| 单词 | brainless |
| 例句 | And then of course there was the constant, prattling, awesomely brainless presence of Mary Ellen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Chomsky was the brainless brawn, Rand was the animus—the wild force of nature among them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Technically, you’re brainless. This is exactly what I’m talking about. You need to give her space, Jay. Tell me you didn’t text her.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He’s grinning crazily, kind of like he’s brainless. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “You had to tell us or we never would have moved our camp in the first place, brainless.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why do you think I’m going, anyway, brainless?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Grasse needed his word in order to account for the ability of such tiny, blind, and relatively brainless animals to erect structures of such vast size and internal complexity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I should be avoiding him entirely after my brainless and embarrassing babbling yesterday. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Penelope replied: “He is no fool; he sees how it could be. Never were mortal men like these for bullying and brainless arrogance!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad says it’s our duty to clean up after the brainless morons. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z You brainless nitwit, he did not need to add. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She pushed claw marks and brainless corpses from her thoughts. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They had been behind German lines before many times—living like woods creatures, living from moment to moment in useful terror, thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “One of the local stations has regular updates,” Mom tells me, “but it’s that brainless anchor I can’t stand. And besides, there’s nothing new.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Like a brainless terrier, Finn chased the car down the road until it vanished in the darkness. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He doesn't need a video game that encourages toxic masculinity and brainless murder rn. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It's a brainless joyride that ends up spinning its wheels in macho clichés. The Sweeney – review 2012-06-27T00:38:03Z “A rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks,” Hunter S. Thompson wrote of sportswriters covering the 1973 Super Bowl. Review, ‘Football: Great Writing about the National Sport,’ edited by John Schulian Candidate memoirs are banal by design; the vast majority of them are, as Casey N. Cep writes in Politico, "a yellow brick road where heartless prose, brainless policy prescription and cowardly confession meet." Wendy Davis' new memoir details the Texas candidate's abortions 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z This one might be described as genre zombie-ism: the hysterical, brainless animation of dead clichés reduced to purposeless, compulsive killing. Movie Review: ‘Gangster Squad’ With Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone 2013-01-10T22:30:08Z Swift and amusingly brainless, “Hatchet II” more than delivers on splatter expectations. | 'Hatchet II': An Homage to Slasher-Movie History 2010-10-01T00:39:00Z Twitter users didn’t find the so-called prank quite so funny, however, with some declaring her actions as “dumb and brainless” while others echoed that she should be jailed for the crime. Instagram model blasted for vandalizing historic statute 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s hilarious, the kind of brainless, impeccably choreographed slapstick that once ruled comedy. Stop! You're hurting me! Why GLOW's wrestling women aren't just an offence to fashion 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z She says many of the critics of that time, commonly male, “assigned O’Keeffe the role of a brainless, malleable, unfulfilled creature that Stieglitz was exploiting in his role as ‘showman.’ Georgia O’Keeffe and the gender debate: Can a woman be great, or only a great woman? 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z All these brainless actors who joined the hate chorus against Allen .....do they have any access to the case? Alec Baldwin Skewers Trump. And Supports Allen and Toback. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Bitter Pill's visually gorgeous Swahili The Merry Wives of Windsor managed to inject the most brainless and boring of Shakespeare's comedies with vitality and belly laughs. Shakespeare, universal? No, it's cultural imperialism 2012-05-21T13:00:03Z It seems that this is a future largely populated by brainless space bimbos and stereotypes of middle-aged women. The Fifth Element at 20: gender bending sci-fi or sexist space shambles? 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Viewers who haven't played the video game don't need to know those terms or even be concerned that episodes are driven by running from hordes of brainless, drooling former folk. Have hope for "The Last of Us," a drama about enduring at the end of the world, not just surviving 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z “The city in summer floated in a daze that moved otherwise sensible people to repeat endlessly the brainless greeting ‘Hot enough for ya? Sunday Reading: Summer in the City 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z She added: “You see, I don’t like whimsy or sentiment. This bear had character. I felt a real rapport with this brainless innocent who always came out on top.” Peggy Fortnum, Illustrator of Paddington, Dies at 96 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z For me, the utter brilliance of the movie is only possible because it creates this unreal cosmos around speculation, crime and the brainless rich. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z And while the resulting movie may be brainless, the sheer gusto with which it goes about telling its madcap story actually does become pretty awesome in its own way. Nic Cage's 4th of July classic 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Minaj can play that game, too: her international smash "Starships" is upbeat, irresistible, fairly brainless electronic music. Concert preview: Nicki Minaj's prime asset 2012-08-09T15:38:06Z The first single, the brawny and slightly brainless “For the Animals,” favored arena rock decadence over the arty irascibility that helped them make their name in the 1980s. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 8-14 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z As the award's well-loved organiser Nica Burns justifiably points out, this type of brainless poll is "a way of life" these days. Why is Stewart Lee railing against the Edinburgh comedy awards? 2010-07-21T16:04:00Z Inconspicuous and all the more elegant for it, “After You” is a reaction against much contemporary ballet, with its frequent sight of whacked legs, meaningless gestures and partnering that turns women into brainless machines. Review: Choreography Is the Star at American Ballet Theater 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Just as 20th century Freudianism erred by being too brainless, they argue, 21st century neuroscience runs the risk of becoming too mindless. 'In the Mind Fields' and the renewed emphasis on a mindful approach to mental illness 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z My worst career decision was to believe taking a waitressing job would be an easy, stress-free, brainless way to pay the rent. Box pop TV Q&A: Kate Humble 2011-02-17T15:50:00Z At home, at work, they're either evil sexist pigs and homophobes, or dull brainless snoring twits. Scott & Bailey; Coast; Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home – TV review 2013-04-04T06:00:00Z The final image — a freeze frame of a pas de deux staged to resemble a triumphal Communist poster — perfectly captures the film’s overall effect: it’s strenuously brainless. | 'Mao?s Last Dancer': Bruce Beresford on Li Cunxin?s Immersion in America 2010-08-19T23:20:00Z Before 9/11, but also in 2001, Americans obsessed over a benign and, let’s be honest, entirely brainless sort of disaster: Fox’s “Temptation Island.” Why "Temptation Island" is back and "90 Day Fiancé" is having a moment 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Granted, Letterman, who at 66 is a well-heeled TV star, might be accused of guilt-by-association with McCall’s “brainless rich” as he mocks high rollers who turn unspoiled nature into a private Disneyland. Letterman Books It With Artist-Writer Bruce McCall 2013-11-12T16:18:59Z There is a kneejerk, brainless reaction to any legislation that may have a detrimental effect on their God-given right to drive cars anywhere at any speed that they consider safe. I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough 2011-02-05T21:30:00Z Both industries will always boast a variety of content, from cerebral drama to brainless action, so endlessly praising one over the other is a fruitless pursuit. Grace of Monaco's Emmy nominations show film still has standards TV doesn't 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z At a quick 95 minutes, at least the whole thing zips by, however brainlessly. ‘¿Y Cómo Es Él?’ Review: A Fraught Buddy Comedy 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Indeed, the premise is so goofy that it almost reads like a parody of a brainless patriotic blockbuster rather than a real movie. Nic Cage's 4th of July classic 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z A headline like that beckons the viewer with the promise of brainless "Don't Be a Menace to Society While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood"-style shenanigans. No amount of wine can make "The Woman in the House" spoof work, despite its charismatic star 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Yes, they worked awfully hard at seeming brainlessly irrepressible, but their skill and generosity quickly triumphed. Twyla Tharp's 50th anniversary program, while graceful, becomes predictable 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z He shows the children that they have brains when every other teacher has told them they're brainless. The cultured classes | Lynsey Hanley 2010-03-19T20:30:00Z After a few months at home with Penelope, I began to get depressed — sleeping too much, drinking too much, watching endless, mindless hours of brainless television. Is motherhood causing my depression? 2013-02-25T23:30:00Z The rest of the book, set in an unlikely Aztec jungle, was mainly astonishing for repetitious misogyny, as the heroine, Eden, lusted brainlessly after her erstwhile boss, and half-mutated into a jaguar. Racism row novel Revealing Eden falls at every hurdle 2012-08-23T09:55:46Z He takes her for a brainless amateur — she admits to having no stage experience beyond high school productions — and lets forth a barrage of insults, summarized as “Change everything about yourself.” | Stony Point: A Review of ‘Class,’ at Penguin Rep Theater 2013-05-24T23:56:26Z He interviewed the kind of people whose main aim in life is to appear on shows such as this, including the obligatory brainless American blonde with massive breast implants and no discernible nose. Great Ormond Street; Panorama, Spoilt Rotten; Young, Autistic and Stagestruck; The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me; Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z The war was crazy, the army was brainless and callous, but there were these men who would never let you down, and for whose sake you bore the unbearable. Deserter: The Untold Story of WWII by Charles Glass – review 2013-03-28T11:00:01Z Eighteen years ago MTV pioneered "reality TV" with The Real World, a brainless festival of preening teen narcissism. Delicious Dahl 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z That said, Damon triumphed in his own right, largely due to the writers’ choice to lean into holiday sentiment as opposed to punching up at brainless piñatas. "Saturday Night Live" has a problem not even Matt Damon can solve 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z She is smart where Lorelei is brainless; grown-up where Lorelei is juvenile; wisecracking where Lorelei is breathy; straightforward where Lorelei is dissembling. Jane Russell: Mean! Moody! Misunderstood! 