelo 2012-01-03T16:34:00Z Is this pothead paranoia, simple stupidity or something more? Movie Review: ?Jeff, Who Lives at Home,? a Duplass Brothers Comedy 2012-03-15T22:12:53Z I hated even more that it was the result of my own stupidity for trusting the product without inspecting it. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z And it beautifully illustrates the sure-handed way Ms. Greenidge deals with even the most grievous racist stupidity, just as she does when the Freemans are patronizingly told by a white “expert” how black they are. Review: ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman,’ Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Debut Novel 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s no fun to be accused of rank stupidity or evildoing. Journalists in the age of Trump: Lose the smugness, keep the mission. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Human history has always been full of brutality and stupidity but you're right, technology makes this combination very very scary. Evan Rachel Wood Turns Her Trauma Into Good. On ‘Westworld’ and in Life. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Sometimes people can confuse my niceness for weakness in a way — or ditziness or stupidity. Ariana Grande: If I Were an Emoji, I Would Be 👩, Or Maybe 🌌 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The horror and stupidity of war is captured by Paul Hardcastle in 19, the average age of conscripts in the Vietnam war. Readers recommend: songs about stupidity – results 2013-03-07T14:47:19Z Ms. Hustvedt isn’t the first to notice that men can be dumb clucks, but male stupidity is rich enough terrain that she makes a hearty little novel out of it. Newly Released Books 2011-04-20T22:05:44Z But they were all intact of themselves, in their stupidity, their meanness, their puzzlement, their Southern “ruralness.” Review: ‘The Complete Stories,’ by Flannery O’Connor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Bravery or stupidity or a little cringe sometimes. "I'm actually not freezing my eggs": Nikki Glaser opens up about comedy, fertility and oversharing 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z The "stupidity" runs even deeper than it may at first seem. Outkast's record label blocks Big Boi and Andre 3000 collaboration 2010-06-09T09:12:00Z Thank you to the first one, who taught me that friendship can survive the stupidity of teenagers at parties. A letter to … all the men I have ever slept with 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z None of the 20 or so characters they created were unsympathetic; “TJ and Dave” doesn’t use villainy or clichéd stupidity for easy laughs. Critic’s Notebook: TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi, Improv Artists 2014-01-31T22:36:46Z Daniels’ series would ostensibly train its satirical crosshairs on the abundant, self-evident stupidity of this enterprise, and through it, the antagonistic senselessness of Trumpism as a political philosophy. Crash landing: Space Force is not the Trump satire we need right now 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z “This is Will in his glory, in his stupidity, doing exactly what he does so well,” she said. ?Running Wilde? Races for an Audience 2010-10-04T15:01:00Z EDT, when Baldwin, via Twitter, called New York City "a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign." Alec Baldwin: 'I asked for no special treatment' from cops 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z But with all the looking forward and looking backward it's amazing there isn't a whiplash epidemic among thirtysomethings, although it does explain the dizzy stupidity of some of the sentiment. The cassette Walkman has gone, and I must move on 2010-10-26T18:02:00Z “Then my own stupidity and hubris caused me to lose it.” Master breadmaker Mark Furstenberg now content to change his tiny slice of the world 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z "If I take an axe and cut my hand with it, the axe maker is neither legally or morally responsible for my stupidity." Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Searching for some kind of parallel to the arrogance and stupidity of Hirst's still life paintings, I find myself remembering that strange, sad spectacle. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review 2012-05-22T15:13:15Z What this meant is that supposed stupidity didn't shape popular culture; rather, popular culture shaped supposed stupidity. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z This was not a case of anything goes, the judges implied, but be careful not to mistake stupidity – no matter how offensive the remarks might be – with criminality. Matthew Woods 'joking' about April Jones on Facebook is sick, not criminal 2012-10-09T12:17:57Z There should be the equivalent of a stupidity helmet for kids aged 15 to 24. Prison Life, Real and Onscreen 2013-08-02T21:08:42Z Given his ferocious intellect, I must assume this is down to my stupidity and the time of the morning rather than his crackpot ideas. John Lloyd makes Edinburgh debut 2013-07-26T07:03:01Z Ms. Aronson agreed it would be “sheer stupidity” for Mr. Allen’s fans to avoid his future films. For Woody Allen's Next Trick, Shrugging Off Bad Publicity 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z "When do we beat Mexico at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity," Trump said in his campaign launch speech. In a delectable turn, chef José Andrés bests Trump after lengthy feud 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z The questions are often barely veiled insults, delivered in a mirthless deadpan that’s somewhere between stupidity and sociopathy — the exact opposite of the breezy sycophancy that passes for most late-night banter. How ‘Between Two Ferns’ went from hilariously awkward web series to hilariously awkward Netflix movie 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Cumberbatch - Sherlock Holmes in the BBC's hit series "Sherlock" - gives Victor Frankenstein some of that character's intellectual genius and emotional stupidity. Danny Boyle's 'Frankenstein' should be monster hit 2011-02-24T14:36:34Z It’s humane and absurd, and rarely out of touch with the Joseph-Heller-like notion that, as Mr. Marra puts it, “stupidity was the single abiding law of the universe.” Books of The Times: ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ by Anthony Marra 2013-05-07T20:50:26Z "Tell me, are persistence and stupidity the same / Tell me, is resistance so enticing, please explain," Russell Mael and Kapranos sing in tandem, part of their strategy for integrating their forces. Mutual fans Franz Ferdinand and Sparks team for 'FFS' album and tour 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Post your suggestions below for the best songs about stupidity, and a volunteer from the RR community will assemble the ones we like best in a playlist next week. Readers recommend: songs about stupidity 2013-02-28T22:00:00Z First and foremost, I'm getting sick of the stupidity of the characters. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z “Basically, I think I was too stupid to do anything else, and that stupidity helped me,” he told The El Paso Times in 2018. Gilbert Gottfried, Comedian With a Distinctive Voice, Dies at 67 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z And finally, the dictionary is for some reason fanatically determined to precisely parse degrees of human stupidity. Gene Weingarten: The latest weapon in his war on ‘terror’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z It was just as stupid as White House Down, but it had no idea of its stupidity. Angel Has Fallen: is Gerard Butler Hollywood's weirdest action hero? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z It must be said that Mr. Scott and Mr. Schreiber convey an intelligence that belies their characters’ stupidity, a quality that is really hard to feign. Movie Review: ?Goon,? Directed by Michael Dowse 2012-03-29T21:23:35Z She often insists on pointing out the stupidity of male behavior, and its humor, as if refusing to grant it power. Laura Kipnis’s Battle Against Vulnerability 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z But in spite of his stupidity, laziness, selfishness, his general crapness as a human being, he demonstrates his total devotion to his family. Last night's TV 2010-05-14T07:00:00Z Nor are they above bending the truth and exploiting the opposition's willful stupidity to make sure the right side wins. Forget civility: On “The Good Fight,” “Luke Cage” and “Dietland,” resistance means go... 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z The surly tiger lopes around his cage in the play’s opening scene, crowing at the stupidity of the so-called king of the jungle. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Rajiv Joseph?s Play at the Mark Taper Forum 2010-05-14T23:58:00Z Madea is stupid, but her stupidity is comfortably numbing, an anesthetic injected into the part of my brain that demands the impossible of black women onscreen. Pour One Out for Tyler Perry’s Madea 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z "It was an act of utter stupidity and disgusting behavior on my part," the athlete wrote in an Instagram post. The 8 biggest Beijing 2022 Olympics controversies, from doping to disqualifications 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Writers, whose business is representation, will from time to time seek to examine the wilful and damaging stupidities of our culture. Hilary Mantel: why novelists are deliberately misunderstood 2013-02-19T17:32:07Z Its mission is to make a case for Hank being a swell guy underneath all the stupidity and hustling and self-destruction -- a tenderhearted genius who's worth the trouble. "Californication's" atrocious masculine fantasy 2011-01-10T16:30:00Z I'm in a rage about the stupidity and short-sightedness of the cuts. Portrait of the artist: Juliet Stevenson 2010-09-27T21:29:00Z But wait, the stupidity is especially strong in this one. Bigots boycott Target over bathrooms: Inclusive public restrooms aren’t “a possible gateway for predators” 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z He’s so friendly that he makes stupidity attractive. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z He called the breach "likely a case of felony stupidity." Unsecured medical records show risk of digital 2011-08-21T12:07:00Z “Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.” Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z “It’s just such an awful building that the only reason to keep it would be as a monument to stupidity,” said Mark Wigley, the dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Javits Center Plans Are Deflating for Architects 2012-01-22T21:28:52Z Much of the footage is hair-raising, especially the women being groped and the mobs of young white men whipping themselves into a frenzy of aggressive stupidity, aimless anger and turbo-boosted misogyny. ‘Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage’ Review: How a Festival Went Wrong 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z He resents that they have been made “agents of a provincial form of fascism that was corroding and eating away at itself with the slow acid of its own sad, parochial stupidity.” Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z Perhaps most significantly, it chronicles the stupidity and selfishness that will have led to our downfall. "History of the World, Part 1" turns 40, and it's still good to be Mel Brooks 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z It was the '90s, an age rife with young idiots styling tasteless stupidity into supposed irony. "The Crown" presents Princess Diana of Wales, patron saint of tradition-defying divorcées 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z It was destroyed by the arrogance and stupidity of France's players and football officials, and by the antics of the French coach, Raymond Domenech. Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z There’s something that goes past your analytical mind, past your brain almost; something primeval about the laughter, howling with laughter at the stupidity of these people. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z It all leaves you pondering whether you have just seen a monumentally stupid movie or a brilliant movie about the nature and consequences of stupidity. Movie Review: Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain,’ With Mark Wahlberg 2013-04-25T14:00:02Z The world is out of its mind with stupidity and the worship of stupidity. T Magazine: The Accidental Activist 2011-03-25T19:21:15Z There’s an implied assumption of stupidity here, that either viewers won’t be smart enough to synthesize meaning from acting and writing, or that the acting and writing won’t be competent enough to convey that meaning. Press stop: why Hollywood needs to quit relying on the vlogger 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z To see people I'd come to regard as friends – really sensitive and intelligent people – acting in such despicable ways, repeating all the predictable stupidities of their predecessors . A life in writing: Andr? Brink 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z This is the credo that allows him to act as a free agent, flouting bureaucracy and the stupidity and dubious motives of those who nominally control his career. Michael Connelly’s ‘The Burning Room’ Revisits Harry Bosch 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z But here’s the real test: “It is also required of the pilgrim to patiently and discreetly put up with the stupidities and imperfections of his fellow pilgrims and companions.” What tips for traveling have changed since medieval times? Surprisingly few. 