| 单词 | cretin |
| 例句 | “There’s some good to be had in being a known cretin,” said Bono. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “You idiots, you cretins, you morons!” the clown shouted. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Have I heard of the new disease which will turn us all into deformed cretins unless the paper companies are forced to stop dumping mercury into the rivers? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “The footbridge, I meant, you cretins! By the tennis courts! Why would I send you off to Upton? Unsupervised?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “May I ask what that cretin nemesis of a policeman was doing on the scene?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take that, you blundering cretin!” someone shouted from behind me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Some cretin psychoanalyst would attempt to comprehend the singularity of his worldview. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After I use the bathroom for the billionth time, I finally find Lorena in the back porch, surrounded by a circle of cretins who are way too old to be at a high school party. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They won’t buy a television, like everyone else, because my father says it turns you into a cretin and emits harmful radiation and subliminal messages as well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The sort of cretins pursuing Dark Magic now . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Mr. Gonzalez, my “boss,” is rather a cretin, but is nonetheless quite pleasant. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If she did end up covering her face, it would be like saying to the world You cretins and peasants are only permitted to see my eyes. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Today, sitting in CBS’s M Street offices, a few doors from the “Face” studio, he confesses, “I was a little cretin.” Face time with John Dickerson, the new host of ‘Face the Nation’ 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z To that burden, Emmy night would like to add another: By not keeping up with the latest TV you’re not keeping up with the diversifying nature of popular culture, you cretin, you. 2016 Emmys: Let’s hear it for diversity! Now how about actually watching some of it? 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z What a pleasure to again meet this menacing little cretin and Juarez cartel member. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2, Episode 5: Do Not Attend Law School 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The lyrics were of pure cretin simplicity, the music was primal and stark to the point of total banality: in other words, a great rock 'n' roll album. An initiation into Iggy Pop – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-04-30T14:30:19Z It takes hard work to not get dragged down into the muck that the cretins are constantly flinging at you. Internet shocker: Kindness wins 2012-06-12T20:20:00Z She proves you don't need to be slim and pretty to be a vacuous cretin. Kim Kardashian's Butt Might Just Break the Internet Today 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z He pratfalls down the stairs, loses his account, is degraded by his hypocritical father-in-law and is otherwise unmasked as the sputtering impotent cretin we know and somehow love to hate. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: With a Merger, the Show Rights Itself 2013-05-06T20:15:38Z He delivers a portrait of the artist as a young cretin. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Are you a cretin for watching a movie on your phone when the director insisted it be viewed on a big screen? TV’s Battle of the Binge: Why the Wait Can Be Worth It 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z If I honestly had to choose between The Mouse and the cretins who think there's any serious difference between indie landfill and the JBs, I'm going with the mouse. Unseen Swells: The Jonas Brothers are the ultimate cock block 2010-06-18T13:10:00Z Yes, Alien is something of a cretin, and Gatsby was a prisoner of his own fantasies. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z He pratfalls down the stairs, loses his account, is degraded by his hypocritical father-in-law, and is otherwise unmasked as the sputtering impotent cretin we know and somehow love to hate. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: A Merger, and the Show Rights Itself 2013-05-06T14:00:50Z His first wife, Mildred Harris, divorced him for “mental cruelty,” saying that “he was short-tempered, impatient and treated me like a cretin.” The Little Tramp and the Refugees Who Loved, Then Loathed Him 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z He lives in a roomy but drab Los Angeles space furnished with only the barest necessities and hangs out with a clique of macho cretins for whom friendship is almost synonymous with butting heads. | 'Mercy': Scott Caan, Star and Writer of Tough-Guy Romance 2010-04-30T00:17:00Z Dennis, the disgusting cretin who told her she should be selling bras a few episodes ago, returns to mangle her relationship with Avon. “Mad Men” recap: “Advertising is not a very comfortable place for everyone” 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The cretins in this case are four English teen dolts on holiday in the sunny Greek isle. 'The Inbetweeners Movie': Four boys behaving badly on holiday 2012-09-06T20:24:04Z Does chick lit propagate a retrograde notion of women as shallow cretins – or reflect their nuanced reality? Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent ? and also ditzy and klutzy' 2012-02-12T20:00:11Z But here, the potential victim is a total cretin, not a skinny-dipping ingénue or a fearsome fisherman. ‘Tailgate’ Review: Retribution for Road Rage 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z At the start of “The Killing Lessons,” the two cretins invade the isolated Colorado home of a widow and her two children. ‘The Killing Lessons’ review: A thriller for abnormal psychologists 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Derrick, however, is also the prime locus of the film’s insouciant hypocrisy, since it wants to paint him as a slobbering, exploitative cretin while inviting the audience to savor the fruits of that cretinism. | 'Piranha 3D': Richard Dreyfuss Is Back With Biting Fish 2010-08-22T18:51:00Z Alec Baldwin notwithstanding, the best way to make fun of a cretin of such operatic magnitude seems to be to present him with a steady naturalism, just as he is. Donald and Melania Trump’s Last Judgment 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z In the movie’s final act, the cretin gets his comeuppance. The Unreality of Racial Justice Cinema 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z You start to believe that Daniel may be right, that the universe is organized to reward amoral, shallow cretins like him. Movie Review: Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain,’ With Mark Wahlberg 2013-04-25T14:00:02Z The Mooch, charting the difficult course of seeming hopeful about this Presidency without sounding like an outright cretin, demonstrated a tremendous aptitude for blandness. Michael Avenatti and the Mooch Bring Their Blustering Banality to Stephen Colbert 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z And there’s still a sense that Norman Mailer might walk in, looking to punch some cretin out. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z Celebrate the spirit of Halloween with a look back at two classic movie cretins. Slashers, Zombies, Demons and Other Good Company 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z She shared tweets from a variety of low-functioning cretins, too many to list here but several with the theme of comparing Jones to a gorilla. Leslie Jones run off Twitter by swarm of racist trolls — and Twitter’s response is all too predictable 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z At Barney Greengrass, the pretentious food cretin in me, who likes to eat unusual things partly because of their names, was tempted by something called “Nova Scotia Heads and Wings Broiled With Onions.” The Art of Summer: The Words We Live By 2011-08-03T12:00:05Z To Trick Daddy’s credit, he renders this tale without absolving himself of responsibility or painting himself as a cretin. Playlist: Screams That Charmed, and Other Overlooked Highlights 2010-12-31T19:54:24Z She thinks I’m a moral cretin for liking both so much. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z "Why do you sacrifice your dignity for this cretin?" "You know better": Legal experts trash Lindsey Graham's "embarrassing" defense of Trump 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z But Mr. Musk dismissed the Virgin Islands’ claim as “idiotic on so many levels,” tweeting that he never sought out that “cretin,” Mr. Epstein, for financial advice. The C.E.O. of OpenAI Heads to Congress to Discuss Rules for A.I. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z But we know him to be a cretin either way. Perspective | Josh Harris’s biggest strength? He isn’t Dan Snyder. 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The panel also upheld claims he called one pupil names including "cretin". Liverpool teacher who tickled girl and made sex jokes banned 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Last week, López Obrador dedicated a good part of his daily morning press conferences to dismissing the promoters of the demonstration, calling them “cretins” and “corrupt,” aiming to trick the people. Massive turnout in defense of Mexico’s electoral authority 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z He characterized the entertainer as a “tiny cretin of a man,” as well as the “most abusive customer” Balthazar has ever had. James Corden admits he was 'ungracious' to restaurant staff: 'It was wrong' 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Mr. McNally originally tore into Mr. Corden, calling the comedian a “tiny cretin of a man” for two separate incidents where he was cantankerous with the wait staff. New York City restaurateur lifts ban on ‘abusive’ James Corden following comedian’s apology 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z In an earlier post laying out what happened, Mr McNally had described the host of The Late Late Show as "a hugely gifted comedian, but a tiny cretin of a man". Comedian James Corden apologises after Balthazar restaurant ban 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z So I girded myself to deal with yet another murderous cretin purposefully inflicting chaos on my community. Column: A Latino on Latino mass shooting. What now? 