2011-03-01T22:00:01Z It's a thing of perfection – nothing is wasted, clumsy or off-topic – and it's a blockbuster that you don't need to apologise for loving or dismiss as brainless fun. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-10-12T23:05:40Z The Cheerios who entertained the possibility of taking part in it seemed even more brainless than usual. Can "Glee" be saved? 2011-02-14T16:30:00Z The best course of action, if things really have to stay this way, would be for Tarantino to make a good, honest, completely brainless shoot-’em-up without any delusions of having something to say. Tarantino's gruesome revenge fantasies are growing more puerile and misogynistic | Caspar Salmon 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Regnerus’s argument – which relegates men to brainless automatons whose only on-button for productivity and planning is sex – does little to reinvent or challenge oppressive gender stereotypes. Is marriage really on the decline because of men's cheap access to sex? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Except these mussels are eyeless, brainless, little brown creatures that few people have ever heard of. Can We Save Every Species from Extinction? 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Even among other brainless animals, T. cystophora stands out. No brain, no problem. Jellyfish learn just fine 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Tiny, brainless jellyfish just did something that on the surface may seem impossible: the adorable creatures showed evidence of learning. These Adorable Jellyfish Show Learning Doesn't Even Require a Brain 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z But like other jellyfish, they are brainless, controlling their cube-shaped bodies with a distributed network of neurons. Brainless Jellyfish Demonstrate Learning Ability 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z England came close to wasting a superb fightback with some brainless batting late on the second day of the second Ashes Test against Australia at Lord's. England come close to wasting fightback against Australia 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Publisher Deep Silver promises loads of gory, squishy ultraviolence, and who wouldn’t want some brainless fun when you’re about to get your brains eaten? New this week: ‘Judy Blume,’ Rodrigo y Gabriela, Minecraft 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z “Everything led to one goal,” Berg writes, “which had now nearly been reached. A paralyzed, happy, brainless populace.” Review | Sibylle Berg’s ‘Grime’ is a wicked satire of where we’re headed 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Naver said one distinctive feature of its robots was that they are intentionally “brainless,” meaning they are not rolling computers that process information inside the machine. Meet Your New Corporate Office Mate: A ‘Brainless’ Robot 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “This could give us hints of how early life evolved from these squishy brainless things into these complex organisms building spaceships,” Dr. Ushijima said. Sneeze by Sneeze, Sponges Fill the Seas With Their Mucus 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z In April, an investigator hired by the Legislature found that Groene acted in a “boorish, brainless and bizarre” manner but did not commit illegal sexual discrimination or harassment. Nebraska AG: No charges over ex-state senator’s photos 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z We might regard these as lumbering, brainless creatures, which is a useful trick since it stops us empathizing with them and makes us feel less guilty about eating them. Bees will self-isolate when they're sick, and other lessons from the social lives of animals 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z As I started curating my own kitchen, I realized part of being an adult is having “staples” ― the things that you always have in case you want to make a quick, brainless meal. Looking to elevate your red sauce? This spicy shakshuka pasta looks to Northern African cuisine for inspiration 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z “What if we close off the natural gas headed there? I would recommend the leadership of Poland, the Lithuanians and other brainless people to think before they speak.” Migrants in Peril, and Raw Emotions, in a Volatile European Border Standoff 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z That makes studying sleep in brainless creatures controversial. ‘If it’s alive, it sleeps.’ Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z But because this man is for a group of people who see it different he’s selfish, arrogant, misfit and every other derogatory name you can think of is brainless. Ex-NBA star sends strong message to Kyrie Irving critics 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Finally, Trump's base is too often described — and dismissed — as a mosh pit of maskless deplorables, violent and brainless as British soccer thugs. Will sports get over Trumpism? 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Yet Tampa Bay played a pretty brainless first half, falling behind 31-0, even putting his young daughter who was at the game to sleep. On Football: Be prepared or be ready for an unexpected test 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Yet Tampa Bay played a pretty brainless first half, falling behind 31-0, even putting his young daughter who was at the game to sleep. On Football: Be prepared or be ready for an unexpected test 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Recently, researchers caught another brainless creature napping: Hydra vulgaris, a stationary freshwater relative of jellyfish. ‘If it’s alive, it sleeps.’ Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z As the Liverpool defender shaped to shoot he was caught by a disgraceful challenge by Pickford, who brainlessly scythed through Van Dijk’s left knee. Liverpool denied by Everton and VAR in wild Merseyside derby draw 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Cells — and tissues and brainless whole organisms — are agents with their own information-processing competency that lets them ‘decide’ where to go, what signals to release and what cells to stick to, write Levin and Dennet. Daily briefing: Nobel-winning biochemist Jennifer Doudna on the future of CRISPR 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Sea squirts are more closely related to vertebrates — animals like humans with backbones — than you might expect from brainless blobs. This Ancient Sea Creature Builds Its Body With a Whisper, Not a Scream 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Purge your party of anyone disloyal to you and turn it into a mindless, brainless, spineless cult. 25 steps to Trump’s re-election 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Some recent clues from brainless animals suggest sleep factors into energy balance and metabolism. ‘If it’s alive, it sleeps.’ Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z But, boy, is it uplifting to honor a genius who taught us to listen to musical theater anew, even if ticket buyers continue to flock in droves toward brainless fare. Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday bash reminds us why his music remains so radical 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z I really don’t wish to sound like a broken record, but why we have such a mental block that creates such brainless bowling at Steve Smith baffles me. Ashes 2019: England v Australia fourth Test, day three, rain delay – live! 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Now along with summer heat, mosquitoes and brainless movies comes the Hollywood Bowl, where no-brainers necessarily fund the revolution, where what has always sold still sells. Review: Dudamel marks his 10th L.A. Phil anniversary with a Hollywood Bowl blowout 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z For more brainless shoutingidiotic typing, wade into the Twitter replies to see everyone disagree with each other and argue about matchups that cannot possibly happen unless someone invents time travel. Basketball season is over which means it's officially "LeBron or Jordan?" season on First Take (make it stop) - Golf Digest 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z "Everybody thinks that the Trump rally crowds are these brainless maniacs. Folks, it’s exact opposite. It is these people at Democrat conventions and Democrat rallies who are truly, truly dangerous," Limbaugh said. Rush Limbaugh: The 'dangerous' base created by Democrats is lashing out 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Clearly you can’t take a woman’s recollections seriously, it’s just brainless gossip! Moby's treatment of Natalie Portman is a master-class in beta-male misogyny | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Make no mistake: This film adds absolutely nothing new to the “everyone you know is turning into a brainless monster” sub-genre. Reviews: Scott Adkins’ career-best ‘Avengement’; ‘The Poison Rose’ and more 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z But little is known about the built-in threat detectors of these limbless, brainless beings. When Fungi Fight Back 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z This has been the case since at least Dawn of the Dead, which drew an unmistakably satirical connection between its hordes of brainless zombies and the real-world hordes of brainless American shoppers. Spawn of the dead: a history of strange zombie movie mashups 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The kids drink, smoke, say horrible things about women and make brainless mistakes. Jonah Hill Makes Directing Look Easy 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z We brainlessly criticized Russia when it invaded Georgia and Ukraine. Opinion | We are a deeply stupid country 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Monterey Bay Aquarium, for example, tweeted: “Four stars ... Heartless, brainless and spineless yet more emotive than most.” I downloaded all my Facebook data – here’s what I learned 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z He won the penalty he converted for his first, having lured Mike van der Hoorn into a brainless shove by using his body smartly, as he tends to do in general play. Premier League and Carabao Cup: 10 talking points from the weekend 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z You, on the other hand, did wrong wrong, making yourselves look feckless, spineless and brainless in the process. Democrats, you’ve been had 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Not so for brainless robots—in fact, calculating robotic movement is its own scientific subfield. How Robot Math and Smartphones Led Researchers to a Drug Discovery Breakthrough 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z I realized that I was making all kinds of “when” decisions in my own life, but I was making them in a haphazard, brainless way. Timing Is Everything 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Why would anyone devote her life to a brainless, spineless, gutless group of parasites? Tapeworms are brainless, spineless, gutless parasites — and this scientist loves them 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z If that seems like a lot to ask from a six-foot box of spineless, mostly brainless animals — well, Philipp doesn't disagree. The creators of the world's smallest mollusk museum have giant ambitions 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Always a brainless wonder, he is now a giant gas filled expanding skull atop a compressed corpus. How Far Will Sean Hannity Go? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z He's trump junior, brainless and with an over-estimated sense of self-worth. Jerry Jones Threatens to Sue N.F.L. to Block Roger Goodell’s Contract 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z If the Pac-12 brainless trust is so incompetent that this is a part of the TV contract, 7:30 games are the least of the problems. Backtalk: Times readers sound off on Seahawks and Huskies 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The Austrian became the club’s record buy after his £24m move from Stoke City in the summer, but that brainless red card against Southampton is his most noteworthy contribution this season. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z On Wednesday morning, Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer held a press conference to blast Mr. Trump as “cowardly” and “brainless” for his decision to phase out the legally iffy Obama-era deportation amnesty for Dreamers. Donald Trump’s deal with Democrats upsets Republicans 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z For once, a needless and brainless fight was avoided in Washington. Trump cut a deal with the Democrats. Is a new era upon us? | Ross Barkan 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump made the brief remark in response to reporters’ questions during an Oval Office meeting with congressional leaders, including Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer of New York, who called the president’s decision “brainless.” Donald Trump: ‘No second thoughts’ on ending immigration amnesty 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z But at no point is this brainless, sleazy exploitation. Horror-comedy 'A Beginner's Guide to Snuff' aspires to entertain, not exploit 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Waters rails against greed, injustice, lying politicians, brainless leaders and “nincompoop” presidents over 12 tracks. Review: Roger Waters comes out angry, focused on ‘Life’ 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z “Chinese audiences just like this type of film — high-tech, brainless plot,” said Gerald Fang, a Chinese film blogger. 'xXx' and 'La La Land' sweep China's box office 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Until then, the film mostly relies on broad jokes about how hard it is to tell the difference between ski-bums and brainless flesh-eaters. 'Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies' doesn't remotely live up to its title 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Regarding insurance industry worries about a housing slump, he said, “I told them: ‘Stop asking me this brainless question. China’s ‘Godfather of Real Estate’ Pitches Reverse Mortgages to Skeptical Elders 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Meanwhile brainless plants like the opium poppy and the coca bush control a very large number of US. Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’ 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But his dehumanizing words sound similar to the book titles favored by Coulter, which describe liberals as demonic, brainless, treasonous, and more. Blame the messengers: How the conservative media failed conservatives 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Doroheng, who takes aim at typical punk-song targets — brainless consumerism, heartless militarism, gutless gentrification — as if society’s enduring malfeasances only recently started melting his skin. Kombat is taking Washington on a new hardcore head-trip 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Wolff, who called the collision "brainless", is determined it should not happen again. British GP: Lewis Hamilton & Nico Rosberg threatened with punishments by Mercedes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Team boss Toto Wolff's response to what he called a "brainless" accident was to threaten the imposition of team orders -- a practice that was banned for some years and is now legal again. Mercedes have some tough choices to take 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z But team boss Toto Wolff still described the collision as "brainless" initially, without saying who he felt was at fault. Lewis Hamilton wins in Austria after Nico Rosberg collision 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z How brainless pea plants evaluate risk is still unclear, but Dr. Shemesh thinks they must be following simple rules, not reasoning. Lacking Brains, Plants Can Still Make Good Judgments About Risks 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z These facts were already making things uncomfortable for the gun lobby, even before Donald Trump opened his brainless mouth and started spouting off. Firearms in bars: The NRA’s “guns-everywhere” philosophy clashes with the idiocy of drunks packing heat 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Intelligently, if not always profoundly, “The Girls” traverses this much visited terrain—what Cline calls “the brainless dream” of California in the late sixties. Cults and Carnage in the Summer of ’69 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Now Dr Jensen is "done with" the Liberal Party, whose MPs are expected to confine themselves to "branch stacking, fundraising and brainless conformity", he claims. Blouse-ripping sex scene brings down Australian MP - BBC News 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z One gay rights group called the tribunal "brainless", warning it was trivialising homophobia. Gay slur aimed at hairdresser 'not homophobic' - French ruling - BBC News 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Sperm, on the other hand, are relatively uniform - and brainless. Sperm bunch up when swimming in gloopy fluid - BBC News 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Self-professed liberals and conservatives alike called Bradley’s opinion piece brainless, bigoted, racist and homophobic. Bradley’s anti-gay column drew torrent of negative response 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Self-professed liberals and conservatives alike called it brainless, bigoted, racist and homophobic. The Latest: Bradley took on political correctness, mascot 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z With a soft voice and poised demeanor, Marechal-Le Pen lambasts the nation's top politicians, once taking the floor in parliament to castigate the prime minister's "brainless contempt" of her party. Marion Marechal-Le Pen, fresh-faced star of France's far right, is soft-spoken steel 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The people doing this aren’t brainless polyps; instead they are responding to the rules and incentives. Where Does Technological Innovation Come From? 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z However, since being mindless or brainless are equally impossible positions, the pendulum always would peak, then begin its reversal. Psychiatry’s Mind-Brain Problem 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Little wonder that employee turnover at the average restaurant is an estimated 150%—who wants to do boring, brainless work longer than they have to? The Big Opportunity McDonald's Is Missing 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z People who are afraid to share their own or their company’s weak spots ask brainless “Tell me about a time when” questions instead — in case every job-seeker hasn’t rehearsed those answers in advance! Five Brainless Management Fads That Desperately Need To Die 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z There’s nothing that exemplifies the brainless heights that cable news can reach quite so much as the moments when the participants openly acknowledge that they’re just filling time with informationless drivel. The truth about CNN’s epic “dildo flag” mix-up: Why it represents everything insane about modern media 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z It pains Martin that anyone would value brainless pursuits over intellectual ones. ‘Gemma Bovery’ movie review 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z All those brainless examples of junk science in the business world are snake oil cures and beyond that, they’re insulting. How Much Data Do You Need? 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z “Morons” and #brainless are bad word choices, but to me, nothing more. “The Internet is a dark place”: Former Scott Walker aide Liz Mair opens up to Salon 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The Scottish government has written to Westminster calling for the ban, which the Tories branded "a brainless idea". Call to curb junk food and booze ads 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z In the West, zombies are generally depicted as brainless, shambling husks. Why You Can't Probably Play the New Call of Duty Game 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z But, as the movie demonstrates, there’s something worse than that: a brainless pursuit masquerading as an intellectual one. ‘Gemma Bovery’ movie review 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z McConnell continues to be the poster child for brainless, conservative obstruction that has characterized the last 8 years. Mitch McConnell’s New Senate Goal: Turn Republican Dial to Yes 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Nasty, brutish, and short—and populated solely by those terrible, brainless, straight males. What #GamerGate Is Actually About 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Scottish Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said: "This brainless idea is more evidence of an SNP which thinks state always knows best." Call to curb junk food and booze ads 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z The eel zapped the worms, and the electric pulses also reached the brainless fish hidden nearby. The Surprising Power of an Electric Eel’s Shock 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Surely the walkers are brainless enough to walk off the edge of a cliff, right? 'The Walking Dead' Season 5, Episode 6 Review: Carol And Daryl Go To Atlanta 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z “You think that jurors are brainless. You think that judges are brainless,” Shadur said at a hearing last week, according to a transcript. Michael Jordan wants judge removed from lawsuit against Dominick's 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “Yes, you can laugh about them being spineless and brainless with no visible means of support, but you’ve got to admit, these multimillennial survivors are doing something right,” Gershwin writes. The sting of jellyfish; kitty cams reveal the secret lives of our pets 2013-07-01T20:30:20Z Unfortunately for Pardew they did precisely that in the 67th minute when, all too typically, a brainless foul on Jonathan Walters in the area on Tioté's part resulted in a penalty. Newcastle United 2-1 Stoke City 2013-03-10T17:07:42Z When Dr. Catania put electric eels in a tank with brainless fish, some would swim up to the barrier and deliver a doublet. The Surprising Power of an Electric Eel’s Shock 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Forget the suspensions, if Cattermole does not learn to intercept rather than dive in so brainlessly he will be in danger of wrecking his knees, and career, for good. Sunderland 0-1 Arsenal 2013-02-09T17:04:55Z In other words, the single-celled brainless amoebae did not grow living branches between pieces of food in a random manner; rather, they behaved like a team of human engineers, growing the most efficient networks possible. How Brainless Slime Molds Redefine Intelligence 2012-11-07T16:45:02.660Z One of the biggest Britishisms I see, and have helped perpetuate, is the term 'muppets' to refer to brainless individuals. 