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The Barrera heirs, would-be successors and arriviste rivals — a whole indulgent younger generation named Los Hijos, characterized by wretched excess and suicidal stupidity — make for countless shifting allegiances, fake names, dispensable henchmen and other complications. ‘The Border’ Is a Stunning and Timely Conclusion to Don Winslow’s Drug-War Trilogy 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z I say that as someone who happily rolled with the stupidity in Phillips' previous efforts, Old School and School for Scoundrels. Due Date Review: Downey, Galifianakis and Road Rage 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z He once called it the “stupidity squad” — a bunch of Los Angeles cops, he figured, who were too dumb to pin him with a real crime. Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer’s ‘Gangster Squad’ 2013-01-04T14:56:24Z Only in that case, the point was not to expose the man’s arrogance but to highlight his character’s boundless stupidity and the veteran/veterinarian’s forbearance. The big Sacha Baron Cohen question: Can a harmless prankster become a weaponized troll? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Maybe it is time to look more closely at the role of stupidity. Sarah Palin’s American lobotomy: The Republicans keep making us dumber, and not even Stephen Colbert can save us 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z In support, Bruno Ganz is engaging as Freud, especially when he talks about "courage, persistence, and stupidity," or pleasure and shame. Sigmund Freud offers love advice in the visually stunning but impotent WWII drama "The Tobacconist" 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Columnist Patrick Pelloux said the decision to continue to publish will show that "stupidity will not win". Charlie Hebdo to publish next week 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z "That genre snobbery conceals a deeper stupidity," he replies. 'Genre snobbery conceals a deeper stupidity' 2012-08-27T14:34:29Z The enormity of their flat brain, the enormity of their stupidity, is just overwhelming. Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z Walking the dogs would cheer me up, but my mood would darken as I fixated on the stupidity and carelessness of my fellow Homo sapiens. Opening the Heart’s Floodgates, With a Paw 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z “I think we should protest the government’s stupidity every chance we get.” How North Carolina’s idyllic hipster haven is being hurt by the “bathroom bill” boycott 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z He knows what he’s doing and remains in control of the misanthropy, stupidity and violence throughout “The Nice Guys,” which combines a whole bunch of overly familiar material in lunatic, original fashion. Abbott & Costello go to “Chinatown”: Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling’s “The Nice Guys” is an irresistible, idiotic ‘70s bromance 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z He worships youthful romance, recklessness and stupidity, but does not entirely endorse it. "Breathless": Rebel postcard from the past 2010-05-29T18:01:00Z “I only know that it is mixed, that you cannot separate good from bad, that wisdom, courage and benevolence exist alongside knavery, greed and stupidity; heroism and fortitude alongside vainglory, cruelty and corruption.” Barbara W. Tuchman, Folly and the Stream of History 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z But such ardor disguises neither the superficiality nor stupidity of their characters, who make really, really bad choices from the get-go. Kieron Barry’s ‘Tomorrow in the Battle’: A Love Triangle 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Any woman who doesn't understand the historical import of veils and who refuses to recognize their negative role in our culture harms her gender with her stupidity. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Instead of fighting stupidity, she teased her hair and went on TV to argue, in a Kellyanne Conway-ish way, that facts are just opinions. Review | In satisfying ‘Veep’ finale, Selina gets what she wanted — and the final indignity she deserved 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z No doubt there is more stupidity in the world now than there was even a year ago. Shades of Atwood and Vonnegut in Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Novel 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z My guess would be that Liberals and Labour will be at one in recognising the absolute stupidity of cuts that damage this part of our economy. Letters: Coalition could split over arts spending 2010-10-05T23:05:00Z Throughout her entire career she has surprised us with her stupidity. Sarah Palin’s American lobotomy: The Republicans keep making us dumber, and not even Stephen Colbert can save us 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Can Richard forgive himself for his lust and stupidity, the latter being, in this reader’s opinion, his only crime? ‘The Guest Room’ review: A bachelor party devolves into murder 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z “Everywhere we look we see brutality, stupidity, until it seems that there is nothing else to be seen.” Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The book was a protest at the horror of the war fought between Britain and Argentina over the Malvinas/Falkland islands in the South Atlantic, and at the stupidity of war in general. Rodolfo Fogwill obituary 2010-08-27T17:10:00Z There are also less tangible objects of derision: vanity, stupidity, venality, snobbism, dishonesty, criminality and other probably universal human foibles. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z “Beyond boneheaded,” was the characterization of Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, aptly noting that stupidity and maliciousness are a bad combination. Perspective | Reality scores a win over the perverse drive to discredit honest reporting 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Noah seems to focus his show on finding examples of stupidity and laughing at them. Trevor Noah has cratered “The Daily Show”: He has no bite, no message — and has let Fox News off the hook 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Miraculously, it hit all the beats of stupidity and nostalgia that you would expect from a reunion show. A Seinfeld revival? Here's what they need to do to get it right 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Disingenuousness, stupidity, the trite and the obvious: all are anathema to Mara's nature. Rooney Mara: 'I've been guarded since I was three years old' 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z When things started going bad — when the world collapsed in a welter of greed, violence and stupidity — he failed to protect his wife and daughter. Review: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Still Angry After All These Years 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The United States blundered into the war with its usual, reflexive habit of stupidity, American Exceptionalism, which led to enormous early losses in blunt-force mass attacks. What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “The protagonist seems naïve to the point of stupidity, and it is surprising to this reviewer that she mastered shorthand and typing.” Ann Birstein, Memoirist and Novelist, Dies at 89 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z If I take an axe and cut my hand with it, the axe maker is neither legally or morally responsible for my stupidity. Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z These edge cases aside, though, non-white people generally avoid this stupidity. "Tiger King" and the schadenfreude of seeing privileged insanity run wild 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z But the title of the book – taken from Friedrich Schiller's dictum that "against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain" – is borne out. Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z “I was tremendously lucky, surviving injury, illness and stupidity,” he wrote. David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Not only do I find it soppy, but I just hate the stupidity of some of the characters. Where has Pottermania gone? 2012-07-02T08:00:00Z What keeps us from tuning out is the infectious energy of an ensemble that delights in its characters’ displays of cupidity and stupidity, and the storybook ingenuity of the physical production. Review: A Boisterous ‘Low Road’ Finds the Potholes in Capitalism 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Another theme was the stupidity of the common man, some songs declaring we are all stupid. Readers recommend: songs about stupidity – results 2013-03-07T14:47:19Z It puts homegrown jihadism front and centre, exploring the terrorists’ alienation, machismo, callousness and occasional stupidity. London Has Fallen: can city siege movies survive the age of terror? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z "It's not stupidity, it’s that children and teens have partially formed brains." Her son died from a ‘choking game.’ Now she’s determined to save other kids’ lives. 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z He hated political stupidity, was suspicious of government intrusion into people’s lives and held “turkey politicians,” as he called them, responsible for the 9/11 attacks. M.T. Liggett, 86, Folk Artist and Provocateur, Is Dead 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Buttocks are bared, joints are smoked, and stupidity is punished. ‘Exists,’ Eduardo Sanchez’s Bigfoot Horror Film 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The war on hatred, aggression and flat out stupidity is a crushingly endless one. Let the ironic male tears fall: The “make rape legal” guys cancel meetups because they don’t feel safe 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z He'd spent his whole life taking stupidity and finessing it into an art, by making videos for the Offspring and adding pointlessly dramatic sound effects to hair-swishes in the Charlie's Angels films. Terminator Salvation recap: McG gives us a robotic sequel with added stupidity 2013-07-12T11:20:00Z It has to be said – as in my case – that the stupidity often lies only with those who are admitted. Mad Men; Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea; 24 Hours in A&E – TV review 2013-04-11T06:00:00Z Hopefully you’re going to care about these guys, and then get to see a lot of ridiculous nakedness and stupidity. Channing Tatum on Magic Mike XXL: 'We Got Joe Manganiello Naked as Much as Possible" 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z It is a puzzlement why anyone thought that the world needed another movie about this kidnapping, which plays out as a shopworn tale of greed, stupidity and deserved comeuppance. Review: ‘Kidnapping Mr. Heineken’ Revisits a 1983 Dutch Crime 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z "New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign," he added. Alec Baldwin stopped by cops while biking, goes off on city online 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z It seems there’s nothing like a fine for sloth and stupidity, plus a dollop of humiliation, to terminate bad behavior. Using DNA to catch canine culprits — and their owners 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z “They cameras are always on these fellas, OK,” Colbert said in the defense of candidate stupidity. Stephen Colbert: Kevin McCarthy barely knows grammar! He wants to be House speaker?? 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z She is hampered only by her pregnancy; the men she’s up against are hampered by their venality, stupidity and greed. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z More than 30 states elect Supreme Court judges, which is just absolute stupidity. John Grisham on Judges, Innocence and the Judgments He Ignores 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z Be it pandemic, environmental disaster, a righteous protest or the outbreak of a conflict, you can count on at least one famous person to meet the moment with utter stupidity. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z “It was not a very subtle metaphor on the stupidity of setting up a publishing house,” Testard, 37, recalled recently. How a Tiny British Publisher Became the Home of Nobel Laureates 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Fax quotes historian Michael Howard that armies often find themselves with poor strategies “not necessarily through the stupidity of their leaders but because all other options seem to be foreclosed or appear demonstrably worse.” 'With Their Bare Hands' tracks America's ascension to military power during WWI 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Ignorance and stupidity coupled with exacting revenge is a lethal combination : America beware. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z When asked about artificial intelligence, Tversky replied, “We study natural stupidity.” The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z "He reveals something of absurdity and stupidity. He distorts the features to satirize." Object Lesson: When James Ensor turned to skeletons and satire 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z But we are now some way from the original oppression – we are in the realm of art and truth, and its relationship to human boorishness, stupidity and immorality. The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z His speech is slow and deliberate, conveying a faintly ironic impression of intimacy – but also the occasional suggestion of contempt, as if accommodating his interviewer's stupidity. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z Their own stupidity, though, will last a lifetime. Judging the Couple who Locked Their Kids In a Car to Go Wine Tasting 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z He has no tolerance for violence and stupidity. Ann Magnuson on Hollywood’s “horrific” roles for women: Now, “I wouldn’t be cast as anything but the old hag, or the mother the men hate” 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Among the miseries to be left behind, Hughes mentions “the stupidities of color prejudice”; my own miseries were self-inflicted and of a lesser magnitude. I lost my virginity in a waterfront brothel 2013-06-03T15:32:00Z The ability to separate and ignore stupidity is a life skill worth developing. Carolyn Hax: Readers’ turn to offer wisdom while the columnist’s away 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z All of this is done in a vibrantly alive yet hushed voice that floats somewhere between willed stupidity and luminous knowledge, between self-communion and self-justification, between exhilaration and despair. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z "I'm always surprised by flagrant stupidity. I keep having more hope,'' said Penn on Saturday in Los Angeles during a promotional tour for his new film The Gunman. "I have absolutely no apologies. Penn: 'No apologies' for Oscar joke 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Anger, impatience, frustration, stupidity — and that was just me. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z We are living in an era of human brutality and mass stupidity as our super-intelligent technology is carrying us to a future we will not control. Evan Rachel Wood Turns Her Trauma Into Good. On ‘Westworld’ and in Life. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Even in this performance, as he leafs through court documents to share his outrage at the stupidity and unfairness he's been subjected to, he seems relaxed. Comedy gold: Lenny Bruce's Performance 2013-06-21T14:51:12Z So much for a story that confirmed the legendary stupidity of the Rouennais. France's Rouen revisits its impressionist past 2010-07-20T13:00:00Z That doesn't mean I don't still make mistakes — but it means that I've passed through some arrogant stupidity. Celebrating "great songwriter" David Bowie's 75th birthday & introducing him to a new generation 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z “I think the allegations, the emails, the insensitivity, the stupidity needs to be addressed, and we are going to address it,” she said. CNN and ABC cut ties — but don’t — with interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z This is going to sound dreadful, but I am appalled at the stupidity of some people's faith. David Nobbs 2010-09-18T23:04:00Z "Healthy democracies sometimes need to react against craziness and ugliness and selfishness and stupidity," said Garrett. Australian rock band Midnight Oil to play first world tour in 20 years 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Food is just too much of a pleasure to be sullied by the stupidities of a bunch of swivel-eyed hucksters whose only real credential is the size of their Instagram following. The prophets of modern dieting want you to feel guilty about food 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Compared with the coarseness and hostility that dominate daytime radio and cable news, his blithe stupidity seems almost innocent. Movie Review: ‘Alan Partridge,’ Starring Steve Coogan 2014-04-03T22:44:42Z And we can laugh at stupidity, which is cunning and powerful and reborn everyday in devious new guises. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z "It’s not stupidity, it’s that children and teens have partially formed brains," Diamond told Fox News. Her son died from a ‘choking game.’ Now she’s determined to save other kids’ lives. 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z They thrive on pointing out false logic, faulty reasoning and sheer stupidity. Twitter won the GOP debate: A fitting tribute to Jon Stewart, who made citizen-satirists of us all 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Hoyt, I have a mound of personal evidence in a file called "my 20s" that says stupidity and relationships are not mutually exclusive. "True Blood" 4x12: A sexy, bloody end to season four 2011-09-12T11:59:00Z Of course, a man of faith might argue that it is our stupidity that makes us prey for the devil, as do Dutch symphonic metal rock band Within Temptation. Readers recommend: songs about stupidity – results 2013-03-07T14:47:19Z “We” pull no punches in describing the stupidity and condescension of male bosses, in anachronistically referencing “the male gaze,” in sharply illustrating the talent gap between these “girls” and the jerks who order them around. A Debut Novel Reimagines the C.I.A.’s Efforts to Promote ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z 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. The Bittersweet Announcement of a New Beatrix Potter Book 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z When you’re met with consistent hatred, cruelty, ignorance, and a whole lot of just plain stupidity, it’s hard not to want to return the favor. The LGBT community shows how to take on the haters 2014-03-25T14:14:00Z The public declaration of his stupidity proved that the effort was wanting, while Quinn and Rachel’s scheme won them both the respect he so deeply craved. “Money. D*ck. Power.”: “Unreal” deconstructs fantasies — and asks what TV looks like with women in charge 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z "Erasmus," Juncker said, "is a good response to the stupidity of selfish nationalisms and of turning inwards." 'A million Euro-babies': EU fetes 30 years of student exchanges 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, 19-year-old Woods, will spend 12 weeks in a young offenders' institution for what his lawyer described as "one moment of drunken stupidity". Why did Justin Lee Collins get such a lenient sentence? 2012-10-10T15:56:16Z The Fire Department took off, and we were left with one peacefully sleeping baby, one anxious little boy and our overwhelming stupidity. Motherlode Blog: 'Wake Up Your Children. Open All the Windows.' The Dangers of Carbon Monoxide 2012-11-03T21:41:24Z If, as Hunter S. Thompson suggested in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” the only final sin is stupidity, perhaps the question now is how much longer do we abide it. Las Vegas was built by gangsters, and we celebrated those stories 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z There is no denying that Obama has confronted a maddening welter of stupidity, obstinacy and, yes, racism. Political consultant David Axelrod delivers in revealing 'Believer' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Each strand of the story offered a different type of action, and each succeeded in its own way, while also hurling a healthy dollop of inexplicable stupidity into the cocktail. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode two recap – The Damned 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z As it is, the quickest of us walk about well-wadded with stupidity. The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z What scares me is that there’s such a litany of stupidity and fuck-ups that it will become normalised. Alan Cumming: ‘A lot of young gay guys are like, who cares about the Aids crisis?’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But many, instead, accepted the abuse as a price of admission, their skin thickening until a daily scream from a stranger in Spain reminding them of their infinite stupidity became as routine as tea. The trolls think they are winning, but a change is on its way | Eva Wiseman 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The actual level of deceit, venality, self-righteousness, collusion, the real-world consequences of doctrinaire actions, and the deep, unaware stupidity of it all were so far beyond anything he could make up. Writing (and not writing) during a political maelstrom 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z California's Occidental College offers a class on stupidity. Ka-pow! Marvel Comics heroes get academic treatment at Baltimore college 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Sheila’s interior monologue, the show’s most prominent stylistic device, is a constant slam not only of herself but also of the shallowness, stupidity and ugliness of nearly everyone around her. ‘Physical’ Review: Feeling the Sick Burn 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The boulder they keep trying to push up the mountain is “truth”; the mountain, “human stupidity.” Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Imposture is the ethical key to Nazi-mocking, a way of revealing the vanity and stupidity of people who insist above all on their own deadly seriousness. When We Laugh at Nazis, Maybe the Joke’s on Us 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “It was through the sheer, consummate stupidity of German diplomats.” Books of The Times: Perched in Berlin With Hitler Rising 2011-05-19T21:00:11Z Perhaps the contiguity isn’t an accident: Vigilance against stupidity is essential in all aspects of life, even among those who may be convinced that what they do is entirely in the service of humanity. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Then she’s sardonically funny again, telling jokes as one character, then switching characters to witheringly mock the stupidity of her other characters’ jokes — even though she wrote all those jokes. Lauren Weedman is back in Seattle with her latest painfully funny solo show 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Alba is charming until her character gets sent to the stupidity factory. Little Fockers Review: Stiller vs. DeNiro, Round 3 2010-12-21T04:40:00Z You can virtually feel Wright's interest in the project draining away into an instrumental cynicism that Snyder's "Sucker Punch," for all its crazy stupidity, never displays. "Hanna": A ruthless, arty "Sucker Punch" 2011-04-07T20:03:00Z Because in most cases, greed and stupidity work to the benefit of those trying to catch cheaters, Sal says. Looking to catch a card cheater? Better call Sal, the international casino expert 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The computer’s output of 600 potential names was heavily censored for stupidity and lightly edited for legibility. Make Your Own Pitch Perfect A Cappella Group Name 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But more originally, the authors find the roots of these failings not in stupidity but in clashing economic ideas. France v Germany 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It is like a 3D cartoon by Goya, ringing with the mad quality of the Spanish visionary's Caprices, his surreal send-ups of stupidity and superstition. How Yinka Shonibare's sculpture park exhibition shoots to thrill 2013-03-03T21:59:01Z Humanity may have lapsed into terminal tedium or hubristic stupidity, but that creature, with long, slender limbs and a cranium like a speed-skater’s helmet, remains interesting. Review: In ‘Alien: Covenant,’ Everybody’s Favorite Predator Returns 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z His pet hates include perceived stupidity, laziness, or ideas being blocked for seemingly vague reasons, which may explain No 10’s sudden appetite for ripping up unwritten rules and conventions. Does Boris Johnson’s government have a women problem? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Americans today might sympathize with his characters, who exist in an endless vortex of repetition, insincerity and stupidity. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z However frustrated they may be by political paralysis, corporate trickery or plain human stupidity, none of them seem inclined to give up. Movie Review: ?Last Call at the Oasis,? a Documentary About Water Supplies 2012-05-03T23:00:12Z “They keep on promising to ‘occupy that building until… well, we’re not really sure,'” Maher mocked the disorganized cult of stupidity. If you’re so tough, “go fight ISIS”: Bill Maher blasts Bundy siege’s “wackadoodle militiamen” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z But, despite yourself, you see something endearing in all this monumental stupidity. Die Hard 2 recap: 'Insane bloodlust, gratuitous profanity, zero logic' 2013-06-21T16:15:40Z “I loved you truly,” she sings, deadpan, then almost cackles the next line, “You gotta laugh at the stupidity.” Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Vampire’ Takes a Note From Taylor Swift: Leave a Mark 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z It is time to take seriously the role that stupidity is playing in shaping GOP politics. Sarah Palin’s American lobotomy: The Republicans keep making us dumber, and not even Stephen Colbert can save us 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Keeping Britain Alive: the NHS in a Day was fun in the quiet way that it contrasted the brilliance of the surgeons with the stupidity of the patients. Rewind TV: The Great British Bake Off Easter Masterclass; Our Girl; Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day; Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise 2013-03-30T22:45:01Z It’s full of the folly and stupidity and arrogance of youth. Jason Pierce Struggled to Make a New Spiritualized Album. And He May Do It Again. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “It’s a mixture of hypocrisy and ignorance, with maybe a little stupidity thrown in,” Ms. Livingston said. 2010-02-07T06:40:00Z Many of the stories, factual and fictional, use deafness to offer a fresh insight into everything from Islam to cage fighting, to exploring aspects of deaf culture and to laugh at hearing society's stupidity. This week's new film events 2013-05-11T05:00:13Z Portraying a dewy-eyed — and devotedly homicidal — Irish republican terrorist named Padraic, Mr. Turner is the shining embodiment of glamorous, dangerous stupidity. Orlando Bloom and Aidan Turner Are Drenched in Blood in London 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z And, of course, an endless supply of gorgeous, vacuous, often shirtless women, because apparently there’s nothing a gal likes more in a guy than stupidity, self-absorption and a knack for treating the opposite sex dismissively. Review: ‘Ballers,’ on HBO, Follows a Financial Guru to the Sports Stars 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z But it does give you a decent sense where writer-director Daniel Schechter is going with this adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s “The Switch,” a farcical tale of kidnapping, extortion, 1970s race relations and general stupidity. “Life of Crime”: Jennifer Aniston stars in a black-comic Labor Day surprise 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z “Unfortunately, rather than channeling all of my being into perfecting my craft,” he says,“I squandered my life on drugs, alcohol, stupidity, and destroyed the lives of lots of innocent people.” A new album by incarcerated musicians features songs of prison, trauma and hope 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Once in a while he goes on the attack against greed and waste and stupidity in health matters, and things pick up. Review: ‘If Our Bodies Could Talk,’ Our Spleens Probably Wouldn’t Be Funny 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z When stupidity is elevated — and there is lots of stupidity in society — it needs to be acknowledged in parlance and verbiage, and everyone will say, "Surely you can't be serious?" is a serious line. "When stupidity is elevated": "Airplane!" filmmakers reveal the secrets to their deadpan success 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z It was the closest to an emotional break that I could get because of the stupidity behind a question like that. Charlize Theron on ‘Bombshell,’ Fox News and Harvey Weinstein 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z “I don’t want her feelings hurt by stupidity from 40 years ago.” Pete Hamill ‘Ain’t Done Yet’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Of course, Britain's theatre culture has its own problems, faced with a government that seems determined to turn the arts into a glossy pastime through a mix of condescension, "philanthropic giving" and sheer stupidity. Subversion on stage: can theatre change the world? 2011-01-06T12:13:12Z But the comedy of stupidity knows no generation. TV Tonight: Beavis and Butt-Head Return 2011-10-27T10:53:47Z And don’t assume social-media stupidity is the sole province of churlish, badly behaved children; each new communication platform is gas on the fire of an adolescent prefrontal cortex. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Be open and supportive with friend whose child is involved in scandal 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The California shows were carefully recorded, but with historic stupidity, the BBC filmed Cream’s last shows yet only captured the music in muddy, low-fi mono. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The author is careful to make the distinction between ignorance and stupidity. 17 Great Books About American Presidents for Presidents’ Day Weekend 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Never a political band, it nonetheless articulated a powerful protest — against sentimentality, stupidity, false consciousness and positive thinking — that would sow the seeds of punk rock and later rebellions. ‘The Velvet Underground’ Review: And Me, I’m in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z More like stupidity in action. economart Hello Ms. Muller, Here is the year’s 10 worst product flops: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-worst-product-flops-of-2011.html #### 3. There's Nothing Wrong With the Chevy Volt's Battery 2012-01-05T19:34:43Z Yet despite uncovering every kind of cultural cupidity and stupidity, Gekoski finishes his tour of duty sounding upbeat. Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski – review 2013-06-29T08:00:54Z “My shipmates are a bunch of swine! No enthusiasm for anything, unbelievable crudity, stupidity & malice,” he wrote a few days after enlisting, the first of many complaints about “insolence” and “boorishness.” Wittgenstein’s ‘Private Notebooks’ Shed Some Light on an Enigmatic Genius 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z He didn’t proclaim giddily that he was trying an experiment so much as chuckle with self-deprecation at the stupidity of the undertaking. David Letterman Leaves His Successors a Rich Comedic Bequest 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z If so, the Gods are having a field day shattering and rearranging Vincenzo’s life, teaching him “the stark reality, the abject arbitrariness and stupidity of the world, that life was an insult to everyone’s plans.” ‘The Dismal Science’: a dark brew of angst and economics 2014-01-22T22:35:56Z “The fifth wheel loses his air conditioning, and he drives on,” Freddy said, marveling at people’s stupidity. For a newbie driver, the RV was her classroom and her subject matter 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z That and a scene from the other middling comedy that similarly locked up Aniston, are absurd reminders of how much stupidity floats in this industry's stream beside once-in-a-generation shows like this one. "Friends: The Reunion" is The One We Could've Lived Without 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The feminist ideal was not that there was going to be equity of stupidity. Women behave badly in films, and box offices applaud 2011-08-12T21:54:06Z Weight stigma includes stereotypes of laziness and stupidity. How taxing sugary drinks reinforces weight stigma 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z This turns out to be the perfect method of charting relative levels of stupidity among people who look a bit like Pete Townshend. Stephen Fry's Eye Spy is bad. It's very, very bad 2013-06-22T05:00:00Z Vonnegut used his early short fiction to test the themes that animated his later novels: the cruel stupidity of war, the dehumanizing dangers of technology; the devolution of American values into greed and selfishness. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z More significantly than the mall’s blatant hypocrisy, though, is it’s flat-out stupidity. Kicked out of the mall — for an anti-cancer hat 2013-05-22T20:33:00Z Due to some addictive alchemy of repetition, stupidity, hope and flashes of genuine humanity, it is impossible to eat just one. Sleep with the hot one! 2012-07-10T16:30:00Z Speaking of Siegfried, Ross himself wittily concludes, that “stupidity is his tragic flaw.” Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Conversely, densely populated areas become aggregators of human stupidity: it smells, it’s loud, and everyone is too fussed to look up from their smartphone. Conquering your fears in Alaska: go big, or go home 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z “Yet a film is about putting your doubts and stupidity onscreen. If you don’t do that, you have to be a master, like Hitchcock or Bresson. I’m not a master.” Leos Carax on ‘Annette’ and the Cinema of Doubt 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z But I am even less a fan of stupidity. Rewind TV: Our Drugs War; Faith School Menace?; The Great British Bake Off 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z The most logical solutions regularly look as if they were being ignored out of sheer stupidity. Outrage is actually optimism: We’re mad because people should be better 2014-02-22T16:00:00Z “Without their vision, this would be a dead world. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to take our eyes off the horrible things going on — the ugliness, the stupidity.” Seattle Art Fair draws crowds, excitement — and a touch of ambivalence 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z You absorbed the contents in stunned silence, knowing the written declarations of your stupidity or incompetence were recorded in cyberspace. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z Barnes always retained preternatural calm in the face of such stupidity, an ability he ascribes to a solid middle-class upbringing: his father was an officer in the Jamaican army. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z I was completely in the wrong and can't account for my stupidity. Rant & Rave: Mole with a Midas touch 2012-05-16T18:40:06Z Instead of an appreciation for the courage, perseverance, loyalty and sense of duty that people are capable of, we are left with a dismaying sense of human weakness, selfishness and gossipy stupidity. Book Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling 2012-09-27T05:00:00Z In his earlier novels, when he satirized the blowhards of our own times, Buckley’s purpose was clear: to expose greed, hypocrisy and stupidity. Finding the Funny in 17th-Century History 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z By the middle of 1973, the purity and power of Bowie's breakthrough had become dulled by imitation and repetition – the full stupidity of fashion or trend evanescence: here today, gone tomorrow. When Bowie met Burroughs 2013-03-09T09:01:00Z She forces them to reexamine whether she should absorb their remarks as an insult or just read it as proof of their stupidity. Jokes aside, Nicole Kidman is commendable in Aaron Sorkin's mostly watchable "Being the Ricardos" 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z He tells, for example, of Wenner’s journalistic leadership in covering that nightmare of craven stupidity and violent death that was the Altamont Free Concert in northern California. Jann Wenner doesn’t like the new book about him. But you just might. 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z To be fair, it's the kind of stupidity that plagues "Purge-ville." 'The Purge: Anarchy' ups the ante and the gore 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z More incredibly, Mr. Simon argues the general’s stupidity in not lying to federal investigators. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z Whereas Borat blended its offensive gags with satire, challenging cultural assumptions and balancing its stupidity with a kind of behind-the-scenes, barely detectable intelligence, Grimsby lacks a deeper purpose beneath its outrageous exterior. The 10 Most Disappointing Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Such cynical observations are among the many pleasures of Thomas’s book: “Complexity is the first refuge of the scoundrel”; “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” ‘Fixers’: A financial thriller with cameos by Hillary Clinton and Obama 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z To rent an apartment without wondering who the previous tenants were, or to move to a neighborhood without wondering who your neighbors are now, is an act of moral stupidity. The Gentrified Ghostbusters of 2016 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Redemption from her fretfulness and stupidity can be found of course only in romance. With The Last Song, Miley Cyrus leaves her fans to their fate 2010-05-04T09:00:00Z It’s uncertainty that drives people into woo, not stupidity, so I’m not surprised millennials are into astrology. I was an astrologer – here's how it really works, and why I had to stop 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z “Snarling and heartless and fraudulently tough, insisting on the virtues of stupidity, it was the epitome of blind negation,” he wrote in Esquire. Pete Hamill ‘Ain’t Done Yet’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z They offered sharp satire in the face of stupidity and evil. Samantha Bee is Jon Stewart’s real heir: Finally, the 2016 campaign has the satirist we so desperately need 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Cal in particular calls to mind that other disappointing son of an illustrious gangster, The Sopranos' Jackie Aprile Jnr – sharing that lethal mixture of endless bravado, poor impulse control and rank stupidity. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z Jokes about the stupidity of particular groups of people are generally a no-go in these days of political correctness. ‘The Money Shot,’ by Neil LaBute, Satirizes Hollywood 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z On the surface, Baauer's failure to license the samples would appear to stem from some combination of naivety, laziness and stupidity, but nothing about Harlem Shake is straightforward. Harlem Shake: could it kill sampling? 2013-03-13T17:03:00Z And while other comedians show us persons tormented by bad luck and enemies and so on, Bob and Ray’s characters threaten to wreck themselves and their surroundings with their own stupidity. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z She added: “I injected a lot of myself into Maggie. A kind of goofiness that goes with a certain kind of intelligence — I guess you could call it stupidity — is definitely one of my traits.” Rebecca Miller Is Brainy, and Very, Very Funny 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z |
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