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z But that wasn’t enough for the Building Back Better cretins. Biden vacations, while the world is on fire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z A badge of honor … leftwing cretins at Youtube banning me for 7 days for a video that quotes 2 peer reviewed articles saying cloth masks don’t work. Sen. Rand Paul suspended from YouTube, forced to remove video 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z I am inclined to do just that, despite the scary and incomprehensible behavior of a few like the cretin we encountered. Drivers and cyclists: Pay attention and share the road 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Indeed, Trump turned the entire debate into the hottest of hot messes, his constant interruptions, non sequiturs and insults offering superfluous evidence that he is a vulgar cretin with impulse-control issues. Oh, no Joe, not ‘bad apples’ 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z “That should be enough time for the cretin to either get killed, injured or to find God. Any of the three outcomes would be acceptable.” Book celebrates defunct newspaper on anniversary of demise 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Morricone’s final major scoring project came at the behest of lifelong fan Quentin Tarantino and generated controversy after German Playboy incorrectly translated a Morricone interview to suggest that he called Tarantino “a cretin.” Remembering Ennio Morricone: His 10 most mind-blowing film scores 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Alexandre Vincendet, the local mayor, described the youths as “cretins, idiots and imbeciles”, adding: “They wouldn’t even know where to find Villeneuve-la-Garenne on a map … it’s just an excuse to smash things up.” Disruption on streets of France as lockdown tensions rise 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z “Stop using the word ‘Neanderthal’ to mean a cretin or idiot,” said Dr. Villa. Neanderthals Could Swim. They Even Dived. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z When Cher, the singer, tweeted in 2012 that Trump was a “racist cretin,” Trump responded with trash talk about “your massive plastic surgeries that didn’t work.” How Trump keeps making it tougher for his GOP impeachment defenders 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z There's a reason that when Antonio Brown revealed himself as a human cretin and clubhouse cancer earlier this season, it was a given that he'd be signed by the Patriots. The Houston Astros are giving the Patriots a real challenge for Most Loathsome Franchise - Golf Digest 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Convinced that “the great writers were as dumb as mules,” and that, in the political sphere, “imbeciles worship cretins,” Pierre-Paul has no option but to work as a delivery guy. A Live-Action “Aladdin” Falls Short of Its Animated Predecessor 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The interview, published last week, quoted the 90-year-old composer referring to Tarantino - who he’s regularly worked with - as a “cretin” who stole ideas from others. German Playboy regrets misquoting Morricone in interview 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The interview, published last week, quoted the 90-year-old composer referring to Tarantino — who he’s regularly worked with — as a “cretin” who stole ideas from others. German Playboy regrets misquoting Morricone in interview 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z “The people who are coming for you are rednecks,” he explained to Reilly and Phoenix, “but they aspire to noblesse. They’re cretins, and you look down on them.” Can ‘the French Scorsese’ Pull Off a Western? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Standing at Putin’s side Monday, Trump let the world know just how doltish the people are who made this judgment, including the cretins at the CIA and the nitwits on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Opinion | We are a deeply stupid country 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z She also dismissed Tutu, post-apartheid South Africa’s moral fulcrum, as a “cretin” and rubbished his attempts at national healing as a “religious circus”. Winnie Mandela, 'mother' then 'mugger' of new South Africa, dies at 81 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z “Anyone who saw pictures of that kid lying on the pavement with all the bullet wounds and did not feel a tinge of empathy is a cretin.” A Murder, a Conviction and a Never-Ending Case 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Once these cretins see that the voters are actually following through, voting them out of office for their stance on gun control, watch how quickly new laws are passed. Florida Republicans Face Mounting Pressure to Act on Gun Control 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Phoenix improvised a line about cretins wanting prestige, which pleased Audiard so much he wrote it into the script. Can ‘the French Scorsese’ Pull Off a Western? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z But now I am less inclined to think of Ford as an ordinary cretin. Perspective | I resisted the label ‘immigrant writer.’ Trump makes me more willing to accept it. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z It sows what those flag waving pious talking cretins think of you voters. Opinion | Name Your Pick for TrumpWorld’s Worst Cabinet Member 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z A more meaningful slogan would be “Please earn your money today, you lazy cretins. Thank you.” Backtalk: Praising Kelsey Plum, blasting baseball’s move for millennials 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Later, he posted a blog to his 20,000 followers, illustrated with my photograph and accusing me of manufacturing "fake news" and calling me "an utter cretin... a globalist swine". Who are the figures pushing Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin together? - BBC News 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z His Ryder Cup online preview in September – which branded US fans “pudgy, unwashed cretins” and a “baying mob of imbeciles” – didn’t go down so well. The alternative 2016 sports awards: the year’s best quotes, gaffes and meltdowns 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Speaking to Europe 1 radio, French Socialist Party leader Jean-Christophe Cambadélis defended his country’s law enforcement, blaming the violence on “drunken cretins.” Uefa opens case against Russia after fan violence before and after England game 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Who but a cretin would suggest that the black death would be the result of a British break from the EU? Post-truth politicians such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson are no joke | Jonathan Freedland 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z They can lower the volume to a whisper but hatred, inciting violence, reprehensible disrespect of our President etc., they are still clown cretins riding in a gop mini cooper. In Republican Debate, Candidates Lower Volume as Five Key Primaries Near 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z What explains the dogged popularity of a nakedly xenophobic and unapologetically shallow cretin who offers little more than hypermasculine posturing and crude appeals to nationalism? Bobby Jindal’s Trump fantasy: Who’s to blame for the rise of an anti-Muslim bigot? Obama, of course 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z This Masonic ideal—that human beings, wherever they come from, and whatever their differences, can be bound in a brotherhood of cretins—is an endearing one, but it keeps bumping into the plot. The Fashion Victims of “Zoolander 2” 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Beyond their violent rhetoric, the right-wing cretins who were outraged by my essay also showed themselves to be profoundly delusional. After Paris, right-wing media launches new war on reason, reality 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z There were a lot of specifics about how to take out the trash and some polite but emphatic exhortations to not, in general, behave like a cretin. Meet the Unlikely Airbnb Hosts of Japan 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Besides, grow up—you’re too old to choose a career based on whether cretins think it has enough status. Should You Start a Business? 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Early Ramones shows were “harmless fun,” according to Jones, with audiences bopping, pogoing and cretin hopping, but their performances were still “the same punch in the solar plexus every time.” Pet Cemetery: Dee Dee Ramone Exhibit at Hotel Chelsea Eulogizes Late Rocker "The years you spend in prison is what you cretins deserve," he said. 2 admit guilt in Dodger Stadium Giants fan attack 2014-02-20T18:41:15Z The days of making Snyder a cretin on this issue are done in this space. Wise: By defending Redskins name, NFL’s Roger Goodell is on wrong side of history 2013-11-02T21:51:53Z He was variously described as "a cretin", "an imbecile" and "the animated skull". Home at the Top 2013-10-18T01:57:09Z Agree with college friend who tells you it’s insane that you’re now on a diet because of some cretin at the park. City Room: Metropolitan Diary: Diet Program for Dads 2013-06-14T12:30:24Z Is the reviewer the sort of cretin who complains that a £0.99 app doesn't have the same polish as a £40 video game? Boot up: Samsung gets chatty, app store reviews, farewell Android, un-smart TV and more 2012-12-28T06:30:00Z All the cretins who sat on their hands while we prosecuted 2 wars with no plan to pay for either on the heels of huge tax cuts now complain about the deficit . America's recovery: Better faster than slower 2012-10-26T15:00:48Z In my opinion, only cretins celebrate their failures. Who Said Failure was Fashionable? Frankly, It Sucks. 2012-09-05T12:25:57Z Mr. Treviño was hired by The Guardian around the same time as the pugnacious civil-liberties writer Glenn Greenwald, who in an interview described his new colleague as “among the lowliest, most extremist cretins that exist.” Guardian Backtracks From Hiring of Joshua Treviño 2012-08-26T22:39:50Z Mike Wise says Orioles fans who scream “Oh!” are “cretins who continue to ruin the song.” Morning pixels: Cole Hamels changes his story 2012-05-21T13:24:15Z I protest that only in some of the cretin villages of the Swiss mountains have I seen creatures in female form so dull, miserable, moping, hopeless as the vast majority of these Mormon women. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z But how account for the continual production by ordinary parents of this brute race of cretins? Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z There are certain circumstances that distinguish cretins from idiots; and their infirmities appear to depend upon endemic or local causes, regarding which much diversity of opinion has prevailed both amongst medical men and travellers. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Sometimes, believing it their coup de grâce, not realizing he’d heard this since time in memorial from certain in-school cretins, they’d go, Wow, we didn’t even know Robin could be a boy’s name. George Saunders: “Tenth of December.” 2011-10-24T04:00:00Z They are erring neighbors to be won over, not cretins to be mocked. The South and the Tea Party, revisited 2011-08-04T14:25:00Z Mr Berlusconi ridiculed Mr Tremonti, who is trusted by markets, as someone who “thinks he’s a genius and believes that everyone else is a cretin”. The euro zone on the edge: The road to Rome 2011-07-14T11:01:07Z It is said that the children of strangers, born in the valley, are very likely to be idiots, resembling the cretin exactly. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Can they wish more from us than the most incapable cretin in the public service? Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Do I consider you all to be footballing cretins, you may wonder? Live - Tuesday football 2011-04-12T17:15:20Z The spat between the two politicians attracted interest from other users of Twitter When Mr Black apologised for his "cretin" comment, Mr Andrews tweeted that he accepted that. Twitter abuse apology to minister 2010-12-19T14:45:04Z When your daughter tries to sell them Girl Scout cookies, they call her a capitalist cretin and order one lousy box of thin mints. Looking Back, That Did Seem a Little Suspicious 2010-06-30T20:48:00Z Tom shouts at Beth when he finds himself behaving like a cretin. | Connecticut: ?Dinner With Friends? at the Westport Playhouse 2010-06-12T01:40:00Z And at nearly every turn, the McMahon family gleefully embraced an outlaw image, at least on TV, playing a scheming, evil, brawling bunch of cretins in the parallel universe of their wrestling shows. The Smackdown Candidate 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z You may, therefore, send a 'cretin,' if you like, to Berlin or Vienna; you want a man of tact and address at Sigmaringen or Kleinesel-stadt. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Mr Black said: "I apologised for calling him a cretin, but I haven't apologised for the other comments because I believe the leaflet was ill-advised." Twitter abuse apology to minister 2010-12-19T14:45:04Z A very typical case under Dr Hector Mackenzie, showing what can be expected from early treatment, is that of a cretin aged 11 years in 1893, when thyroid treatment was started. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Only twelve kinds of a cretin would have gone on when faced with anything like this. Call Him Savage The most unholy and horrible marriages between fair young girls and rich or titled dotards, drunkards, or cretins are considered perfectly proper and respectable because ‘legalised.’ Modern marriage and how to bear it In neither case have the anomalies an intrinsic importance, since they are neither the cause of the anti-social tendencies of the criminal nor of the mental deficiencies of the cretin. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso On the Rigi his musings on the magnificence of the view are checked by the presence of a cretin. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war The hair has a far greater resemblance to horse-hair than to that of a human being, and is usually absent on the body of an adult cretin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Children born in a goitrous district are liable to be cretins, while if goitrous parents move to a healthy district, the children are born healthy. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. I conversed with him a number of years ago in New York, only to find that intellectually and physically he was allied to the cretin. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression In degenerates it is frequently on one side of the head and in cretins on the forehead. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Have I the right to believe that the landscape was designed for him—the cretin, and the irony for me—the chance visitor?” Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war The mental capacity varies within narrow limits; an intelligent adult cretin may reach the intellectual development of a child 3-4 years of age, though more often the standard attained is even below this. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" But in our bureaucratic wilderness of Washington, with a thousand government-hired cretins running interference for each big, appointed super-cretin, my troubles had just begun. Revenge The poor cretin crept away to his bed, and nothing was seen of him during the whole of the following day. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Precocious greyness and baldness are common in the insane criminals, and cretins, on the contrary, show these initial signs of senility at a much later period than normal persons. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso We do assume the airs of Victor Hugo's cretin when we are placed face to face with the riches of Crœsus or the splendours of Pharaoh. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war The child cretin learns neither to walk nor talk at the usual time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The cretin, whose eyes caught a glimpse of the cake, laughed, and began to try to reach out her hand to take it. Rollo in Geneva The cretin’s strength and activity were prodigious, and he readily learned his lesson from his master, with the result that has been seen. The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps Idiots, cretins, and demented persons are sometimes incapable of expressing themselves. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso The other peasant looked merely stolid and dirty, and seemed to be little better than a cretin, as he sat heavily in his place without offering to stir. Julian Home If the cretin is untreated he rarely has a long life, thirty years being an exceptional age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" "It is a cretin—is it not?" said Mrs. Holiday to her husband, in a whisper, as soon as they had passed by. Rollo in Geneva “Yes, Herr Melchior,” said the man humbly; and then, turning to the cretin, he said something in a curious harsh guttural way, and the poor creature sprang after him and out into the day. The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps The cretin and the idiot go about with their clothes torn and in disorder and not infrequently emit a strong odour of ammonia. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso “It was rather a chouse to shoot a cretin, though,” said another, in chaff. Julian Home "You stupid cretin, how did you know there wasn't a man hiding behind that?" Space Viking During the middle ages they were popularly looked upon as cretins, lepers, heretics and even as cannibals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" “Because he doesn’t deserve it,” said Saxe, who also made a point of giving the unfortunate cretin an object which set his eyes rolling with delight every time it was taken out. The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps The nose is often twisted in epileptics, flattened and trilobate in cretins. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Every one has heard of the cretins in Switzerland. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science But, in order that these data should be of value, the observed anomalies and defects of the cerebral functions ought to be capable of being referred to careful morphological investigations of the cretin brain. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. A great proportion of the children of women who have goitres, are born idiots, with large heads, and the other distinguishing marks of cretins. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 You would have thought, on homœopathic principles, that cretonne would appeal to cretins.’ Masques & Phases Among the inmates of asylums, we may find cretins and idiots that are able to play on a whistle any melody they have heard. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Of course, many people have goitre who are not cretins, but there is no cretin who has not goitre. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science The difference between an uninstructed young deaf-mute and a cretin is immense. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. No master can make a student into an artist; but all can, and most do, turn into impostors, maniacs, criminals, or just cretins, the unfortunate boys and girls who had been made artists by nature. Art She began by assuming that she was not talking to idiots and cretins, but to men and women of mature minds—so she could speak as she thought in a forthright manner. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The drawings of cats, executed by a Norwegian cretin, have been deemed worthy of a place among the treasures of art-galleries and museums. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Every crank's whim, every cretin's philosophy, is fired at him first of all. Shandygaff A great proportion of the children of women who have goitres are born idiots with large heads and the other distinguishing marks of cretins. The Journey to the Polar Sea A slobbering, boss-eyed cretin chops wood at my side, and when I rise to try a snap on the women and the children they hide behind the walls. Across China on Foot Folly unfathomable! unspeakable! unendurable to look in the full face of, as the laugh of a cretin. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm Here he gathered about thirty cretin children, mostly under ten years of age, and began his work. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 Close to the road, there suddenly appeared one of those cretins so common about Gastein. Without Dogma Whole pages of his sketch-book are filled with squalid heads of shrivelled crones and ghastly old men—with idiots, goîtred cretins, criminals, and clowns. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts At seventeen months the child presented the typical appearance of a sporadic cretin. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine My esteemed contemporary should bottle up its indignation, there is absolutely nothing to be gained by lambasting idiots, by criticizing cretins. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 The cretin is insensible to pain or annoyance, and seems to have as little sensation as an oyster. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 She had a bad night and dreamed about the cretin she had seen near the Schreckbrücke. Without Dogma In the midst of it, at the door of one of the chalets, quite alone, sat a hideous cretin, who grinned at Rowland over his goitre when, hardly knowing what he did, he questioned him. Roderick Hudson In Switzerland it is estimated that in some cantons there is one cretin to every 25 inhabitants. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The cretins are ill-favored in face and figure. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency The next step was, to teach the cretin some knowledge of objects around him, animate and inanimate, and of his relations to them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 We passed French volunteers in blouses bearing a red cross; they shouted and were in high good humour; passed ten districts, where numbers of cretins, with their hideous excrescences, sat by the wayside. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Some observers even affirmed that they had no function, though the constancy of goître in cretins ought to have shown the fallacy of this allegation in the case of the thyreoid. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents The cretin is generally deaf and dumb, or only able to give a hoarse cry. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Women with partial thyroid deficiency, or myxedema, bear cretins. The Glands Regulating Personality The hideous and repulsive condition of the body can be cured; the mental deformity will yield less readily; yet in some instances this, too, may disappear, and the cretin take his place with his fellow-men. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 Why, therefore, the bitter insults of Berlioz against the Paris "gredins" and "cretins"? Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End "No," said Alick, equally coolly, "to the Dutch reformatory, and the Swiss cretin asylum." Clever Woman of the Family From the descriptions there is a decided difference between the Cagots and the cretins. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Finally, as regards the thyroid, a comparison of the face of a cretin with that of the Negro or Mongol tells the story. The Glands Regulating Personality A particular facial angle, a certain amount of brain convolutions, are indispensable to produce Columbus, Raphael, Napoleon, Laplace, or Beethoven; the sunless valley produces the cretin—draw your own conclusions. Louis Lambert The cretin begins to grow mentally and physically and loses to a large extent the grotesqueness of his appearance. The Foundations of Personality Benassis himself, after a close scrutiny of the dull eyes and corpse-like face, gently took the cretin's hand and felt his pulse. The Country Doctor It is particularly noticeable among cretins in the Alps. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Thus in cretins reconstructed by thyroid feeding, the straight, rather animal hair becomes lustrous and fine, silken and curly. The Glands Regulating Personality Our second day took us through Martigny to Sion, celebrated for its picturesque towers upon detached hills, for its strong Romanism and its population of cretins,—that is, maimed idiots having the goitre. Life of John Sterling But, this comparison as to intelligence is a gross injustice to the child, for it leaves out the difference in character between the child and the cretin. The Foundations of Personality In the higher end of the valley of Isere, where cretins are very numerous, they lead an out-of-door life with the cattle which they are taught to herd. The Country Doctor The great danger of the cretin's anger is well known there. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students And in the Bushman of South Africa, the cretin's face is even more startlingly recalled. The Glands Regulating Personality The queer, repulsive, pitiful face of the cretins, which makes them all seem brothers or twins, shapes itself. The Glands Regulating Personality The cretin is a travesty on the human being in body, mind and character. The Foundations of Personality After preparing people's minds, I made another transportation by night, and six more cretins were taken away. The Country Doctor Another author mentions a cretin who could tell exactly the birthdays and death-days of the inhabitants of his town for a decade. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The cretin, who has not enough thyroid or no thyroid, is an imbecile because of his deficiency. The Glands Regulating Personality In a few days the cretin will get warmer, and require much less wrapping and bed-clothing. The Glands Regulating Personality Apathetic, indifferent, dirty, awkward, apparently idiotic, describe the human cretins. The Glands Regulating Personality The cretin was the one variety of the human species with which the commandant had not yet come in contact. The Country Doctor No one outside their family knows that they are cretins, and the most acute observer would be hard put to it to suspect. The Glands Regulating Personality Instead of the lowered temperature and coldness of the cretin, there is a heightened temperature, one or two degrees above the normal, and a feeling of heat. The Glands Regulating Personality One may suppose such a cretin, with all his other ductless glands intact, grown successfully to manhood under careful medical guidance. The Glands Regulating Personality Gradually hair and skin return to the previous cold-blooded animal state, and the whole picture of the cretin is in full bloom. The Glands Regulating Personality Both of these new families needed houses, as well as the basket-maker and twenty-two others from the cretin village, soon afterwards twelve more households were established in the place. The Country Doctor One wonders what is to be the ultimate fate of these reformed cretins. The Glands Regulating Personality The history of a cretin runs somewhat as follows: A baby is born, which in all appearances seems normal. The Glands Regulating Personality The cretin is the classic type of mental deficiency due to endocrine insufficiency, curable or improvable by the proper handling. The Glands Regulating Personality The cretin whom you have just seen, not having returned to his house, had not been taken away, so that the next morning he was the sole remaining example of his species in the village. The Country Doctor "When I first settled here, sir, I found a dozen cretins in this part of the canton," and the doctor turned round to point out the ruined cottages for the officer's benefit. The Country Doctor I had gained the good opinion of every one in that matter of the last cretin; and when I had constantly shown that I could rule both mildly and firmly, I became a local oracle. The Country Doctor Too much thyroxin can be introduced into the system of a normal individual, or even a cretin by the simple administration of too large doses or over too long a time. The Glands Regulating Personality |
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