30 of your Britishisms used by Americans 2012-10-16T23:37:53Z Who better to calm things down than Shahid Afridi, promoted to No3 in wonderfully illogical Pakistani fashion after falling for a brainless golden duck in his last innings against South Africa? Singh eases India past Pakistan 2012-09-30T18:28:06Z Because the fish was brainless, Dr. Catania knew that the shocks must be affecting some other part of its body. The Surprising Power of an Electric Eel’s Shock 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It was nowhere near as brainless as what we saw the following day, when West Indies ushered themselves towards defeat with an absurd display against Phil Tufnell. England v West Indies at the Oval in '91 2012-08-15T12:18:32Z Iranian Defence Minister Gen Ahmad Vahidi was quoted by media in Tehran as accusing Israel of "warmongering", describing its leaders as "brainless". US says Israel undecided on Iran 2012-08-14T22:29:35Z Many called for the coach to resign, attacking him as "brainless and shameless". China's Yu Yang quits badminton after Olympic match-fixing disqualification 2012-08-02T08:30:49Z "There's an inclination to lurch into brainless trash with most Olympic enterprises, but nowhere is this more disturbing than in the merchandise," art critic Stephen Bayley said of the collection. London Swimming in Olympic Tchotchkes 2012-07-26T01:36:37Z Now, a new study reports that the brainless creatures are nonetheless able to move in a coordinated way, by designating one limb as the “front-facing” limb, and using two others to propel forward. Observatory: Brittle Stars Put Their Best Foot Forward 2012-05-18T21:50:02Z But even in the heartless and often brainless world of sports, there are limits to the amount of piling on that is considered acceptable — depending on the offense, of course. Ventre: Admit it, you want LeBron to win a title 2012-05-02T21:01:29Z He thought the bazaar a brainless plagiarism of Bence's, and altogether unworthy of Thompson's. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Once in every half a century it is needful that the image-breaker should come along and knock on the head the brainless images of cant. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z To get back on track, Herman and Akst said, people should: Resolutions are much easier to follow when the steps to achieve them are almost brainless. Resolutions Revisited 2012-04-06T13:00:00Z Was that the little silly Anne-Marie, the child that she petted and slapped and put to bed, the child that was so stupid at geography, so brainless at arithmetic? The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z These unlovely, simple little worms live most of their brainless lives buried in deep-sea beds. Worm Discovery Illuminates How Our Brains Might Have Evolved 2012-03-15T11:45:00.220Z Gall has maintained that the passions resided in the brain, and, therefore, that brainless animals did not experience their influence. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z So lost to every sense of decency That, in mere wantonness or brainless sloth, They obstinately suck forbidden thumbs! Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z Their barbarism, and the dissimilar, but not inferior barbarism of their would-be lords, the bold, bad men, the shameless crime and brainless tumult of those days, live before us. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Organically, though not consciously, the brainless starfish has learned that it is better that one member should perish than that the whole life should be lost. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z What are these genetic cues doing in a brainless worm? Worm Discovery Illuminates How Our Brains Might Have Evolved 2012-03-15T11:45:00.220Z There is quiet fury within the Afghan government towards the Americans at what one official calls their "brainless" behaviour. Will Afghan Koran row prove Nato's tipping point? 2012-02-23T11:56:34Z All the doctrines ever invented are mere tittle-tattle, only fit to amuse brainless ladies wanting in beauty, or minds stricken with positive sterility. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z Body of Satan, am I to be preached to by everybody--every brainless lad," he continued, prudently diverting his tirade to the head of the unlucky Roger, "who chooses to prate before his elders! The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z How just it is that one so fair should be so brainless! The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z For fifteen hundred years these verses have been repeated by brainless kings and heardess priests. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z It is certain that persons wholly incapable of reasoning are absolutely safe, and that to be born brainless is to be saved in advance. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Sports that can by no possibility give pleasure, except to the unfeeling, the hardened and the really brainless, should be avoided. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z I can only state my personal preference for the group that consists of the heroine, Violet Ashwin, her father, the fashionable physician, and her brainless but quite wonderful mother. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-11T03:03:44.993Z Whites are mostly evil or sheep: soulless or brainless. Is The Help The Most Loathsome Movie in America? 2012-02-02T10:00:50Z I'm not altogether the brainless voluptuary, you know. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z "I have suf295fered a long time from having my eyes opened too suddenly to the brainless cruelty of women, Mrs. James." The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z There’s a certain type of movie I like to see at the multiplex, the brainless action or 3D movie where crowd participation is a part of the viewing experience. | Tim Tompkins: Tim Tompkins, Keeping an Eye on Times Square, Even on Sundays 2011-12-31T16:32:31Z Tho’ all men else their nobler dreams forget, Confused by brainless mobs and lawless Powers; Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers... Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z There have been many kings, and they are dead, And have no power in death save what the wind Confers upon their blown and brainless dust To vex the eyeballs of posterity. The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z I tried the ranks, therefore, and joined a regiment in which a couple of brainless family men had enlisted, as a step toward a commission. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z To-morrow morning I shall call upon some of you brainless gossips—some of you silly babblers—to repeat before them what you have the impudence to say behind their backs.” 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z But France had unofficial representatives beyond the Channel besides the royal envoys and their retinue of brainless young marquises. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Thine is it that our drama did not die, Nor flicker down to brainless pantomime, And those gilt gauds men-children swarm to see. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z And don't you go and pretend that I'm not more to you than that brainless, chinless, sniveling, driveling little fool of an Englishman, for I won't believe it!' The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z And I do think our colleges would do better to confer the degree of "B.A." on cats and dogs than on many of the brainless creatures made in the "image of their Maker." Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z Goltz found that his brainless dogs, when wetted with water, would shake themselves as dry as possible, in just the same way as normal dogs will do under similar circumstances. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z But what it did do was put us back in the pack, which is not brainlessly easy. IndyCar Seeks Grand Finale in Las Vegas 2011-10-15T13:07:17Z Upon these texts of Scripture which I have just read rest the thrones of Europe, and these are the voices that are repeated from age to age by brainless kings and heartless kings. Hell Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation 2011-10-12T02:00:41.107Z This discontented colt, full fed, Aweary of its pasture rich, Half dislocates its brainless head For nettles in the dusty ditch. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z And there was no doubt whatever that her presentable but brainless young husband had fostered this fallacious conviction. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z The perching of brainless birds, for instance, at once refers us to the roosting of sleeping birds, where the reflex mechanism concerned is clearly of high adaptive value. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z "How in the world was I to know you had had your ears pulled and lengthened, brainless idiot?" began Oustiantsef, once more wrathfully addressing Chapkin, who, however, vouchsafed no attention to his companion's obliging apostrophe. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z O! that's the delight of my life! to run wild upon a set of formals, who think one brainless, only because one is not drowsy. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z They are also brainless, because once they make the turn, they invariably must stop for a red light at the next corner. City Room: The Day: Bike Sharing vs. Sidewalk Sharing 2011-09-15T12:45:48Z How shall I make my poor Voice heard ’Midst this brute shindy, brainless, mad? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 2011-08-20T02:00:11.307Z Such sound policy As may enable him to win the day, When all such brainless braggadocio As thine might fail. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z While brainless foreign movies get the prime-ministerial seal of approval, Thai filmmakers receive scant government attention — except from prudish censors. Bangkok's Lucrative Hangover: Sex, Drugs and Popular Sequels 2011-06-20T23:15:00Z In one instance, an Arizona lawyer was suspended for six months after calling a judge “brainless.” City Room: In Court, Hat in Hand, but Not on One's Head 2011-06-17T22:05:21Z Some can be pretty brainless themselves, paying traffic no mind as they cross the street with eyes glued to smartphones. City Room: The Day: Bike Sharing vs. Sidewalk Sharing 2011-09-15T12:45:48Z Such paltry contests as they looked to her now! such an insignificant opponent was this brainless, conceited creature before her! Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z "When a man's accused of murder by a set of brainless idiots it is punishment he'd like to give them, not self-defence." Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Dost thou not know, my poor brainless thing in a gown, that this is in my power? The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z The flattering courtiers and meddlesome women who surrounded her seemed to Lydie this morning more than usually brainless and vapid. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z He's an animal; a great brainless beast, stalking through chaos. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z She had not the personal vanity which makes so many pretty and brainless women think themselves irresistible to any man, and a fair return for any man's name and fame. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z To a sensible man nothing is quite so insipid as a vain, brainless, tactless beauty, whose opinions are but echoes, and who imagines that her beauty alone will hold him chained to her chariot. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z You will be brainless enough not to prevent the flight of the royal family. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Lydie was far too clever to dwell on such foolish matters as the vapid flirtations of a brainless doll, even if the object of such flirtations was the subjugation of milor. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z Cambridge is the brain of Cambridgeshire, which, having all its more disturbing thinking thus done for it, can itself remain quiet, like a brainless animal. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z I’ve known my niece from a child, as I told you last night; and she could not behave like a weak, foolish, brainless girl, infatuated over some handsome scoundrel.” The Haute Noblesse A Novel 2011-03-10T03:00:50.577Z She is not brainless; she was only frightened. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z They seemed to Corson like four heartless, brainless dolls who had no thought, no interest outside their silly selves. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z But he is a brainless, selfish, cold-hearted fop, who abuses me even while he eats my meat. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z But it's a brainless beast that lacks a processor, storage, or networking capabilities of its own. Motorola's Atrix 4G: The Android SmartPhone That Thinks It's a Laptop 2011-02-10T07:50:00Z I could feel things coming up from the ground—teeth and claws, eyes, crawling legs, and brainless eating mouths. Mary Gaitskill: “The Other Place.” 2011-02-07T05:00:00Z And she sat watching and listening to this vain and brainless person with a sort of admiration for his audacity. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z "Mere whims, to which we felt constrained to yield out of fear lest the brainless body decline the marriage!" The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z What more brainless than a robe de chambre of deeper pink silk georgette, trimmed with sable fur in all the places where fur couldn't possibly give warmth? Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z Maybe you can tell me what good they are—what they mean in the world—the shallow, brainless things who make the stage full! She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z While a serious error occurred in the Germany tie, England's shortcomings were ever-present and perhaps embodied most of all in the brainless 0-0 draw with Algeria. Fabio Capello has no regrets as he embarks on a new campaign 2010-09-03T06:00:00Z Gore and Dred Scott as the most brainless and irresponsible Supreme Court decisions in history. The final lesson of BP 2010-07-28T20:35:00Z Vuvuzela apologists - a few more weeks of this brainless white noise will perhaps change, or melt, their minds - defend the din as simply part of the South African experience. No chants equals no atmosphere at World Cup 2010-06-13T16:30:00Z The opinions presented by your journalists are what attracts me to your publication but this extends beyond perception and insightful observations and unfortunately stoops low into the category of brainless and seemingly angry, derogatory nonsense. Israel's Flotilla Raid Shows Weak Espionage 2010-06-01T21:05:00Z Leon Eisenberg, an early pioneer in psychopharmacology at Harvard, once made the notable historical observation that “in the first half of the 20th century, American psychiatry was virtually ‘brainless.’ Mind Over Meds 2010-04-23T19:47:00Z He reflected on the way that the fat silly old women in the world of so-called Society would discuss it over afternoon tea, he imagined brainless dudes giving their opinions about him over their whiskies. The Man Who Rose Again "It is a brainless, hateful thing," Joe Thomson declared, as he took her proffered hand. The Reclaimers There was indeed nothing so irritating to his nerves as the inconclusive outpourings of kind-hearted but brainless persons. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico You've probably described me to him as something very horrible," she answered thoughtfully, "to the life, as I seem to you, a heartless, brainless, finery-loving creature. The Children of the World Mr. Jeremy plumps for Old Tom, and the whole pack of brainless moon-calves goes after him in full cry as usual. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 26 1890 I thought you pressed my arm a little——” So the brainless colt, in the quicksands, flounders deeper with each effort to extricate himself. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus The day is ours already; brainless heads And bleeding bodies, like a crown, do stand About the temples of our victory. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 Schumann, Franz, Strauss, Grieg and MacDowell have conquered the field formerly held by the vapid and meaningless compositions of brainless composers who wrote solely to amuse or to appeal to morbid sentimentality. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists And if this brainless weakling should fall heir to his father's money, ho! there was the other "stake"; there the possible motive, there the first connecting link! The Riddle of the Night Our dying friends come o’er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours; and abate That glare of life, which often blinds the wise. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes I might better set up as publisher, open a drug-shop, turn grocer, do anything, in fact, which is brainless and remunerative, than attempt to earn a living by the sweat of my pen. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes "Oxford isn't exactly a brainless place, and it's full of religion." Years of Plenty It is only those born as brainless magpies who can chatter. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Which, then, was Mr. Harry Raynor: the brainless fool he appeared, or a very excellent actor playing a very cunning part? The Riddle of the Night You may like your Mrs. Bronson and the rest—common, vulgar, brainless—ruling the world. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary You are accustomed to deal with brainless criminals. A Modern Wizard But this was a passing phase of development; and cleverly trivial representations of reality are, after all, to be preferred to brainless concoctions of sheer emptiness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" I do not intend to destroy your planet Earth; I have no desire to rule over masses of futile and brainless men. Triplanetary I’m for the woods, where I belong, with the rest of the brainless creatures!” Dorothy on a House Boat Drop a line or something?” went on his relative, feeling unaccountably nauseated by what he termed to himself the boy’s brainless rattle. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland What do you talk of such brainless superstition for? Black Forest Village Stories I noticed you picking on him last night, and I tell you right now that anybody might seem–” 30“He didn’t seem brainless–he was,” interrupted Phelps with cool, scornful certainty. Under Boy Scout Colors Three idiots of a bad guest-house: an old hag with a chronic cough; a brainless tartar of a girl; a hobgoblin of a gillie. Ancient Irish Poetry Not for even the domestic, for that matter, unless they are utterly brainless. Ancestors A Novel Wait till you witness the brainless slaughter when the herds are met with. Bring Me His Ears Look to the bloody and brainless head of her husband. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Three idiots that are in a bad guest-house: the chronic cough of an old hag, a brainless tartar of a girl, a hobgoblin of a gillie. The Triads of Ireland He did not know that Time would bring familiarity with bank routine and that he would learn to like the brainless labors of a clerk. A Canadian Bankclerk It was too true; Randall, horse-breaker, groom and coachman, excellent, invaluable creature at all other times, was a brainless coward in a thunderstorm. The Return of the Prodigal We let in the brainless without any examination at all, and shut out the most scholarly persons unless they have legs like an antelope's. The Crow's Nest So much shade to be had, yet of a perversity must he commit this brainless act! Banked Fires “He would, the brainless pup,” Nick snarled, reading the big fellow’s thoughts. Satan and the Comrades What an existence! he thought; what a brainless life! A Canadian Bankclerk Many stupid brainless fellows Might from them obtain supplies. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. It was borne in upon him that he was a mere caricature of an officer, such as he had hitherto despised; perhaps but a more thoughtful, melancholy variation from the whole brainless type. Jena or Sedan? A pretty little creature—dear little thing!—brainless, but beautiful. Banked Fires In America the sentiment of the etiolated, the brainless, the prudish, the hypocrite is the censor. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Cold, heartless, brainless beasts filled the halls where they reigned. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 "Doctor, I may be clumsy, and I'm certainly no scientist ... but I'm not completely brainless." The Dueling Machine What are you 309 gaping fools standing here for, looking like a passel of brainless idiots! Captain Pott's Minister In one chamber a group of mechanicals, soulless and brainless, engaged in the delicate chemical compounding of raw materials that went into the making of their clothing. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 He never stooped, Never once pandered to that brainless hour. Collected Poems Volume Two It must be a wearisome and thankless task to scatter universal knowledge amidst the brainless. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The Duke of Wellington he always speaks of as a brainless noodle, forgetting apparently that the description does not make his idol's defeat more creditable to the vanquished. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Those brainless buzzards, if they only knew it and had sense enough to unite, could strip every feather off that swaggering vulture and send him packing. Carmen Ariza She tried, but the space was too narrow to risk it, with Jamie still going backward in a brainless panic. Rim o' the World The men who ran away have far more sense than that brainless spalpeen who led them on, although I can see he is brave enough. The O'Ruddy A Romance She was terribly afraid of him, yet more afraid of herself, afraid that she would break down and become a brainless, weeping thing. In a Little Town A mob, on the other hand, is a chance-blown convention of deestructionists, as savagely brainless as a pack of timber wolves. Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories What interest have you, dare you have, in that brainless boy? The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana As we left our old scholar, we came upon a thing wholly foolish and brainless, animalism in force. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Carnes, a brainless fool who does only as you tell him, a few half-wits in the Bureau of Standards, some of them already in my pay, and one renegade girl. The Great Drought Never in my life saw I the horse so maltreated and the cavalry so poorly, badly, brainlessly organised, drilled and used. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Pretty, brainless, egotistical, utterly unable ever to understand even the least of the men who loved her—this was Jacynth. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 Engle, who was responsible for the skirmishes with Curry, had begun operations with the theory that Old Man Curry was a harmless, brainless individual, "shot full of luck," he expressed it. Old Man Curry Race Track Stories To Nancy, young Dr. Surrey looked like a brainless clothier's mannequin in his black frock coat and ruffled white shirt. Shaman Your chatter was nearly brainless; the people who listened to you to-night won't put up with that sort of thing much longer. The Time of Roses As well might the brainless and heartless conspirators against human progress and human liberty endeavor to arrest the rotation of a planet by the stroke of a pickaxe. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 A brainless young puppy will contradict a man twice his age, and there is not even the same courtesy shown to the weaker sex either. Our Bessie I know nothing, but say a mighty deal; My elevated nose, likewise, comes handy; I stalk around, my great importance feel— In short, I'm a brainless little dandy. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition “There we go, just like any silly, brainless girls, whose chief object in life is the—the other sex,” 71 Beulah cried inconsistently. Turn About Eleanor He hung of late afternoons over bars, exchanging that brainless but well-willed talk by which men of his sort come to know men. The Readjustment But he is known in Fincastle to be a brainless man, and to be incapable of writing a paragraph on any subject. Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors "Oh, she is an unsurpassable creature!" exclaim the whole tribe of contemptible, sycophantic, brainless calves in broadcloth, who are ever ready to fall down and worship the golden emblem of themselves. Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life Ambition makes a Lady Macbeth; love, an Ophelia; none but those brainless things, without will or passion, are ever permitted to come to a good end. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I After luncheon she made a call several miles off, driving herself in a light-brown cart, and played several sets of tennis, having for her partner a very mild and brainless young curate. The New Tenant "You wouldn't speak of her in the same breath with that brainless beast of Balzac's, hang it all!" expostulated the champion. The Dop Doctor They are brainless, silly creatures, for the most part, and are only interesting because they are beautiful to look at. Policeman Bluejay Beadles, vestry-clerks and such brainless officers are chosen from this class. Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. In courses erratic they're wheeling through space, In brainless confusion and meaningless chase. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Both our States Are crippled by this brainless enmity. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts If hulking, brainless dolts like Oliver, thought Doggie, like to fool around in schooners and typhoons, they must take the consequences. The Rough Road “Did I act like a brainless idiot when I was—was that way, or not?” Shoe-Bar Stratton She, who is entirely honest, sees the brainless Bianca, whom no amount of schooling will make even passably honest, preferred before her. William Shakespeare Thou didst love Geordie Dempster; and thy love was weak indeed, if it is to be scared by brainless tongues or tongueless skulls. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 Any brainless little fop, any effete dandy, is sure of a welcome, provided he is known to certain circles and can help her to scramble into a little more vogue. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence. The Picture of Dorian Gray "Is that the best you can do, you brainless idiot?" shouted Schwalbe wrathfully. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War The usual result of almost any great and original achievement is, the production of a shoal of brainless imitators, who are “neither useful nor ornamental.” The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages But this gentleness, this abominable solicitude, this brainless worship of an idiot, persistent, sickly, horribly physical, I cannot endure. Tongues of Conscience He stretches his long neck, lays his little brainless head over on one side, then over on the other. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes How could they seem more to me than the buzzing of so many brainless insects? Black Oxen It is learning by rote—mere repetition—mere brainless or thoughtless repetition—a mode of learning that is not lasting—and always causes or promotes mind-wandering. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget Public writer and public speaker alike find their account in confirming "the plain people" in their brainless errors and brutish prejudices—in glutting their omnivorous vanity and inflaming their implacable racial and national hatreds. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 The countess gone! and gone too, apparently, with that brainless fellow, who had neither wit nor imagination. Jack 1877 As for the five hundred brainless creatures to whom his great victory should be a matter of personal pride, it meant no more to them than last year's flowers. The Return of Blue Pete As a dramatic critic said in my hearing a day or two later, when discussing the popular entertainments of London, 'Most of these shows consist of vulgar, brainless twaddle.' "The Pomp of Yesterday" There are other legitimate ways to assist a poor memory to master these lines, but whatever is done let no one ever think of resorting to the unthoughtive, brainless process of endless repetition. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget Even the most brainless opponent of "capital punishment" would do that if he knew enough. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Their talk was cheery chatter, as brainless as the rattle of grasshoppers in the summer grass. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood With faces dull and brainless, voices drab and lifeless, they merged into a mass of slime. The Return of Blue Pete Like the fool who shouts "Fire!" in a throng, this brainless individual revived all the fears of the frenzied passengers. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Aim at this liberty cap, which trembles on the brainless head before every breath from the lips of a man! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy “What is the matter with you, Miss Nelson?” demanded one of the teachers sharply, when Nancy had made an unusually brainless answer to a very simple question. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall There never was—to my way of thinking—a brainless, silly woman who was beautiful. The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Blind, deaf, nerveless, brainless—just a mechanism, and yet—immortal! A Martian Odyssey How would you like to be nursemaid to six or eight brainless little pups no bigger than rats? Walter and the Wireless As for the brainless herd, they should be kept on the land at all cost, to grow strong, breed strong children, and, when the inevitable hour came, be used as fighters to defend England's wealth. Shining Ferry "Then cotton-gathering is not really such brainless work as it might be, is it, Uncle Frederick," Mary asserted. Carl and the Cotton Gin By the time he was fit, the girl had already married a brainless thing in patent leather boots who didn't even know who Moses was. Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Once for all—will you permit this thing in pantaloons and whiskers, this brainless, un-ideaed cub, whom a thousand years will not suffice to lick into a bear, longer to impose upon your good-natures? Diary in America, Series Two I know something of the legacy of prejudice which extended to bitter, vindictive recollection of these days of brainless despots. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Loudly the peasants laughed at this merry jest, and they quickly followed his lead, as brainless sheep will follow the one that scrambles through a gap. A Book of Myths St. Paul was quite alive to the fact that skilful opponents and brainless admirers would misrepresent his doctrine, which was also Christ's. The Books of the New Testament The new arrival was perfectly attired, and handsome, in a supercilious, brainless way. Despair's Last Journey He was blubbering openly, the sound issuing from between the crushed lips in a low-pitched, moaning tremolo—a disgusting sound, coming from a full-grown man—like the pule of a brainless thing. Prairie Flowers I daresay your Lordship has heard of that titled but brainless young profligate, the Marquis of Manx? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 This form is almost brainless, the securing of nourishment from flowers and reproducing their kind being the limits of their intelligence. Giants on the Earth Comparatively few of them were at once blasé and brainless. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion He had made the same mistake again—the mistake of brainless breeding all the world over. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Your father is one of those brainless fools who imagine every one must bend the knee to them. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I Disgusted with one so insipidly brainless, I turned from a task that was tedious and gainless, Adapted myself to my strange situation, And buried my mind in profound cogitation. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy And I hate it because it is brainless, spiritless. Mitch Miller “Now, just think, brainless one,” retorted Dominick; “suppose that I were to go off first to the wreck, what then?” The Island Queen They all laughed when the brainless walrus put my question. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole She is not like the young Blackfoot squaws, who wag their tongues without ceasing when they have nothing to say and never think—brainless ones!—fools! The Prairie Chief Some haply here will move a further doubt, And as for York's part allege an elder right: O brainless heads that so run in and out! Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth To the dickens with your city Where they herd the brainless brats, On a range so badly crowded There ain't room to cuss the cat. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads I have no serious designs upon the earth nor upon the Solar System, nor have I any desire to rule over, or to control the destinies of masses of futile and brainless men. Triplanetary Perhaps the brainless walrus translated his words wrongly.” The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole We bruise the serpent's head: his flat and brainless head. Fantasia of the Unconscious "Don't make me shudder, Piddie," says I. "Who was the brainless wretch?" Torchy As A Pa He had known Sagramore at Halifax and invited him to mess one night with the 46th—as brainless and sweet-tempered a boy as ever muddled his drill. Fort Amity And are we to be told that we are no better than the brainless multitude who speculate on horse-racing! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892 Wade was Mercury, too brainless for anything but carrying the words of wisdom uttered by others. Invaders from the Infinite He was not vicious, but brainlessly joyful in his mischief. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail "Well, this time we'll let the quills work through your brainless skull—or— Here, Hoots-noo—" he turned to the Indian who was entering the store. Where the Sun Swings North Obviously, unless some brainless young fool was trying to be humorous, there was no time to spare for words. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York I told you, you brainless slob, to leave Hanlon alone, and by Jupiter, I mean it! Man of Many Minds The deep, broad chest, wide, square shoulders, heavy broad hips, combined with the tiny head seemed to indicate a perfect incarnation of brainless, brute strength. Invaders from the Infinite Now, however, the brainless living child that sucks, cries, moves arms and legs, and distinguishes pleasure from displeasure, has indisputably an individuality, an ego. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. But she felt herself too brainless, too ignorant to be able to contribute to it anything of value. The Way of Ambition And as brainless as a hog fit for the butcher! The Long Night I gave thee reason and wit to understand The good from the evil, and not to take on hand Of a brainless mind, the thing which I forbade thee. "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Countless little retail merchants, with an incalculable force of managers, clerks, book-keepers, errand boys, etc., were fairly throwing away the public power in enormous quantities through the brainless struggle of competitive trade. Born Again And what had the brainless, sentimental school-girl done with the time? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. They must have moved on, though he could remember nothing, save Hume's odd behavior—dull-eyed silence while stumbling on as a brainless servio-robot, incoherent speech wherein all the words came fast, running together unintelligibly. Star Hunter You want me to dress like a doll, I suppose, and keep my hands soft and white and go around like a brainless, simpering fool! Judith of Blue Lake Ranch I called 'em brainless candies—just silly an' expensive, an' if you look around you'll find women can match 'em. Flood Tide Good women, not brainless velvet pets from the younger set, looking for a new sensation. Winner Take All This new creation finds a lover in another new character, a brainless youth, Hippolito, who has never before seen a woman. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays What's the idea of sending these brainless Space Cadets to me! The Space Pioneers He admires her, and she certainly is a nice girl, and lovely to look at, with eyes like those young mediaeval, brainless Madonnas. August First It fought the poison long enough to take a single step forward, its small red eyes alight with brainless hate. Star Born Boneless, brainless jelly fishes, jumping head first because a little snip of a girl said jump. Sunny Slopes Her task mistress, Mrs. Hubbard, was in Nora's opinion, about as stolidly brainless as a woman could well be. The Land of Promise He saw that she had in no way recovered her agitation yet, and that she could hardly bear her companion's brainless chatter over this wedding. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance To the unsympathetic, the ignoramus, the lethargic, the brainless, everything that savours of enthusiasm is a craze. Stamp Collecting as a Pastime This devil had not acted in the normal brainless fashion of its kin. Star Born "Was ever such a brainless dolt in our possessions?" Tales of the Chesapeake What unhappiness they cause in this brainless world, a world rotten with hypocrisy. Visionaries "The dull, brainless clods who can do nothing else!" he said. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine Her fairy scenes disclose an ample view To brainless men. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch One met with weapons only that hissing hatred motivated by a brainless ferocity which did not know fear. Star Born A few shillings a week more, the same life, the same anxieties, the same daily grinding toil, brainless, machine-like, leading you nowhere because there isn't a way out. A People's Man He was suspicious, and also was drunk, and obstinate with all the brainless obstinacy of intoxication. The Disentanglers Nearly all the journalist-critics were against him and made themselves ridiculous by their brainless strictures; Truth and The Times, for example, were poisonously puritanic, but thinking people came over to his side in a body. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 The land has been filched from the people to enrich the brainless favorites and the courtesans of kings, and entailed upon their progeny generation after generation. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South The pampered, lazy, brainless animal—it is such a terrific sight when in human form. Dangerous Ages That creature, now, brainless as it is, is just a doll. The Garden of the Plynck We are living a simple and brainless life. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front I mean that the intellectual, the clever, invariably choose the insipid brainless girl. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." And shall this man, this Hermes, this Apollo, Sit lag of Ajax' table, almost minstrel, And with his presence grace a brainless feast? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 "I refer to the impertinence of that brainless fool!" Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume Not even the brains were there, thou brainless hound! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 That a brainless fanatic like Lord George Gordon, or the Neapolitan fisherman, Massaniello, should stir up tremendous agitation, may be matter for critical study, but is hardly a subject of wonder. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 My sisters and I, I remember, figured as three brainless, fast girls, which would only have amused us had she left the rest of the family alone. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." Irwin had him again by the neck—"Silence," said he, "or, as heaven's above mo, I'll drive your brainless skull in with the butt of my pistol." Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two For a long time he lived in clover; but gradually rumours began to reach him to the effect that he bore the reputation everywhere of a brainless ninny. A Reckless Character And Other Stories Some breeze of general policy, however, prescribes the law of these alterations, while only a weak and brainless sensibility, blowing from every source, commonly occasions the continual veering of our private word. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 He was so brainless that I just missed firing him the first day I had him. Joy in the Morning The kind gentleman from the audience had been shown to be transcendently awkward, brainless, and to have a mania for petty thievery. Bunker Bean Uncivilized sailors, and brainless and heartless speculators, have sown the rankest seeds of an effete Caucasian civilization in the hearts of the unsuspecting Africans. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens But society, by its requirements of late hours and conviviality, demanded that a man should drink out of his own skull, having rendered it brainless first. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him And this the dull dunces—the eyeless, earless, brainless and bloodless callosites of cavil—are pleased to call lust! The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales For what more like the brainless speech of a fool,— The lives travelling dark fears, And as a boy throws pebbles in a pool Thrown down abysmal places? Emblems Of Love But he smiled before he reached North Hill House to think that but for the interposition of chance and fortune, this brainless old woman might have become his mother-in-law. The Spinners "Ye'll force her to marry that Lord's son, the feller with the wobbly knees an' brainless head?" Jess of the Rebel Trail Your placards gibbet them, Poster-Pan, Who crowd like curs in the cowardly crush, Who flock like sheep in the brainless rush With fear or greed a-shiver. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 I have to do there with brainless heads, each of which, instead of contributing to the common peace, on the contrary, throws impediments in the way of it by caprice and levity. The Empire of Russia The affair was an outrage on the Negro, at the expense of innocent childhood, a brainless fabrication from start to finish. The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States That imbecile, that brainless viper to whom I am tied, has actually confided in her. Red Pottage And the inane chorus of pleased laughs that followed Polk Hayes's brainless disposal of the important question in hand made me ashamed of being a woman—though it was funny. The Tinder-Box Throughout the night he was going over the list of his idiotic mistakes, upbraiding himself, cursing himself for a hundred acts of brainless folly. The Devil's Garden Death’s a sight better than a soft head an’ a lifetime o’ dirt an’ drivelling an’ babbling, like the brainless beasts they feed an’ fatten in asylums. Children of the Mist From the beginning the jollity and laughter were forced, and the new era of perpetual spring festival soon became an era of brainless indecency. Purcell She was not—she was only a millionaire's plaything—brainless, heartless—a hobby that cost thousands, whilst countless men such as he—starved. The Sorcery Club What though her dowry be but meagre, Far better wise, God-fearing Igir, Than yonder vain and brainless doll, Helpless her fortune to control. A Celtic Psaltery Delicate women and brainless young men chassezing themselves into vertigo and catalepsy. New Tabernacle Sermons The brainless will never forgive you for possessing brains, the weak will hate you for your strength, and the evil for your good heart. Prose Fancies (Second Series) But these chaps are neither particularly strong, good, nor brainless; they're more like children, utterly casual with regard to trouble, and quite aware that it is useless to struggle against their elders. Carry On Letters in War-Time By this lofty title are designated the members of the Indian Civil Service by lesser mortals, such as army officers—who in return are contemptuously termed "brainless military popinjays" by the exalted caste. The Elephant God The younger officers did their best to be cheerful, and one of them, Bertie Oakes, a merry, brainless youngster, even proposed an impromptu dance to enliven the proceedings. The Lamp in the Desert Folly, that is, of a natural ideot, gives the face an habitual thoughtless, brainless grin. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Or, some brainless nincompoop may, in his ignorance of her profession, cast aspersions on the general character and behaviour of all who keep shops. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891 For instance: a father accumulates a million by energetic and clever exploitation, and leaves it to his son—a rickety, lazy, ignorant, degenerate idiot, a brainless maggot, a true parasite. Best Russian Short Stories Beneath that flat and brainless brow its black, beady eyes simply glittered as at first with an expression unspeakably malignant. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians But he drank in the flattery and the fellowship of it all with quite a brainless grin, as we rolled and stamped round him, and wiped the tears from our cheeks. A Diversity of Creatures In devising brainless amusements; in pursuing them with enormous vigor, and taking them with eager seriousness, our English people are the wonder of the world. Back to Methuselah Oh, CONRAD, there are children—think of it!—so lost to every sense of decency that, in mere wantonness or brainless sloth, they obstinately suck forbidden thumbs! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 Nothing displeases a true woman more than to waste an evening on a brainless fop. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses If anyone has been injured, Dodge, in health or in business, by your stupid, brainless bit of horse play and meanness, then I imagine that you'll find yourself in for a serious time of it. The High School Boys' Fishing Trip "If you don't know anything, Little Brick," he said, "at least tell me what you think: and don't be too learned; remember I'm only a brainless fellow." Ships That Pass in the Night Dundreary, Lord, a character of the play "Our American Cousin"; the personification of a good-natured, brainless swell; represented uniquely on the stage by Mr. Sothern. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Gay young men dazzled by operettas and races, they played lansquenet and baccarat, staked large fortunes on horses and cards, and cultivated all the pleasures enchanting to brainless fools. Against the Grain In all this world there is nothing so empty as a heartless, brainless woman, with a pretty face. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses Though she was an empty-headed, brainless kind of woman, she was not by nature a wicked one. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk He most assuredly was never destined by her to shave beards, and manufacture perukes for heads more brainless, many of them, than his own blocks. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 565, September 8, 1832 Block the way through that valley, you brainless sons of jackals! O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 Before was brainless night: but I am God In this black world I rend. The Wild Knight and Other Poems Why, I should be the laughing stock of the army, a butt for every brainless joker in the camp. Love under Fire But she is a very silly and a very conventional girl She is full of delight at her promotion; but she is entirely brainless, and not even very affectionate. The Silent Isle So Foppington takes his place in the comedy, and begins to play his brainless but important part. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield If, in the long run, women became frivolous, brainless, and heartless, why was it? Woman: Man's Equal Yet his was an intelligent silence, not of that wooden brainless description which casts a damper on company, neither was it of the morose or dreaming order. My Brilliant Career Miss Myrtle, the brainless, regarded the tips of her shabby boots. Cheerful—By Request Sharply then he realized what a partial life she led, the decayed middle-class associates of the boarding-house, tired, brainless, and full of small talk, the lonesome evenings, the long days. The Nine-Tenths You thought I was nothing but a brainless young scamp! For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store There also went the confidential secretaries, the clerks and shorthand typists, in their hundreds; degreeless, brainless beings, but wise in their generation. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract For an hour he worked with the brainless things that constituted his party. The Monster Men You cannot conceive in your mind how stubborn and brainless they are. The White Company No wonder that Chauvelin's spies had failed to detect, in the apparently brainless nincompoop, the man whose reckless daring and resourceful ingenuity had baffled the keenest French spies, both in France and in England. The Scarlet Pimpernel It is seldom indeed that the Mother-Church permits a small-bore bigot or brainless blatherskite to rise to the dignity of an archbishop, but one such has evidently escaped her watchful eye. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Besides, actresses off the stage are either brainless or soulful, and the choice of evils is a delicate one. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance "They were almost brainless—they could understand nothing else, for they could not reason." The Monster Men With oaths and threats the mob, brainless and heartless, cowardly, bestial, filled with the lust for blood, pushed and jammed into the narrow corridor before the cell door where the two prisoners awaited their fate. The Oakdale Affair Another household in this city revolves around two brainless, goggle-eyed beasts, imported at much expense from the slopes of Fuji-yama. The Ways of Men That is better than having a lot of brainless women drinking tea and cackling in our drawing-room. The Stark Munro Letters Comrade, for one good deed of yours, Your history shall not help to fill The mouths of many brainless boors. Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon There were sounds of battering upon wood, loud growls and roars, mingled with weird shrieks and screams and the strange, uncanny gibbering of brainless things. The Monster Men Two or three of the police instantly put their hands on Royce; but to the rest it seemed as if all reason had broken up and the universe were turning into a brainless harlequinade. The Innocence of Father Brown He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence. The Picture of Dorian Gray Some say Nick was a brainless block, While those who've seen him waving His bright sharp razor, o'er scap'd chins, Declare he was a shaving! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827 Some big, burly, brainless cur of a fellow was always ahead of me. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870 Presently one who was almost brainless, acting upon the impulse of suggestion, leaped in among the fighters, striking and biting at Number Thirteen. The Monster Men I think it's the black, brainless repetition; all these forests, and over all an ancient horror of unconsciousness. The Innocence of Father Brown He wouldn't think she was brainless—" "He wasn't in love with her—there was another woman—a girl. Mary Olivier: a Life She mortally hated work, and loved what she called pleasure; being an insipid, heartless, brainless dissipation of time. Villette Word of God In English! over this the brainless loons That cannot spell Esaias from St. Paul, Make themselves drunk and mad, fly out and flare Into rebellions. Queen Mary and Harold A prize-fighter who refused to use his guard would be looked upon as exceptionally brainless, not as exceptionally brave; yet such a case is almost exactly parallel to that of the captain of the Macedonian. The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans He was not "a thinking machine"; for that is a brainless phrase of modern fatalism and materialism. The Innocence of Father Brown You had better marry the miller who proposed, or that imbecile of a Spanish tanner who lost his brainless head for the sake of your pretty eyes. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt What women to live with! insincere, ill-humoured, bloodless, brainless nonentities! Villette I gave thee reason and wit to understand The good from the evil, and not to take on hand, Of a brainless mind, the thing which I forbade thee. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 Do you think you are now talking to a biased judge and a susceptible, brainless jury? Revenge! I am so tired of living on husks, I seem to be nothing but a husk myself, brainless, soulless, and empty. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada Pay the charges on this, you brainless insect! T. Haviland Hicks Senior Go back to the lies and hypocrisies of society, and the brainless, mashers who adorn it! The Christian A Story Thus, by the testimony and astipulation of the brute beasts, she drew all the witless herd and mob of fools into her opinion, and was admired by all brainless and nonsensical people. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 The old boy turfed me out, Bertie, because he said I was a brainless nincompoop. My Man Jeeves No punishment could be too great for that brainless scoundrel Ollivier, and the Ministry that has followed his is worse. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Upon these texts of scripture which I have just read rest the thrones of Europe, and these are the voices that are repeated from age to age by brainless kings and heartless kings. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. And not only the critic but also the brainless beau stands, as we have seen, ready to make sport of the poor author. Henry Fielding: a Memoir He reminds Hippias that he never wastes time over the brainless, though he listens carefully to every man. Authors of Greece Let the blighted, the malformed, the brainless go back to the earth from which they came. Lying Prophets He saw well enough what he was doing when he set up that great brainless idol as Earl again. Hereward, the Last of the English Amorous and martial, brainless and monotonous Must be the moralist in the satirist if satire is to strike Mutual deference My engagement to Mr. Pericles is that I am not to write My mistress! Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith But it could not be helped; this brainless Attorney began to have influence; he had been appointed on a royal commission and had even been interviewed by the Gazette. Shallow Soil Not only do the so-called lower orders sink into an ignorant slavery; they use their power so brainlessly and so mercilessly that they are a perfect bugbear to the rest. Authors of Greece Such witless, brainless fools Might well defy the schools. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes She was of a race that will come in the far future, when we shall have outgrown our egoism—the brainless egoism of a little boy pulling off flies' wings. Gone to Earth And the brainless laugh of the Mad Mullah was very trying. The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion She amused him, poor girl, with her rather brainless rattle.' Phantom Fortune, a Novel It is quite wrong to try to introduce into literature the same toleration as must necessarily prevail in society towards those stupid, brainless people who everywhere swarm in it. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature He is utterly insignificant, rebuked, and humiliated,--even as a brainless beauty finds herself de trop in a circle of wits. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women I suppose if a man is known to be brainless, it is necessary for him to wear a disguise,--even as instinct prompts a frivolous and empty woman to put on jewels. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity Ester was sitting upon the back porch, hulling strawberries and watching with absent amusement the tireless efforts of Jane to induce a very fat and entirely brainless pup to shake hands. Up the Hill and Over Stupid, dull, obtuse, stolid, doltish, sluggish, brainless, bovine. The Century Vocabulary Builder I knew that I had a good wife, and you didn't know, or even suspect, what a brainless, heartless clod you had for your husband. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales Not one of your silly, brainless chits who don't know the difference between lobster Newburg and canvas-back duck, and who prefer sweet champagne to dry. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories When we cease toadying to brainless nabobs, and quit imitating them as soon as we get the money, we will be on the road to reformation. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers The culture of the land is no longer plodding, ox-like drudgery, nor is the farm a place of humdrum, brainless routine. Nature's Serial Story They are depicting me as a brainless, law-defying American without sense of love, honour or respect. A Fool and His Money |
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